Puttering along

[Oldster]

I don't know about hitting them 'easy', OM. I'll settle for now with a gutbuster with both of them!

[Haggit]

Awesome stuff as always!

Hahahah to the chiropractor story!

[jwt708]

Hell ya Oldster! That CGBP is enviable - awesome "warm up."

[Oldster]

Hey thanks, fellers! JC, I believe I would be a bit more of the former than the latter!

Close grip bench
140x15
240x6x2
335x5
355x4
365x3
375x2
385x1
Military press
120x5
135x5
170x3 sets of 5
Tbar row
180x10
255x20
Ab wheel
15 kneeling
8 standing

A bit disappointed in my close grip experiment. Thought for sure today would be 3 sets of 5 with 355 but didn't even try a 5th rep it was so far away. So played around with some heavier stuff. My eye is still on 335x10 and 375x5. Just have to keep my nose to the grindstone and my eye on the prize.

[StrongIslander,NY]

How in the world do u get thru BP and then do military. i've tried doing overhead presses right after bench and i drain away. Ol'ster i guess where ur at in the game u've seen your highs and now ur concentrating on reps at various poundages? what number of reps do u attain before eyeing the reps of a higher poundage? 10 reps?

[Oldman]

A bit disappointed in my close grip experiment. Thought for sure today would be 3 sets of 5 with 355 but didn't even try a 5th rep it was so far away. So played around with some heavier stuff. My eye is still on 335x10 and 375x5. Just have to keep my nose to the grindstone and my eye on the prize.

You're getting there, O! I think I can see it in the rep pattern....Boy, I can only hope to be disappointed with weights that high! Lol!

[Oldster]

How in the world do u get thru BP and then do military. i've tried doing overhead presses right after bench and i drain away.

I can only press overhead after benching, or doing some other sort of pressing movement, SI. Otherwise my shoulders just won't take it. It really doesn't bother me that it costs me overhead poundages, I really don't like the military! Only do 'em for my shoulder health.

Ol'ster i guess where ur at in the game u've seen your highs and now ur concentrating on reps at various poundages? what number of reps do u attain before eyeing the reps of a higher poundage? 10 reps?

I tend to focus on high(er) reps for a time and then lower reps for a time. Probably spend more time with low reps since I can recover from them much easier than high rep stuff. So I don't have any specific number of reps I'm looking to hit, instead I use it as a diversion from the really heavy low rep work.

You're getting there, O! I think I can see it in the rep pattern.

Thanks Ed,I hope so. That 385 felt like a ton today as did most of the other sets except 365 and 375. They felt pretty good.

[Oldster]

Taking off on a 10 hour trip for 4 days for a wedding. Had to scramble to get through a brief lift this morning in about 15 minutes. No squatting, tweaked my back badly a couple days ago and it still hasn't settled down.

18" Close grip
140x15
240x6x2
335x5
335x5
Military
120x7
135x7
170x7
Ab wheel
15 kneeling
5 standing

[sking1001]

Congrats on your #1 ranking on this board so far. At least until Gillian show up, haha.

[Oldster]

Thanks Steve, but you were right! First I thought "drat, beaten by a girl". The I realized "drat, beaten by THE girl again"!

18" close grip
140x15
240x6x2
335x5
365x2
380x1
395x1
Military
120x5
145x5
175x3 sets of 5
Tbar Row
190x10
235x20
Ab wheel
15 kneeling
7 standing

Man, weaker'n a kitten this morning. All this terrible heat that I haven't been used to is kicking my butt. We went from high 60's when we left for the wedding to 109 during the wedding and it was outside in the heat. Then come home to 95 degrees. So everything felt terribly heavy today. The 395 close grip was very very slow. VERY slow...

Gotta get to work. Today is our 35th wedding anniversary and we are renewing our vows up here this afternoon. My lifting partner is also a Preacher so he'll be officiating the whole show. A dozen or more people and I'll be BBQing all afternoon getting ready. Plus, I have 4 acres I need to mow first and it is deep. Mow it or bale it....hmm....... I only have to push about 1/2 acre of it though.