Bench press assistance day.
Incline Bench Press
10x20kg
3x10x35kg
Press
10x20kg
3x10x22.5kg
Pull Ups
10xBW
3x5x6.125kg
Fat Gripz Row
4x15x30kg
DB Curl/Standing Triceps Extension
8x12.5/5x12.5kg
2x8x12.5kg/20x5kg
We had a talk in the gym at the end of my session about the use of bands for training. Obviously, I like band pull aparts, and I think they definitely have their place, although our focus was more on the use of bands on the competition lifts. I think there's definitely a valid reason for various lifters to be using bands on their squats, bench press and deadlifts, but I know that right now they'd do me (personally) more harm than good, because I have enough trouble getting technique right without them, and I'm fairly confident that my technique would go awol if I were to incorporate them into my main lifts at this point in time (once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, a CAPO powerlifter got me to try out the bench press with bands on the bar, and my bar control went out the window, so I'm not just pulling this hypothesis out of a crevice of my being so seldom seen that even the denizens of the nine hells themselves wouldn't touch it with a 20' rusty halberd). As it stands, I don't think anyone in the gym uses bands on their main lifts, not even our 300kg deadlifter (we've "only" got 1 deadlift at 300kg up on the board as of yet, with most of the competitive powerlifters here being in the mid-200's). As an aside, I'm a long way off, but I hope to some day deadlift 300kg.
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