Please help me with my Press programming
Hey guys, I've had a good few months bringing my press up and it's been going well, until the last couple of weeks at least. I was wondering if you could suggest what I can do to now.
I started off doing 5x5, going up 2.5kg/5.5lbs per week. I made all of the reps until I got to 210lbs and missed a couple of reps in the set due to it being so hard. I've gotten to this point many times in my training in the past, It has always seemed to be the limit that the TM 5x5 setup seems to take me.
After I failed on 210, I followed the advice in PP to switch to eight sets of three reps. I was going up happily doing that for another couple of months, only 1kg/2.2lbs per week, but it was going nicely until I got to 228lbs. The weeks have gone really well and it's only the last couple of weeks that I missed any reps at all, but last weeks workout (228 for eight sets of three) went terribly and I only got about half the reps I needed.
I am just wondering where I go from here? I am not sure whether to go back to trying for 5x5 or back off a little and try eight sets of three again seeing if I can squeeze out some more from that?
any help is appreciated and I'm sorry It's long winded what I've written! I will just add that on intensity day I have been doing dynamic effort presses, not a heavy triple. It seems to work much better for me.
Thanks!
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