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Aug
13

Last DE Before Pro/AM

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This is the last day we put a bar on our back before the meet. As always I worked up to ~50% raw of my comp max as did pretty much everyone else with a few guys putting their briefs on and doing a plate more. ‘

After this it’s 1-2 accessories and then we shut it down.

Everything from here on out is deload/accessories.

I won’t be posting again until after the meet.  I’ll be taking a 1 week vacation from the web and focusing all my energy on the task at hand.

Planned openers

975, 770, 720

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Aug
04

Max Effort Bench Press

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Little bit of a mix and match today as some people wanted to go in shirts and others were beat up and trying to just avoid getting injured before the pro/am (myself included)

Shane tried out the new Rage X he has to see if it would be the money shirt, unfortunately although it seems to be a perfect fit his style of benching doesn’t work to well with this much shirt. I’m pretty confident though he’ll be OK come meet time and we will probably just open in the loose one and then go from there.

Luke worked up to 635 and shut it down. The extreme weight loss he has suffered doesn’t seem to have affected his strength that much. Crazy SOB!

Tony B worked up to 825 in his shirt and came about an inch from touching then blasted it up. I wouldn’t be surprised if he hits 900 in a few weeks.

Travis began to shirt up then opted out as he became the hand off man. Usually myself and him hand everything out, but I was having some serious forearm cramps everytime I tried to lift off so had to bail on him. I think he hit floor press after everyone was done but didn’t see what all he hit.

Tony Ramos did close grip press and worked up to 405 and tried 455 but was a no go. Not bad for a little guy.

Shack and I benched off 2 foam boards. Shack hit 495 then stopped as his torn bicep was hurting him. I worked up to a pr 550 then shut it down as everything hurts.

For accessories I did machine flys, overhead kettlebell press, seated row and hammer curls for a bunch of reps with light wight  just to get the blood in there.

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Jul
28

ME Bench

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I didn’t bench as I suck. If you wanna read & watch videos from the other guys you can see that at http://shanechurch.com/

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Jul
26

ME Lower (deload)

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Circa Max is Friday so no max singles today.

Group 1 – Tony B, Shack, & Shane did triples on concetric GM’s with Giant Cambered Bar

Group 2 – Tony Ramos & I did 10 sets of triples on rack pulls (pin3) w/quad monster mini’s

Finished off with 12 sets of revers hypers (3 on each machine)

Standing Abs

Leg raises

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Jul
19

Max Effort Rack Pull

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With Luke in the hospital and Tony not back from LA it was a little quiet in the gym this morning. With circa max coming up next week typically we will deload this week & next Monday to prepare. I didn’t want to totally skip ME work so I picked pulls off pin 4 (just below knee cap) as this is a “easier” exercise on the CNS I find.

Pulls off pin 4

Shane 675

Shack 705

AJ 805

Goal was to get 800+ in my hands and hold it at the top which I did. I also think this was a pr for me.

Plyo Swing Leg Press – 3×10

Reverse Hyper – 3×10

Abductors – 3×10

Hanging leg raises (toes-to-bar) – 5×5

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