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Power Up Your Press!

Since the dawn of time, mankind has sought to develop one physical quality above all others: strength. Pure, raw strength.

And when it comes to building it, few movements have been more highly prized than the much-vaunted overhead press.

For example:

• In the British museum there is a massive sandstone from the 6^th century BCE on which are carved the words “Bybon son of Phola has lifted me overhead with one hand.” The stone in question weighs 316 lbs!
• Kettlebell king Pavel Tsatsouline has noted that in some parts of Russia pressing a 32 kg (70 lb) kettlebell over your head is considered a rite of passage from boyhood to manhood
• Old school performing strongmen often made one of their main stunts during their stage shows some sort of overhead pressing movement

But then something happened.

Eventually the rugged life Westerners were used to gave way to modern comforts, “strength training” became based around pulleys and machines, and the overhead press fell out of favor with all but a few stubborn die hards who sought to keep this classic lift alive.

In the long run, their efforts paid off, and in the early 2000s classic strength training roared back to the forefront of the Western fitness scene in a big way, bringing with it none other than the mighty military press.

But unlike the world the press had left behind, the world it found itself in was markedly different.

Gone were the days when most people were relatively physically active and had bodies that could adapt to various different movements relatively easily, replaced instead by busted up, deconditioned bodies whose innate abilities to get stronger had largely decayed due to sedentary living.

So while the ever-growing number of kettlebell enthusiasts sought to replace their bourgeois chest press machines with the noble cast iron kettlebell for their upper body strength, a new plague surged through this pioneering populace:

Great progress that suddenly stopped.

Frustrating, seemingly insurmountable plateaus.

Achy, stiff, and uncomfortable shoulders.

In fact, that last one became so common that one now-former Master instructor discovered in an informal survey that something like a whopping 87% of level-2 kettlebell certification candidates complained of shoulder pain!

I myself have experienced it as well – more times than I care to admit.

Not content to accept shoddy shoulders as the price to pay for a big military press, I sought to try, test, and tinker with various long-forgotten training protocols and downright “heretical” approaches to keep my overhead strength climbing ever higher while preventing shoulder pain from doing the same.

Eventually I stumbled upon some things that proved revolutionary.

And not just for me, either. My online coaching clients were rocketing to previously unseen levels of pressing strength WITHOUT grinding their shoulders to dust in the process like most of the people I came across. I knew I was onto something, so I kept tweaking and testing until I had finally concocted a protocol that was so effective at putting heavier weights overhead, yet gentle on the shoulders, that I could no longer keep it to myself and a skeleton crew of my high-paying online students.

And thus, Power Up Your Press was born.

In this program you will learn:

• Why conventional advice for the military press promises only plateaus – and how to finally break free of them and charge boldly upward to new and exciting heights of upper body strength
• The “Key 3” parts of the body most susceptible to agony in your odyssey for overhead pressing excellence – and how to avoid the myriad bewby traps that lay in wait (pages 9-11)
• “The 7 DEADLY Sins of the kettlebell military press” – 7 hidden and, in some cases, rarely discussed reasons why your press has stalled for months or even YEARS – and how you can put a swift end to it (pages 13-19)
• My ‘Core 4’ little-known axioms for big-time press success – including 3 sneaky ways to take advantage of the unique design of the kettlebell to almost FORCE your body to hand over more strength! (pages 21-24)
• The Bottom’s Up Press: the kettlebell world’s best-kept secret for freakish overhead pressing strength and unparalleled shoulder health and function (pages 27-28)
• The Turkish Get Up: the intermediate and advanced kettlebell practitioner’s “secret weapon” to practically pouring pure power into every nook, cranny, crevice, and corner of your shoulders – for greater shoulder resilience inside and out (pages 29-31)
• The Double Kettlebell Press: a bona fide battering ram for smashing through the walls holding you back from breaching the gates of gains (pages 32-33)
• 5 upper body areas to mobilize to mitigate the risk of achy-breaky shoulders in your epic press quest (pages 34-38)
• 4 “blasphemous” drills from the world of bodybuilding and physical therapy that can work wonders at banishing shoulder problems to the dustbin of history(one of which is a favorite of a 6-time Mr. Olympia champion who has said he only WISHES he would have known about them during the height of his career as it could have helped him avoid shoulder injuries!) (pages 39-42)
• An obscure but sensationally effective programming method that almost NO ONE knows about from behind the now-defunct Iron Curtain – lost and largely forgotten by all but a handful of strength fanatics (page 44)
• A fully loaded 10 week program to lead you from pressing perdition to paradise (pages 51-77)
• Much, much more!

Cost for this epic guide is $111

HOWEVER!

Because this is the maiden voyage of a program I’ve been itching to release for close to two years now, between now and May16^th I’m making it available for just $77.

And to further keep the celebrations going, I’m tossing in these epic bonuses as well:

• The PRESServation Guide – my go-to protocols for how to maintain your pressing strength even AFTER this program is over – based on the hard-won training knowledge and advice of kettlebell king Pavel and gymnastics strength genius Christopher Sommer ($47 value)
• The Military Press Reinforcements Guide – my one-stop shop for accessory movements and other drills to prop up your military pressing prowess ($38 value)
• The Bulletproof Shoulders Guide – the complete guide to turning your achy, sensitive shoulders into strong, resilient masses of muscle and mobility ($39 value)
• Methods of the Masters Vol. 1 – exclusive, never-before-seen video footage of 3 kettlebell masters giving some of their finest tips, tactics, techniques and strategies to conquer each of the Big 3 overhead movements in this program – Master SFG Dr. Mark Cheng (a Chinese medicine expert and direct student of one of Bruce Lee’s top students, Dan Inosanto), Master SFG Fabio Zonin (Italian fitness celebrity and accomplished powerlifter and bodybuilder), and former Master SFG and performing strongman Dave “The Iron Tamer” Whitley. ($58 value)