The Official JM Press Tutorial

Elitefts Columnist and Bench Press legend JM Blakley teaches and explains the JM Press, as well as how he came up with this exercise.

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Time Stamps
Intro - 0:00
History of the JM Press - 0:24
The demonstration - 3:49
JM's YouTube - 7:51
Outro - 8:08
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[MayorofUniverse]

This man is like a jacked Bob Ross explaining his craft and I absolutely love it

[GVS]

You can tell he's a great trainer. Talking to the lifter, making small corrections, putting them in the right positions, giving small yet effective changes. Awesome to see.

[ShaneTumminello]

I've come to the conclusion that it's only a JM Press if JM himself is doing it. Literally NO one else does it right.

[BaldOmniMan]

The key is that wrist curling and bicep flex. Very helpful

[willy.kilograms]

Thank god for YouTube. We have all this amazing information from these legendary lifters. As lifters we gotta be grateful for this !

[Lil_Smelly]

One of the best armwrestlers out there Todd Hutchings says that this exercise is second to none when it comes to elbow tendon health and strength
I really have to start implementing these in my training routine

[StevenPlatt-dzgm]

So I'm 60 and still learning been training since I was 13. I have to JM Press has elevated my confidence as well as bench strength. I started using them seriously for about 4 months and results are are amazing even at my age for some reason it corrected my mechanics when it comes to bench press. All I can say is thanks appreciate the great advice.

[ethandavies]

I was literally just googling how to do these. I absolutely love these videos, the knowledge these guys have is amazing!!!!

[Leeviathon]

I've been doing this twice a week for the past two weeks and holy crap it works so good! I've made huge gains in my bench press where i've been stuck at the same weight for months. Such a good excercise!

[timdoonan]

JM presses healed my elbows. For a while I didn't know how to recover from armwrestling but these are the key 💪 to elbow health and stability

[garrettbaratheon]

I recommend doing these from a dead stop, so from the safety bars in a squat rack... being able to reset after every rep really makes it easy to not involve my shoulders

[kushalchatterjee]

I am an armwrestler, I had pain in my elbows, after doing it with 3 variation grips I got tension free elbows baby. Thank god for making you and thank you for making this exercise.

[josephmiranda]

I’d love another Table Talk with JM and Tate

[Bertman]

Yeah buddy, need some more JM on here.

[ivanhoe]

'Tissue leverage' - best training term I've ever heard!

[s.cahill]

Fully convinced that this exercise is impossible to do correctly, always ends up being either a skull crusher or a strange close grip bench.

[ProudQLD]

I love doing this on the Smith machine. Great pump on my triceps. Also ensures my elbows remain up.

[boxerfencer]

Blackley, thanks for sharing this! Ive never seen it explained this way, even by you. It's really just tiger bends, the calisthenics exercise, only you're turned it into an externally loadable strength exercise.

[RedPillVegan]

JM if you ever see this I want you to know that I think you're a great American and a patriot. Thank you.

[MrWinterblade]

After watching the old JM video where he explains it, I felt in love with this exercise, it gave me tremendous results, maybe because I'm a quite narrow bencher. I don't have elbow pain at all and I can also combine this with skullcrushers with no problems. That being said some of my friends tried it but everyone was experiencing a lot of pain even with low weights. It is an advanced exercise, but try it guys. Thanks JM for your perpetual knowledge