civilizedworm Member

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I've got reps of margaritas planned tonight.

Perhaps Jason wasn't adequately recovered when he went back and that kind threw his planned progression out of whack or he was headed for a plateau at the time when he tested his 1RM?

Unless...

Than after your set, you hand the mask to that person for theirs.

lulz

By approaching life wide-eyed and bushy-tailed of course.

Oh... well.... you might need this then at the gym.

Are you sure you ain't this guy?

Essentially, you are benching twice a week so the 1RM test day on the bench is not really a rest day - it functions as a heavy day. ( I guess.) Still confuses my why you need to max out once a week in order to reach your goal of 300lbs.

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Depends on the program of course, but if hypertrophy is your aim, cables can be a way of putting some extra extra work on a muscle group since they isolate more and take less stabilizer-muscle to assist in the lift.

JoRocka is correct about that. Testing your 1RM is really unnecessary every week - and I can't think of training methodology that would advocate that. Curious,red fisher -- why do you test your 1RM every week? Is it just the big three lifts, or just the bench?

Alternately you could use those dumbbells as a pre-exhaust before going barbell - but you'd have to go lighter on the bench, then move to cables to extended work you put on your chest.

Yeah me too. Wasted some really good years of my life on my butt.

Thank you for making seem less crazy with the 135 thing. Nice job!

diy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dy5eyMDt3c

I hate living in a second floor condo.

That's awesomely interesting! After reading some of that, I feel like I should apologize to my body.

Hey thanks for that! Yeah, if I can get to 15 I will punch the clock and call it day. 20 would be rad, but... probably not realistic.

Yeah I hear you there. After 100 reps, I am not sure if I haven't been shot.

Really? If I can complete my sets of such and such a weight in strict form then I go up 5-10 and carry on without testing - if I am doing a linear program.

My medical "knowledge" is tapped. :dizzy_face:

Oh in that case, I recommend upping the vodka.

Good advice! Rest-pause for the wins!

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lol. The new Aaron Rodgers ones were funny for the first quarter-half dozen times I saw it.

Awesome! I bet that's where I will end up. Yeah, I am definitely not going to reach 20-25.

No water? *** mind blown **

Eat a banana before you head in - they are great sources of potassium. Save the pricey sports drink for a hang over. :wink: