Achieving Failure with 110kg swiss bar overhead press

 Using my brand new swiss cambered bar, never having used such a piece of kit before, i go to failure to test my strength. Managing 100kg 220lb for a new pb. I attempted 110kg and moved it a wee bit, but no cigar! Goalzzzz

Hardest bit was the balance, stalling any momentum and making it a movement of multiple eccentric pause presses lol

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