I backed up from squats yesterday and benched.
Work sets at 88% of 1RM with nice competition pauses felt really good. I followed this with singles at 95% and paused a strong equal PB single. In fact the pause and quality of my max attempt was actually much better than the last time I hit this at Nationals last year. Thinking about it, it shows just what a shit year this has been for training, given 12 months later I am only just looking to set a new PB.
Regardless I am pretty pleased to equal the PB tonight. The 2 second pauses on every damn work set and 4 second pauses on floor presses has certainly developed strength at my traditional sticking points.
Clearly Nationals is going to be about minimising damage on the squat and then getting modest PB's on bench and deadlifts.
Not surprisingly I was pretty fatigued given squats yesterday. It's amazing how sore limit squats an make you as I was sore from my lats to my calves!
On a sobering note I saw the partial competitor list today and nice to see the favourites total is 200+ kilos more than me. Ahhh yes its great to be right in the mediocre middle of the gene pool.
Couple of days rest and recovery and then a double at 95% of my 1RM deadlift.
Stay Strong
Thomo
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