My Floor Press is poop

[fuseven]

For the first time in my lifting career ive attempted the floor press and as the title states...its poop. Im running a conjugate program and cycled this in as a max effort. Its about 70% of my max bench. Obviously a weakness, how else do u impliment this movement other than a rotated max? Main supplement movement?

Thanks all

 

[badwolf42]

Get a coach to learn from. It seems like you truly don't have the knowledge or experience to run the program. This is a basic question for the program and if you can't answer it already then the program probably isn't for you at this point.

 

[LeanEngineer]

You might need to get some toilet paper then haha jk I use to do dumbbell floor presses and then switched to barbell floor presses. Maybe try using Dumbbells to build up strength for that motion and then do barbell.

 

[fuseven]

Get a coach to learn from. It seems like you truly don't have the knowledge or experience to run the program. This is a basic question for the program and if you can't answer it already then the program probably isn't for you at this point.

Since im curious how other people impliment a certain lift into their training im a know nothing newb? Someone's a negative nellie

 

[fuseven]

You might need to get some toilet paper then haha jk I use to do dumbbell floor presses and then switched to barbell floor presses. Maybe try using Dumbbells to build up strength for that motion and then do barbell.

Thanks for the advice, dumbells sound interesting for this as well

 

[herderdude]

You could put them second in your routine, 3-5 sets of 3-6 reps and build up on them in a linear fashion. First week do something like 4 sets of 6 with reps in the tank and add 5 or so pounds each week, dropping sets and then reps when it gets to be too hard until you're doing 3x3 with 60-80 more pounds than you were doing week 1.

And then switch something else in for your second movement and after a couple weeks of not doing it, test it on ME day to see how far you've come.

 

[Lifting_Dad]

What's YOUR goal with the movement?
Sometimes people will add in an exercise without understanding its' purpose.

1. If you struggle with lock out (mainly triceps at that point), this movement can help you.
2. If this was your very first time doing floor pressing, you likely haven't mastered the movement. You most likely worked your way up to your working weight and went at it.

I don't really like floor pressing as it limits the lifters ability to work through a true sticking point.
Depending on the meat on your triceps, the bar may not come down low enough. The depth also varies based upon grip width.

If you train with a partner, board pressing may better suit you.
Otherwise you could try a pin press and set them just below your sticking point.

*On a side note, apparently the word lock/out is now a banned word here. That's fun for the pl-er's on here.

 

[SoupNaziNazi]

Don't worry about percentages, they have their place but just pick a weight u can do for 3x3 and then keep that same weight and just increase reps each time, go for 4,3,3 then 4,4,3 then 3x4 then 5,4,4 and so on and so forth

 

[kBrown]

If its a weakness and something you've never done then of course you are going to suck at them... And no one experienced here is going to tell you... oh don't do them!

If you suck at them... do them anyway and improve.

As Herder said maybe isolate on some of his advice and make it a secondary movement.