7 day out from a meet and I'm all fffffffed up.

[Parabellum]

Here are my last 2 bench workouts. Anything pop up at you that I need to work on?

9/16/2005 - looking for an opener ... again..

raw bench press - warm ups
bar x20
bx20
135x8
185x5
225x3
275x3<<<<VIDEO
315x1

2 boards with meet shirt
405x2 x no touch <<<<VIDEO
455x4 no touch <<<<VIDEO
495x3 no touch <<<<VIDEO - I came pretty close here.
545x1 x no touch <<<<VIDEO - the 2nd rep was fun
585x0 x no touch <<<<VIDEO - I have no idea what happened here. But maybe this happened because I am not tucking my elbows. I put some biopheeze on both wrists, forearms and shoulders while at the gym. Because they were all screaming at me I don't think I hurt anything too seriously, time will tell.

Overall a shitty day. I couldn't get the set up right today. My damn elbows were flared. My damn wrists are all messed up. F\/ck it I'll push through it.

I'm not going to use the 52 ragex for the meet. I need more time in it.

I'm going to use my 54 training shirt at the meet and open with 500 and see where to go from there.

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9/20/2005 - I have two problems 1. I still do not have an opener going into the 2nd ot last bench workout. 2. I'm trying to take it easy on my wrists so they are healtheir on meet day.

Cuff complex

warm up - raw bench
barx20 bx20 95x8 135x8 225x10 275x3 315x1

shirt bench with my loose shirt
365x3 - no touch <<<<click for video
405x3 - no touch <<<<click for video
455x2 - no touch <<<<click for video
505x0 - no touch I expected to touch this and complete the rep <<<<click for video
505x0 - no touch <<<<click for video - damn wrists are killing me. I am pretty pissed off that I can't get anything to touch.
455x1 - touched <<<<click for video - it's about time.
455x1 <<<<click for video

raw bench
315x5
I was really beat this workout and I'm probably over trained a bit.

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I have one more bench workout left before a week of rest. I want to push hard this last workout but I also need to give my wrists a break because at this point they are hindering my progress.

I think for the last bench workout I should continue to work on my setup and keep trying to get light weight to touch....

My plan for the meet was to open with my loose shirt and do the 2nd attempt with my loose shirt . Then through on my tight shirt and take 600+ for a ride.

I'm worried that I spent the last month tryingto get something to touch with the meet shirt and I could not for one reason or another. Now I may have developed a weakness where the loose shirt stops working and I take over.

I'm in full panic mode now. This would be my 1st equiped meet and I'm expecting a lot from me.

Any advice ?

 

[bignate73]

sorry bro, i don't know my way around equipment, all i can offer is best wishes!

just a thought, how is your lowering speed? maybe if it were quicker you might gain some downward motion to get you to touch? just a thought.

 

[Parabellum]

sorry bro, i don't know my way around equipment, all i can offer is best wishes!

just a thought, how is your lowering speed? maybe if it were quicker you might gain some downward motion to get you to touch? just a thought.

I can go a little faster I guess.... good call.

 

[wnt2bBeast]

im by no means an expert by a faster eccentric is going to need more force to reverse-i prefer a slow eccentric this way i can put te bar where i want

looking at your vids it looks as though you need to tuck the elbows more-if te weight is light enough dont be afraid to double tuck (bring the elbows in until you cant lower the bar anymore and then really froce your elbows in-should help to touch lighter weights) doing so gets a little dangerous with heavier wewights because its harder to rotate your elbows out in order to lock the weight out

 

[Parabellum]

im by no means an expert by a faster eccentric is going to need more force to reverse-i prefer a slow eccentric this way i can put te bar where i want

looking at your vids it looks as though you need to tuck the elbows more-if te weight is light enough dont be afraid to double tuck (bring the elbows in until you cant lower the bar anymore and then really froce your elbows in-should help to touch lighter weights) doing so gets a little dangerous with heavier wewights because its harder to rotate your elbows out in order to lock the weight out

Last week I was told to roll my shoulders. But I have no time left to practice the roll. That wold help.

I might have to drop my attemps down to adjust for other issues.

 

[wnt2bBeast]

Last week I was told to roll my shoulders. But I have no time left to practice the roll. That wold help.

I might have to drop my attemps down to adjust for other issues.

depends on your style of bench
rolling your shoulders forward in order to touch is only going to legthen your stroke i always keep, or at least try to anyway, keep the shoulders tucked and pulled back very hard inot te bench-im amazed at how sore my traps actually get sometimes after doing shirt work

 

[donsj]

You may be thinking about it too hard. Unrack the sob and lift it ! Hit your mark on the way down you will be fine.