[quote]Hanley wrote:
I’m wearing a 44 Katana at 242lb, my chest is around 46 at the moment I think. The shirt goes on relatively easy, I can get the arms on my self and over my head, just need someone to seat it from there.
Raw bench is about 150kg/330lb to 155kg/340lb touch and go, probably 10-15lb less paused. The minimum I’ve touched this training cycle in my shirt is 465lb, but should hopefully get around 440-450 down in the next couple of weeks. Those weights were not particularly hard to press back up either.
I’m gunning for 475lb in my meet in 7 weeks, so around 145lb worth of carryover (and thus far that’s with the collar pulled high because I don’t have the lockout to jack it down!).
My raw bench has stayed flat the last couple of months, going up by maybe 10lb, but my lat and upper back strength has increased massively, and that’s really fed into my shirted bench going up.[/quote]
Is that what you’d attribute you shirted gains to? I’m lucky to bench 400lbs these days and our raw benches are only 10-15kg apart. Obviously I’m going to keep hammering the lockout, but maybe I need to be doing more upper back work…hows your shoulder strength?