Question for Mr. Urban

[bayboy4life]

However, here is the military press, which you are NOT to fail on

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I was on your website and i was just wondering what you ment by that.Thanks for the help.The website is helping me a lot

 

[Henry Swanson]

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I was on your website and i was just wondering what you ment by that.Thanks for the help.The website is helping me a lot

I think he means not training to failure on military presses.

 

[Urban]

I've dramatically changed my views on training to failure over the last couple years, and while I feel it should be avoided, it's not the tool of the devil I thought it was. However, I still feel you should avoid training overhead presses to failure like the plague. use a weight you can complete all your reps with and if you don't think you have another one in you, stop, rack the weight and try again next set.

OHP's are touchy, and in my experience they take some extra TLC to get good gains on them.

 

[Duncon76]

For overall strength gains, I find OHP responds best to lots of volume while avoiding faliure as much as possable. Just train the lift more often.

 

[Henry Swanson]

I sometimes feel on the brink of injury when I push OHP's to failure. I avoid it now though.

 

[CK**]

I sometimes feel on the brink of injury when I push OHP's to failure. I avoid it now though.

I concur, from personal experience.

Either I had sloppy form the last few reps, or the muscles were working overtime to lift the weight, but I seriously strained a few neck muscles doing OHP, and man straining neck muscles is about the worse.

 

[Henry Swanson]

I concur, from personal experience.

Either I had sloppy form the last few reps, or the muscles were working overtime to lift the weight, but I seriously strained a few neck muscles doing OHP, and man straining neck muscles is about the worse.

If I push to failure on OHP's, I usually get a weird sort of tingling feeling in my right arm.

 

[Revok]

Ditto. They really tear up my traps at the top of my back. Press pushes don't seem to be as bad as strict OHPs, but all in all I can get by with handstand pushups instead.

 

[Stonebreaker]

Nothing like training to failure on a lift that has the weight suspended directly over your head to say "avoidable training injury."