Felt good to be back in the gym today.

Wendler 5/3/1 program, cycle 18, week 2

• Work Set – Bench Press (working max: 235#)
  • 2x5x45 (warmup)
  • 1x5x95
  • 1x5x120
  • 1x3x145
  • 1x3x165 (work)
  • 1x3x190
  • 1x5x215
• Assistance – Bench Press
  • 5 x 10/10/10/10/9 x 140
• Assistance – Pendlay Rows
  • 5 x 10 x 120

I was out all weekend involved in continually educating myself, and I have to admit… part of my planning for how I handled that weekend was motivated by my lifting. Usually those long weekends drain me, but I wasn’t going to let that happen. I planned well so I could get adequate rest. I packed food appropriately (and found some handy foods at the grocery store that I wouldn’t want to make a staple, but were quite useful to get me through). I had to rearrange the Friday workout because of logistics, but I planned on getting right back to it today… didn’t want to have a further bump to Tuesday.

And so… here I am.

The workout went well. I actually got a good case of “what leg drive does”. I’m still working on finding the right position and the right groove for my legs, and I think I’m getting closer. On the last work set, 5th rep… the bar speed slowed down about 2/3rd of the way up… I realized “dummy! where are your legs?!?” and I pressed into my heels and the bar shot up.

Yeah… leg drive. 🙂

Next session will be for a PR. I haven’t really PR’d in bench in a while because it’s a slow-progressing lift for me, I had some major resets. My PR in bench is 3×225. Next session is 225… and yeah, I’m going for 5 reps. I’m going to PR this fucker. 🙂