Monday
Reasonable enough day today considering I had quite a lot to drink at the weekend. Usually don't drink the night before lifting but I was at a comedy last night (Stephen Lynch) so yeh. First day using bench as the main move in about two months or thereabouts and it went well. Here it is:
85kgx6x5 PR (187lbs)-Well there you go. Concentrating on brining my shoulders up to par has benefited this. Form was a little off and one side (most likely the right) was doing more of the pressing. My feet were wanting to come of the ground which I am sure points to this as well, but I made sure to keep them planted. Will be interesting to see what happens when my body adapts to the move again. Pretty sure I could do 100kg for a rep now. Going to use the 5% solution here, it worked well for the shoulder work.
CG bench 70kgx9 -Just some extra work for the tri's.
Dorian rows 65kgx6x6x6-I tried to do rows but they just felt really weird. These felt strange but got better as the sets went on. Something in my upper back is weak. I could have done more weight, but as I say it didn't feel right.
One arm Oh press (braced) 25kgDBx10x8 PR-Few reps more than I got about a month ago and it was the third move and not the first. Good stuff. Shoulders are set. Just failed on the 9th with the left side. Right could have got 9 or 10 but I was matching it up with the amount the left got.
Pullups Bw (179ish)x7x5-I suck at pullups. I can do chins with 10kg added for this amount of reps. My sticking point is in the top part of the movement when my chin is nearing the bar. As with rows, I reckon this points to some kind of weakness. I just don't know what. I suppose I have to keep in mind that my bw is a good 25lbs or so more than it was a year ago. But it seems a little odd that the chins are as far ahead as they are. Could be normal for all I know.
Ghetto roman chair situps 15kgx10x10x10-Big improvement on last week. Abs are strange. They seem to adapt quickly.
GPP-Anyone that wants to try something a bit different, do what I am about to lay out. It will kill you:
Power clean/front squat/push press 40kgx10 3 circuits 60-90s inbetween-Basically powercleaning the weight of the floor, front squatting it, then push pressing it overhead. Then back to the ground and repeat. I saw some coach, don't remember who, say that these were murder. Something about going from the front squat to the press. Well he is right, it was murder. Good stuff.
And that was all. Going to look up row form, never really concentrated on it or at least not in a while. Could be doing something wrongly. All in all a good day across the board. Tommorow I will do some cardio, most likely my burpee/jumping jack circuit. Until then...
Quagmire
