VG's Road To The Worlds

[VanillaGorilla]

I'll try to keep this up here. Good group of folk on this board and if I can help anyone, then it's all good. :headbange

I'll back track from my Jungle Journal a couple of weeks and do my best to keep up (I'm lazy every where but under the bar...lol)

:BP:

[VanillaGorilla]

May 18

Bench Press (the whole workout tonight was done raw)
135x6
185x5
225x4
275x3
315x2
365x1
405x1
445x1
495x1
405x5

[VanillaGorilla]

Monday May 22

+ worked up to 495 raw for 1

+ put the shirt on and got 585, about an inch from touching right where I want it...I didn't have enough left to go heavier tonight but in a week and a half or so from now I'll throw up 6plus again.

+ dropped down to 545x2

+ finished up with 495x2

[VanillaGorilla]

Monday May 29

1x10 135
1x5 185
1x3 225
1x3 275
1x3 315
1x3 365
1x3 405
1x3 455
1x2 495

Put on the Phenom here
1x2 545
1x1 585 (flew up easy to lock out, even a bit of a pause at the bottom)
1x0 605 (didn't even come close...got it about half way up and froze there).

[VanillaGorilla]

Monday, June 5

Shitty bench day...not too big of a deal, but I had to stop very early because my right pec was cramping through out the whole workout and got a bit worse as the weight increased. I intended on working to a 3RM, but had to stop at 315.

I know I haven't hurt the pec, so I think I'm just a bit dehydrated. I don't drink nearly as much water as I should so I'm pretty sure that was the problem tonight.
I'll be sucking down water and gatorade over the next few days and see how the light day on Thursday feels. I'm sure it'll be fine, but we're getting close to the meet so it hopefully won't linger long.

It's always something for my old ass...lol.

[VanillaGorilla]

Thursday June 8

Great bench day.

1x10 135
1x8 225
1x5 315
1x3 405
1x1 455
1x1 495
1x2 535
1x3 510
1x5 495

All raw, but no pauses.

[Matt76]

god damn ur strong

[skarhead]

nice benching bro!!!!

do you do ne assistance work or anyhthing?

[Stout1]

do you just bench? no other lifts?

[VanillaGorilla]

god damn ur strong

lol..Thanks Matt...you're not too shabby either bro. :headbange

[VanillaGorilla]

nice benching bro!!!!

do you do ne assistance work or anyhthing?

Thank you.

And...

yes, of course. You have to...lol. I'm just keeping a bench journal, but I do have other training sessions, which are done at other times. On bench day, though, I pretty much just bench, unless I get a wild hair up my ass to do a little something extra, like some pec dec or flyes, but that's rare when I'm getting ready for a meet as I am now.
I do a lot of really heavy lat and tricep work on Tuesdays, the day after my heavier bench session for the week. I have a moderate weight squat/leg workout on Wednesday and biceps get hit on Fridays where I get lots of barbell and hammer curls in which I believe helps the biceps stablize the bar on the bench.

[VanillaGorilla]

do you just bench? no other lifts?

Do you mean for meets? If so, then yes. I had a complete bicep rupture a few years ago (man time flys) so I've been nervous about getting back to heavy deadlifts. This has given me an excuse to work exclusively at bench for comps....which I think has really paid off.

If you mean do I do other lifts in general? See my previous post in this thread. :headbange

[VanillaGorilla]

had to skip tonights workout...down with the sickness (in a bad way). blah.

[VanillaGorilla]

Felt strong today on the bench after being sick Monday

Raw Bench
1x10 135
1x6 225
1x5 315
1x3 405
1x2 445
1x1 495
1x2 525 first rep with a long pause, second down and up

w/Karins DD (didn't feel like wrestling into the Phenom tonight)
pause on the first rep of each set
1x3 505
1x5 495

[Matt76]

once again ur a strong mofo VG