Training 11/07/24

Thu 11/07/24: Something Light

AM BW: 96.0kg

Background Noise: The Riff

Medium Grip Pause Bench:
10x20kg
10x20kg
8x70kg
5x100kg
5x100kg
5x100kg
2.5 minute rests

Close Grip Bench:
8x85kg
8x85kg
8x85kg @ 8.5
2.5 minute rests

Barbell Row:
10x85kg
10x85kg @ 10
8x85kg @ 9
2.5 minute rests

Seated Dumbbell Press:
10x35lb / hand
10x35lb / hand
12x35lb / hand @ 8.5
2 minute rests

Hammer Curl w/Twist:
8×42.5lb / hand @ 9 (PR; +2.5lb)
8×42.5lb / hand @ 9
8×42.5lb / hand @ 9.5
8×42.5lb / hand @ 10
2.5 minute rests

• Had another terrible night’s sleep last night – I was too hot (ironic since it’s winter and we didn’t even have the heater on) plus the kid had a nightmare, etc. But despite waking up at like 10:30, 12:30, 2:00 and 4:20 I rolled out at 5am and got it done anyway.

• Went up to 100kg today for bench and although normally I only do a couple of top sets in this session, these moved really well today and my shoulder was only slightly angry so I did three nice easy sets. The close grip work was probably a touch easier than last week too.
• Did tens for the rows today, although I lost some ROM at the end of the second set and didn’t push the third all that hard – good enough.
• Press felt a lot better than last week too, and I pushed the third set out to twelve reps easily enough. No shoulder zaps. Pretty decent.
• Four pretty hard sets of curls to finish, too. Don’t think my left arm would have got one more rep at the end, but happy enough just to get eights for four sets across.
• All finished in 57 minutes.