Tough day at work yesterday, fires to fight, meetings to grind through and after that I still had to drag my sorry ass into the gym. I arrive home spend time with my daughter and then the pre workout caffeine kicks in. The buzz starts and the weariness starts to dissipate.
Fast forward, I am in the car and Foo Fighters and booming through the speakers. Its funny after feeling shit early in this cycle I have hit PB's on this final week, first in the Deadlift then Military Press and now lining up for the bench.
Three sets...5/3/1 not too much to ask for a PB. I look around its quiet in the gym tonight, most of the Monday night crowd are absent, recovering from a competition on sunday. Between sets I pump out sets of 7 on the chin bar. Wendler advocates sets of chins between each set of bench and by now I have worked up to 9 sets. Interestingly as big Andy Bolton suggests these mini sets between work sets build lots of volume without eating into your primary sets.
Final set is here and despite no ACDC playing I grind out a nice 1 rep bench PB. This has been a tough cycle with wild variances between good and bad, but I showed up and my reward is 3 PB's in three weeks.
Damned de-load week and I am raring to go, bring on cycle 8!
Stay Strong
Thomo
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