After having a year away from the platform and a terrible showing at the 2018 XPC Bench Bash, I'm gearing back up for a multiply bench only competition, the APF Pressing the Pieces Together on April 27th, 2019. This meet helps bring awareness and charity donations for Autism Awareness. I'm looking to compete at 132lbs and just have a good meet back, while running my new gym, THIRST, and rehabbing my low back issues.

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This Saturday training was my heaviest training day of the training cycle. I was feeling great even raw, and felt like I could have it an all-time PR by the way the 325 moved. But I shut it down there and jumped in the shirt to give things a go. Everything felt pretty good except for the near miss at 505. It was a gabble, but I wanted to see how it felt and the way the 485 moved, I felt like it was in the cards. I just need to work on letting the bar settle more as I went down and the bar was still all over the place. Otherwise, this was a great training day, and now it's time to start winding down!

I also now have a donation link available for donations towards Autism Awareness for this meet. If you have the time, any monetary donation would be greatly appreciated towards a great cause, thanks to Eric Stone and the APF.

You can donate HERE.


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Items Used in this Training Session

Warm Up
Lateral Raises
DB Overhead Press
Rear Delt Raises
DB Bench Press
DB Flys
DB Skull Crushers
DB Rows
DB Curls
15 each

A1) Bench Press
Worked up to..
325x1
375x1 - add shirt, air board
415x1 - touch
460x1 - add new shirt
485x1
505 x Miss

B1) Wtd Dips
4x12-15

C1) KB Tricep Extensions
4x10

D1) Dip Machine
3x20

E1) Walking Dips
3 sets
E2) Reverse Pec Dec
3x30