Advanced stage of Pressing

You are getting to advanced stages with your pressing so after a little while I think it's going to be time for you to start training it with in a more advanced way.

You've been going a little more aggresively, which I think did you good. I know you are going to drop the weight back and do higher reps. I think after that you should raise the weight about 5 pounds and establish a baseline volume of about 3x5 to 6. Then go back to the more conservative approach you were taking when you first started doing MP's with triple progression. I.E. allowing volume to rise, then drop down as weight increases, etc. Hopefully this should allow you to hit around 140 with similar volume.

After that you are more than strong enough to train it like a big boy and leave all the RE stuff to the secondary assistance. That will mean singles, doubles, and triples in the 80 to 90% range. We'll talk about techniques later.

The most important thing I can tell you about that is that it is QUALITY or QUANTITY. When you are doing that, it will not only be your main way of pressing it will be synonomous with explosivity. So in essense strength-speed training (although more in the strength side of things) will be regular training. It's all about intention and your intention will be to push the bar as powerfully and fast as possible.

The other thing is that you have to REST if you want to get strong this way. If I tell you to do 8 singles at 90% and you are not able to do that...i will suspect you didn't allow yourself the rest you needed. Again, QUALITY. You'll always have other stuff to satisfy the bodybuilder in you.

Basically what I'm saying is that it will be training more in the strength end of things rather than a mixture of strength and size (not exactly accurate but a handy distinction between 5x5 type or RE type stuff and what I'm talking about).