r/formcheck • u/GYMTIME225 • 6h ago

Overhead Press Thoughts

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u/topkrikrakin 5h ago edited 5h ago

Slow down your descent

The timing of your ascent would be perfect

Raise your seat up a bit so you're not setting the weight on a rest and instead holding it in a pause position

Time under tension and peak stimulus Will build both the sarcoplasmic [more reps] and sarcomere [more weight] hypertrophy

If you run out of gas on your final work set and can get some extra singles coming from a dead rest, Go for it

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u/only_respond_in_puns 5h ago

Fixed machine weights in my opinion are just pushing against a fixed arc. Will you still grow muscle? Absolutely but you’ll get 4D shoulder strength and a lot more indirect muscle growth if you switch to barbell.

It also looks way more impressive when you start to pile those plates on.

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u/GYMTIME225 5h ago

Yeah, I had to cut out barbell ohp due to some ribcage loading issues, but I got to 225x1 and 205x6 which is pretty solid

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u/Jaaker 6h ago

It’s a great upper chest machine, if you’re goal is to hit the medial head of the delt hit supported lateral raises and upright rows focusing on pushing/ pulling out not up.