02 February 2014

Bench sesh 2/1/14: Peanut butter belly time, a new weak point found, and pure and utter chaos...

Good bench sesh today with a surprise thrown in for good measure.



As promised... peanut butter belly time!

Here's what occurred:

  • Dynamic bench - 8x3x95lbs + chain/side
  • Wide ladder handle pulldown - 5x10x120lbs
  • Klokov press - 15xbar, 10x65lbs, 2x10x75lbs, 10x65lbs, 12xbar
  • Band pull aparts - 4x15 w/EliteFTS Intense Onyx band
  • Fat bar pushdown - 4x15x100lbs
  • Band external rotations (Ws) - 5x10 w/EliteFTS Orange Pro Micro Mini band
  • Dumbbell flyes, flat bench - 2x10x20lbs, 2x10x15lbs
  • Pec deck, left arm only - 3x10 @ 50lbs




SURPRISE! A new weakness found in the ol' shoulder injury I didn't expect - the dumbbell flyes. Another "no fucking wonder" why my bench is still shite. Decided to do them as I hadn't done them in forever and they seemed like a good addition into the routine to kind of shake things up a bit.  Grabbed the 20s to start a warm up set and holy crap with the left side. Left shoulder and pec having trouble stabilizing the weight through two complete sets, dropped to 15lbs bells with only slightly better result.

Not cool, brah.

So I went and hit up the pec deck with the left arm only for a few sets, looks like I need to keep working this and get it back up to par.

Wrapped up the jamesnasium session and headed to the Nutrishop Cordova, who sponsors our man Christian, and grabbed some peanut butter banana ForzaPro because it's delectable, and headed home. Upon my return, however it was time to report for the chaos.

A five year old's birthday party.

Amongst the stuffs:






Pure insanity.

Then today, this happens...





Don't worry, the hawk came off. Had to, started to feel like this guy...




And metal.






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