T-Bone Strength 2-4-08

Max Effort Bench with Big Steve

Warm ups:Barx5, 135x5, 225x5, 275x3, 315x2
Put on Rage-X

3-Board:405x3, 425x3, 455x1, 475x1*
4-Board:455x3, 500x0 (Didn't come down in the groove of the shirt)

What Steve and I dubbed Stupid Bands

Close Grip Band Press:135x5 (doubled mini's)
135x3 (doubled mini's with looped mini)
135x3 (doubled mini's with 2 looped mini's)
135x2 (doubled mini's with 2 looped mini's and 1 looped blue) (used 3 board)
135x1 (doubled mini's with looped blue behind my back)

Close Grip 3 board: 225x20 (Really light but I burnt out at about 17 reps)

Pushdowns: 7 sets of 6

Great heavy workout! 475 on the 3 board went up pretty quick actually, it stalled right off the board but then I just buried it afterwards. The bands were seriously crazy and unstable. I definitely plan on doing these on a regular basis to increase band speed. I wonder how one would go about doing a floor stupid band press with stupid band tension? Hmmm.... All in all a great workout and I know I'll be able to hit my 500 bench in the next few months I just know it! Steve put up some great numbers and I couldn't be happier and prouder to be training with my training partner again!