A little about me

I have competed in both Olympic Weightlifting and Bench-Only Lifting. I competed in Olympic Lifting as a kid. Best lifts of 255 Olympic Press, 225 Snatch, 255 Clean & Jerk. I met many of the great lifters and coaches from the 60's and 70's. After a 20-year break to serve my country I started lifting regularly again and competing in Bench-Only. Best Lift: 419lbs "equipped".

Feel free to follow along on the adventure...

Steve Denning

4/29/08

T-Bone Strength 4-28-08

M.E. Bench

Warmups: Barx12, 135x8, 225x5, 315x3

Threw Shirt on w/doubled mini's: 320x3 on a 3 board
Straight weight with shirt: 405x3 4 board
455x1 4 board
495x0 4 board

Competition Bench: 275x8 fairly easy

4 board Straight Weight Raw: 335x7 (on the 8th rep I went way out of the groove and caused a big time miss)

I basically cut it there. I felt really tired the entire time and before training even started I was dog tired from working on my computer for such a long time. Main thing is though that I got in there and I trained. I know had I been completely focused and not so tired I would of thrown up weights that were way bigger than that with what I did tonight. I'm going to take it easy this week as I have a wrist injury that needs to heal so I'll keep it light the rest of this week. My goal is to hit a 405 raw bench this Monday which I don't know if its realistic or not but I'm definitely going to give it a shot and with the extra rest it could happen who knows!

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