A great bench session, started at 12 noon on Friday with BIG Leo, Camine, Pierre, Cheryl, Shawna and me. It Pierre's first week with us and he is picking up the bench form really well.

warm up 135 x 12

225 x 5

315 x 1

put loose shirt on

405 x 2

455 x 1  slow hard lockout because feet were not in a good position to drive with my heels

put tighter shirt on

500 miss at lockout

515 miss

475 x 1

I am starting to feel stronger in my bench and ready to bench heavier and get on the other side of 500.

Carmine missed 475 and we moved him to a tighter shirt. It will take a couple of sessions for him to get used to keeping his arch in the tighter shirt. BIG Leo went up to 405 x 4 reps and decided to take an easier day and did dumbell presses the last set with 185 lbs in each hand for a few reps.