So far, inclines are working.

Interesting thing with the arm pain – it’s been consistently lingering for the past few days (I’ll come back to this). So inclines this morning and I wondered if the pain would get worse. Nope. Things stayed the same, as far as I could tell, so that’s good. I’ll just keep working inclines for a while, since it seems to provide me a way to keep pressing without pain. If things are good next week, then next cycle I’m going to try moving the rep scheme back to a normal 5/3/1 progression and see how that goes.

But to that it’s interesting. I’m finding if I spend time with my forearm vertical, eventually the pain comes in. For example, laying on my back in bed, upper arm parallel to the floor, 90º bent elbow, forearm perpendicular to the floor. No real weight, just say my iPhone while I read and do things on it. And eventually, the ache creeps in. Interesting.

As for the rest of the session, things went as I’d expect. All good. Flies still feel painful because stretch, but that’s what I’m wanting, so just progress slowly.

• Incline Bench Press
  • bar x whatever
  • 80 x 5
  • 100 x 4
  • 120 x 3
  • 140 x 3 (supposed to do 2 but did 3)
  • 160 x 1
  • 180 x 10 (10 rep PR)
  • 160 x 12
  • 140 x 10
• Flies
  • 20e x 13
  • 20e x 13
  • 20e x 13
• Cable Rows
  • 110 x 12
  • 120 x 12
  • 130 x 12
  • 130 x 12
  • 130 x 10
• DB Upright Row
  • 45e x 12
  • 45e x 10
  • 45e x 8
• Seated French Press
  • 60 x 15
  • 60 x 15
  • 60 x 15
  • 60 x 10
• Reverse EZ Bar Curl
  • 60 x 15
  • 60 x 12
  • 60 x 10
  • 60 x 8