It's not really advisable to press strictly once you move past 60kg in my opinion.. I keep it relatively strict, but I like to give it a bit of a shunt with my calves at the start of each rep. It's more of a power press; I use momentum to get it from my collarbone to my chin, and then keep my form strict from there on before letting it drop again once it gets to my chin.

Strict form is a bit dangerous on shoulder presses, you're shredding your rotators at certain parts of the movement, so a bit of momentum helps decrease the weight during the stressful part of the press.

push press on a smith machine.. no.

Who said anything about a push press in a smith machine? The smith machine is perfect for military presses, especially when you're breaking the motion down to its constituent parts to practice a weak portion of the lift. He's trying to increase his push press, and practicing portions of the lift under control, as you would in a smith, is ideal.

That being said, I've seen your picture, you'd still gain muscle on smith push press, you don't have the mass one needs to be picky about their lifts.

I stopped reading ur post after the first few words...much too long for this type of thread... Narcissistic much?...

I stopped reading ur post after the first few words...much too long for this type of thread... Narcissistic much?...

"If you want to increase your push press then it's all about taking the lift over to the smith machine where you can break the lift down into portions and figure out where you're weakest."

What part are you having trouble with? The smith is where you break a movement down to target lagging portions of the lift. Just as the above quote explains. The part that says "portions" is very important, because it specifically states in that single word that I'm not talking about performing the original exercise, but that I'm breaking it down into phases and reproducing single elements into a smith exercise. One would be seated during this. They wouldn't be pushing, either, they'd be pressing. Again, it's about breaking down the exercise. Most people are weak push=pressers in the six inches above their head. That's prime territory for the smith.

When I last trained seriously, and I was deadlifting (ie. over 500lbs), I used to perform partials on the smith machine because it allowed me absolute control during the top phase of the lift. That in turn helped me to increase my overall deadlift by strengthening the area in which I was weakest. ie. locking out.

So praise be the the smith, a machine shunned by intermediate gym users who think they know better, but revered by real lifters who know that there's no such thing as a bad piece of equipment.

So what's the correlation between your old deadlift and your push press machine? Or was that just fluff?