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Oxygen Health & Fitness
The Push Press
The push press is great for developing strength and power in the upper body as well as the power transfer from the hips and core. Compared to a strict Shoulder Press, you can load more weight on the bar because you are adding the hips to the movement. This allows for bigger strength gains.
It’s NOT a Thruster
Only drop slightly, to about a 1/4 squat position, before aggressively extending the knees and hips to drive the weight up. If you drop too low on the squat, you’ll turn it into a Thruster exercise which offers different benefits to what we’re after here.
Mama T showin em how it’s done!
At the ripe ol’ age of 53, Traci Calverley is proving to be a great all-rounder at Kiama Fit-Chicks. At the completion of our last 5 Sets of 5 Reps Strength Program, Traci managed a 90kg Trap Bar Deadlift, 11 unassisted Chin Ups, a 38kg Incline Press and 60kg full range Squats in a technique she now knows as “ass to the grass”. That is great all round strength across all major muscle groups! Well done Trace, you’re a great role model to not only your daughter Sheri but FitChicks of all ages, shapes and sizes.
Megan means business
Megan Casey is one of our 430pm FitChicks who has recently rejoined the Oxygen Health & Fitness family. Everyone likes to think they are busy but when you have 3 kids, a casual teaching job, your husband is in the military and spends about 4 weeks a year home, you are going to be pressed making time for yourself. Megan has made that commitment over the past 15 months, rarely missing her 2 FitChicks strength sessions each week.
Just recently, Megan’s husband Sean has started 5 months long service leave and not only has that meant she has been able to attend extra sessions in the way of Conditioning and Super Saturday, but she’s been able to bring her husband along and train together.
Sean has since joined up Oxygen for our Spartan Training Club sessions and for a guy who has spent 18 years in the army working on his physical fitness he has been very impressed at the style of training his wife has been putting herself through. She’s strong with not only her body weight, banging out full range of motion chin ups but she handles a barbell just as well squatting, pressing and deadlifting with the best. Sounds like there’s actually two soldiers in this family! Love your work Megan.
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