PR, and that’s enough.

Wendler 5/3/1 program, cycle 20, week 3

• Work Set – Bench Press (working max: 240#)
  • 2x5x45 (warmup)
  • 1x5x95
  • 1x5x120
  • 1x3x145
  • 1x5x180 (work)
  • 1x3x205
  • 1x2x230 (PR)
• Assistance – DB Incline Press
  • 5 x 15/15/15/12/10 x 40
• Assistance – DB Rows
  • 3 x 10/10/25 x 45
• Assistance – JM Press
  • 1 x 15 x 95
• Assistance – Face Pulls
  • 1 x 25 x 35

Set the PR and that makes me happy. I only did 2 reps tho, but they were very solid 2 reps. Last cycle’s 230×1 was a little shakey and I wasn’t sure I could get 2. Today, it was 2 solid and I felt like I could get more — at least physically. My head tho was all over the place. I tried snorting a little ammonia before the final lift (just trying it out, curious) and boy… it’s really cool. I mean, my head zoomed into focus, I was totally in the zone for the lift. But it’s a rather new, novel feeling so my head was kinda all over the place with it, trying to deal with that dizzy feeling I can get sometimes, etc.. But it felt like I was leaving a few in the tank, which is ultimately the point so, all good. 🙂

Besides, my left shoulder was really unhappy. *sigh* So just as well.

And with that, I opted to just do assistance work as I did, lighter weight, higher reps, didn’t do much after the first 2 assistance exercises… just wanted to get a little blood flowing, a little stretch and movement.

Onwards.