Kik - Aug20 - Bench - Volume

After reading in the RTS manual once more, I had to learn that Tuchscherer does not suggest sets of 6 reps. Looks like my mind was a little too creative here, but I figured I will go with 6 reps this week and keep he weights low. This will be good for my tendons, joints, and ligaments. On top of that, I will eat like a madman and harvest bigger muscles due to hypertrophy.

Bench (wide grip, ring fingers on rings):

221x6 @9
221x6 @8
221x6 @8
221x6 @8.5

This was easy, yet awful. Doing more than 3 reps on bench kills my arch. Besides rebuilding the latter after every other rep, the set takes so long and makes my mind wander around.

Board Press (white foam roller)

221x6 @9
221x6 @8
221x3 @9
221x6 @8.5

I cut set #3 short, feeling totally drained. It seems that the extra short break between sets was too much to handle. Set #4 was ok again thanks to somewhat more rest.


SOP:

115x8x3 @8-9 I took it easy on my shoulders, giving some rest. They will be striking back during intensity in 4 weeks.

Back stuff...

Good training, I will see tomorrow how I feel after this.

Kik - Aug13 - Bench - Intensity - Triples

This was my last training in the current mesocycle's intensity block. After my last bench on Sunday, I felt beat up, with slight pain in forearms, elbow, lower back. Today, things felt much better, maybe because I did not deadlift the day before. In the future, I will examine more closely if pulling affects my bench on the next day.

However, maybe I just felt well because Danny felt bad - we tend to take turns, performing better when the other one has an off day. So after max-triples turned to max-doubles last Tuesday, today's triples shone in their brightest lights.


Bench (medium grip):

221x2 @7
242x1 @8
265x3 @10 PR

The third rep got stuck in some gravity hole, yet not for long. After Danny's reminder to press "UUUP!!!!!!!", I was one PR and one hearing damage richer.


Board Press (Close grip)

221x1 @7
265X3 @10 PR

This was a nice PR. I certainly made progress on the triceps side of things - hopefully this will translate into a bigger bench one day.


SOP:
135x8 @9.5
135x8 @10

Presses get better to. A few month ago, 8 reps were barely possible even when I was still fresh on my first exercise. Reducing these to once a week seems to pay back...