theshexmix
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Long Story with extra info so maybe someone can figure this out; In a Nutshell i want to know how the hell i went from Benching 225 for 8 reps so easily on Monday to barley being able to put it up at all on Friday. The story is as follows:
So my spotter was injured a little over a month back and a bunch of personal stuff crashed into me at the same time so I haven't really trained my chest at all in over a month. This Monday i was finally so fed up and impatient with how i looked and felt i decided i was gonna just bench w/o a spotter and i put on 225 and surprisingly got 8 reps with almost no effort for the first 2 sets (Just some extra info before i took my break i was repping around 245lbs for 8 reps, 4-5 sets fairly easily on a small dmz cycle, and I actually came off the cycle the day I stopped so that probably has nothing to do with what I'm about to say... just some extra information.)
Anyways, I finally found these spotter stands that i ordered online which allow me to deflate my chest and slide underneath the bar when i fail and as much as it sucks I still have full range of motion with the bar touching my chest.
So I spent all Thursday evening trying to set these spotter stands up to be able to Bench Friday worry free before work. It was a pain in the ass and took hours of lifting the bar and adjusting the height and position of the stand especially because one side of my basement floor where my Bench Press is made the stand about 3 inches higher so I got it to the best position i could right over my neck and I went to bed pissed off.
I wake up in the morning and work with what I'm dealt and because of the position the spotter stand were in i had to move my head all the way to the very end of the bench press so i didn't crush my neck and it was probably bad form but i didn't hurt myself and it wasn't very uncomfortable but i barley got 5 reps this time.
So i said okay maybe its because of bad form and i decided im gonna fix this now even if im late to work, so by miracle i got it to its sweet spot with another 15 mins or so of playing around with mats under them etc..
I went to do my second set feeling fully alert, not fatigued at all and only slightly sore from the 3 and a half sets i did on Monday, so i assumed all would be fine now...WRONG. AGAIN i only barley got 5 reps then i waited a full 5 minutes in between and only got 3 and a half sets.
My theories are either that i exhausted my muscles lifting the bar so much trying to set the spotting stand up and i also put 185 on Thursday night and i probably did about 10 reps of that as well (maybe a few more or less) But that doesn't seem likely to me at all. Or my bad form on the first set messed me up, but i wasn't injured sore or tired. Any theories/Tips would be extremely appreciated!
So my spotter was injured a little over a month back and a bunch of personal stuff crashed into me at the same time so I haven't really trained my chest at all in over a month. This Monday i was finally so fed up and impatient with how i looked and felt i decided i was gonna just bench w/o a spotter and i put on 225 and surprisingly got 8 reps with almost no effort for the first 2 sets (Just some extra info before i took my break i was repping around 245lbs for 8 reps, 4-5 sets fairly easily on a small dmz cycle, and I actually came off the cycle the day I stopped so that probably has nothing to do with what I'm about to say... just some extra information.)
Anyways, I finally found these spotter stands that i ordered online which allow me to deflate my chest and slide underneath the bar when i fail and as much as it sucks I still have full range of motion with the bar touching my chest.
So I spent all Thursday evening trying to set these spotter stands up to be able to Bench Friday worry free before work. It was a pain in the ass and took hours of lifting the bar and adjusting the height and position of the stand especially because one side of my basement floor where my Bench Press is made the stand about 3 inches higher so I got it to the best position i could right over my neck and I went to bed pissed off.
I wake up in the morning and work with what I'm dealt and because of the position the spotter stand were in i had to move my head all the way to the very end of the bench press so i didn't crush my neck and it was probably bad form but i didn't hurt myself and it wasn't very uncomfortable but i barley got 5 reps this time.
So i said okay maybe its because of bad form and i decided im gonna fix this now even if im late to work, so by miracle i got it to its sweet spot with another 15 mins or so of playing around with mats under them etc..
I went to do my second set feeling fully alert, not fatigued at all and only slightly sore from the 3 and a half sets i did on Monday, so i assumed all would be fine now...WRONG. AGAIN i only barley got 5 reps then i waited a full 5 minutes in between and only got 3 and a half sets.
My theories are either that i exhausted my muscles lifting the bar so much trying to set the spotting stand up and i also put 185 on Thursday night and i probably did about 10 reps of that as well (maybe a few more or less) But that doesn't seem likely to me at all. Or my bad form on the first set messed me up, but i wasn't injured sore or tired. Any theories/Tips would be extremely appreciated!