Saturday, May 20th
Bench Press
80x5
100x3
110x2
120x1
130x1
140x1 +5 kg PR
120x3 x5
Chin-ups
x12 x6
Incline DB Flies
17.5x15 x3
TRX T's + Y's
x10+10 x3
RLDs
60/80/100 x10
A. DB Curls
17.5x20 x2
B. GHD Sit-ups
x20 x2
I wasn't feeling well today. I had in my mind to give 140 a try today but I didn't feel ready, I was stressed about it since yesterday and all the stress made me feel weak. I didn't think I would make it today, but I decided to give it a shot regardless, if only not to let stress get the best of me. It wasn't a good-looking rep, it was 6.5 seconds of a grind, but my butt stayed in contact with the bench and the bar got to lockout.
Bench pressing 140 kg was my "lifetime goal", since starting lifting 7 years ago. Since my teens I've had shoulder issues and, until very recently, never in my life was I able to bench pain-free. I've had countless impingement issues, rotator cuff tears, SLAP tears, AC joint injuries and chronic bicipital tendonitis on both shoulders across a span of close to two decades. I've had X-Rays, MRIs and injections done, seriously considered surgery, and I've done literally hundreds of physiotherapy sessions for my shoulders in my life. Specifically when it comes to bicipital tendonitis, which is the main pathology that flared up whenever I tried to bench heavy, I've had persistent pain for a good 15 years; for most of those years I couldn't even do push-ups pain-free. A couple of years ago I really thought I would never bench 140 because my shoulders would just never be able to structurally cope with that load. Well, it wasn't a good looking rep, but today I benched 140 and I had zero shoulder pain despite it being the longest bench grind I've ever done. I am happy with this.
Bodyweight this morning = 91.7 kg.