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

5/26/10

T-Bone Strength Couple Updates

Did speed bench on Monday
Used doubled mini's
135x3x3
185x3x3
205x3x3

All were very fast. The goal on DE Day should be SPEED not lets see how much weight I can do. Many people forget that. I also did power pushdowns, side raises up to 80lb dumbbells, and did one arm dumbbell presses.

Tuesday I did some squats

Worked up to 455x2 raw, no belt, no knee wraps. That was big for me, worked up to a good weight and it felt good. I could be at 495 faster than I thought. I'll start working in gear again here fairly soon. Figured out a way to do back extensions with the preacher curl stand, works extremely well, my back was and still is blown up! Used a monster mini with the stand and it didn't tumble over or shake at all, really was pleased with this!

Did a bunch of abs afterwords, and also did pause squats with 295 for 3x3. I feel great and training is going well. All the lifts are going up, especially the bench. I think that in a month or so we will be going 2 weeks raw and 1 week shirted if I'm understanding correctly. I will be really looking forward to those days to see how I've progressed. I really want to get 600 out of the way and go on to the big numbers like 700 and above. All things point to a big bench and a future big total for me. Look out!

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