Anyone familiar with the floor press? I won't have access to a bench for a while, so in the meantime I've been floor pressing to help with my push-ups. The problem is, I feel soreness mostly in my shoulders (like the photo below) and less in my triceps, am I doing something wrong? Hand placement?
@Neo The Resurrected ONE
I am familiar but I'm not Neo so you can do with this what you will. (I'm also a gym gawd unlike Neo so there's that.
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The floor press is a chest, tri, and shoulder movement just like the bench press (this
was the bench press before benches were a thing). Grip should be either close or medium, not wide, as compared to your bench press grip.
Soreness is not necessarily indicative of anything. Shoulder pain is not the same as shoulder soreness, so if you have shoulder
soreness but not pain after doing this it's probably one (or more) of the following:
1) Tuck your elbows in more. The more flared out your arms are at the shoulder, the less emphasis you'll place on your tris. Either delts or pecs will have to pick up the slack. Elbows shouldn't be more than 45° away from your sides.
2) Move up further. The closer the bar is in the starting position towards your head, the greater emphasis on your shoulders. Pull yourself into a better starting position by moving your head and the top of your body up further from the bar.
3) Tailor your accessories to bring up your weak shoulders. DOMS is not indicative of strength or even size gains, it's an indicator your body isn't used to doing something or is overdoing something. If your delts are weak relative to your chest and tris, you're gonna feel the soreness in the muscle group lagging behind the most.
4) Change up your frequency. If you're only doing this once a weak, that would explain your issue. If you're doing this more than 3x a weak, that would also explain your issues. Remember, you are not a special snowflake and you ain't a gym gawd, beast, etc. Infrequently doing a movement or overdoing a movement will result in soreness, as alluded to above.
Good luck little gym dude.
-- Tails
These weak fukking cretins will leave shyt all over the gym and the gym managers are too p*ssy to say anything, and too lazy to actually fix shyt.
er/attention-whoreier the gym goer is, the less likely they are to have any type of gym etiquette.
I didn't know this.
