Posted: 12/27/2012 5:17:45 PM EDT
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I am still a beginner and not moving big weights, but keep hitting a wall with OHP. I am doing stronglifts and started with a bare Olympic bar. At 70# I got through 4 sets of 5 reps and could only manage 1 more rep and was done. The next time I did the lift I got in all 5 sets and felt good. Tonight at 85# I got through 2 sets, but could only get 2 reps on the third set. Tried to go back for another set and just couldn't move the bar.
What can I do to improve my OHP? I plan to repeat the weight a couple of times and then drop back a little if I can't complete my sets. Any other sage advice? |
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Age, height, bodyweight? What's your diet/rest like? What are your other lifts like? 39, 5'9", 190#, holiday has jacked up my diet and rest cycle, meals right now are catch as catch can between work and family, normally I have a protein bar and coffee in the morning, some form of dead animal and veg for lunch, and more dead animal, veg, and a starch for dinner. Other lifts - squat 145# 5X5, bench 95# 5X5, OHP completed 80# 5X5, deadlift 190 1X5, rows 115# 5X5. OHP is the only lift I have hit a wall on. |
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Stop trying to increase the weight so quickly. Post a vid of your form. Errors include getting the bar to far out, poor elbow position and not using valsava or remaining tight through out your body. Of course you've hit a wall, you're only benching 95lbs. Something's wrong if there are only 15lbs separating those lifts. Switch to Starting Strength, reset your press back to 50lbs or so and eat more. You aren't getting enough cals. |
Reading is for suckers! 
From what I re-read, I don't understand what you mean by stalling out? Because if you had one bad workout, that isn't worth stressing out over. If you go 2-3 weeks without progress, then at your level it is a problem. Have a bad workout, put it behind you, eat, sleep, dominate the next workout. |