Weight - 247
Incline Press -
bar x 30
135 x 15
185 x 5
225 x 4
275 x 1 - stop
Felt something twinge in my left shoulder area. This is the shoulder I have permanent AC joint separation in so every so often it gives me trouble. This felt more muscular so I terminated the set right away.
I then went to db bench press and did the 80's for 2 sets of 20 then the 100's for a set of 20. Felt fine.
Did some side laterals and pec deck after this just to make sure and the pec and all of that musculature felt fine. I may drop incline for seated press next week but we'll see. I will test it next week and see how it feels. If it feels ok I will stay light and get a ton of reps in. Everytime my incline moves back up in that 400 range something like this happens. I really think it's the incline at the gym. It's a bit too steep IMO.
Aside from that, my shoulder was not feeling "right" this morning. I did my usual warming up and then some, but it just never felt proper. This is not a set back kind of thing, just a precaution.
Hi my friend. I've always wondered why you're not including over head work in your routines. Maybe you need to rotate the pressing motions from workout to workout?
ReplyDeleteI'm a fairly natural overhead presser Paul and I've never noticed a singled bit of carryover from when my overhead press went up, to my bench or incline or anything. In other words, because my overhead is a naturally strong movement, it doesn't help me with anything else. However with the incline now giving me some issues I may do some PBN or seated db press for a few weeks in the rotation. for me, the bench and incline seem to help each other. So I use them as my primary presses.
ReplyDeletedid u ever consider strongman with ur natural pressing? ur legs strength too seems like a natural fit
ReplyDeleteYeah I wouldn't mind doing some strongman. I also really like the conditioning aspect of it a lot. To be honest strongman fits in more with my thinking, however I am a shit deadlifter so I would need to bring that up a lot in order to actually be competitive.
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