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Awesome recomp since last time at this weight!
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Originally Posted by FloppyJ
This is why you are the compliance King and seeing such progress. Keep on!
Cheers, bros.
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Originally Posted by BABARtheELEPHANT
looking good Renton! Damn, you've come from so far and now look at you.
This one slipped by me. Thanks! You still lifting, bro?
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Training
Bench Variant, C4W4 TM79 6x6 @75%
1. Close-Grip Bench (kg):
20x10x2
40x4
55x2
60x4 @8.5
50x4
52.5x6
55x6
2. T-bar Row (kg):
60x7
60x7
60x7
60x7
60x10
2. Arnold Press (lb):
35x8
35x8
35x8
35x8
35x8
35x7
3. Pec Deck (lb):
120x12
130x12
130x14
130x14
130x15
3. Chin-ups (@59kg):
8
8
8
8
8
3. Cable Laterals (lb, leverage):
15x11
15x11
15x13
15x15
15x15
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Ugh.
Went to the gym feeling pretty much 100%. Then I got to my first work set and had weakness and dull pain in my left shoulder. Yeah, this is a weight I haven't handled before, but I should be good for at least 60x8, so I knew something was wrong from the first rep.
I took some weight off and spent some time warming up my shoulder. At first, even a 10lb dumbbell lateral caused pain and I could barely lift the weight. After a few minutes, I was feeling a lot better and the lateral raises felt good. Then I began ramping back up toward 60, the pain got worse and worse with each set, and I called it quits after 55x6.
The good news is that the pain didn't affect anything else I planned to do other than pushups. I did an extra set of arnold press to make up for the lack of volume, subbed pec deck for pushups to get some tension on my chest without involving the shoulders, and gained a ton of reps on laterals which, oddly, felt absolutely fine by then.
I'll get another crack at benching on Saturday, and thankfully the deload comes after that. So if this is something that will take a little time to heal, at least it didn't ruin an entire mesocycle. My hunch is that overhead pressing should be fine, so at least I get to attempt progress at that.