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Thursday, October 25, 2012

5/3/1 cycle 3 week 3: bench + OLY

Found my 1rm in bench today since my 265 at the competition was paused.

245 x 1
265 x 1
275 x 1
285 -> failed

Pretty happy with the result.  Almost at a 1.5 bw bench!

Then:
bench 135 5x10
chins 5x10

Starting next week, I'll be focusing primarily on olympic weightlifting.  The coach I mentioned (heretofore known as Bram) is trying to basically start an oly team.  My coworker (heretofore known as Jeff) and I will be the first members.  Our plan is to do 3 times a week of oly training with Bram, and 1-2 sessions of strength training on my own since the amount of weight i will be handling at first won't affect my recovery really.

I'm super excited about this; we have a target oly meet in March.  Hopefully I'll have some reasonable numbers by then!  By the way I'm also gonna do a powerlifting meet in february, in Selma AL (mostly because my friend from high school is going to compete, and it gives me a reason to chill at home for a bit.  This guy squats and deadlifts 600, and benches 360ish?  at 210).

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