It’s Day 500 Overhead Press Every Day.
Typing this up just after midnight as a short uploads, my reel already posted for the day, I make some reflections even if the five hundred will be official in a time counted in hours vs days ie not done yet…
We here so much of strength being built between 70% and 80% of 1rm.
There is truth to that yes, and my observation with all this has been that kettlebell pressing, my inadvertent primary implement (I fell into them) works very well for this.
A big strong man doing lots of reps and volume one arm pressing a single 40kg kettlebell is going to increase his shoulder strength significantly.
Sure, you COULD do normal protocols ; 5×5, 10×3, but given the choice of minimal daily workouts by whim or nothing…well that anti scientific method will work quite well.
Like saying the same things daily about weight gain on reddit, I’ll say the truth of programming again ;
“It’s the effort and consistency that make the method, not the method itself.”
I am doing more volume again (if skewed way light on multi switch kettlebell clean & press), and have also added actually heavy back in, these both in addition to the moderate by scientific definition that is the 40kg bell to me.
A major takeaway from this now free to stop at any time but still continuing indefinitely experiment is this ;
None do enough shoulder work!
Let me say that again ; no one trains shoulders enough!
Not hard enough in any way – not frequency, not weight, not volume – nada.
No where close to enough to get the coveted boulder shoulder look (where you turn sideways to walk through a door).
I learned this in fall 2018, every day at the SoCal Bodybuilding Gym being a few military press amrap sets off of a clean, but didn’t really implement fully incorporated like into my training til five years later when this streak started.
The more overhead pressing you do the more shoulders, upper back, and trap development you will have.
Wide shoulders is a better look than a thick chest. Blame arnold for the rampart pectoralis overdevelopment, and know this ; enough chest work will give many an impressive pair of muscular moobs.
It’s just better to skew towards shoulder pressing and away from chest pressing from a looks standpoint.
I didn’t know THAT when I started my daily pushups in 2008.
In hindsight knowing what I know now the habit would’ve shifted to wall hspu for the better. Shrugs. Oh well. The thing has been done.
I’m looking forward to in 12<15 months (NERD!) getting the ten years of pushups every day.
For now my lifting continues to involve daily overhead pressing – just more implements.
I’ve already rotated barbell back in.
The kettlebell has shifted in the direction of half marathon c&p.
The SANDBAG, yes the sandbag, shall be rebuilt in the coming days.
I miss the thing and it could be a meme at this point over “I should rebuild the sandbag”.
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Some of us respond really well to volume and frequency.
Basically you want to do as much as possible without beating yourself up.
The barbell will be dropped back to 155lbs for this reason to build up easy like.
10×3 twice a week or so, built to 15×5 or so at 155lbs will be enough to go to 5×2 at 185lbs real easy like, from there well we’ll see.
It’d be something to get to the 300lb c&p.
Now in my 30s I’m getting very strong.
This is to be expected. I’ve trained consistently, and also it’s my opinion that “man strength” becomes an increasing factor in those who remain physical.
No man peaks in max strength to 35yo minimum.
I just have to keep training.
And even if all strongman and powerlifting type goals are out of your mind…you won’t go wrong with a high rep one bell clean & press done daily, every so often and forever increasing bell size.
Many men COULD train to 50l + 50r under girevoy inspired one hand switch rules and eventually accomplish it with the 48kg which, my opinion, was named “the beast” in a corny manner unbecoming as it psychologically is uninspiring of people actually getting to it and accomplishing much with it.
40kg is only 88lbs. Should be the big man’s main training weight for daily kettlebell play.
48kg is only 106. Aim higher.
Be strong y’all, the videos are presently on a roughly three week delay.
Persistence & Tenacity
knuckle up – dgaf