January 27, 2011 - ME UB

Dynamic Warm-ups

Close Grip Barbell Bench Presses w/ IW#1's dbl
No Bands
45x10
95x5
Add Bands (+85lbs)
50x3
95x3
125x3
155x3
185x1
215x1
245x1
265x1
285x1
248x2

Swiss Bar Seated Presses w/ IW#4's (145lbs)
35x3
55x3
75x3
95x3
115x1

Neutral Grip Pullups
bw+45x8 PR+5lbs
bw+45x8
bw+45x8

Band Pull-A-Parts
IW#1x12
IW#1x12
IW#1x12

14 Minutes of Stretching

Comments: Bit of a testing day. I was able to keep my back arched for benching today. Hit my goal weight on the bench (would have liked more but I can live with it). Bands may be giving more tension than I thought as these are my "stronger" mini bands and I never tested them. Might have been why it felt tougher and why the down set was super tough. Moved on to my viking press replacement exercise; swiss bar seated presses with bands. The average bands provide quite a kick. Probably going to have to do 15lbs jumps next time as I can't go any lighter than 35lbs to start and that one rep with 115lbs was really tough. Who knows, maybe I'll be able to crush it when I do them again in three weeks. Pullups were very tough. Made a 20lbs jump in weight since I was dropping the reps. Glad to see I'm improving on these with the added 30lbs or so of bodyweight from when I used to do these haha. Since I'm not supposed to drive myself this week, I wasn't able to have enough time to do face pulls and sitting on the floor and bracing myself wasn't going to work at this time and I couldn't think up a new exercise on the fly. So I did some sets of band pull-a-parts at home. Eh. Then did a little stretching.