Community Discussions
Explore the latest discussions and community conversations related to this domain.
What does "press" mean here?
Main Post:
Original text(Its not a complete sentence): the latest killing in a country that press advocacy groups call one of the most dangerous in the world for reporters.
I thought the "press" means "push somebody do",but if it is,there will have two prodicate verbs,and the other one is "call".So I did feel confused
Top Comment: The press is a collective term for the newspaper and journalism industry. It comes from the term "printing press" which is the English name of the invention that made mass production of written publications possible and therefore became strongly associated with the news media. A "press advocacy group" is an organization that supports journalism.
What is a press?
Main Post:
I want to start the Average F'n Program from the sidebar, but I have no idea whether "press" refers to overhead press, shoulder press, or some other kind of press. Can someone help a confused beginner out here?
Top Comment: Video: How To Press with Mark Rippetoe
How Much Ya Press? (why the press is no longer relevant)
Main Post: How Much Ya Press? (why the press is no longer relevant)
Weakpoint Wednesday: Overhead Press
Main Post:
Welcome to the weekly installment of our Weakpoint Wednesday thread. This thread is a topic driven collective to fill the void that the more program oriented Tuesday thread has left. We will be covering a variety of topics that covers all of the strength and physique sports, as well as a few additional topics.
Todays topic of discussion: overhead press
- What have you done to bring up a lagging overhead press?
- What worked?
- What not so much?
- Where are/were you stalling?
- What did you do to break the plateau?
- Looking back, what would you have done differently?
Couple Notes
- If you're a beginner, or fairly low intermediate, these threads are meant to be more of a guide for later reference. While we value your involvement on the sub, we don't want to create a culture of the blind leading the blind. Use this as a place to ask the more advanced lifters, who have actually had plateaus, how they were able to get past them.
- We'll be recycling topics from the first half of the year going forward.
- It's the New Year, so for the next few weeks, we'll be covering the basics
2017 Threads
Top Comment: Credentials: 260lbs or 1xBW @ Hefty. I can't say I've hit and worked through a plateau yet, but I was originally programming it along the same pattern as my other lifts a few years ago and that didn't get me moving as fast as a simpler protocol. What didn't work: Honestly just more-complicated-than-brain-dead-easy rep schemes. Mixing it up with heavy singles and then back off volume work like you might with another competition lift just didn't seem to resonate with me as much as I'd like. What did work: Spamming triples until my shoulders don't work. Hitting 10x3 for a session worked better for me than doing like 3x1 and then back to 4x6. YMMV. Dips. Dips dips dips. Weighted dips, unweighted dips. Dip often. I like doing heavy weighted dips for low reps once a week. Helps with stability and lockout strength, I find. And unweighted dips are a good way to load up the triceps and shoulders with volume without putting too much stress on the joints. Also, make sure you're giving the lateral and anterior posterior heads of the delts lots of love too. Shoulder is a multi-directional joint, it needs support on all sides. I'm a big fan of the 'pull what you press' philosophy, so I alternate weighted pullups in between all my OHP sets. If I were to change anything: I'm pretty happy with my progress so far, but if I were to change a couple things I'd have stopped training it exactly like my other lifts earlier on and I wouldn't have spent 2016 neglecting back work. In my opinion, nobody is doing enough back work, ever. Always more rowing to do.
Bodybuilders, do you incorporate any type of overhead pressing?
Main Post:
Bodybuilders, do you incorporate any type of overhead pressing? Or you just do lateral raises and rear delt work? If so, why?
Top Comment: I’d need a compelling reason NOT to do some type of overhead pressing because matching that stimulus with isolations alone would be tough.
Press release questions
Main Post:
Hello,
Looking for some advice about creating a press release. I work for medium sized software company and we're releasing a new product soon. This time we want to try and get some news about it out and it was suggested we do a press release. Since I have no experience in this, I did some google and, surprise surprise, I was lead to Reddit.
So, I found a website prnewswire(dotcom) and think this looks okay to go with? I looked other options in the past but it was never so clear to me what I get on one providers vs another. As this is a first press release, and we don't have a huge budget, would appreciate an do's and don'ts or any general tips to help with this.
TY
Top Comment: Guide to Writing a Press Release 1. Headline Keep it concise and attention-grabbing: Your headline should summarize the key message of the press release in a single, compelling sentence. Use action verbs: Make it clear and direct. 2. Subheadline (Optional) Provide additional context: A subheadline can offer more details or expand on the headline. 3. Dateline Location and date: Start with the city and the date of the press release. For example, "NEW YORK, June 18, 2024". 4. Introduction (Lead Paragraph) Hook the reader: The first paragraph should answer the "who, what, when, where, why, and how" questions. Keep it to the point: Summarize the most important aspects of the announcement. 5. Body (Supporting Paragraphs) Expand on the introduction: Provide more details, background information, and context. Use quotes: Include quotes from key stakeholders, such as executives, customers, or industry experts, to add credibility and human interest. Provide facts and statistics: Support your statements with data and concrete information. 6. Boilerplate About the company: Include a brief paragraph about the company. This should be a standard section that can be reused across different press releases. Highlight key facts: Company history, mission, products/services, and contact information. 7. Contact Information Media contact: Include the name, phone number, and email address of the person who can provide more information to journalists. 8. Closing (### or -30-) End with a standard symbol: Traditionally, press releases end with "###" or "-30-" to indicate the end of the text. xxx
OH Press not necessary in a program?
Main Post:
Hi, I just listened to the podcast about Q&A Exercise selection, and have a question regarding what the guys said about OH Press not being always necessary in a program: When do you think this would be the case? when would it be more appropriate to do low and high incline Press instead? I'm curious as Straight OH press has always been a real struggle for me, and I 'm interested in finding ways to get rid of them :-)) FYI I'm a women, 48, started weight training 2 years ago when I joined the military and have been lifting weights in a recreational way since then, meaning I don't want to compete in bodybuilding or powerlifting, just be generally strong and lean, while being super fit and healthy, nothing more. Thanks for your 2 cents!
Top Comment: Nothing is necessary in a program. It all depends on your personal goals and preferences. If you want to compete in powerlifting then yeah, you would need to practice those lifts. But if you're not going to do that, then even squat, bench press, and deadlift aren't necessary. You can of course get 'strong and lean' without doing barbell overhead press. Though getting lean is entirely about your diet, not your gym routine. And being strong means different things to different people. If being strong, to you, means lifting weight over your head, then you will need to do some kind of overhead pressing. But if that's not what being strong means to you, then you don't need to do it at all. Overhead pressing is hard for everyone. So don't feel badly that it's a struggle. I'm always very impressed when I see someone with a big overhead press. It means they've put in serious effort. If you don't like doing it, you can consider alternatives that you might like more: push press, dumbbell overhead press, machine presses. If you care about front delts, then you could look into front dumbbell raises and incline bench pressing. If you don't care about overhead pressing at all and you don't care about front delts at all, you don't have to do any of it.
Anyone else really dislike those shoulder press machines?
Main Post: Anyone else really dislike those shoulder press machines?
Top Comment: Sometimes a machine introduces a movement path and resistance curve that feels better than what you're used to, and sometimes not. Good that you're trying a bunch to see what you like and what gives results. I quite like plate-loaded pressing machines vs. cable ones in general because I tend to prefer their resistance curves. They more closely match the force output curves of my delts/pecs, I guess.
Those of you who've tried pressing overhead only and not benching, how has it worked out?
Main Post:
Just curious. I enjoy lifting overhead a lot, and I hate benching. I feel like gains on my overhead always mean gains on my bench, but not vice versa. I don't care much about chest development, and I don't intend to compete in powerlifting, so I don't need a big bench, but I do want to generally get as strong as I can.
Can lifting overhead multiple times a week and not benching cause shoulder joint difficulties, as I've read a lot about training the shoulder joints from multiple angles to prevent injury (e.g. horizontal rows/overhead/bench/pullups)?
Top Comment: Yeah I OHP a lot at the minute because my chest grows much more quickly than my shoulder region. So, my OHP sucks in comparison to my bench. I found little benefit in my OHP from an increased bench. However, I'm not sure that the converse would be true. (I might be able to tell you in like 3 months.) I tend to OHP press 3+ times a week, within range of 2-5 reps. Generally doing doubles and triples. I normally leave a rep in the tank, and I try to avoid grinding out reps or leaning excessively backwards. I think this helps to keep me from developing any incremental injuries but it is probably too earlier to tell yet. Plus, there are loads of variations on the OHP that can change the emphasis of the lift slightly so I can vary my over head lifting depending on how my shoulder region feels any given day. I sort of view the bench press as a supplement to the OHP. The OHP is more important to me. And I also consider shoulder and back development to be more important than chest development from an aesthetic perspective. Plus I reckon there are a number of reasons why you are more likely to be injured on the bench than the OHP. I can't be bothered going into detail. I'm sure someone else has already done it for me. Overall, I'd say stick with the OHP if you want to and it isn't causing you to many injuries. Yeah, you are going to be pressing a lesser weight on the OHP than the bench, and the OHP is slow to progress in weight (at least for me), but that just means every weight I add to the OHP is worth more to me than on the bench. Throw in some bench pressing occasionally whenever you feel like it. HOWEVER, be careful about developing your body asymmetrically. I guess this is really at the heart of your question and you'll need someone more experienced than me to answer it. O YEAH, btw I fucking love bench pressing. If you are avoiding the bench because you don't like it, to me that is just a reason to hunker down and crack the bench press. Some day you are going to want to have a good bench press or a nice set of tits - I mean pecs*. Whenever you do, you'll be kicking yourself for wasting the past few years avoiding the exercise. Your bench won't have made much progress in comparison to your OHP I reckon. You'll be at square one with the bench. Get into the bench man. There is a reason every bro loves the bench. Because you get to lie down. It's fucking easy and you can thrust your cock into the air whilst doing it. BRAVO for the bench.
Dumbell overhead press (I know 1st rep was really bad for some reason)
Main Post: Dumbell overhead press (I know 1st rep was really bad for some reason)
Top Comment: Why are you doing overhead press while leaning back?
What is the point of overhead pressing movements for hypertrophy?
Main Post:
I see a lot of opinions stating that front delts do not need to be trained in isolation as they get a lot of volume from pressing movements.
Also that overhead pressing isn't great for the side delts.
So with that in mind, why would we have overhead pressing in a program? Bearing in mind it's a movement that primarily hits the front delts, which is being trained on other movements anyway.
This isn't me criticising anything, just asking so I can learn.
Top Comment: A lot of people say that, but if you actually look at the people with big delts, they’re pretty much always strong vertical pressers.