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Z-Press
Z-press is a lift supposedly invented by 4 times World's Strongest Man Žydrūnas Savickas.
You will require a power rack. Set the pins to just below your shoulder height, sit down on the floor legs out infront of you, unrack the bar using the same grip as you would in a strict press and simply press the weight above your head without falling backwards!
You will require a power rack. Set the pins to just below your shoulder height, sit down on the floor legs out infront of you, unrack the bar using the same grip as you would in a strict press and simply press the weight above your head without falling backwards!
This move is incredibly hard because it requires huge amounts of core stabilization and shoulder stability even more than when stood up and it makes you unable to lean backwards unlike in the strict press while pressing making the movement a lot stricter than normal. Because you are relying on stabilizing the weight so much in the core and shoulders the power that can be put through the bar is limited so the weight you will do on the exercise will be considerably less than what you can strict press normally stood up, this exercise can be exceptionally humbling and make "light" weights feel heavy.
The twist on this exercise is Z-Press but from pins. It is the same as a standard Z-Press except rather than unracking the weight onto your shoulders you do each repetition directly off of the safety pins. This makes each rep from a dead stop, which means you gain no advantage from stretch reflect and no stored tension or energy in the muscles from the previous repetition, this makes starting each rep even harder as you have to exert explosive power to get the bar moving from a dead stop while fighting to stabilize in the shoulders and core.
Try it out, see what you think and leave a comment below.
