Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Light bench day?

I'm not going to say tonight was a good night but it certainly wasn't a bad night.  It feels awkward doing my light days to a failure set, this will take some getting used to, fortunately, there's 5 more light bench days between now and Jan 30th.  315 close grip to failure on my top set.  After I was done the guy I asked to spot me said something along the lines of "You were going close on that."  So I said "Yeah, the way I'm programmed right now my light days I'll do close grip."  Another guy said "That's a light day?"  That made me feel good, I only managed 7 reps and that 7th one was a pretty massive struggle but I got it.  Did some incline dumbbell presses for the first time in maybe a year as an accessory.  It was odd, I had forgotten how much I loved them.  Decided to play it safe on those and use the 80s since they're far less bent than the 90s and 100s, but did 3 sets of 15, control was nice and smooth, changed hand position on each set.  Normal first, turned in slightly for second, then palms facing for the third.  That palms facing on incline felt pretty amazing, so the fact I only got the got the 315 for 7 wasn't as disheartening.  Ended with some banded triceps pressdowns and some one armed rows.  

Only slightly unrelated, I've been ravenous lately.  Just some rough numbers about 1200 calories more than normal.  Need to attempt to slow that down on non-training days.  

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