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

11/29/10

T-Bone Strength 11-29-10

Random first workout back from deload

Overhead barbell press w/fat grips
Bar
135x10
185x5x5
155x10

4-board
225x3
315x3
405x3

Close Grip Bench
225x5x3

Pushdowns
3 sets of 10

Abs

Fun workout. It was really interesting to see how my stability was affected after doing those overhead presses. None of the weights felt insanely heavy mind you, but the stability was just completely out of whack. Either I have extremely weak front deltoids and I need to strengthen them or it was just a fluke thing. Either way, I'm going to incorporate some sort of overhead press on my Monday workout from now on. Whether it be with a barbell, dumbbell, bands, machine, I'll figure it out. Felt great to have weight in my hands again and not have the weights feel much heavier than they should for me. By years end I do want to attempt a 440 raw bench so I can have somewhere to build in terms of my raw strength.

1 comment:

Island Strength said...

Your delts aren't weak. Very few benchers get much carryover from overhead presses. They're cool, yes. Do you need the? Probably not. Your a mid-600 bencher! Weak delts... U funny.