March 11, 2014 – Week 8, Day 1

Dynamic Warm-ups

Barbell Incline Bench Presses (2 count pauses)
45x10
75x5
105x5
135x3
155x3
175x3
195x3
215x3
235x3
255x3
275x3

Banded Push-ups
AB+MMBx15
AB+MMBx11
AB+MMBx10

Band Face Pulls
AB+ABx12
AB+ABx12

27 Minutes of Stretching

Comments: Continuing the streak of good upper body workout session. I've done paused incline benching before but it was either for doubles or a single. I figured I could hit at least my best double for a triple since my incline pressing is much stronger than it was back then. Started a bit light but helped get more volume in. I knew I had a shot at 275lbs for my top set. Air-humped the crap out of the last rep but whatever. Feels good to be consistently doing reps with 275lbs on incline. I had an idea for push-ups, putting on my wrist wraps. Got rid of a lot of the wrist stress. Matched reps from last time with more band tension. The other two sets were brutal to get into double digit reps. Band face pulls this week called for lower reps so I put an average band in each hand. A butt-load of band tension to be sure but still got it.

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