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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

benching tuesday

Bench day

As you will see I am going to be treating my gym time more as assistance work for a while get the work done still sure try and get stronger but just go in with the mind set of take what is there get in get out, and put weight back on

Flat bench
Worked to an easy
355 x 1
Stopped there due to shoulder and elbow soreness from the weekend of throwing

Eccentric
420 x 1 x 3 sets

DB pressing 100 x 15, 90 x 11, 80 x 9, 75 x 11, 50 x 15

Triceps work varied

That’s it
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7 comments:

  1. Amy PhillipsJuly 20, 2010 at 3:25 PM

    "That's it," he says. As if that wasn't major work! Good job.

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  2. Phil StevensJuly 20, 2010 at 3:35 PM

    LOL thanks Amy. It wasnt much now that i am trying to learn to change my focus to Highland games from a powerlifting and strongman background where the gym was my sport. Old habits die hard. Im going to have to come in hit it hard and fast and get out and make more time for throwing heavy things in a kilt :)

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  3. Harry HayfieldJuly 20, 2010 at 4:15 PM

    Slightly offtopic (for which I hope you will forgive me for) but I thought that you might like to know that Slyvester McCoy (who is known for his role as Doctor Who from 1987 to 1996) has been made a Highland chieftain for the Scottish Highland Games season in his native Scotland

    http://lifetheuniverseandcombom.blogspot.com/2010/07/doctor-whos-sylvester-mccoy-named-games.html

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  4. Amy PhillipsJuly 21, 2010 at 8:41 AM

    Good luck with the kilt. Personally, I'm transitioning from benching at low-key competitions wearing whatever I want to the pause-at-the-chest and wear-a-singlet kind. So we're both dealing with fashion issues here...

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  5. Phil StevensJuly 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM

    Thanks for the info Harry.

    Amy LOL I don't mind the Kilt at all it's mainly the transition from a linear gym based sport to a sport that's all about rotational power mainly cutting the gym time way down as Im strong enough and having the maturity to be humbled and working on technique

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  6. Amy PhillipsJuly 24, 2010 at 10:43 AM

    Gotcha--and I think I saw on my Staley update e-mail that you just had some success! So congrats on that. I'm thinking of transitioning from benching into boxing, so same thing: strength is one thing, but now technique and power come into play.

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  7. Phil StevensJuly 25, 2010 at 6:53 AM

    For sure its a hard but fun transition to a new sport. Boxing is a great time I did a bit.

    I did OK better than expected with the minimal practice. Now to to put my nose to the grind stone and get to work :)

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