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Re: Regina
Posted By: Jim Ray In Response To: Re: Regina (Regina Hackney)
Date: Wednesday, 15 August 2007, at 9:00 a.m.
I see 2, maybe 3 issues here:
1. One of your shoulders hurts. Stop with the raw FROM reps until it feels better. (patient: it hurts when I do that; Dr: well, stop doing that!)
2. Before my raw workouts, I pre-med with Ibuprofen and Ben-Gay (shoulders and tris). I have to watch the Ben-Gay on the tris on shirt days, because it makes the sleeves harder to slide up.
3. Since you always compete in the Rage-X, skip the raw work to the chest, because the shirt will do that for you. Instead, try to do board work (2-5), and/or rack lockouts. Tris, tris, tris.
4. If you're like most people, you do too many reps. (For competitors) the idea isn't to increase the number of times you can bench 135 from 5 to 10. It's can you get your 1 rep max (1RM) from 150 to 180. (This is my original quote:) "The only way to lift more, is to lift more." For heavy weight, (whatever that means to you) I don't do any more than 3 reps, ever. I'm constantly trying to push my Central Nervous System (CNS) to handle heavier and heavier weights. That's why I like the raw board work. The shirt should be saved for heavy singles and doubles.
5. Would you consider even a little bit tighter shirt?
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It would be very interesting to read some feedback from other benchers. In any case, just take the parts that seem right for you.
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