I'm the only one who OHP in my gym

Never seen anyone else do it. Most everyone else uses the weight machines. Those that use the free weight mostly use dumbbells. Those that use barbells pretty much only squat and deadlift. I've never seen another person OHP. What's the deal. Are people afraid of embarrassing themselves because they can't lift much?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    don't know
    don't fricking care
    I do OHP in my basement and living room

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    doesnt allow shoulder joint to work like its supposed to, dumbbells are just better for shoulder lifts

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I've never had an issue with barbell OHP. In fact, it is my favorite lift. I think you are coping.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I can rep 1 pl8 on ohp, dumbbell press just feels better

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          To each their own, but there is no negative to OHP.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          doesnt allow shoulder joint to work like its supposed to, dumbbells are just better for shoulder lifts

          I rep 200 on OHP and you are coping

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Post a video of you pressing 200 or larp

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Post a video of you pressing 200 or larp

            >he owns 2.5lb weights

            Pathetic.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            post body

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        He's right though. You're the one pretending that doing a barbell ohp is some manly thing lol

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It is manly. It is so unbelievably alpha. You are literally standing in the MIDDLE of the gym lifting hundreds of pounds OVER your head, OVER everyone else. Normies are in awe. Foids are seething. Bucks are broken. Twinks get aids just for being within a 30m radius. You are gravity defying their 1RM deadlifts over your skull with perfect rigid form. They never even knew barbells could go that high. It literally short circuits their npc brains.
          A strong OHP is literally capable of mindfricking NPC morons and homosexuals to the point of killing themselves.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            i am a gay bottom and i do ohp

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Are you a power bottom

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Based
            I have tested this theory out and can confirm

            185 lb OHP in front of 2 trannies who I have yet to see show up in my gym again. Feelssodamngood OHP chads. Every 1.25 lb increment is adding another troony to the 41% club

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah, I try to do OHP everytime I hit the gym. 5x5 and I noticed how quickly I am getting stronger, that and deadlift I have progressed the most in strength.
            I never see anyone else doing OHP with a bar though, seen people do it on a bench with dumbells.

            Based af, thanks for the motivation.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >seen people do it on a bench with dumbells
              So pathetic. Standing OHP with a barbell blows the frick out of my core. It's like the best ab workout. Sitting on a bench and doing DB presses loses so much benefit, and for no reason.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >I never see anyone else doing OHP with a bar though
              Doesn't surprise me not that I see half the people on IST don't even do it kek

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/xMJvqJC.jpg

      Never seen anyone else do it. Most everyone else uses the weight machines. Those that use the free weight mostly use dumbbells. Those that use barbells pretty much only squat and deadlift. I've never seen another person OHP. What's the deal. Are people afraid of embarrassing themselves because they can't lift much?

      I have a neutral grip bar, shoulder health +

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You dont think your shoulders are naturally supposed to allow you to grab a heavy object with 2 hands and lift it above your head?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        the range of motion and path of your elbows is constricted so its not optimal for actual delt activation, you end up hitting other muslces i'm not trying to hit

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          stop benchpressing the bar standing up then, moron

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You dont think your shoulders are naturally supposed to allow you to grab a heavy object with 2 hands and lift it above your head?

      People who think barbell overhead press is bad for you have poor shoulder mobility and strength. Usually they don’t have the coordination to externally rotate their elbows meaning they can’t get thier heads through their shoulder girdle without something clicking. 70% of people do this naturally but the load minority of mobility gays b***h about muh dumbbell press.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes. OHP separates the men from the boys. Most "men" struggle to press 30kg and from a woman's point of view it looks pathetic.

    Clean and press? That seperates gods from men.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think this is true. You have to start at low weight with OHP and work up. Even the roidtrannies are afraid to do it in my gym because they will look weak doing such low weight. Pathetic really, when so much ego is involved.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >You have to start at low weight with OHP and work up
        That’s the case with EVERY lift you drooling fricktard

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Oh really? When you do a set 5 reps of bench press, you do:
          >1 rep at 200lb
          >then 1 rep at 190lb
          >then 1 rep at 180lb
          >then one rep at 170lb
          >then 1 rep at 160lb?
          Then you do 5 sets of these?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            No one starts a bench at their heaviest weight you fricking moron

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      idk man who cares what the other people at the gym do
      liking an exercise nobody else does is a GOOD thing. It means you’re never going to have to wait to use the equipment.
      I don’t get why you guys always whine about this stuff. The way i see it the more DYELs doing meme exercises the better.

      see picrel if you want a real “manly” lift

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cringe

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Shut the frick up b***h homosexual, you in Australia? Come fight me immediately, c**t.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      clean and press at commercial gym is the most cringe shit ever lmao. basically the "im gonna make so much noise, everyone look at me look how into fitness I am" type of lift.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Dropping it is fun

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You haven't even done acid, poser gay

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How is his book? Been considering reading it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I can OHP 1pl8 for reps but can’t bench 2pl8

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >155 OHP 5x5
        >225 incline bench 5x5
        but now I have impingement so it's over

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Don't worry about it, 1pl8 OHP is easier for most people

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I think I've seens maybe 4 guys do >1pl8
    >tfw 70kg max

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >only squat and deadlift
    No one benches either? Where on Earth you live?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah they bench. I didn't consider it, because in my gym the bench press is on the other side of the gym and that barbell never leaves then bench.

      He's right though. You're the one pretending that doing a barbell ohp is some manly thing lol

      >barbell ohp is some manly thing lol
      I just said I like it. And I don't understand why others don't do it. Fricking Black person.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The reason no-one does it is because there's better shoulder exercises...

    This is coming from someone who has been doing it for years and will continue doing it occasionally. It's a fun compound exercise to push yourself with and get stronger at, but I honestly don't believe it gave me any gains whatsoever. Lat raises primarily is what will give you those 3D cannonball delts.

    OHP is just way overrated on this board because it's full of powershitters and starting strength enthusiasts.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Lat raises primarily is what will give you those 3D cannonball delts.
      Yeah, heard lat raises are the GOAT for shoulders. I like OHP though.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I prefer ohp to bench. I prefer isolations if I want to grow my shoulders.
      I see tons of people doing db ohp, which is similar enough.

      >Praises barbell standing ohp
      >Later copes about how shit their bench press
      Why are you homosexuals like this

      Nah I suck at both. Hopefully increasing volume and rep work helps rather than
      >muh fives
      also doing isolations.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Fair enough, word of warning tho. You're not gonna get canon ball delts until you start pinning gear. I did very high volume shoulder workouts and while my shoulders looked decent. They weren't pumpkins until I started pinning, fwiw.

        https://i.imgur.com/FDxe5wd.png

        It is manly. It is so unbelievably alpha. You are literally standing in the MIDDLE of the gym lifting hundreds of pounds OVER your head, OVER everyone else. Normies are in awe. Foids are seething. Bucks are broken. Twinks get aids just for being within a 30m radius. You are gravity defying their 1RM deadlifts over your skull with perfect rigid form. They never even knew barbells could go that high. It literally short circuits their NPC brains.
        A strong OHP is literally capable of mindfricking NPC morons and homosexuals to the point of killing themselves.

        >Guts posters
        How's the first year of lifting going?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. Loved ohp, but didn't see any gains for side delts. Front delts get overdeveloped. Switched to inclined bench press and lat raises, either lying on the bench, or using block tower. Never going back.
      Regular lat raises don't work delts when the muscle is the most stretched. They are shit tier exercise as well

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >lat raises, either lying on the bench, or using block tower
        How does this work? Can you mspaint it?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7usMrRfEiYw

          awesome anon already linked video for lying lat raised. it's great since in the lower phase most of the job is done by muscles connected to the shoulder blade. Thile when you in horizontal position, the moment of force is the largest in the lowest phase. so you work out lats. Standing lat raises don't do anything for lats for 1/3 of the movement, for the most important part of the movement.
          Lat raises with lat tower is like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om0Bm4g66Ro&ab_channel=RichPiana

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Redditspacing
      >Shit opinion
      Like clockwork

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >This is coming from someone
      This comes from a dyel nobody. Kys

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Post body

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's a hard lift but getting those numbers up feels great and builds some good front delts. I have bottom 5% delt genetics and couldn't even start with the bar. Got it up to 5x6-12 at 145 now after 2 years of work. I'm genetic trash for anything delt related and I mog the frick out of other people at that lift now. If you have normal genetics and you keep at it you'll look like a God practicing that press for a few years and you'll make everyone jealous.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    and nobody cares, some programs will have cage press but dumbbells are still the goat for shoulders. Normies are massively impressed by repping 100s.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Praises barbell standing ohp
    >Later copes about how shit their bench press
    Why are you homosexuals like this

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The fact that this thread has so many homosexuals seething just proves OP's point. Amazing. Start OHPing you homosexuals.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i am a homosexual and i do overhead press

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ohp is for homosexuals. join a gayer gym and you'll be able to recruit lift buddies.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I agree with OP. I only see OHP in my private gym. (Me and 1 other guy do it) it is the hardest lift to gain on. I started at 95 lbs 1 rep max 6 months ago and today my 1 rep max is 155. Despite constantly pumping shoulders. But remember: you dont need to lift shoulders heavy. OHP is a slow burn or you will tear some shit and you wont be able to do anything else heavy. I know because i am a doc and refer idiots for rotator cuff repairs every day.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I bought 1.25lb plates for this reason. The progress is super slow.

      This. Loved ohp, but didn't see any gains for side delts. Front delts get overdeveloped. Switched to inclined bench press and lat raises, either lying on the bench, or using block tower. Never going back.
      Regular lat raises don't work delts when the muscle is the most stretched. They are shit tier exercise as well

      >Switched to inclined bench press and lat raises
      >Regular lat raises don't work delts
      What kind of lat raises are you doing now?

      the OHP is humbling because some people have to start out pressing babby weights Compared to the other compound lift, you really have to leave your ego behind to get good at the lift

      Please provide the best resource for form/technique.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        probably the best strict form I've ever seen

        but you can also do it a bit less strict, by e.g. doing touch and go (starting the lift at rack position instead of at the neck, going down to the neck and pressing up from there etc.)

        The main thing to consider is that the grip width in

        https://i.imgur.com/xMJvqJC.jpg

        Never seen anyone else do it. Most everyone else uses the weight machines. Those that use the free weight mostly use dumbbells. Those that use barbells pretty much only squat and deadlift. I've never seen another person OHP. What's the deal. Are people afraid of embarrassing themselves because they can't lift much?

        is not optimal, it's better to hold at about shoulder width, not outside of it

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, I am bumping this thread. How could you tell?

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I did 130lb singles today. Got two before my body just gave up.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because the OHP is fricking useless and (generally speaking) a huge fricking burden on every important joint in the upper body. The juice isn't worth the squeeze, you're like 90% more likely to frick up your shoulder in a major way doing barbell OHP, than you're likely to ever see any real going doing barbell OHP.

    As it stands, I don't see any legit reason to ever do the barbell OHP.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How the frick could you ever imply lifting something heavy over your head is useless? Are you moronic? Do you live in a bubble? Were you dropped on your head as a baby?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You don't see a reason to do it because you don't lift for anything other than aesthetics. Other people have reasons to do barbell ohp because other people have different values from you.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Please do not bring reason into this chaos, I crave violence in my hellscape.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Gosh this whole thread is such depressing garbage. Full of just outright wrong and moronic shit.
    The barbell OHP is good for your shoulders and helps protect them in bench. Literally no one hurts themselves with a properly executed OHP and tons of people with absolutely mangled rotator cuffs can OHP just fine because impingement on the OHP is basically impossible because the scapulae are free to move out of the way, unlike the bench.
    You can get huge shoulders just pressing, but if you're pressing b***h weight like 1pl8 that obviously isn't going to happen.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >You can get huge shoulders just pressing, but if you're pressing b***h weight like 1pl8 that obviously isn't going to happen.
      >you can get a huge wiener and a hot b***h but without pressing 2pl8 minimum, that isn't going to happen
      >without pressing 3pl8 you will never get that [thing] you want
      >one more progressive overload
      >just 1 more pl8 king
      >just 1 more before you hit your goal [thing]
      You are the "How much should I bench to get a gf" moron, right? I hate you homosexuals so much it's unreal

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        dont fear the shadow of the bar crossing your furrowed brow

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      even fat rippetoe admits that athlets get injuries because they do both ohp and benchpress. but keep being moronic

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You frick your rotator cuff during bench because you have so much weight on your joints that if you don't maintain your form immaculately at high weights, it tears the ligaments. The same is not true of OHP, you can literally just look at an anatomy chart or feel it when you do the lift and see this. Oh wait, you don't lift.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >barbell OHP is good for your shoulders and helps protect them in bench
      wtf. no it doesn't. your shoulders shouldn't be in danger during bench unless your form is wrong. If you go further than 90 degrees / paralell then bench can frick your shoulder.
      it's not a plus for ohp that it helps you bench with shit form better

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    if its good enough for pongo its good enough for me

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >fellow false grip/thumbless presser
      based monke

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      monke don't suicide grip without safeties! be careful!

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ohp autist reporting in.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I always grunt and yell and make a lot of noise at the gym when I'm doing ohp lol, it's the only lift where I do that. And I'm totally weak, I can only do 95lbs for 5 right now, can't imagine how ridiculous and stupid I'll be when I hit 1 pl8.
    Its just such a cool exercise and I want everyone to watch me do it and hear me go RRAAAHHHH

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    People don't do OHP because they've yet to get a clue or they have shitty/busted joints. For me, there is no better way to hit the shoulders.
    > Heavy Barbell OHP
    > Bradford Press for reps
    > Arnold Press with DBs
    Lateral raises barely do anything for natties. At least from my experience.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I just don't think most people do lat raises correctly, I've been doing cheat reps with higher reps and while my side delts aren't 3d or anything (I'm high bf) they're definitely pretty big and I can rep 25lb dbs strict, and cheat 35lbs.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What's the correct way to do lat raises?

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Dude, in my gym almost no one does OHP, Squat or Deadlift, it's like a repeller to them.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ohp, bench, and barbell shrugs are the only lifts that I even enjoy anymore after 5 years of lifting. Something about those lifts just makes you feel like a badass

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm starting to think this board is full of shilling powershitters who can only talk about OHP, Deadlifts and Squats.
    Other anons already deboonked these exercises and it's pretty much an ego lift, there are better and easier exercises if you care about hypertrophy and isolating, I don't see anyone in my gym doing it and even the shredded guys are doing other variants with dumbbells or machines.
    Thoughts?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Thoughts
      Yeah I think you should post body

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >thoughts
      Yeah I think you should have a nice day and post body pajeet.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's not powershitters, everyone here is just a moron who talks past each other.

      Barbell ohp is based af and I love doing it heavy.

      Overhead pressing is not the one key movement to blow up your shoulders. Even with dumbbells it's not the shit-delt panacea. If you only care about hypertrophy, barbell overhead pressing is by far a way less efficient way to get buff than through isolation exercises.

      I think most people should do both because you look kinda funny if your shoulders are big but your traps haven't been built because it was all strict cable lateral raises. You look disproportionate and your physique looks unnatural.

      Lifting heavy also supposedly benefits your hypertrophy via systemic anabolism. Who knows. I lift heavy because I feel great when I do.

      No pressing movement is inherently dangerous, and if you're not stupid you won't get snapped up doing them.

      It's congruent for all these statements to be true.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because other anons know more than all the experts don't they? You people can be so moronic its unreal.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I got a chicks number because I was doing ohp with more weight than she was doing with squats

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the OHP is humbling because some people have to start out pressing babby weights Compared to the other compound lift, you really have to leave your ego behind to get good at the lift

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's the other way around, people OHP to look badass since nobody does it, therefore doing it for ego only when there are better exercises posted on this thread.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        this is cope, people are in general coping with easier variants, not harder ones. Dumbbell shoulder press allows you to cut the ROM and use more combined weight
        there's a reason why zyzz flexed around shoulder pressing 50kg and struggled OHPing 1pl8 at the same time

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          also, the same thing counts for seated OHP. It's easier because you can lean against the bench and make it a quasi-incline press.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Dumbbell shoulder press allows you to cut the ROM and use more combined weight

          Lifting noob here, I don't really know how this works with dummbell

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            if you press along the side of your body (the bottom point of the press is when your upper arm is parallel to the floor) you cut about 1/2 of the ROM as compared to a barbell ohp where the bottom of the press is with the barbell at the bottom of your neck
            DB presses are the rack pulls of shoulder pressing

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              can't you adjust and bring the dummbells down nearly touching your shoulders though?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                you could, but that would make it closer to an Arnold press. What most people talk about when claiming their db press numbers is the classic bro-form shoulder press along the side

                think of this form. he could barbell ohp 1pl8 for some reps in his vids, his 1rm was probably in the 70-80kg range for reference

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Zyzz aesthetics still unmatched never doing OHP.
          What's ur point?
          >inb4 roids

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            ?t=603
            he did some barbell OHP but did not showcase it as much

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    what is wrong with doing dumbell OHP?

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm the only one who OHP in my gym as well, but that's because I have a home gym.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It appears that OHP is the most controversial lift. From what I gather it is because ego lifters are afraid to do it because they will have to use baby weight.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wtf how is it possible to do pull-ups with a bench???

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What the frick is going on in this thread? Who the hell is scared to lift something above their head? It's like no one has shelves at home anymore.

    And why the frick do people type 'lmao', no one can hear you, just talk normal.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's literally r*ddit transplants my man. Back prior to like, 2013 if you said anything other than lel or kek you got 5 replies telling you to go back.

      What's the correct way to do lat raises?

      Grab DB, lean forward with your back straight while standing up, lift weights out to the sides with your arms facing the front of you, but not like a front raise. I have a hard time explaining this tbh. Do them 3x15-20, or 25-30. I'll do strict lat raises at pretty high reps with lower weight. You'll only hurt yourself trying to do straight up front raises (front raises are stupid, do ohp) or if you try and strict lat raise as much weight as you can like if you were "cheating" the reps. Honestly just do a shit ton of lat raises this way and you'll get big side delts. Do rear delt raises too, look up how John meadows does them, pbuh

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        bitch-speak is always a good indicator for what your dealing with, I've heard rumors that some people even say it in person, they say 'lol' and 'lmao' face to face

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        nobody on here in 2013 cared enough about reddit to tell you to "go back"

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        god I remember all you gays going lel topkek all the time. then it morphed into constantly posting tee bee haitch famalam s0ib0i so much they had to wordfilter you slack jawed morons

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I do OHP at home and I'm always afraid of people walking in on me and thinking I'm squatting or something because the weight involved is so little. It's embarrassing.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hello fellow redditors, I also do not OHP. It's very simple, I use weight machines and dumbbells for shoulders, not those barbaric barbells. Oh god no, ew. And the reason for this is simple: science.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      after reading through all this thread i feel like i must be doing OHP wrong if im not getting any shoulder pains doing it

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Seated OHP>Standing OHP

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Because it's easier

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Favorite exercise
    >85kg max

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Impressive. There are roid trannies out there that can't even do 1 plate because they are embarrassed to start low and progress.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Guys I need help - I did two heavy singles at 130lb and then I couldn’t do anymore reps even when I deloaded to 115lb. Did I hurt myself or just get super fatigued

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If you're in doubt its better to choose to rest for a day rather than be forced to rest for 6 months recovering from injury

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    its my favorite lift
    feels good to lift heavy thing over head

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    PR’d at 105 lbs today bros. The quest for lmao1pl8 continues

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      keep going, fren.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      same bro

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Sweet. I've been stalling at doing reps of 95, we gotta keep pushing through.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Been out of lifting for a while. Coming back and am stalled at 95lb for reps. I used to be able to do 145lb for reps. I remember working up to that. It wasn't too bad. One week you just add 2.5lbs for literally only 1 or 2 reps, then drop it down again and finish. Then next week 3-4 reps and drop it down again to finish. Bit of a pain to keep changing weights in the work out, but works.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Stalled at 95 too, took me like 3 months to get to 1pl8, switch to standing dbs for a bit, right after I progressed on them and went back to bb I hit a plate in 2 weeks

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I was once like you and with a little determination you'll be like me within a year or two at most

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I do 5x5 50kg OHP is that considered alright?

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What are the benefits of dumbellOHP over barbell?

    Does anyone here do DB?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      stablising dumbbells overhead over yourself, overhead press or bench, tends to be harder than doing so with a barbell. If you like the barbell OHP, dumbbell can be a way to drive progress with the barbell, since stability and balance is a huge part of the barbell OHP. So if you've got a problem where one bad rep will sink your set with the barbell some assistance work with dumbbells will absolutely drive progress.

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    OHP isn't terribly good as a shoulder isolation exercise, because of course it is not a shoulder isolation exercise, and that is mostly what people want out of a shoulder exercise these days. It's hard to explain the appeal of a shoulder exercise that depends on a solid posterior chain to most folk.
    Really, the problem was its disqualification as a competitive lift. It ceased to be "sexy", and just became an exercise among others that had little appeal to casual gym goers.

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is having it literally straight over your head necessary? I find it hard to tuck my chin down while continuing to rep at a decent pace. I feel it throws me off way too much so I end up just looking slightly upward the whole time.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You move your head back going up, you don't tuck it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Go straight up till nose/forehead, push head through, and bar goes back a little and up to lockout.
      Reverse on way down.
      Bar locks out somewhere above my shoulders, not in front of my head.

      Oh really? When you do a set 5 reps of bench press, you do:
      >1 rep at 200lb
      >then 1 rep at 190lb
      >then 1 rep at 180lb
      >then one rep at 170lb
      >then 1 rep at 160lb?
      Then you do 5 sets of these?

      I think he might be saying you start at bar(45lbs) or like 90lbs, then once your form is good go up, or go up slowly as you get better at the movement.
      If someone can do say.. 90lb DB's then sure might want to start at 135 or 165lbs and go up from there.

      Is a 135lbs x 12 OHP good for someone who is 205lbs?

      It's decent. Probably been training for a year or so.
      Impressive would be 165+ for 12.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is a 135lbs x 12 OHP good for someone who is 205lbs?

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i'm struggling to get past 40kg, what should I do?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      what does your current sets and weekly regime look like?

      everything i've learned seems to say you want to hit a muscle group at least twice per week for at least 12 total sets per week, and that increasing sets helps a lot of the time

      so if you're doing 3x10 at 50kg twice per week you can probably add another 3 sets (maybe mix it up with different isolations to work front,mid,rear delts)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's kinda low anon. I would try and do it early in your program, higher reps, and enough sets.
      do some tricep, and shoulder isolations too.
      Make sure to keep a good brace in your core and glutes too. Helps drive power through.

      If that doesn't work maybe go do some DB pressing later, or as the main variant for a bit.

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Are people afraid of embarrassing themselves because they can't lift much?
    No they aren't wasting their time with an exercise that objectively will not grow your shoulders

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      lmao, look at this cope, my shoulders grew just fine doing a simple 5x5 ohp progression, you just suck?

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    seated dumbbell press master race

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It looks scary to normies so they avoid it (despite being the safest of the big lifts).

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    One of the most aesthetic shredded and muscular guys at my gym does OHP for 5x5 and he's pretty fricking aesthetic, great proportions, wide shoulders, well develop shoulder/chest ratio. I'll keep doing them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I did alright with 5x5 but started to stall hard. Now I am doing 4x8 with double dynamic progression and it's fun again.

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    OHP is literally my favourite lift. I've always done it so hard to judge but my shoulders are pretty big compared to others I see in the gym. OHP and lateral raises are all I do.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      do you get more plates with more dates?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I'm not a roider so they're not that big lel

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I did OHP today, I clean it off the floor

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I also see people mostly using machines
    I clean and dB press, noone does this
    I think benching is the people's choice for pressing movements
    >t.floridian

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How do all normies get sucked into machine using?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Because if they frick up on BBs they can only blame themselves

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wtf, are you me? Am I you?

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >powerlifting exercises are a meme
    >PPL is a meme
    What am I supposed to do?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Train how you want, with consistency and hard effort.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Bad advice.

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