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Failure is part of it. Fail three times and the weight drops. It is annoying the first few times - usually annoys me because of the amount of effort with a fail at the end.
Oddest bit is any fails I have had, I have blasted past the original failure weight.
Don’t worry! Good luck
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If your lower body is relatively stronger, use lighter weights/bit higher reps/fewer sets and work on the upper body first.
I have the same problem, I stopped training my quads (HERESY!!!!) and train upper body hard one day, with just hamstring and light quad work.
You need to stimulate the weak bit first and not use energy for the strong part if you want to bring up a weakness.
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I'm definitely nearest to failure on OHP too, and I don't think I have a particularly weak (compared to untrained, not to people in here) upper body. Has always felt a fair bit harder than the other exercises.
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5x5 is doing well but I've hit my first plateau on OHP. My lower body is a lot stronger than my puny arms...
Also had a complete dickhead next to me today. Insisted on dropping everything.
Deadlift? Drop the weights.
Take the weights off the holders? Drop them on the floor.
Move a bench over? Oh, he'll drop that too.
Prick.
I would have called him out but he was bigger than me...