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Bench (1st rep paused) - 325 4x5
Spoto bench press - 225 2x10
Pullups - bw+50 5x5
DB Curls 5x12 real cute
--A few things. First, the bumpers and all the weights we use for everything but bench at this gym are awesome and spot on. But there are some serious discrepancies in the weights of the iron plates in the bench area. Training partner and I both noticed that right side of barbell felt significantly heavier, and the overall weight of the barbell felt much heavier than what we're accustomed to.
Second, my pec is bothering me. I might need a different approach on bench. Volume makes it flare up. The options I'm considering:
(1) Bench with planned volume/intensity 1 week, deload following week. Basically, space out my real bench workouts to once per two weeks.
(2) Bench with planned volume/intensity 2 weeks, deload one week. So two weeks on, one off.
(3) Bench weekly, but just work up to a single at 85%-95% (depending on proximity of workout to a meet) and build volume with very light weights that aren't capable of tearing my pec (225-275 range).
Thoughts/suggestions appreciated!