Before I go on a rant about me, congrats to Sholto for his 291 bench, which is a 10 PR @188lbs. This was the most frustrating, yet rewarding bench session in months for me. After smoking 320 as my final warmup, I started having issues. I use an Ironmaster Adjustable Bench which is higher than a competition bench, so in order to get decent leg drive, I put my 100lb plates on the floor. The plate was slightly out of position, which caused my left foot to keep slipping off as soon as I unracked the bar. Between that and my setup just feeling off, I wound up struggling badly with 353, then missing 375 FOUR times. After taking a few minutes to cool off, I backed off to 350 in order to try to get some heavy singles in while figuring out what was going wrong. After my second single, I realized not only was my setup looser than normal, but the plate needed to be moved. So, I decided that I was going to bench 350 for double, and get a new PR... or turn green and ruin everyones Halloween night. Luckily it went in my favor.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 18:29:26 +0000
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