Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - Bench Press

I felt good in the gym last night, I screwed up my weights again though. The other day on squats it was a nice surprise to see what I had done after the fact. This time on the floor press I wanted to do 195. I ended up loaded 205 on instead. The first two sets felt good so I thought I would bump it up to what I thought was 200 but ended up being 210. I did two sets, one of 10 and one of 9. I couldn't figure why t was so heavy so I back it down to what I thought was 195 which was 205 and only got 8. I don't like playing around with the weights like this since that is not what the 5/3/1 program is about. I finally figured it out by the 5th set. So stupid. Maybe in the future, I will get this figured out.

Diet was good. Sleep was 7 hours uninterrupted.

Bench Press
45x12, 95x5, 135x5, 155x5, 185x5, 205x3, 230x8 (PR 230x8 = 286 1RM)

Barbell Floor Press
205x10, 210x10, 210x9, 205x8, 195x7, 195x10

Barbell Shrugs
225x10, 225x10, 225x10, 225x10, 275x10, 275x10

Below is a cool video of the Westside crew benching with the Slingshot and Reverse Bands.