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Yeah it's very similar to mine's. There could be some leverage differences etc but... it's pretty much the same.

But indeed I can rep 120 kg (that's the max of the machine, so 265 lbs) for 5-6 good reps when I use both legs on it.

I don't have a glute-ham machine though, and back when I used to do natural GHRs they messed up my right knee by trapping it into the ground while I was doing the movement.

I think it depends a lot on the level of the athlete. If you're a beginner you won't be able to wear yourself down too much with your current training because you aren't able to generate a lot of intensity to begin with in your training.

But then it obviously matters if you have overtrained for quite some time and so on and so forth. So there are a ton of parameters at work, as usually.

You should do a video^^^ it's hard to understand.

Especially at 1... narrow grip, and "less" for longer armed athletes? So if you have long arms you should use an even narrower grip? Doesn't make any sense, so probably I'm getting it wrong...

I also have different looking bars at my gym (olympic bars nonetheless) with different markers on them... not sure what "knurling" means.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQvBT9Xeo0A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQvBT9Xeo0A</a>

Can anybody post a video with the right form on the dumbbell push press? There are so many out there that I don't know which one is actually the correct form...

Quote from: D4 on August 20, 2012, 03:04:09 am

This might be a stupid question, but I'm curious.  You know how shoulder power contributes to vertical jump height and to work on it people do arm swings like when Adarqui used to do his plate swings which basically mimics the same swing motion in jumps. 

Push presses aren't the same motion as plate swings, but does improving push press help with the same effect that improving plate swings will have specifically on VJ's?

Think of it from the muscles being trained instead of the exact movement.  Also, watch how people jump with the ball, which is what you will have to do in an actual game, assuming youre not catching lobs on a regular basis.  Lay up, jump shot, dunk with the ball in hand, watch that movement.

A jump and a shrug, baby!

I remember someone who said "people of the past had much more interest in the standing overhead press vs. pushing something from the chest while laying horizontal on a bench".