30 Dec Driggers, Benching 12-29-2014. I hit the wall!

Last week I apologized for doubling up on the post. Since I didn’t learn my lesson I will just not apologize this time.

In my previous post I spoke about the herniated disc at C6-C7 that has been giving me a problem over the last few months. I though I found an answer with the cambered bar, but that wasn’t the case. I came in the gym last night with my left side feeling sore and tight. The cambered bar spared me a headache, but left me feeling like I was a day out of training chest before I even started benching.

This is how it went:

Benching with feet up:

315 x 5 for 3 sets

Not bad considering how I felt. This was my second set. The first set was horrible, but I didn’t film it.

I moved to some medium grip singles:

Have you ever heard the expression “Hitting the wall”? No, not your girlfriend talking about her ex. This is a gym expression. Well, that”s what happened in the next video. I hardly have words for how fast this went down hill.

I’ll just let the video speak for itself.

I moved on to some incline DB presses:

70 x 12 for 3 sets

Tate Presses:

40 x 12 for 3 sets

Press-downs:

80 x 10 for 3 sets

My left tricep was refusing to fire at this point.

I think I need to bring the rocker back in