Press Check

[mkkn]

3 work sets, added a bit more weight to the bar each time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O78Su...ature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zboBl...ature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcf3l...ature=youtu.be

Things that stand out to me:
- Sometimes the bar doesn't go straight up and instead has a bit of a forward slop
- Elbows more forward?

Anything else you guys notice? Thanks

[Gunnhild Bruno]

Get the hips forward and lean back to initiate the movement.

Aim the bar at your nose when you start the drive up.

[Gunnhild Bruno]

Also, is this a conscious choice to press this way, or have you not tried it the way it's taught in SS:BBT3?

[GrantB13]

Your elbows are directly under the bar and your pressing in front of where it should be. And like spar said, you should learn the lift from the 3rd edition.

[mkkn]

Spar, read starting strength, but this the first time I got a chance to take a video of me pressing.. and I don't have a coach. So was just never aware of the issues before.

Thanks for the replies though. Will re-read the press chapter of Starting Strength

[Gunnhild Bruno]

Spar, read starting strength, but this the first time I got a chance to take a video of me pressing.

OK, but I just meant that you look like you're trying to press as recommended in the 2nd edition (beige cover). The 3rd edition (blue cover) teaches the press quite differently. There is much more layback and hip movement, and every rep starts from a dead stop at the bottom.

Pressing as described in ed. 2 isn't wrong. I just personally think the 3rd edition press is better. But some people prefer pressing the old way, and if you were one of those people, I would adjust my advice accordingly.

So are you using ed. 2 or ed. 3?

[mkkn]

So are you using ed. 2 or ed. 3?

I've only ben reading the 2nd edition so far. Curious about the 3rd one though. I've seen different stuff on how to press though. Some say elbows gotta be in front, other say right under the bar so that the forearms are vertical.

Will try to lean back a bit more and keep the bar closer. Anything else that stands out? I wonder about breathing too. Some say exhale on the way up on each rep. But I've also read people say that they try to keep the breath for several reps, to stay tight.

[Gunnhild Bruno]

This is because there isn't a single authority somewhere whose job it is to define what the press is and how exactly it should be done.

Rip goes over breathing and elbows in the 2nd edition.

Read this excerpt from the 3rd edition:
http://startingstrength.com/articles...s_rippetoe.pdf

and decide whether you want to get the 3rd edition and press that way.

Either way, you'll need to do some reading. Your questions show that you either haven't read the book or that you didn't absorb what you did read.

[mkkn]

Thanks! I just borrowed the 2nd edition and don't have it anymore. Just bought the 3rd one and will do some reading.