Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Laid back DE bench workout

I met Stump for a DE bench session at golds on 7th.  After still being really drained from squatting last night, I took it really easy today with my DE bench workout.  Stump gave me some advice about why I'm not keeping my back tight on my first rep benching.

I could still slightly feel my forearms aching after 5-6 sets of benching, nothing major but I could feel it.  I would have never believed that my forearms would be my weak part when squatting 500 pounds.

DE bench

Bar x 10
Bar x 8
8 sets of 135 x 3

Not very speedy today, but given the squat session last night, I didn't worry or care too much.

Overhead pin presses.  Pins about even with the top of my head
bar x 8
135 x 8
185 x 4
185 x 7
185 x 7
I didn't want to push it too much today, so I stayed relatively light with these.

Tricep cable push downs
probably 5 sets, working up to whole stack + 25#

Face pulls, various weights up to 150-ish, probably 6 sets.

All and all a nice easy laid back workout.

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