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Has anyone else noticed that if they clean the bar from the floor prior to overhead presses rather than just lifting it out from the rack at chest height, you are able to press more weight / the same weight feels easier?
I am trying to work out why on earth this would be the case for me - my guess at the moment is cleaning the bar gets me into a better starting position?
Look into using the lats as a shelf. Just google it as it's hard to explain
Do a load of chin-ups first so they are activated and have a pump and it will be easier. The bar should be off the chest a few inches and set if you get it right
Maybe someone who actually trains people can explain it better lol. I think about pulling my shoulders down with my lats when I do it. I rarely strict press though and stick to push press variants where it's not as important
If your doing decent cleans, so that the topic even matters than have fun catching it a few inches off your chest, when I catch a clean it lands on my delts/uppsr chest, and can feel the bar flexing/ bouncing, no way I am holding that just in my hands with the wrist bent right back...
But yes engage the lats drive the elbows forward for momentum and then the delts and then tris take over,..just like a benchpresss