Sunday, March 29, 2009

Last heavy benching before the meet

I left for Charleston, SC Thursday, I didn't get there until midnight, and had an interview at 8AM and flew back to SLC friday afternoon, arriving home well after midnight.  So, I wasn't sure how the benching would go after being pretty tired from sitting in a little plane for so long, but it wasn't a bad bench session.

We did reverse bands, but could only find one blue band, so we did green bands with purple bands.  I believe it was slightly less tension than the blue bands.  

I should add that when I do these with the group, the bands are set pretty low for me, as they completely deload about half way up my press.  I guess it's good for working my lockout, but the bands help me much less than other people.

From memory the benching went like this...

135 x 10
225 x 8
275 x 5
315 x 3
365 x 1
405 x 0 miss
385 x 1  russ touched the bar, but not much
385 x 1  russ touched the bar, but I think even less than the first time
385 x 1  same thing, but it didn't help much ( I probably should have said don't touch it )
365 x 1
315 x 6

I then did some tricep accessory work.

Last time we did reverse bands, I got 405, but I think the blue bands helped more than the bands we used today.  I could be wrong, I hope not.  I don't feel like I'm getting weaker, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised with all this job hunting/interviewing stress.

About the job hunt.  The company in Charleston didn't make me an offer while I was there, however I think they will.  I got the feeling from the contractor guy who interviewed me that it was just a formality.  I didn't really get much of a feeling from the government guy, he was harder to read, he didn't want to eat lunch with us, and I gave him a copy of my resume and he gave it back to me at the end of the interview (I've never had anybody do that before, and I'm not sure if there's any meaning behind it or not).  I have another round of interviews at Omniture on Monday.  I'm meeting with 5 more people.  They seem to take pride in the fact that they are thorough in their interview process. 


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