Floor Presses - The Road to Recovery [205 x 5, 225 x 3, 225 x 4]

I brutally injured my pectoral insertion muscle (somewhere between my right pec and my right arm) a month or two ago. I have not been able to do any sort of chest exercise for one to two months because of the severe pain from moving my arms in the pushing motion. The fact that push ups were difficult to do meant I really screwed something up.

Today I had the bright idea of doing floor presses. So here is what I came up with. My strength has gone down, which make sense, so hopefully I can work on my floor presses for a while and then in a month move to real bench presses.

I personally thought it was pretty awesome how I have it set up with the two chairs and when I failed I just dropped it a little below my stomach so I don't need a spotter.

Weights were 185, 225, and 225 for the three clips.

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Sports

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• floor presses
• chest injury

[funkyassdeejay]

the bar is supposed to get cLose to ur chest. the fLoor is bLocking ur movement. trust, if u gt a REAL bench and rack, 225 is gonna be A LOT harder for u. No offense, but honestLy, it dont even Look Leik u can Lift 2 pLates on a reaL oLympic bar and bench.

[YoCard]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Let me share a video for guys like you.

[YoCard]

Video response.

[YuppItzCorey]

ive never done floor presses and ive been in the same area on the bench. should i give it a go and what % of a max should i start off with?

[YoCard]

I'd warm up and then go from 70% of your max up and see. If your gut isn't too big you can fail and let it drop on your stomach like how I had it.

[tsnaruto]

Nice man, I always lifted it off the floor, but seeing how you use the chairs, I realize I probably wasted a lot of energy just trying to pick up the barbell. =D

Im going to try the chair setup like you have there.

[YoCard]

Be careful though, practice with 135 so you don't tip a chair like I almost did, also make sure you can ditch it like how I did at the end of the video. Safety first :D! It is pretty scary with chairs haha.

[nymxcar]

Yo I also mess up my pectoral insertion muscle and freaking chiropractor could not figure out what was wrong or fix it. I was out for 6 months. I just went back to the gym about a month ago. My chest is doing good but I feel like if I start doing power lifting like I did back in high school my chest rep can go up faster, Because I can't seem to go up as fast as I did back in high, Btw I forgot how to figure out my percentage could you help me with that? Il send you a message.

[muzimuzi]

wow you nearly touch your chest with thouse heh

[HoodMuscle23]

funkyassdeejay R u a fucking retard

[howcanthishappentome]

Floor presses and bench presses are two completely different exercises floor presses increase shoulder and tricep power its the top part of the rep..... it carries over to the bench

[halfer777]

Dude you need to train your external rotations to fix the issue. Focuses on reading everything on tnation look for eric cressey, mike robertson, charles poliquin and christian thibadeau.

[nutnfancyfan]

i do something similiar to this. It can be done on the floor or with a regular bench. Since i have adjustable spotters i bring them down to a position that forces me to go about 90 degrees. I use 100%, for me 185lbs i can bring it down no prob but gettin it up i cant do. Anyway u bring the weight down and let it rest on the spotters for 1-2secs and then push with all ur might, not too much cuz u dont want to hurt urself, but its very good for strength/power and size.