The 2 things that really helped me 1. Don't focus on leaning back. Focus on pushing your hips forward. It makes you lean back and keep the bar over mid foot. 2. Try to press the bar behind you. I don't have the shoulder mobility to actually do that, but trying to put it behind me keeps my path vertical. YMMV.

The biggest ones are putting my triceps on my lats, squeeze the bar as hard as possible, and the narrower grip.

Squeezing my glutes was the biggest game changer for me. Felt like it made the biggest change with my technique.

I knew all of that already ok but it doesn't help me get stronger or gain strength

technically it might not be a strict press, but bending the knees without using them to drive up the press, is a technique i am experimenting with.

Another crucial thing to remember is to also build a strong bench press. People that you see that are pressing 225 lbs over their head are people who are benching somewhere in the mid to high 300 lbs. As soon as I improved my bench press, my overhead followed.

@@jesussandoval8756 does flat bench press affect shoulder press or only incline bench does?

100%

*cough* Alex Bromley *cough*

I tweaked my back a couple of years ago when I bent incorrectly, I was really struggling with the weight, but pushed through the longest rep of my life. I felt that tweak EVERY time I overhead pressed for MONTHS. Right in my lower back. So I would say this is good advice...

I say ohp everyday if thats what you want to get better at. Bulgarian method has been working for me. Learned from Eric bugenhagen. In my opinion, youre less likely to be injured if your body is very familiar and comfortable with the movement. (As long as good form is being used)

Good points. But I disagree with the fact push press is going to improve your strict press. Your quads take most of the load at the beginning at the lift on the push press which is for most people the hardest part of the lift for most people. Shoulders aren't as strong as legs so doesn't really take most the load and doesn't develop them. Dont get me wrong if you add 50 pounds on your push press then there's going to be some form of carry over. But me personally think the standard ohp is the best way to increase it with high frequency. Once you get more advanced.. Dumbell press, z press with barbell/DB, and vary grips and alternative between paused and touch and go

@@thegreatguy6340 The push press helps not by the concentric portion of the lift, but by the eccentric portion. It allows you to lower more weight than you'd be able to doing a strict press.

@@thegreatguy6340 Which is why he said to do a controlled negative, actively resisting the eccentric part of the movement will expose your pressing muscles to heavier weight without actually forcing them to press weight they're not comfortable with. That's not to say you should load up your bench max and go to town, but a little heavier than what you normally do.

Thanks for the support!!! Need to keep growing!

Awesome!! Thanks for watching

Absolutely, Jessie. The grip is a game changer. Otherwise you are leaving some pounds off the table

Thanks for the advice Jesse. I'll have to try this the next time I'm doing OHP.

That is a solid cue to remember!

Awesome hope it helped!

For me too. The OHP looks bad ass and makes you feel like a beast

Thank you for the support! I support those who support me :)

Thank you for watching!

I’ve don’t many jerk tutorials just look up “Joey Szatmary jerk” or Joey Szatmary strongman press”

Hi NickyB! Don't despair. It usually takes a lot longer to make progress on the OHP. Keep doing it though. It's a great exercise that will build your upper body like crazy. Let's get them gains!

@@FacePullTiToX hehe, tnx for the comment man! Lets keep going!

Thanks for watching

I personally dislike that style, but his goals are in line with the Strongman competition, which is to press as much weight as possible over your head. The little dip gives you some momentum and allows you to OHP a weight that you wouldn't be able to lift otherwise. This is great to overload your triceps, which is the muscle group responsible for the lock out portion of the lift. If your goal is to target the musculature of your shoulders though, I would avoid that little dip for sure.

It's strict because he's not using his legs in the movement, which is the definition of a strict press. If your goal is simply increasing the strength of your press, a slight dip to get some momentum and increase stretch reflex is fine.

abcdLeeXY That’s why I don’t watch his videos, he drags on and takes too long to reach the point.

Which Jeff? There's a lot of them at this point.

Yesssss

Thank you for coming over and supporting the channel!

My grips the same for everything besides probably a split jerk is a little wider

Look up the concept of "scapular angle". For me the sweet spot shoulderwidth with a bulldog grip and super engaged lads. I hope that helps you make more OHP gainzzz

That's a great question. It depends. You may have to do it if the rules of a competition says that you have to. You can be more flexible during your training though. I always make sure the bar touches my chest if only to allow the bar to across the full range of motion. I hope this helps, Sejin

@@FacePullTiToX thank you so much!

That's true ideal grip is a subjective thing and lots of people press very efficiently with wider grip than that. You just have to adjust elbow position accordingly so forearms remain vertical, if you grip wider your elbows will have to be further out to your sides. There are pros and cons I don't buy the ideology that presses should be done at shoulder width or just outside that. The same exact arguments for that could be made for the bench press (load closer to body/shorter lever relative to torso muscles) and nobody bench presses the most they can with a close grip, because it also maximizes the distance the weight has to travel and lever for the triceps - there are no free lunches when you make it easier for the shoulder you make it harder for the arms and vice versa, it's all about finding that sweet spot which will be highly individual.

The dude is definitely thic as an oak

Shoulder mobility? Can be fixed easily. :)

Some people don't have the mobility to let the bar touch their upper chest in the front rack position.

@@TiberiusStorm But take Joey for example, I bet he has the mobility, so there must be a argument for doing so.

I do it because it just feels better to puff the chest a bit and lock the bar down before starting each press. For me, it creates a stretch reflex.

Every time I go to upper chest it fucks my set even though I have the mobility for it

Another important thing to remember is that a strong bench press can help break an overhead press plateau. As soon as I improved my bench press, my overhead press followed. You have no hope of overhead pressing 200 lbs if you're bench is less than 300 lbs. I've seen someone press 225 lbs over their head but his bench was 365 lbs. It just makes sense that a stronger bench = stronger overhead press. You get what I mean?

It’s a cult

Lol its bart kwans gyms name. They have a yt channel too hes trolling its not a cult

Andrew Lee is joking called trolling these days?

@@SzatStrength yeah theyre used interchangeably these days. Trolling doesnt always have a negative connotation anymore