Go for it man even if there is a big gap the cool thing about strongman is that most of them are encouraging, even if you can only be in 1 of the events go do it. You get to taste what competetion is like, and sometimes you can even pick some other competetiors brain.
I love these exercise selection videos of yours, but I think they would be perfect if you were in the gym showing the exercise, for example I didn't even know what a JM press is. Or maybe talk in the office and then a little explanation in the gym giving some tips for the execution. It would make your videos so engaging, I always struggle to actually pay attention to someone who is only talking.
Hey Mitch , can you talk about the best abdominal /core strengthening exercises top 5 ? And also talk about abdominal exercises that don't tighten hip flexors ?
I don’t do it because I don’t have access to it but I always envisioned an incline barbell bench was the best pressing strength movement, glad I got that confirmation
Glad to see i picked the right ones.. I do have an issue with triceps/lats/pec coordination due to nerve damage. I lately started a uni lateral dumbell exercise which is a bit of a combo to a bent arm pullover with a jm press. Constant tension and controll over the shoulderblade movement to engage my triceps. Getting great results with that and was able to bench better.
JM presses are GOATed, there's no other exercise that gets my triceps so sore afterwards , and on top of that there's the benefit of really bullet proofing the tendons of the elbow and they're really good for armwrestling for that reason.
I’m kinda seeing a lot of comments of front raise not being a pressing movement, but it is. The anterior delt (front shoulder) is pushing muscle and it’s the only one used in a front raise. It seems he’s taking a more Strongman approach to pressing movements (makes sense) so he wouldn’t care so much about increasing bench but still incorporates bc that iiiis what most dudes care about. Seems like all of these would help significantly for pressing movements but primarily overhead type stuff (viking press, log press, and overhead press of course)
Your content is the best in the biz in my opinion🫎💪That bench press cue about tucking those elbows and pressing the barbell towards your collar bones in an arc makes so much sense as I feel way stronger that way.. and the few times I miss a lift it feels exactly like I nested the bar too low on the descent or didn't ark the bar ... I've benched 211kg raw tng style...recently
Big Z liked a Seated Smith Machine Press as I recall. It's not dissimilar to the strict Viking Press really so could probably swap it in for that as I've yet to see a Viking Press in a regular gym..
He actually early in his career did it heavy behind the neck. For a long time. But then some injury or age catched him and he lost the mobility and switched to an front smith.
Hi mitch, love what you're doing with the channel and all over the strongman arena. One of my favourite exercises is jump rope with a crossrope 3-5lb rope set. Wondered if you'd tried this and what you thought about it. Would love to see you try it. It kicks my ass at the end of a heavy lifting session.
I'm a newbie gym goer and I noticed there is absolutely no carry over from chest press machine and bench myself. I could do the whole stack after a few months but hardly do half that weight on bench. Now I'm bench focused and up to 100k and slowly getting stronger 💪
Shouldn't there be listed two pulls on fundimental human movement patterns, horisontal and vertical if there is both presses listed aswell (push font of your body and overhead press)?
I'm sure they will be listed on the back/pulling video he shared. This was more about the pressing for upper body with a few accessory exercises mentioned.
I use an elite fts saftey squat bar for the JM press. Take off the handles then you can do alot more weight and it keeps the form perfect. It feels better on your hands also with the thicker bar.
Regarding the bamboo bar: I never tried it myself, but I could imagine that training in instability can be helpful for when you are "losing" a lift. For example when you press an axle, and you are feeling like "damn I pushed to much backwards/forwards" I think Bamboo Bar training could help you to realign quicker and still make the lift instead of failing it.
@tttyyy949 I agree to a certain degree, however training it while trying to train pressing power would reduce the performance in the pressing due to fatique. For example if I do a hold at the end of the first set, I fatique myself doing that and cant perform the press as powerfully in the next sets, which is what I wanted to train in the first place. That's why I think it is better to do this at the end of a training session. Although as I said, I dont have a bamboo bar and never tried this kind of training myself, so I cant say how useful it really would be. Its just my thought process on how I would use that exercize and why, if I ever decided to do so
@tttyyy949 Its more the lower reps that holding fatiques, since you have to stabilize a much heigher weight... If I hold 140kg above my head for 10 seconds that takes way more out of me than if I hold 60kg above my head for 10 seconds... It's the same time under tension, but in the first scenario it is with a much higher weight, therefore the fatique from the static hold is higher
@tttyyy949 I was not talking about bamboo bar when I mentioned the 60kg... I was talking about the axle, because you said lighter weight would be more fatiquing. Did you try holding the axle above your head for a longer period of time with weights of around 140kg? It is fatiquing as hell. I guarantee you, If you could normally do 140kg pushpress 3x4, if you do it with a hold, you will only be able to do 3x3... Especially because it's not just about the muscle, but about the nervous system. Thats why I would prefer the bamboo bar, you can work with quite light weight and not fatique your nervous system as much. Same is true for the deadlift for reps btw. In comp if you have a judge who forces you to hold your lockout longer than other judges would, the amount of reps you can do immediatly goes down. And in contrast to the bamboo bar, this I can state from my own experience. Edit: I'd agree with you if you said this about bench press, because you are laying on a bench, which gives you support (because it is a huge point of contact and restricts your movement) and also the leverage is not that great. In any form of standing press however, this is different. You are standing, so the only point of contact is your feet, nothing is supporting your back or your core in any shape or form. Also the leverage is huge, the weight is up at a height of 2,5m if you lose your balance just a bit, due to the distance of the weight from your core and from the ground the levarage is huge, thereby needing way more strength for stabilizing.
I have some "is your program the right one for me" questions. Specific to my limited weight selection and size. Where is an appropriate place to ask? I could meet in person, which would be pretty cool. I don't live very far from your area.
Recently having an issue with plateauing @ Bench Press - around 185 x 3 or 205 x 1 - has been my capacity for the last 5 or 6 months. Recently I decided to start using the machine press because I could go to failure there safely (no spotter) and have noticed strength increases within one week (185 x 4 ). After watching your explanation, what would you recommend instead to someone kinda plateaued at bench? I've tried using dumbbells as well, but didn't notice as immediate of a change - plus they feel a little risky for me. Thanks!
If it's a safety concern, try benching in a power rack. You won't need spotters and can train close to failure and if if you miss, the safety rails have you covered👍
Imo Core + Strong Bracing is so neglected or maybe misunderstood by new/intermediate lifters that it becomes their weakest link for heavy OHP/Strength in general.
There is no bench press, which is how it should be like :) One day everyone will understand this pointless exercise gets a way more credit than it deserves..
The only nitpick i have on this video is when you talk about the JM press. It would actually not train the longhead effectively because since it crosses the shoulder and performs shoulder extension, the longhead would actually not be able to contribute a lot since you are moving at the shoulder and performing shoulder flexion which is its antagonist motion. The JM press is an amazing tricep exercise but really for the lateral and medial head which are the two heads that do not cross the shoulder and are the most activated when performing pressing motions, again since shoulder flexion occurs in any kind of press.
Gotta love that worlds strongest man still makes time to make content for us instead of living like Conor McGregor….people should complain less and listen more lol
Couldn’t disagree more, his video focusing on back exercises has helped me hit the back much harder than I ever have, and I’m looking forward to utilising these workouts more often!
"I've never seen 60 pound unstable bamboo bar translate to 300 pound stable presses"
Enter Bugenhagen's 275 lb chaos press 🤣
Horse cocking 20 dangling kettlebells over head like Conan the Barbarian with a fanny pack 💀
Hey Mitchel you inspired me to persue strongman. I learned about some competitions in my area but I still have a long way to go.
Good luck 💪🏻
Good Luck Leon Hope you Do it and make us proud ❤
Go for it man even if there is a big gap the cool thing about strongman is that most of them are encouraging, even if you can only be in 1 of the events go do it. You get to taste what competetion is like, and sometimes you can even pick some other competetiors brain.
Good luck!! You can no go wrong with competing. It's the fast track to getting better at the sport!
Best content for strength and fitness out there. Keep it up Mitch
This guy is seriously strong full of Academic knowledge with brilliant insights = 💪🔥
#5 - DB Chest Supported Front Raise
#4 - JM Press
#3 - Strict Viking Press
#2 - Standing Military Press
#1 - Close Grip Incline BB Press
Thanks for doing so much content for us, it’s insane how far you can push yourself while being so busy.
Stay healthy Champ! 🍀
Thankyou Mitch, I've been lifting for 45 years and can still learn from your video's.
I love these exercise selection videos of yours, but I think they would be perfect if you were in the gym showing the exercise, for example I didn't even know what a JM press is. Or maybe talk in the office and then a little explanation in the gym giving some tips for the execution. It would make your videos so engaging, I always struggle to actually pay attention to someone who is only talking.
There are brief clips of the exercises in the video.
It’s so weird no one makes videos on just strength. It’s either size, or size and strength. I’d like to see more videos on just strength personally
They go hand in hand this is mainly a strength list
@@mralexdude2038 yeah sometimes but there’s is lots of information about strength that has nothing to do with size that I’d like to see on UA-cam
@@ballsonthetablefilms9626look into Alex Bromley & strength periodization
starting strength is one of the most popular programs out there
Hey Mitch , can you talk about the best abdominal /core strengthening exercises top 5 ? And also talk about abdominal exercises that don't tighten hip flexors ?
I don’t do it because I don’t have access to it but I always envisioned an incline barbell bench was the best pressing strength movement, glad I got that confirmation
Overhead press is always my favorite. Great list!
Glad to see i picked the right ones.. I do have an issue with triceps/lats/pec coordination due to nerve damage. I lately started a uni lateral dumbell exercise which is a bit of a combo to a bent arm pullover with a jm press. Constant tension and controll over the shoulderblade movement to engage my triceps. Getting great results with that and was able to bench better.
JM presses are GOATed, there's no other exercise that gets my triceps so sore afterwards , and on top of that there's the benefit of really bullet proofing the tendons of the elbow and they're really good for armwrestling for that reason.
I’m kinda seeing a lot of comments of front raise not being a pressing movement, but it is. The anterior delt (front shoulder) is pushing muscle and it’s the only one used in a front raise.
It seems he’s taking a more Strongman approach to pressing movements (makes sense) so he wouldn’t care so much about increasing bench but still incorporates bc that iiiis what most dudes care about. Seems like all of these would help significantly for pressing movements but primarily overhead type stuff (viking press, log press, and overhead press of course)
Your content is the best in the biz in my opinion🫎💪That bench press cue about tucking those elbows and pressing the barbell towards your collar bones in an arc makes so much sense as I feel way stronger that way.. and the few times I miss a lift it feels exactly like I nested the bar too low on the descent or didn't ark the bar ... I've benched 211kg raw tng style...recently
It would be good (if you have time) if you could make a companion video demonstrating these 5 exercises.
Big Z attributes seated incline press to his success
Big Z liked a Seated Smith Machine Press as I recall. It's not dissimilar to the strict Viking Press really so could probably swap it in for that as I've yet to see a Viking Press in a regular gym..
He actually early in his career did it heavy behind the neck. For a long time. But then some injury or age catched him and he lost the mobility and switched to an front smith.
You're a talented creator, no joke!
Excellent content as always!
Hi mitch, love what you're doing with the channel and all over the strongman arena. One of my favourite exercises is jump rope with a crossrope 3-5lb rope set. Wondered if you'd tried this and what you thought about it. Would love to see you try it. It kicks my ass at the end of a heavy lifting session.
Never thought about the chest supported raises. Been grinding to improve my OHP. Just hit 250lbs 1RM 🎉
Cheers Mitch, would you recommend working in the 4-5 reps range on pressing for advanced lifters where the goal is strength & size? TA
Great series bro
Love this series of vids
The effort you put into this really shows!
Excellent info as always!
I'm a newbie gym goer and I noticed there is absolutely no carry over from chest press machine and bench myself. I could do the whole stack after a few months but hardly do half that weight on bench. Now I'm bench focused and up to 100k and slowly getting stronger 💪
Inclined close grip barbell press! ✔️ ✔️
Isn't the long head the least active head of your tricep in the bench press?
Shouldn't there be listed two pulls on fundimental human movement patterns, horisontal and vertical if there is both presses listed aswell (push font of your body and overhead press)?
I'm sure they will be listed on the back/pulling video he shared. This was more about the pressing for upper body with a few accessory exercises mentioned.
I use an elite fts saftey squat bar for the JM press. Take off the handles then you can do alot more weight and it keeps the form perfect. It feels better on your hands also with the thicker bar.
Awesome content! Do back next!
One I like is weighted dips my bench blew up adding these baby’s
When I do standing overhead press, I tilt on my right side; my left hand goes up first, then my right. How do I fix this?
Regarding the bamboo bar: I never tried it myself, but I could imagine that training in instability can be helpful for when you are "losing" a lift. For example when you press an axle, and you are feeling like "damn I pushed to much backwards/forwards" I think Bamboo Bar training could help you to realign quicker and still make the lift instead of failing it.
@tttyyy949 I agree to a certain degree, however training it while trying to train pressing power would reduce the performance in the pressing due to fatique. For example if I do a hold at the end of the first set, I fatique myself doing that and cant perform the press as powerfully in the next sets, which is what I wanted to train in the first place. That's why I think it is better to do this at the end of a training session. Although as I said, I dont have a bamboo bar and never tried this kind of training myself, so I cant say how useful it really would be. Its just my thought process on how I would use that exercize and why, if I ever decided to do so
@tttyyy949 Its more the lower reps that holding fatiques, since you have to stabilize a much heigher weight... If I hold 140kg above my head for 10 seconds that takes way more out of me than if I hold 60kg above my head for 10 seconds... It's the same time under tension, but in the first scenario it is with a much higher weight, therefore the fatique from the static hold is higher
@tttyyy949 I was not talking about bamboo bar when I mentioned the 60kg... I was talking about the axle, because you said lighter weight would be more fatiquing. Did you try holding the axle above your head for a longer period of time with weights of around 140kg? It is fatiquing as hell. I guarantee you, If you could normally do 140kg pushpress 3x4, if you do it with a hold, you will only be able to do 3x3... Especially because it's not just about the muscle, but about the nervous system. Thats why I would prefer the bamboo bar, you can work with quite light weight and not fatique your nervous system as much. Same is true for the deadlift for reps btw. In comp if you have a judge who forces you to hold your lockout longer than other judges would, the amount of reps you can do immediatly goes down. And in contrast to the bamboo bar, this I can state from my own experience.
Edit: I'd agree with you if you said this about bench press, because you are laying on a bench, which gives you support (because it is a huge point of contact and restricts your movement) and also the leverage is not that great. In any form of standing press however, this is different. You are standing, so the only point of contact is your feet, nothing is supporting your back or your core in any shape or form. Also the leverage is huge, the weight is up at a height of 2,5m if you lose your balance just a bit, due to the distance of the weight from your core and from the ground the levarage is huge, thereby needing way more strength for stabilizing.
Is there a difference between a seated machine press and a plate loaded seated press with this critique?
No Mitchell in 2 views, minutes fell off
Only Mitchell views in fell minutes, 2 off.
Minutes fell off indeed 😔
2 Mitchell in no minutes, views fell off
The front fell off
Shit meme.
What about incline dumbells press to get closer and deepwr
What abaout to use a multigrip bar on the incline bench?
Hey the video was in my gym in Cambridge
The gym I go to the weightpit
Hey mate
Where do seated overhead varieties (barbell. Dumbbell, smith machine) sit in your estimations?
I have some "is your program the right one for me" questions. Specific to my limited weight selection and size. Where is an appropriate place to ask? I could meet in person, which would be pretty cool. I don't live very far from your area.
Wonder what Hoopers heaviest max/heaviest set on the Stnding strict press and close grip incline bench press are?
Actually the JM press is great for punching power as well.
Recently having an issue with plateauing @ Bench Press - around 185 x 3 or 205 x 1 - has been my capacity for the last 5 or 6 months. Recently I decided to start using the machine press because I could go to failure there safely (no spotter) and have noticed strength increases within one week (185 x 4 ). After watching your explanation, what would you recommend instead to someone kinda plateaued at bench? I've tried using dumbbells as well, but didn't notice as immediate of a change - plus they feel a little risky for me. Thanks!
If it's a safety concern, try benching in a power rack. You won't need spotters and can train close to failure and if if you miss, the safety rails have you covered👍
I would say strict standing shoulder dbell presses, but he will probably say strict military barbel presses, im guessing.
Oh i thought he was specifically talking about shoulders, my mistake
Imo Core + Strong Bracing is so neglected or maybe misunderstood by new/intermediate lifters that it becomes their weakest link for heavy OHP/Strength in general.
More press videos
Alright fellas...
Where's the push press? 😱 Thought it was going to be number one
More to the other fans...Has Hooper ever done a video without the word "caveat" in it?
There is no bench press, which is how it should be like :) One day everyone will understand this pointless exercise gets a way more credit than it deserves..
The only nitpick i have on this video is when you talk about the JM press. It would actually not train the longhead effectively because since it crosses the shoulder and performs shoulder extension, the longhead would actually not be able to contribute a lot since you are moving at the shoulder and performing shoulder flexion which is its antagonist motion. The JM press is an amazing tricep exercise but really for the lateral and medial head which are the two heads that do not cross the shoulder and are the most activated when performing pressing motions, again since shoulder flexion occurs in any kind of press.
True. I was thinking the same thing when he said that.
You must be the smartest man in the universe
Gotta love that worlds strongest man still makes time to make content for us instead of living like Conor McGregor….people should complain less and listen more lol
JM press safer on Smith machine. Sturdier bar path.
You talk about the bench press multiple times in the video, why is it not on the list?
Bench press is rarely ever involved in strongman competitions and doesn't carry over as well to overhead press.
Sounds a lot like someone who isn’t good at bamboo bar press talking
“Pressing exercises” first one is a front raise 🤷🏻♂️😂
Good thing u have boulder shoulders. To hold those noodle arms😂
u dont own the weight until u strict press it overhead full rom pause on chest no lean
Instead of Viking pres can't you just make a seated military press?
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You need a better display system for your trophies in the background....can barely see the Arnolds Strongman Classic glass trophy on the left....
There are worse problems to have
Hmm no dips
This was all over the place. Good lifts mixed with pointless lifts in no particular order? Would rather see you training bud
Couldn’t disagree more, his video focusing on back exercises has helped me hit the back much harder than I ever have, and I’m looking forward to utilising these workouts more often!
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why would a seated machine chest press be bad for size? it says size AND strength so you should not include it lol
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Bamboo bar causes more injuries than it helps but it definitely has a good training effect.
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