BBM typically recommends pressing from a “dead stop”.
Since I began training again after a 6 month layoff following sslp, I have been performing the press a little differently than I was my first go around.
My starting position has the bar more or less just in front of my sternoclavicular joints, an inci or so from touching my chest. As I start a rep I take a big breath, squeeze my “core”, glutes and quads to lock knees and back.
This where my question comes in; as I initiate my “hip thrust” I allow the bar to dip or drop slightly, feels like a half inch or so, then drive the bar up, get under it, shrug up into lockout.
I feel stronger, more powerful this way and the rpe drops significantly compared to not using the bar dip. After lock out I lower the bar, take a new breath and repeat.
Would you consider this a dead stop?
Should I stop this practice or carry on?
