Reply With QuoteI made it to 155lbs, give or take 5lbs. Deloaded, and worked my way up to stalling again at 165lbs using 2.5lbs jumps. From there I switched to the Texas Method. My last press was 177.5x3.
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When did you start microloading your press?
I know, I'm so original. Well, the poll's up there, so vote!
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I made it to 155lbs, give or take 5lbs. Deloaded, and worked my way up to stalling again at 165lbs using 2.5lbs jumps. From there I switched to the Texas Method. My last press was 177.5x3.
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Jesus christ, looks like I made the poll options way too fucking low.
How did you guys preserve 5lb jumps for so long?
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I started using a belt and began attacking the weight. I also switched to cleaning the weight so it didn't feel heavy out of the rack. Just hit 165 for 3 sets of 5 today at lunch.
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Nice mate! I don't yet have a belt, but I do clean the weight first. I got to 130 with 5lb jumps, then missed 135 three times, so I deloaded to 125 and came back up microloading. Just hit 132.5 on wednesday for a PR. I really wanted to prolong 5lb jumps, I was even thinking of switching to 5 sets of 3 to accomplish it..
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I got to around 115lbs before I felt microloading would work faster than trying to stick it out at 5lb/workout. But I was/am only willing to gain 1lb/week so I admittedly hamstrung my ability to make optimal strength gains to avoid excessive fat gain.
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For me, Skipbeat, the belt really helped to keep the core tight and increased the comfort level of pressing heavy (relatively speaking) weight overhead. Based on today's session, I highly recommend it.
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For what it's worth, I highly recommend using a belt too. Feel a lot more safe and secure.
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I agree with using the belt.
If you look at the Strength Standards chart (just using it as a reference, I know it has its problems), after ending novice progression, all of my lifts were in the intermediate range except for my press which was in the advanced range.
I don't know why; perhaps it was the handstand push up progressions I was doing before hand, but whatever.
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I started microloading early. I don't remember exactly when, but I think it was around 90 lbs.
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