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

12/27/10

T-Bone Strength 12-27-10

Lockouts N Stuff

Lockouts w/Narrow Grip
Barx15
135x10
225x5
315x3
Added 3-board
405x3 (2 sets)
455x3 (2 sets)

Speed Bench (All done with Narrow Grip)
225x3 (3 sets)
275x3 (3 sets)
295x3 (1 set)

Incline Tates super set with Flat Tates
3 sets of 10//10

Doubled Underhand Triceps Extensions
1 set of 20

To be frank, I'm extremely shocked at how much my raw strength has gone up. I figured I'd do 3-board work for the hell of it and man what a difference! The board height going from 4-3 I didn't think would be so dramatic. Could I have gone heavier? More than likely, but what's the point? I need to get quality reps in with a heavy weight before going up. Gotta check the ego at the door. I'm fairly pleased also with the speed of my bench. All sets were relatively easy and I would have done more sets with 295 but felt a slight pinch in my right pec; and decided to shut it down. I'm really getting some good speed which is fairly noticeable. One of these days I'll take a raw and slingshot max and see where I am. Extremely curious to see how I'll do in a shirt...

2 comments:

Island Strength said...

I agree about the dramatic difference between a 3 and 4 board. It just feels so much lower! One more raw M.E. day before shirted work. Mike wants to go in the shirt Thursday. How about half and half just for fun?

Big T said...

What are we doing on Thursday? Floor Press? Or taking a max? If so I wanna go raw/slingshot before hitting the shirt. Then I'm gonna semi deload. I'm fairly beat up and I want to go into shirt training nice and fresh. If you want to go in a shirt and raw also I'm down to help you put it on but I'll stick to the slingshot/raw for one more week :)