When I just started weightlifting around 14-15 yrs old I used to get every issue or powerlifting USA. JM’s editorials were awesome. I ended up earning a scholarship to a division 1 school for football. No doubt those articles and workouts helped me along the way. Now almost 25 years later I still have every issue I ever bought and I rarely miss a day in the gym.
JM Blakey is no BS. He was known in the Powerlifting World as “The King of the Bench Press” by holding World Bench Press records in 3 different weight classes in one year by dieting up and down to make weight in each class! No one dominated the Bench World like JM in his prime!!!Unbelievable font of information is JM Blakley!This guy is the “real deal” and dominated the Bench press in the 90’s by Touring the World as “Team Extreme” with my nephew, Jeff Hodge. JM is also an ordained Christian Minister and a good man. It was my pleasure to get to know JM. I hope he imparts all of his knowledge and wisdom to all the young powerlifters out there today! Rock on Brother!!!
MR. Williamson, do you know where JM is today and how he is doing? We competed on same time in same events. He is awesome man and was mine really good friend in our best bench press days.
@@markwilliamson6002 Mark, thank you! I would really appreaciate that. I am from Finland and JM was often here in end of nineties. On -98 we were in World champioships in Austria and of course he won his class, unfortunately I was just 4th. in mine weightclass in that year. I have a lots of good memories and pictures where we are together.
@John Swaim No I dont , dont really take anything that someone is on steroids HGH seriously. I want to see his true size if he never took steroids then we can talk
I focused on this movement for 12 weeks, noticeable strength gains and hypertrophy, underutilized movement for sure and will be returning to it for gains for years to come
So many guys turn this exercise into a weird close grip bench/triceps extension....Good to see the guy who brought it into popular.use from it's powerlifting origins.
For those who aren't into power lifting, the JM press is a great way to pre-exhaust the triceps so that you can really focus on the chest when doing normal close grip or regular bench movements.
i do the JM press every triceps day and probably always will. what's sad is none of the powerlifting kids around me do it because they all train in shirts. if they ever ask me for advice on bench that might be the first thing i teach them. Thanks JM!
Holy shit haha I just noticed this is at Golds gym the Mecca where I train! I just started doing these for the first time in my 11 years of lifting, today AT Golds!!
Geez! what a handsome guy, good looking face, big muscle build, shoulders, arms, great haircut, hairy chest, and on top of it all those glasses that make him look smart.
I think that may be because he didn't squat or deadlift? I forget why but I seem to remember him saying he hurt himself and the only lift he could do properly was bench press. So he probably just smashed upper body hard
@@getstrongby4038 he had a back injury before he started powerlifting, so he trained his lower body more like a bodybuilder which is why he has that vespine appearance
They're more of an accessory so they would be better after a heavier main movement like bench press. Pin presses already hit the lockout movement, so you could still do the JP Press after but not totally needed. Experiment see what works for you.
@@Mika-pv4bw Depends on how acute (recent) the injury is. Initially you protect the ligament and allow it to heal (6-8 weeks) then gradually build basic strength & range of motion over another 4-6 weeks before reintroduction of specific and UCL stressing exercises for 4-6 weeks before finally returning to sport. If you get to the end of that and it's still fucked you're off to a surgeon for a reconstruction.
@@Mika-pv4bw A little bit. In theory you should still be able to go through the same process I outlined in my previous comment. Your best bet would go to go see a PT who can assess the functional stability of the ligament/elbow.
@@lots3799 A pin press is just a bench press motion except you have pins set in the rack which stop the weight around half the way down. The bar would come to a dead stop on the pins, then you would lift it from a dead stop position back up to lockout. It's meant to strengthen your bench from the position where triceps take over to the lockout. It's different from this in the fact that you're using pins in a rack to stop the bar half way down, and also you are still using a standard bench press position. JM presses, as you can see from this video, are a variation on close grip bench combined with skull crushers or french press motion.
Do a LOT of chin ups to fix the golfers elbow you’re experiencing. Like 10 sets of 3 for 5 days straight. Disappears like magic. It’ll hurt a lot at first. But keep doing it for 5 days straight. 10 set of 3, NOT the other way around.
The only way I really got how to do these correctly was to have him walk me through it personally...very complicated lift and 99% of peoole do it wrong
I can't believe I haven't done more of these .., its starting to dawn on me suddenly on a mechanical level, how this would work well, vs just doing some light sets at the end every now and then, after benching just to get in some tri work.
This type of press is really hard on the shoulder joints especially if they’ve been injured before. Unfortunately every time I’ve tried to do this my shoulders joints just couldn’t take it.
JM benched 585lbs for a triple raw, and 605lbs in competition shirted at a bodyweight of just 242lbs. Later, he would put up big numbers in single-ply shirted, doing 660lbs in 1999, and then 700lbs, also at a bodyweight of just 242. I know people only care about raw these days, but back then the single-ply shirt wasn't adding all that much to your max lift. Maybe 100lbs if you were lucky.
@@maxxxmodelz4061 yeah i know, different times...maybe if westside barbell had its peak today, they would do even better, because they trained raw for the most part in the past
@@watsonkushmaster3067 Yeah from what I understand now, having followed guys like JM, Tate, Wendler, Wenning and a few others who trained at Westside, 95% of the training was done raw and many of the techniques they developed are actually used by many raw lifters still to this day. Things like speed work, bands, chains, box squats, reverse hypers, and lots of volume for hypertrophy. Not saying they invented any of that stuff, but they did pioneer it and champion those methods way back in the day.
@@SetTheCurve the same steroids have been used for 50+ years. Some people just go bald it's genetic. If you don't gave hair loss genetics steroids wont make your hair fall out.
Kjell Haidz thats not exactly accurate. Testosterone was very difficult to get early in bodybuilding compared to dbol and nandrolone, such as during Arnold’s time. Drugs like tren aren’t readily available until the past decade. Many drugs you can easily get now were very very rare 20 years ago. Also, even men without hair loss in their family often lose a good amount of their hair by age 50, via thinning. And 5 years of steroids gives you the head you’ll have at 50. Not losing hair and looking like an old ape after taking PEDs is an exception to the rule.
The whole “you won’t lose your hair unless you would lose it anyway” argument is such shit. There’s a big difference between losing your hair at 50 and losing it at 25.
The California Press is very similar, but not the same. The start of the press is exactly the same, but the ending is different. The JM press, as JM illustrates here, you bring the weight down to above the neck or chin then punch it back up in a straight line. A California Press would be when you lower the weight to your neck or chin like a JM press but then you slide the weight under control down to above your chest, then press it up just like a bench press.
Yeah, but JM was already a very accomplished lifter when he invented this exercise. He admits that when he started doing these, he was already lifting at Westside Barbell and had a raw bench that was well over 500lbs. Here's a good interview where he talks about the pros and cons of this exercise and warns beginners to start out very light. ruclips.net/video/YvpszmCDiCs/видео.html
well if the person who took the video had a mic to cancel out the noise from the gym you could probably hear him! was very hard to hear what he was saying, a phone is not a good recording device, every timehe turns hid back to you, you cant hear him at all. im sure he has good information but the gym drowns him out.
@@TheDictismiT thats cute. He very clearly said aim for the throat...so no....not a skull crusher with a short ROM.... He's also a bench legend who shoulder pressed more than your claimed bench max....
@@gingernaut2550 him OHP more than my bench when he did that only because of steroid usage is a laughable point. I'll take my masters degree in sports science and doctorates in sports theory and train healthy and valuable, without doing a shit exercise that cause more damage than gains. Have a good one
When I just started weightlifting around 14-15 yrs old I used to get every issue or powerlifting USA. JM’s editorials were awesome. I ended up earning a scholarship to a division 1 school for football. No doubt those articles and workouts helped me along the way. Now almost 25 years later I still have every issue I ever bought and I rarely miss a day in the gym.
You're a legend
JM Blakey is no BS. He was known in the Powerlifting World as “The King of the Bench Press” by holding World Bench Press records in 3 different weight classes in one year by dieting up and down to make weight in each class! No one dominated the Bench World like JM in his prime!!!Unbelievable font of information is JM Blakley!This guy is the “real deal” and dominated the Bench press in the 90’s by Touring the World as “Team Extreme” with my nephew, Jeff Hodge. JM is also an ordained Christian Minister and a good man. It was my pleasure to get to know JM. I hope he imparts all of his knowledge and wisdom to all the young powerlifters out there today! Rock on Brother!!!
new 3 hr podcast of him out now with Dave Tate. good stuff and he's publishing studd on elite fts site soon
MR. Williamson, do you know where JM is today and how he is doing? We competed on same time in same events. He is awesome man and was mine really good friend in our best bench press days.
Anssi Ainali
Anssi, he lives in Columbus, Ohio last time I saw him when he married my nephew. I will try and get an email address for you.
@@markwilliamson6002 Mark, thank you! I would really appreaciate that. I am from Finland and JM was often here in end of nineties. On -98 we were in World champioships in Austria and of course he won his class, unfortunately I was just 4th. in mine weightclass in that year. I have a lots of good memories and pictures where we are together.
Anssi Ainali
Give me a day to get in touch with him.
This dude looks like the most jacked dad in history.
This dude looks like he played in a family movie back in the 80s along the line of Home Along and drop dead Fred
@@LWSParents looks conservative to me + biceps
lol
Yeah but is he natural?
@John Swaim No I dont , dont really take anything that someone is on steroids HGH seriously. I want to see his true size if he never took steroids then we can talk
The most incredible thing is that he even gives pretty much a full program for strength set-up at the end
i think it's called step-loading, correct me if i m wrong
Armwrestling tips from Todd Zilla brought me here 😊🇩🇰
Me too
Me three! Grip and rip!
Same here. Trying this out today!
Me akso
Haha same
A gentleman in the truest form, Blakely is the man!
This really was a PHENOMENAL demonstration both physically and verbally. I know it is JM's exercise...but MAN this covered all the bases. GREAT STUFF!
Bc he is JM Blakley
I focused on this movement for 12 weeks, noticeable strength gains and hypertrophy, underutilized movement for sure and will be returning to it for gains for years to come
Nice one! Yeh I had similar results.
I'm back at it again for another 5 weeks
“Rest assured, you will feel that…..and you will not like that”.
Truth bombs dropping on the regular. Thank you.
535 for a triple...sweet Jesus. Smart, strong lifter.
Re watching and listening while doing this for the first time. Thanks
The blue power ranger got jacked bro
Underrated comment!
Dang it. I’ve gotten up to 135 with this but didn’t realize I could go higher. Great video.
Congratulations, you're over 25% of what he used :D
@@MrJosh6889 well he is ridiculously strong to be fair
@@MrJosh6889 Over? Didn't JM use 135? Those look like they say 45lbs.
Drumkilla15 he said he did 535 for triples
@@MrJosh6889 True but I thought it was a light-weight exercise only. I saw Eric Spoto using 135 so I did what he did.
My dude JM! He was an animal at World Gym Worthington back in the day.
that ending part explaining the reps and explanation behind it
Nice
This is Clark Kent.
Good one!! Start with 95lbs. I was thinking 30lbs.
ghettobeats
Yeah then he morphs into Superman!
So many guys turn this exercise into a weird close grip bench/triceps extension....Good to see the guy who brought it into popular.use from it's powerlifting origins.
Cool, I heard of this exercise just yesterday! Today's a push day for me & I am going to give this a try! Thank-you
I love doing this the JM press💪
He's like the beast from X-Men extremely intelligent but strong. Just imagine his entire body is blue lol
I just found out about JM Blakely. My life is richer.
I've been told this is good for armwrestling to keep your elbow healthy, that's all I need to hear haha
He was awesome
And hes jacked too
Very well spoken dude
This guy is wholesome and informative
yeh great dude.
For those who aren't into power lifting, the JM press is a great way to pre-exhaust the triceps so that you can really focus on the chest when doing normal close grip or regular bench movements.
very informative video, a combination of skull crushers and bench press
Fr
You look like Superman with that Clark Kent glasses on. Great vid 🔥
A YOKED Aldous Huxley.
Lmao Blakley on LSD talking about jm press
Edit: mescaline. Not lsd
i do the JM press every triceps day and probably always will. what's sad is none of the powerlifting kids around me do it because they all train in shirts. if they ever ask me for advice on bench that might be the first thing i teach them. Thanks JM!
well spoken and helpful will give these a shot.
Legend, thank you. Just started doing them
Holy shit haha I just noticed this is at Golds gym the Mecca where I train! I just started doing these for the first time in my 11 years of lifting, today AT Golds!!
Thanks for posting.
Works for me, even been watching Matt wedding explain knees then they do help massively increase your bench
Great tutorial!
Just watched Blood in Blood Out for the 100th time. And I gotta say the character Magic looks identical to a young JM
awesome lifter and teacher
Bruh why didn't he play in a super man movie? Lol
0:36 The portable Cd player, oh such memories. Forgot they existed.
Good explanation of JM Press, thank you for your detailed video
Fkn monster of a guy. The information was straight on point, great recommendations and instructions!
This brings me back to the late 90s
absolute legend.
Great exercise!!!
I'm doing these
I'm gonna take these more seriously.
Wow amazing thank u!
Thank you.
Yo ....I know right
Geez! what a handsome guy, good looking face, big muscle build, shoulders, arms, great haircut, hairy chest, and on top of it all those glasses that make him look smart.
Pause
Big pause.
Long pause
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NO HOMO lol
Really food viedeo i didn't know that exercise, just tried it it's insane j love it thank you
I've known about it but never really went hard or heavy with it. I think its time I change that.
Tik tok finna blow this up 💯
Wow looking at him now youd never guess this was him as a younger man. Looks more like a bodybuilder than an elite powerlifter
I think that may be because he didn't squat or deadlift? I forget why but I seem to remember him saying he hurt himself and the only lift he could do properly was bench press. So he probably just smashed upper body hard
@@getstrongby4038 he had a back injury before he started powerlifting, so he trained his lower body more like a bodybuilder which is why he has that vespine appearance
This is the best exercise for the triceps. Do it so that your hands are not like skinny whips.
Same day as regular bench ? eg. Bench,incline, dbell flys , JM , weighted dips ??
Man, those are some sweet, juicy shoulders. And arms.
Should i do these instead of pin presses or in addition to them?
They're more of an accessory so they would be better after a heavier main movement like bench press. Pin presses already hit the lockout movement, so you could still do the JP Press after but not totally needed. Experiment see what works for you.
@@TheStrengthArchives Thank you so much.
AVGN got swole
lol yes
Does this help with rehabbing the golfers elbow?
golfer's elbow is an issue with the flexor tendons (so no)
@@Dr_Footbrake thx , what can help with a UCL ulnar atttchment tear?
@@Mika-pv4bw Depends on how acute (recent) the injury is. Initially you protect the ligament and allow it to heal (6-8 weeks) then gradually build basic strength & range of motion over another 4-6 weeks before reintroduction of specific and UCL stressing exercises for 4-6 weeks before finally returning to sport.
If you get to the end of that and it's still fucked you're off to a surgeon for a reconstruction.
@@Dr_Footbrake ok thx. I played tennis on it for 2 years I didn’t know it was torn thought I had golfers. Does this make it complicated?
@@Mika-pv4bw A little bit. In theory you should still be able to go through the same process I outlined in my previous comment. Your best bet would go to go see a PT who can assess the functional stability of the ligament/elbow.
“Start with extremely light weight, 95 lbs or less” lmao. Thanks now I feel like a pussy.
LOL
would using dumbells be better or worse for this motion ?
I could see that being alright, barbell is probably the best route
they can be used, but harder to progress than a bar
might as well do rollbacks
That's The Man !!!
Here because of todd hutchings
J.M., what is your feeling on doing these J.M. Presses on a Smith machine?
no
kaz did them on a smith machine like that
This question shows that you did not comprehend the basic tenets of this exercise. Hmm....
Eric spoto also likes to do it in a smith machine.
So I wouldn't just discard it like that.
U think he's gonna see your comment lol
Difference between this and skullcrusher?
Yes
Skullcrusher you lower the bar over the head, then extend the arms. This is more of a press.
you cant go that heavy with skull crusher
skull crusher should be more of a stretch rather than a press
JM would be the perfect Clark Kent / Superman :)
Is the J&M press the same as a pin press???
No they're different movement but both train the triceps.
@@TheStrengthArchives How are they different?
@@lots3799 A pin press is just a bench press motion except you have pins set in the rack which stop the weight around half the way down. The bar would come to a dead stop on the pins, then you would lift it from a dead stop position back up to lockout. It's meant to strengthen your bench from the position where triceps take over to the lockout. It's different from this in the fact that you're using pins in a rack to stop the bar half way down, and also you are still using a standard bench press position. JM presses, as you can see from this video, are a variation on close grip bench combined with skull crushers or french press motion.
Does it work with inner elbow pain?
Do a LOT of chin ups to fix the golfers elbow you’re experiencing. Like 10 sets of 3 for 5 days straight. Disappears like magic.
It’ll hurt a lot at first. But keep doing it for 5 days straight. 10 set of 3, NOT the other way around.
Which head does it work?
Probably mostly the short and medial heads
The term did not come from others correcting you, the term came from JM himself.
All nephews of Uncle Todd Hutchings, check in please.
Dude looks like Frank West from Dead Rising 1 for real .
The only way I really got how to do these correctly was to have him walk me through it personally...very complicated lift and 99% of peoole do it wrong
if i walk into a barbershop and tell them i want this haircut do you think they will take it seriously and do a good job?
Kind of like a modified skull crusher
no its a JM Press
I can't believe I haven't done more of these .., its starting to dawn on me suddenly on a mechanical level, how this would work well, vs just doing some light sets at the end every now and then, after benching just to get in some tri work.
This type of press is really hard on the shoulder joints especially if they’ve been injured before. Unfortunately every time I’ve tried to do this my shoulders joints just couldn’t take it.
ironically Dave Tate did these almost exclusively because they were more shoulder friendly than regular bench press
@@Dr_Footbrake : It’s not ironic, it just goes to show how different we’re all from one another.
@@marlon1171 nah it’s still ironic
@@Dr_Footbrake : You're entitled to your "opinion"
@@marlon1171 you can’t see the irony that an exercise designed to be shoulder sparring gives your shoulders grief?
Can you do skull crushers instead?
no*
*depends what you're trying to achieve
Clark Kent with his glasses on
Fuck he looks just as massive now then he did 25 years ago!!😳😳😳
Clark Kent . Check out what he looks like now..... little Different !
man he was built like tank...
JM benched 585lbs for a triple raw, and 605lbs in competition shirted at a bodyweight of just 242lbs. Later, he would put up big numbers in single-ply shirted, doing 660lbs in 1999, and then 700lbs, also at a bodyweight of just 242. I know people only care about raw these days, but back then the single-ply shirt wasn't adding all that much to your max lift. Maybe 100lbs if you were lucky.
@@maxxxmodelz4061 yeah i know, different times...maybe if westside barbell had its peak today, they would do even better, because they trained raw for the most part in the past
@@watsonkushmaster3067 Yeah from what I understand now, having followed guys like JM, Tate, Wendler, Wenning and a few others who trained at Westside, 95% of the training was done raw and many of the techniques they developed are actually used by many raw lifters still to this day. Things like speed work, bands, chains, box squats, reverse hypers, and lots of volume for hypertrophy. Not saying they invented any of that stuff, but they did pioneer it and champion those methods way back in the day.
Wow, someone from before the days when juice contained balding serum.
The guy looks strong AND under 60 years old in the face. So rare.
Yep, he eventually got ahold of the modern stuff.
Either that, or it just took a while.
You’re right, I guess since he actually is old now it makes sense to be bald, unlike all these bald 28 year olds these days.
@@SetTheCurve the same steroids have been used for 50+ years. Some people just go bald it's genetic. If you don't gave hair loss genetics steroids wont make your hair fall out.
Kjell Haidz thats not exactly accurate. Testosterone was very difficult to get early in bodybuilding compared to dbol and nandrolone, such as during Arnold’s time.
Drugs like tren aren’t readily available until the past decade. Many drugs you can easily get now were very very rare 20 years ago.
Also, even men without hair loss in their family often lose a good amount of their hair by age 50, via thinning. And 5 years of steroids gives you the head you’ll have at 50.
Not losing hair and looking like an old ape after taking PEDs is an exception to the rule.
The whole “you won’t lose your hair unless you would lose it anyway” argument is such shit. There’s a big difference between losing your hair at 50 and losing it at 25.
I wanna see how far he could launch that 135lb bar into the air.
i was expecting 2x or 3x a week instead of 1x 😮
Todd Hutchings approves!
I learned this exercise as the "California Press."
The California Press is very similar, but not the same. The start of the press is exactly the same, but the ending is different. The JM press, as JM illustrates here, you bring the weight down to above the neck or chin then punch it back up in a straight line. A California Press would be when you lower the weight to your neck or chin like a JM press but then you slide the weight under control down to above your chest, then press it up just like a bench press.
I start with extremely light weight 405×10? Fuck my life
lol but keep at it!
Yeah, but JM was already a very accomplished lifter when he invented this exercise. He admits that when he started doing these, he was already lifting at Westside Barbell and had a raw bench that was well over 500lbs. Here's a good interview where he talks about the pros and cons of this exercise and warns beginners to start out very light. ruclips.net/video/YvpszmCDiCs/видео.html
This guy actually is telling others to do the JM press incorrectly... According to JM himself.
No, you're seeing it correctly for the first time. The others you saw were wrong.
@@baronmeduse You mean the other videos with JM himself and the videos with JM and Eric Spoto? Those videos that I saw are wrong? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Surfrider-waves Yes.
senator armstrong
aacchhh!! the hairplugs back then were HORRIBLE!! He was a beautiful bastard, but glad he just shaved it off and gave up on the plugs!!
You forgot to curl your wrist in at the bottom and then outward as you go to the top
Haha. JM invented this lift. I think he's doing it correctly.
To noisey n at the end why not so noisey.
So basically he's doing skull crushers.
This obviously tells us you also do skull crushers wrong.
@@baronmeduse This obviously tells us you don't know the history of strength training.
Sets of 495 😂...unreal
well if the person who took the video had a mic to cancel out the noise from the gym you could probably hear him! was very hard to hear what he was saying, a phone is not a good recording device, every timehe turns hid back to you, you cant hear him at all. im sure he has good information but the gym drowns him out.
It's pretty easy to hear, Gunna have to level up your sound system
Was this filmed in the 90s? Lol
Yes
Says not to move the upper arm or shoulders
Proceeds to move his upper arms and shoulders when demonstrating.
This exercise is good for destroying your elbows and wrists.
Only if you go too heavy, with moderate weight this shouldn't be harmful
Only if you're an egotistical numpty that tries using youre bench press numbers from day 1
That's not a JM Press
How do you do your version of the JM Press?
Louis-Philippe Lavoie you are an idiot. JM is the person that coined this exercise after he did it at Westside. your lack of knowledge is pathetic
you obviously have no idea what a jm press is mr knowledge
thats not a proper way to do a
JM press im telling you.I dont
know who that guy is anyway I
dont care.I know better.
Why did so many people take that bait?
too complicated and too much thinking for a exercise
So a skull crusher without full ROM lol what a joke
Congrats on completely missing the entire point of the video. Enjoy your 200lb bench.
@@ctye85 my mac is 365lb but thank you
@@TheDictismiT thats cute. He very clearly said aim for the throat...so no....not a skull crusher with a short ROM.... He's also a bench legend who shoulder pressed more than your claimed bench max....
@@gingernaut2550 him OHP more than my bench when he did that only because of steroid usage is a laughable point.
I'll take my masters degree in sports science and doctorates in sports theory and train healthy and valuable, without doing a shit exercise that cause more damage than gains.
Have a good one
You saying he is stronger than you ONLY because of steroids, is laughable. Like your poverty bench.