I started the day warming up on the stationary bike. About six or seven minutes to get some blood in the legs. I wish we had a rowing machine but we do not so this will do for now. I loaded the bar with some weight and progressed until I felt like my back and legs were good and warm up. I did 3X15 @ 85 kg's .
I injured my lower back a few months ago. A really unfortunate injury that has forced me to withdraw from the crossfit games european qualifiers as well as not letting me train in some of my favorite lifts, like the Power clean and heavy squats. Getting some advice from some friends I am trying to rehab my lower back by dead lifting. I will continue this until hopefully everything gets better.
After the dead lifts I set up a lift that i have not done in such a long time. Not sure why. I suppose I have completely given up Bench pressing heavy at all. But I felt like doing something a little different today. So incline bench press it was 5X3
I warmed up with a few sets of lighter weight moving up from there making sure the shoulders were good and ready for the heavy loads to come.
The weights were 80 kg,90 kg, 100 kg, 105 kg, and 110 kg. I really felt like I could have done another heavier set and probably should have but I was happy with this so I let it be. I honestly could not tell you the last time I did a heavy bench press lift of any kind so I was pretty happy with this total. I felt like 110 could have gone up for 5 , so I think I should have added more weight. Next time!
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