June 11, 2014 – Week 2, Day 1

Dynamic Warm-ups

Incline Barbell Bench Presses
45x10
85x5
85x5
125x3
125x3
155x1
155x1
185x3
205x3
225x3
245x3
265x3
285x3 PR+5lbs

Standing Dumbbell Presses
60'sx8
70'sx8
80'sx8
90'sx8
100'sx7

Band Face Pulls
(2)ABsx25
(2)ABsx25
(2)ABsx25
(2)ABsx25

31 Minutes of Stretching

Comments: Another press day. Incline was not feeling so hot. Forearms and triceps were letting me down. Forearms are still sore from Saturday training and I definitely noticed stuff feeling heavy in my hands. Right triceps was struggling with lockout out weights. Still able to get a triple with 285lbs but it was ugly. Something happened to one of the new 85lbs dumbbells so there is a mismatched pair with one being a thicker, round dumbbell and the other is a thinner hex dumbbell. I wanted to avoid that pair so I went with 10lbs jumps, starting light with a hopefully goal of hitting reps with 100lbs. 85lbs is the most I've doubled cleaned so everything above was new territory. Granted, in the past, I've pressed this kind of weight but it was seated and the weights were handed to me. I was happy with getting some decent reps with the 100lbers. Pulled out a pair of average bands for face pulls. I had thought I had done this much tension for a lot of reps before so I was surprised how hard it was. Turns out I had only done two sets of 12 last time and not 100 total reps. Oops. Just have to keep on pushing.