PatientVelociraptor He took the lifting cue literally.

LOL I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING

Chris Arsenault the scapula is from the last guy who fucked with rippletoe

MUAHAHA!

I walk around with a banana holster, in case things get heated

This made me chuckle!

Hell yeah he does!

TOPKEK

@TJ P people who called him fat, you don't live long enough to do it twice

@TJ P this is clearly a lie

+Josh Haines Hi Josh. I would be grateful if you could answer these questions: How many years have you been doing OHP? How much could you lift with your "old" form/technique before watching this video? (2 months ago) I'm just curious.

G Coy funny when this isn't even a powerlift.

Josh, I'm also curious how much those changes helped. For instance, did it help pushing beyond a plateau?

Josh Haines then you haven’t been overhead pressing

G Coy except the ohp is not a powerlifting movement

How'd it work out?

Iv been having BAD wrist pain. Do you think this will alleviate my pain? The new grip that is

Yep, mine went from severe to NONE by switching to this grip. It really makes sense.

Read the book but I don't really get about this grip. I'm really surprised how easy my OHP become after I changed my grip.

i use that grip to bench at times and it feels solid

"...this is all that's left of Frank. Frank didn't listen to me."

I cracked up when he just casually pulled out his spare scapula😂

LMAO HAHAHA

I literally just read this after he whipped it out

Said scapula probably extracted from the dead body of a crossfitter :)

OMG THAT IS HILARIOUS

Adronomics Hey those look like my numbers right now. How long have you been lifting?

About 11 months, yourself?

Adronomics Just hitting 7 months. I stalled a few weeks ago, but I think it is due to lack of sleep (work night shift). I really need to get this squat form together. Everything is fine. Deadlist still continue to go up but squat and press stall.

It certainly does take all your faculties to be in order for you to get over those humps. I was feeling a little tendonitis in Dec which slowed down my squats. I got it back up though. I'd recommend adding some volume work after all your heavy sets are finished. By that I mean just do the same exercises by with lighter weight & higher repetitions. You gotta add muscle to get stronger, something people tend to forget.

Adronomics Yes, that's what I do currently. It's kinda hard on squats because I am usually exhausted with the required sets that my form breaks down. I am still trying to learn my body when it comes to squatting. I am very flexible in the hole and that kinda works against me. Still playing with my feet width because my inner thigh (abductors I believe) are very sorry afterwards.

+AlphaDestiny Lol you're right, you're everywhere

roycegracie11 said fan of steve cook

@@roycegracie11 what's more "beta", a guy pursuing his dreams or a troll talking shit behind a screen?

Changed your mind now haven't you.

@James D I wish I could choose my height

exactly-I was literally watchinh and saying wtf zoom out.

Most of the video is totally out of focus too. The content is excellent but it's difficult to watch.

Just like in boxing and MMA where they often cut out below the waist. I guess a lot of fans prefer a good view of the face getting punched over understanding what's going on.

Total waste of a great video and fantastic instructor - you gotta see the hips!!

I know right! "As I was saying, for-instance consider this human heart that I carry around for demonstrations!"????!!!!

completely agree. I've used his grip for a year, bar feels more comfortable, feels lighter, and i press way more.

Nice picture,could not tell if those were boobs or eyes lol

How's your shoulder nowadays?

He can't raise his arms anymore to type a reply. Yeah...there's no such thing as shoulder impingement...it's all been imagined by thousands of athletes for decades . Some folks get off on being contrarian (to the conventional understandings of things) so much that it ultimately and eventually tends to infect and erode the quality of their advice. Certainly there are times when a better and different understanding of a thing can show that earlier beliefs and understandings were wrong...and some other times trying to one-up the prevailing medical and physiological understanding of a sports injury...is just plain wrong and potentially harmful.

@@Droverification At no point did Mark claim that shoulder impingement doesn't exist, YOU are putting words in his mouth. I've had shoulder impingement and babied my shoulders for a long while not making any strength or muscle gains for fear of hurting my shoulders again. I found some workarounds- OHP being one of them and I've been able to build bigger and stronger shoulders without any impingement issues. Mark is spot on on the physiological side of things.

Nah ... you are putting words into my mouth and making a complete red-herring argument. I didn't say this blow-hard stated shoulder impingement doesn't exist.. I said he enjoys being contrarian to many decades of accumulated knowledge of athletes and thousands of medically trained professionals, who have experienced and witnessed shoulder impingement directly caused and aggravated by OHP... but this guy spends the entire second half of the video blathering on and literally states among other false things, that impingement during OHP is "impossible" and that it can only occur during bench press with elbows too wide. It's total crap and dangerously false information..."shrug" at the top of the movement or not. Bench press certainly can cause impingement. So does OHP. Glad your shoulders are improving... your individual experience does nothing to negate the false information this guy presented or the many thousands of athletes who have had shoulder damage even from properly performed OHP., but who can still bench press successfully, some over 400lbs without any shoulder pain or impingement, once OHP had been eliminated from the training regimen. I am exactly such a one... and whereas one person who CAN do shoulder press without pain (you) doesn't prove a thing to negate many thousands who do suffer from it... one person who CAN'T do OHP without shoulder impingement but who can very successfully bench press (ME -- even forgetting the many thousands of others just like me and the thousands of medical doctors trained in anatomy and sports medicine who agree with us)...DOES entirely disprove and negate a stupid statement that "shoulder impingement is impossible from OHP".

@@Droverification TLDR. If you are lacking the eloquence (and paragraphs!) then a forum, not a KZfaq section is what you need.

Will Ferrell Ripp is a D Bag

+Mak Muk true. very tradtional is his weakness

@Lakers fan lol

@Lakers fan Many top weightlifters are kinda fat. What's your point?

@LA Lakers he's a strength coach, not a weightloss guru. He's excellent at what he does.

Pfft I went from pressing 135 to 200 lbs in a year ... by push pressing lol

Go get it man!

Fr. Voice and everything

@Lakers fan he's a professional!

@Lakers fan why are you rude

God damn it, you are absolutely right. I was trying to remember who it was that he reminded me of. lok

Accurate AF 😂😂😂

right a "model"

i know 6 year old comment, but same. I'm struggling hard with it.

Art of Manliness Awesome i was already using this technique,But then again i always start my first rep from the floor to overhead maybe that helped me i dunno

Its called not using a rack so to get it up to do my first rep i get it off the ground and up then i proceed with my reps.....ya real hard to understand.

***** You are a fucking idiot with 0 comprehension skills.

***** He is saying that he gets fatigued before the first rep, because he does not use a cage, he has to clean the weight up into the "rack position", causing fatigue in the shoulders, because that is one of the target muscles with a clean. Why was that so hard for you to understand?

***** lol yep

LMAO

Lmao 😂 Rip is a savage

I get a real gruff school teacher vibe from Mark sometimes

rickdtrick This had me laughing with tears.

+rickdtrick I moustache you how that felt....

300th!

same here. kinda strange since I'm a girl though.

INK moustache adds 30 lbs to your deadlift. Every serious athlete knows that.

Thanks!

Art of Manliness Please play TF2. Thats my wish for my birthday

He looks like Mac got a mustache rise from Thorny.

HAHAHAHAAH

I've never done weight lifting but I understand it's not a good idea to rush the learning process.

Ebvardh Boss Indeed. Can be very dangerous besides the fact that if you want to compete, technique is paramount. It has gotten a lot more scientific since sports realized it enhances performance vice the old myth that athletes would become muscle bound. Lots of advances.

DannoCrutch A little less than 10 years ago when I first started lifting, I was lucky enough to be given (as a gift from my dad) Mark's book "Starting Strength". Saying that it was *immensely* useful would be an understatement.

@Lakers fan and Beethoven was deaf.

@Lakers fan The strongest people are 'fat'.

You attended the course at 12 already?

@@ettc603 got his ass

I hope you meant "had been lifting incorrectly." I assume the SS course was the solution to the problem, not the cause.

Blaze Pig so real lol

🤣🤣🤣

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In what way does it hurt? I have had shoulder impingement and started OHP while I still had the injury and if anything I got better. I hear that the positioning of the elbows is key i.e. front, forearms vertical and grip should not be wide.

asdf asdf I understand whhayeee

Charles Vann Why wouldn't* you! Fixed it 😉

would be a decent weight overhead tbf

It's the Overhead Press WITH Mark Rippetoe, not the Overhead Press OF Mark Rippetoe.

Charles Vann well played

Excellent humour

Warren Grange 😁😁😁😁😁

Well, the barbell exercises are the most technical ones after all. Theyre not so straightforward, no noob knows how to do them because if you do them intuitively youre gonna get hurt eventually. For example the deadlift, seems really intuitive how to pick the bar up, but you should be in discomfort instead of comfort after youve set up properly.

In his book Starting Strength he dedicates 65 pages on how to put a barbell on your back and move it up and down.

I don't want to fuck with this guy.

You must not understand how technical of an exercise it is.

Burn the book before you hurt yourself.

+newboldspawn Marks a great coach wish i had met someone like him when i was young enough to be a factor lol. Still love lifting but im on the down hill slide really gotta work hard for them gains now 8).

+Captain Beeftits How many years have you been alive Captain Beeftits (if you don't mind me asking, of course. I'm young but often inspired to see mature-aged people still going at it.) All the best to you and goodluck with your training! :)

Really? I started doing it on my own because it felt better to grab the bar like that (in the palms of the hands)

Perhaps he has checked resources. But sometimes you don't know what to double check. He probably figured the movement of the exercise is what he needed to check so the last thing he thought of was something simple as how to grip the bar.

Covalent Bond 13 years ago the internet was a different thing

I like it when Rippetoe speaks

lol

Jordan TheMan lmfao!!! King of the Hill

Hwich is hwai I’m here as well

Frank Underwood Style.

@@bletwort2920 Hwich is Hwy I'm here as *Hwell!*

vidfreak56 I've had impingement before. and I've done this and it doesn't hurt