Training 25/07/24

Thu 25/07/24: Something Light

AM BW: 96.2kg

Background Noise: Something Light

Medium Grip Pause Bench:
10x20kg
10x20kg
8x70kg
3x95kg
5x105kg
5x105kg
5x105kg
2.5 minute rests

Close Grip Bench:
8x90kg @ 8.5
8x85kg @ 9.5
8x85kg @ 9.5
2.5 minute rests

Barbell Row:
8×87.5kg
8×87.5kg
10×87.5kg @ 10
2.5 minute rests

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

Hammer Curl w/Twist:
6x45lb / hand
8x45lb / hand @ 9.5 (rep PR; +2 reps)
8×42.5lb / hand @ 10
8x40lb / hand @ 9.5
10×37.5lb / hand @ 10
2.5 minute rests

• Didn’t get to bed on time last night. Super tired and this cold is still knocking me round. Dragged myself out anyway but it’s starting to get tough.

• Bench was decent – shoulder didn’t start to twinge until the second set and it was very very minor. Surely I’ll be doing sets across with no pain soon. The work sets were challenging, but not max effort (and I think this equals a PR for fives). Kept the same weight as last week for the close grip bench and they were all pretty hard sets – definitely a bit harder than last week.
• Same weight as last week for the rows too, and I managed to squeeze one more rep out of the third set before I started to lose ROM so that was ok.
• Some relatively easy presses (although my shoulder started zapping during the third set) and then came some curls. I had hoped to push the heavy sets to eights – but found I was struggling at six reps in the first. Tried again second time out and managed to find my mojo, hopefully didn’t cheat them too much but that was a pretty hard set. Decided to just ‘run the rack’ and do some drop sets and was pretty happy with how hard I pushed these. Lots of hard sets today, I will probably have some DOMS tomorrow but whatever. Incidentally I did measure my biceps the other night and they are bigger.
• Pretty good session, 62 minutes.