Restructuring approach to chest
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Re: Restructuring approach to chest
I sometimes do press with more weight on one end, and grip the bar a little off center closer to the heavy end. It feels balanced to me when I do this. We have a 15kg bar, roughly 33 pounds, and I try to get as close to even multiples of 5 as I can, so I'll put an extra 2.5 lb plate on one end. I just use it if someone else is using the 45lb bar.
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Re: Restructuring approach to chest
Or you can treat it like an off balance press and train the core more.
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Re: Restructuring approach to chest
My initial plan was to round all my calculations up to multiples of 5... 5 being the combined total of two of the lowest weights (2.5kg).
Incidentally, if anyone uses an Excel spreadsheet to calculate their lift % for 531 you can use the following fomula to round to the nearest "possible weight combination":
=MROUND(A1*65%,5)
This assumes your 1RM is in cell A1, you want to calculate 65% of that weight and the lowest weight combination is 5 (kg in this case). So, if you had 1.25kg plates you could amend that to:
=MROUND(A1*65%,2.5)
This isnt always required but its useful if you keep finding your calculations return inpossible weight combinations for your available equipment!
Incidentally, if anyone uses an Excel spreadsheet to calculate their lift % for 531 you can use the following fomula to round to the nearest "possible weight combination":
=MROUND(A1*65%,5)
This assumes your 1RM is in cell A1, you want to calculate 65% of that weight and the lowest weight combination is 5 (kg in this case). So, if you had 1.25kg plates you could amend that to:
=MROUND(A1*65%,2.5)
This isnt always required but its useful if you keep finding your calculations return inpossible weight combinations for your available equipment!