Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Bench Training

Arranged for my colleague, Bane, to cover the pager for the last hour of the day while I benched with Shaz. Amazing how easily Bane is bribed with coffee or chocolate, hmmm for that matter so am I.... In fact the whole BDE team can be bought with chocolate.... "you want the bug fix in what version? Rejected, no longer supported - ohhh you have chocolate?? I'll have that fix for you this afternoon..." LOL

Anyways.... at Doherty's and I warm up on 60kg for reps, 70kg - 2 sets of doubles and then again 80kg - 1 double. Important observation - If I follow the bar across my body with my eyes - I lose form - if I don't watch it I stay tight(er) although its hard not to watch where the bar is going and even harder to bring it down with out looking at it..... but it if helps me keep tight.......

On with the shirt..... partials with 80kg (impossible!!) partials with 100kg better - getting half way down doing triples. To finish of this weeks session, Shaz had me remove the shirt and just take the bar over, while holding form - this was done with 100k on the bar. I could hold it, despite my arms shaking a little. Did this a few times and then tried one partial - raw - scary stuff! one was enough!

Later after going home and eating, I was back in Definition to do my westside supplemental work for about an hour. Tired but feeling good. In bed a little after 9.30, 5 mins reading (Dying Light by Stuart MacBride) out like a light after just a few minutes....