KD5NFW's Quest for Strength Log

[CLEEPER]

Somebody get the oxygen tank ready for next cycle please

[KD5NFW]

5/3/1 Cycle 7 Week 3 Day 3
35 minutes

Bench Press Day

Training Max - 290

Warmup
45 x 10
115 (40%) x 5
145 (50%) x 5
175 (60%) x 3

Weight (Goal) Actual

225 (5) 5
245 (3) 3
275 (1) 3 PBR +1 spotted

BBB DB Incline Press
95 x 8 x 2, weight is getting too much to get into press position, dropped weight and went with a 4:1:1 tempo
70 x 10 x 3

BB BOR
N/A

Floor press
N/A

RipSkulls
N/A

Spent 4 hours in and out of my attic today crawling around rewiring the coax and speaker wires for my tv. Not an excuse, but this old man's body was pretty sore and tired after that. Pretty happy with my money set. I think if I was a little fresher I would have had that 4th rep clean! After the BBB work, there was nothing left in the tank and no point going through the motions on accessory work!

[Hunterace]

Great workout Rich! Congrats on the PR! Stop fooling around before workouts!!!!!!!

[CLEEPER]

275x3 is strong, I'm 50 lbs behind. Damnit

[Squatter]

Who cares about the lifting - hows the TV sound? How many subwoofers?

Man, you sure do have alot of bench power in you. Are you sure your old?

[moeheep]

That was a pretty solid workout none the less!

[KD5NFW]

Originally Posted by Hunterace

Great workout Rich! Congrats on the PR! Stop fooling around before workouts!!!!!!!

Thanks Jay! I know right? Had a busy day yesterday too, so I pushed squats to today

Originally Posted by CLEEPER

275x3 is strong, I'm 50 lbs behind. Damnit

You are much stronger than your current numbers Chad! Get your form ironed out and your numbers will be right there with mine if not higher!!

Originally Posted by Squatter

Who cares about the lifting - hows the TV sound? How many subwoofers?

Man, you sure do have alot of bench power in you. Are you sure your old?

My body is telling me I'm old the last few days Jim !!! Sure wish I could have hit that 4th rep!

Originally Posted by moeheep

That was a pretty solid workout none the less!

Thanks Moe!

[CLEEPER]

Idk Rich, hope to figure out bench some day . I'm benching more now then I ever have so I'm pretty happy . It would be nice to say I bench over 300 but I'm a long ways from that. Maybe my goal for 2013 is to get to 300 max or 250x5 as I really don't care to test my one rep max.

[BendtheBar]

Crushed!

[Squatter]

Originally Posted by CLEEPER

Idk Rich, hope to figure out bench some day . I'm benching more now then I ever have so I'm pretty happy . It would be nice to say I bench over 300 but I'm a long ways from that. Maybe my goal for 2013 is to get to 300 max or 250x5 as I really don't care to test my one rep max.

Proper Bench form is tough to learn Chad, but definitely can be done in time. Once you learn to create that arch and keep the traps and lats tight your off to the races. I personally found benching tougher to learn than squats and deadlifts.