Training Log: Entry 2395
AM WORKOUT (0330 wakeup)
GHR
1x32
NG chins (rest pause)
25+7+7+6+5
Band pull aparts
1x30
High incline DB bench
4x115
6x105
DROPSET
8x95
4x80
8x60
Close grip incline barbell bench
12x155
9x175
8x175
Barbell flat bench 225
2x10
1x7+3+3 (rest pause)
NG chins Between sets of benching
15x9
Dips (rest pause)
42+17+14+13+11+3
Cable curls dropset
A jillion reps
CONDITIONING
Tabata battle ropes
Notes: 2:00 between sets. Made the most of having some new toys to play with and changed things up since this is already just my bench day anyway. Got in the daily stuff as a warm-up, then went to town. Been a long time since I used a barbell for any sort of pressing: it feels like a toy after all the time with the axle. Being able to hit sets of 225 on the bench at the end of a workout is reassuring. Always wanted to try some close grip incline benching after reading about it with Westside back in 08: I think it's viable with my junky shoulder. Might bring that into the rotation sometime.
First exposure with battleropes was pretty neat. They actually had a climbing rope I wanted to try, but after all the chins my grip was fried.
Ran the whole workout off the Peanut Butter Finibar. Once again: no allergic reaction, so it's a win. It's a higher carb breakfast than I normally would have before a bench day, but I packed 10 of them for the trip so they may as well be my breakfast. I'm lazy and they're easy, haha. I always liked bars for breakfast for that reason.
Also, it's not a real commercial gym workout if you don't take a locker room selfie, so here' mine
CG Incline is part of Mike Westerling's programming and has revealed a huge hole in my strength. I have zero grind from that position and just die about halfway up on a rep. It's the best kind of hole, one that only seems to be filled with lots and lots of submax reps. I fell off it a bit over this summer and will bring it back with force this winter and see what happens.
ReplyDeleteAlso obligatory looking thick, tight, solid, keep us posted so we can all see how freaky you get. Do kids still know this or should this be in your Kelso spinoff? Chapter: "Memes of the Mid/Late-2000s."
WR
Oh man, a study of memes would just kill my soul, haha. Good to know on the Westerline front. It was nice to try something different, and to be able to incline bench with a bar and have it not feel awful. Your vote into it is really doing me some convincing.
DeleteHe says it's his go-to brute strength overhead-builder movement. The high incline position is basically where we end up leaning back to press something out. Whatever the rationale, I'm just looking at it like I haven't found a bench variation that is as challenging for reps 160-200lbs, so any time I find that much of a hole in my strength I usually find it's good to work to fill.
DeleteWR
That makes a lot of sense with the high incline. I dig that. Definitely makes it enticing.
DeleteSounding like a broken record by now but absolutely barbaric physique.
ReplyDeleteIt's a record I don't mind hearing, haha. Always means a lot from you dude.
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