benchmonster
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I may have finally figured out a way to do floor presses that I like. Let me back up a bit. I have never liked floor presses much, mostly cause I am vain, and I can't do much weight on this movement. Well. . .
I got the George Halbert bench video for my birthday, and got some great ideas from it, one of which was to use 2 doubled minis wrapped around the bottom of the rack for floor presses. this should add 100 lbs at the top. I wrapped one extra loop and got 115 lbs added at the top. (I figured this out using a box, some boards and a bathroom scale, pretty scientiffic stuff).
So I warmed up with 160 (using Halbert math) which was 115 lbs of band plus the 45 lb bar. George only lists the weight at the top, and I found this is much easier to keep up with rather than writing down weight used, bands, band setup, etc. . .
Then began doing triples as follows: 160, 250, 300, 350, 375
Then dropped to singles and did: 390, 410, and a close miss at 430.
My previous best floor press was around 340 or so. Not very impressive, I know. And after a band-less floor press session, I never felt like I had done much work. Well, after this little session, I felt like I got my money's worth.
After this I did JM Presses on the floor with the same band setup for 3 sets of 8 or so, using around 250 for 1 set and 300 for 2 sets. Actually, I think it was more like 10 reps, 8 reps, 7 reps for the sets.
Then 3 sets of band bent rows, shoulder horn, and called it a day.
As you can see, once the bands are on there, I am too lazy to move them, and just do exercises where I can use the band setup from M.E. exercise. I am becoming a believer, in both the floor presses, and using bands on everything. I will give it a shot and see how it works on Sept. 14th.
B.
I got the George Halbert bench video for my birthday, and got some great ideas from it, one of which was to use 2 doubled minis wrapped around the bottom of the rack for floor presses. this should add 100 lbs at the top. I wrapped one extra loop and got 115 lbs added at the top. (I figured this out using a box, some boards and a bathroom scale, pretty scientiffic stuff).
So I warmed up with 160 (using Halbert math) which was 115 lbs of band plus the 45 lb bar. George only lists the weight at the top, and I found this is much easier to keep up with rather than writing down weight used, bands, band setup, etc. . .
Then began doing triples as follows: 160, 250, 300, 350, 375
Then dropped to singles and did: 390, 410, and a close miss at 430.
My previous best floor press was around 340 or so. Not very impressive, I know. And after a band-less floor press session, I never felt like I had done much work. Well, after this little session, I felt like I got my money's worth.
After this I did JM Presses on the floor with the same band setup for 3 sets of 8 or so, using around 250 for 1 set and 300 for 2 sets. Actually, I think it was more like 10 reps, 8 reps, 7 reps for the sets.
Then 3 sets of band bent rows, shoulder horn, and called it a day.
As you can see, once the bands are on there, I am too lazy to move them, and just do exercises where I can use the band setup from M.E. exercise. I am becoming a believer, in both the floor presses, and using bands on everything. I will give it a shot and see how it works on Sept. 14th.
B.