On Friday's Beast Tamer Challenge, one gentleman from Poland failed to press a 48 kg. On Saturday, after Fabio's military press teaching block, he pressed 48 kg both on his strong and stronger hand.
@Sergej, you do not understand. If your shoulder comes up in a military press, you are finished. If you manage to put the weight overhead, you won't do it by military pressing it and, instead, you'll end up performing some sort of bent or side press or, more likely, some risky piece of business that may bear passing resemblance to a bent or side press but is in actuality neither. There is technique to lifting; there is a right way to use the whole body.maybe i do not understand it right, but why is it exactly cheating if you find a personal way to bring the weight up? and what does it have to do with cowardice? if you have to grind, you grind. if you have to use the whole body, use the whole body.
whats more important? being able to bring the weight up? or to look good, while bringing it up?
This is not a valid comparison - if you are saving someone's life, do what you need, of course. But putting a kettlebell overhead by means of the military press is not that.Imagine this: You are in a situation where you have to lift a person overhead to maybe save someone.
f.e. from a sinking boat up to rescue rope or helicopter, or something similar.
would you care how you look, while you try rescue a human being?
On Friday's Beast Tamer Challenge, one gentleman from Poland failed to press a 48 kg. On Saturday, after Fabio's military press teaching block, he pressed 48 kg both on his strong and stronger hand.
Lol! I don't know, I think a lot of that warrior/coward stuff is a bit much. A warrior does what he needs to do to win. No one calls a special ops team a bunch of cowards for raiding an enemy stronghold at 4am when they know the bad guys will be most vulnerable. There's a reason we don't fight "honorably" via Napoleonic fashion anymore...
On Friday's Beast Tamer Challenge, one gentleman from Poland failed to press a 48 kg. On Saturday, after Fabio's military press teaching block, he pressed 48 kg both on his strong and stronger hand.
Point already raised and responded to above. Fabio is an elite level athlete and a teacher of strength for several decades. Choose to find fault with his advice at the expense of your own strength.Lol! I don't know, I think a lot of that warrior/coward stuff is a bit much. ... There's a reason we don't fight "honorably" via Napoleonic fashion anymore...
I like the idea of having enough respect for a lift or technique that it's better to step back than to get there by any means necessary.
I'd draw an analogy to a martial arts - in the end, one's goal might be to have the ability to throw an overwhelming number of perfect strikes. Which path do you take to get there - learn to throw a single, perfect strike, and gradually increase the volume? Or learn to throw continuous sloppy strikes, and gradually improve the technique? And if you took a pair of physically-equal guys (or gals) who trained on the opposite paths, and put them in a ring... who would you bet on? I give perfect striker better odds to land the blow that ends the fight.
I'm sure everyone here loves pushing themselves, and in competition, we do what we need to do. But I do think it takes a level of courage to trust in your training path, and accept when you might not be ready to move to the next step.
@JonS, it is all that and more. The character and integrity of the people StrongFirst attracts has impressed me more than their talent, skill, and professionalism.I'm constantly amazed at the talented individuals that StrongFirst attracts. Here are two instructors, for whom I presume English is not a first language, teaching and translating in it as the professionals that they are, to the StrongFirst standard. Simply outstanding.