T-Bone Strength 5/31/10

Shoulders and Triceps

Push Press w/Fat Grips
Barx10
75x10
145x3 (3 sets)
165x2 (3 sets)
215x2 (2 sets)
235x2 (3 sets)
300x1* PR
215x5

Rack Lockouts from approximately 2 board height at start.
Barx8
135x3
225x3
315x3
365x3
315x10

T-Bar Rows
1 Platex8
2 Platex8
3 Platesx8
4 Platesx10 (2 sets)

Bench Abs With Bar (Basically a sit up and bring the bar overhead)
3 sets of 10

Great session. I found out I can push press fairly well now with a 300 overhead. Very proud of that. All of the weights prior were very easy and I had planned to just do several sets of doubles but I just felt like it was my day so I loaded 300, put my belt on, threw some chalk on my hands, slapped myself in the face (a critical step mind you) and just got the sucker moving and I got it up. Great feeling to get 300 overhead, I felt like I had more in the tank but hell 300 is a great milestone. Now I'll concentrate on doing seated barbell presses from the rack for reps to build up my shoulder strength and endurance. The T-Bar rows was an experiment that I figured I'd try out, and it worked to perfection. Worked great and I couldn't be happier with my progress. I may get some speed benching or some high repetition work in on the bench on Monday's too. I have plans for my squat and deadlift routine that I'm going to put up in the gym as well as a hypothetical bench routine that is a hybrid of Westside, Average Joes, and the 10x3 and we'll see how it is received. Skies the limit!