Bench
45-10
65-5
95-3
115-1
135-3 shirt
155-2 "
155-1 shirt/signals
165-1 "
175-1 "
185-1 touch and go. 10 lb PR and it came up fast and easy
190-0 I dumped this one on my stomach and called it a day.
I’m not sure if I’m getting stronger or just getting a better feel for where my shirt needs to be for each weight. I’m pretty sure I could get 190 but we’d pulled the shirt down a bit too much.
may I ask what the title is supposed to recall?? no insult or pun intended. just a confused frenchie…[/quote]
The title isn’t meant to recall anything really. It’s more of a self description.
In day-to-day life people tend to take me as very straight laced and proper (mashed potatoes) until they get the unexpected jab (broken glass). Like the other day when I was talking to my boss about a shoring engineer we hired and ended up with no shoring plan so I said "We basically spent two days (insert whacking off hand gesture here). He laughed hard and said “Pretty much”.
It’s about perceptions and unexpected jolts of reality. I think most people are like that; unexpected layers under the surface.
[quote]brute_fury wrote:
HOLY COW. Fantastic way to start a log, great benching indeed![/quote]
Thanks. I was pretty happy with it. Because I struggle with bench, any advances are hard won. For some reason, last night they were all banging out fast and easy.
I think you need to stop saying that you “struggle” with bench these days. Your bench has gotten damn strong. You must recognize that a 185-lb. bench at 130 lb. is amazing! You probably couldn’t have fathomed benching anywhere near that much two years ago, now could you?
And I think you’re self-assessment is pretty spot on. I thought you were pretty straight-laced too until I read a few particularly pointed posts and thought, “I had her pegged all wrong!”
Friday December 24 - Field trip to the Y in St. Catharines.
There was a shit ton of guys there and a squat off. I crapped out early but it was a blast to watch. I think they got most of it on video. It was a lot of fun and great to see people we haven’t seen in a while. Nothing says fun like discussing the perils of camel toe with a too small singlet with the other ladies.
For those people who go on about the pain in the ass factor of training with people who aren’t at their ‘level’ they could take a lesson for how we managed today. There were 8 or 9 of us squatting today in rotation. There were two women and the rest were men. It was run like a mini meet kind of based on height and weight on the bar with multiple people spotting and changing rack height and plates.
Anyway
squat
45-10
115-5
155-3
195-1
235-3 suit on straps down
265-2 "
280-1 straps up wraps
310-1 " - slow and a grind to come up with
330-0 I hit this slow and wrong and pitched forward
