Frankly this qualifies completely under the category of gym play, as it was not planned and solely happened out of boredom and the fact my hang cleans were going very shitty today.
I knew I’d hit reps with 50lbs before, and in between sets of seriousness (hang cleans and cheat form shrugs) I’d do some random bottoms up pressing.
(I count 5 reps in the above video.)
I started with the 50lber, 3 reps easy. Ok, cool. 55lber next, huh can’t find it. Wait 24kg is what 53lbs, so another triple with the 24kg bell.
I walk across the gym to shrug and on my way there “Why look a pair of bigger looking kettlebells in the wrong place, I wonder which trainer and client pair forgot to put them away, silly trainers and clients.”
I found a 55lber and a 60lber.
- 55lb x fail, as I was not focusing well at all.
- 55lb x 2 fail 3, I still wasn’t staying tight up the chain
- 60lb x 3 no to very little shaking as I made sure to stay tight. (Bottoms up pressings greatest lesson, to stay rigid/tight.)
Ok, lets skip 65 (the gym actually didn’t have it, I didn’t know this at the time), and go to 70 or 75 whichever they have.
I didn’t find a 75lber, so 70 it was.
Delete the first vid, I lost it on the negative after a successful press.
Vid result?
(I opt not to try to get a perfect rep on camera, notice the shake shake shake at the top.)
The entire time I was doing shrugs here and there. After the vid, I rep the 35lber for 10 with my left hand, and then got something like 2 with a 35lber in each hand (like a cowboy, dual wield style).
One hand I can hit 70 with the right, two hands I could maybe go 35 left + 45 or 50 should I focus well and be ok with going uneven. I’m not sure my left one hand max.
Really its the weird shit that is best for your grip. Just yesterday I was finally able to do the bumper plate flips again 9 weeks later, and this time I made a solid 6 or 8 catches, still not with the right hand though. (Update 12/31/17: I’ve since done it with the right hand.)
As I’m now getting off the initial subject of bottoms up presses I shall conclude, and likely do a more comprehensive wrist post in the next few days.
-J
P.S. The next stage seems to be some combination of higher reps, two handed, and double up bells (one sitting atop the bottom up one).