Fri Feb 11 2011 Shirt Bench
WOW! another great bench night!! Carmine and Chris hit incredible PR's tonight, both were on fire. BIG Leo worked on max reps with 445 and 455 lbs raw, Alex a guest learned form quickly and hit a nice 300 lbs raw bench and Shawna is waiting for her MRI results and taking care of her shoulder and tried to see how much she can bench raw.
warm-up included Shawna light stretching my shoulders, biceps and triceps and pecs
lat pull down, chest press machine
bar x reps
135 x reps about 10 explosively
225 x 5
315 hold only
loose shirt
425 x 1
475 miss at top
tight shirt
500 miss
500 miss
It looks bad, but I am fine with the training, just working on form and still managed to fry my triceps. I am patient and will just wait until i get a good bench night. Weights felt very heavy tonight, don't quite know why and am not going to over analyze it, just will go at it again next week.
Carmine put on a tighter shirt which really bit up his triceps and he didn't complain at all, if fact kept saying this was the most comfortable shirt ever, the Eddie grey double denim. His form was great and he did 455 very easy, then did the same with 475, and got psyched for 500 and got that nice and smooth with a short stroke. next 525 and he got that nice but I think missed locking it out because he didn't get a good grip on the floor. Then he went 535 and missed at lock out - a great bench night for Carmine which build lots of hope, confidence and excitement for him. Oh, and I think he benched a 365 raw before putting on the shirt.
Chris was worried about his collar bone pain, its swollen and hurts but doesn't affect his strength, so he is pushing through it carefully. With Carnime benching just before him, Chris had to get down and do the same weights. 405, 455, 475, 500, 525 a new PR, and then was done. congratulations Chris can't wait till the pec heals.
Shawna, well, this was supposed to be an easy day. She stayed raw because the shirt aggrivates her shoulder. Her tricep has a big lump that I can't massage out and her bicep at the elbow is swollen and very tight which I also can't seem to loosen. Her shoulder is very sore and has limited range of movement. We should find out exactly what is wrong within a week after her MRI that she got on Thurs - they put a big needle right into her shoulder and injected dye which stiffened up the whole area and made it more sore.
Shawna has never focussed on raw lifting but on Tues she tried to see the max number of reps she could do with 135 and got 7 reps. She has never gone higher than 135 because there was no need to. Tonight she tried 150 lbs and got it easily for a new pr, then missed 165, came back and did 4 reps with 145 and 3 reps with 150 lbs. We are going to keep her in an easy and maintenance mode until we find out what is wrong, and how to repair it and until she feels like pushing hard again. Plan is to go easy for about 3 to 4 weeks, but knowing her she won't wait that long.