Three actions will make your military press go up:
1. Doing more low rep sets with the kettlebell you can comfortably press.
2. Getting accustomed to the heaviness of the kettlebell you are planning to press with special “overload presses.”
3. Learning to “get tighter” with special “high-tension presses.”
A great example of “overload presses” is a combo of loaded cleans and get-ups. This combo makes you feel the starting and the finishing positions of the military press with a heavier kettlebell.
Even though you have no intention to plan on pressing this kettlebell today, load your body as if you are. Tense the glutes, brace the abs, “root” your feet into the deck, flare the lats, crush the handle. Pause momentarily—a coiled spring of tension—then drop the kettlebell. Five sets of five will do the job.
The get-up will take care of overloading the top of your press. Do five singles with a kettlebell you cannot press yet. Fit them in between your clean sets.
For top-of-the-line kettlebell military press instruction and state-of-the-art programming, refer to VICTORIOUS: A Complete Guide to Pressing a Heavy Kettlebell, an online course with Fabio Zonin, StrongFirst Certified Master Instructor.
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