JM Blakley Wants YOU To Press HOW?!?! Hypertrophy Training 

This guy has the calmest voice ever. I feel like he could be painting happy little trees or teaching yoga. Also his beard is epic.

JM is truly the wise graybeard of strength training. Always listen when he speaks. I’ve been doing something very similar on a flat bench. I was trying to maximize consistent stress, stretch, and contraction of the pecs. This came out of I trying to find the weight path to focus the stress on the pecs.

JM is the the man!

I was just searching for such a video on his 7thlevel channel! Thanks very much!!

Absolutely brilliant video. JM is such a guru. Keen to try this today!

Would it be possible to have JM demonstrate the exercises as well in future videos?

I have rarely heard anyone speak so eloquently, passionately, and convincingly. He is a treasure.

I discovered this for myself, and hearing JM validate it... I'm stoked.

tried it. great activation. thanks jm!

This is awesome! I’ve been doing a similar movement as an overhead press accessory. I never liked flies but these feel great.

Tryed this yesterday, felt really good!

I really like JM's deliberate explanations on these videos. Very explanatory.

JM has forgotten more than I will ever learn.

J.M. Is a treasure

I was hoping you would have a video of JM explaining this press that he mentioned in his last podcast with you guys. Thanks

Jm is awesome man, could watch him teach all day

Thanks, always great great tips from the one and only JM Blakley!

I like the concept of combining fly and a press lol in one great coaching

❤❤❤amazing voice, beard and advice

I do something similar in the semi truck. What I do is lay across my bed with my legs off the edge. I get my arms a little less than 90° to my torso, and then I move my forearms 90° so they're straight up and down. I keep the dumbells in a neutral grip. Then what I do is press up, and at the same time slowly bring the dumbells together. And then i just slowly bring it back down to the starting position. The goal is to bump the dumbells together at the same time that you hit full extension. I'm no body builder, but it's the best press variation I've come across. I call them "wide out presses"

Okay brother I learned that exercises is great one the flat bench but the anther one my shoulder hear that exercises look hard thanks again for the video all the time I'm learning God bless you brother

Interesting exercise

I tried this and I have never felt chest activation this great until today. I'm new to doing JM Press. My bench weight hasn't gone up, but I feel more secure with the weight I was pushing, it feels easier. JM Blakely, Dave Tate, John Meadows, and Tom Platz are in my Mount Rushmore of bodybuilding and strength training.

When I started lifting a year ago, I did not like JM. Now, a year in, I actually understand the information and knowledge he has and I can't get enough. Sometimes we learn things in the time we're meant to. I simply wasn't ready to learn what he taught but now that I am, my lifts and mentality on training have gotten better. Thanks for the content!

thats wild

Great!

My work productivity suffers when JM is demonstrating.

Interesting. I saw a youtube clip that showed Doug Young using a similar movement but laying flat with an arch.

I'm gonna have to work on this, a lot of my pressing i end up only feeling it in my front delt on one side. with lighter weight i could feel this in my chest but as soon as i went to more of a working weight, all front delt.

Nobody can convince me that JM doesn’t live on the top of a mountain.

I have done this exact exercise for almost a year now but I didn't know if it had any name, and still don't. I call them fly-presses because, well... that's the name. I demo this lift on videos in my channel.

Great video. I've done these, on accident, in the past by lifting too much on an incline fly lol. Never thought about doing it intentionally

Found this quite interesting..

Did anyone notice Will has some bad ass arms on him! Nice job Will

JM still looks jacked!

22:00, is this a similar way of doing lat pulldowns where you "pull with your lats" rather than pull with your hands and feel the lat more? You "press by squeezing" your chest to bring the DBs up?

its all about the little details

Great Video! Can I ask a question about the finish at the top of the movement? Is there any benefit to turning the weights inward so the movement finishes with the ends of the dumbbells facing each other? Thanks for the informative content.

Hi Just clicked because JM…. Have a great day!

Left time this movement/exercise should be performed by a bodybuilder that understands the concept of mind muscle control

JM. Click. Like.

Would have been easier if he got on the bench and showed us lol

What kinds of benefits would there be doing this vs doing a press on the concentric and fly on the eccentric?

Where did that other guy go that was always on these elite fts videos? Not Dave but the younger guy.

I think JM is great but isn’t this more so a lot of over complications to stretch / flex and really feel out the muscle while lifting? I love training as well, and I think we all have had those times in the gym where we experiment with light weights something that ends up giving you a big pump and feels satisfying but at the end of the day is it REALLY going to build more muscle & strength just because we did some satisfying almost yoga type movements? Every massive bodybuilder or freak of strength seems to come down to proper programming and recovery, not special exercises. For instance you can go sit on an incline bench with 20lb dumbbells, get a deep ass stretch, dead hang the wrists and get a full activation on your biceps curl using tempo, negatives, weights where you can really feel out the flex alone and so on. But is that vs grabbing 50s and doing sets of decent regular dumbbell curls going to make the difference in you having arnold like biceps vs what you’d get in the first place, or becoming a strict curl champion vs where you would have gotten using the standard exercises with the right programming frequency and percentages for your goals? Not saying don’t throw this stuff in but I think the only people it’ll make a monumental difference for is for those who don’t know how to feel or activate their bodies yet. The dude you’re training here I don’t think ever even truly understood what you were going for in that bottom position.

God I love JM's brain...as soon as us humans come up with the ability to clone our DNA we need to produce 100 more JMs ha!! HOORAH! - Marine Mike 🇺🇸 💪

JM , why don't you demonstrate.

I love JM's training but this guy hes training is not getting it because every time the weights go up he collapse his chest and the tension goes right back on his delts.

So for those who dont have time to waist, its basically a seated neutral grip cable flye with dumbbells, focusing on pulling in from the outer delts and activating the pecs with a fly motion toward the sternum.