5/19/06 - Thursday

Bench - warm-up barx10, 95x10, 135x8, 135x4, 185x5, 235x3, 265x3... what sucks is that with the new benches that we got, i can clear the pins when the weight isn't heavy. once it gets heavier and i need a lift off, it kind of pulls my shoulder blades apart, so i never get completely set again. i recently moved my grip out 2 fingers. i need to get another pad, or start pressing out of the power cage. 5 board press w/275x3, went to a 4 board press since i have short arms. 4 board 315x3, 365x3. everything felt good. no shoulder pain today like i had on monday.

DB incline - 2 setting - 70x4, 75x4, 75x4

for some reason we skipped close grip bench... today was completely off with the workout.

Shrugs on the Nautilus shrug-dead plate loaded machine - 1plate per sidex10, 2 per side x10, 3 per side x10, then we did the strips... 4 per side x10, 3 per side x10, 2 per side x10, 1 per side x11, on the 11th rep was a static hold at the top to failure.

we then went to the Nautilus seated dip/press.. i did one set here and it bothered my shoulder, so i left it at that. we got rid of our tri pd machine when we redid the gym last weekend and the new machines have too many pulleys to even feel anything. the weights feel way to light. i think that the weight being lifted is equal to like 1/4 of the weight that's on the stack. so that didn't feel good, and i went to the tri extension plate loaded machine. did a few sets there... 25x10, 35x10, and 45x10. that was it. we're still trying to find out how some of these new machines do... the plate loaded tri and the bicep are good, but we're going to have to get back to some basics with the tri's since the pushdowns are pretty much out and that sucks! like i said, i have no idea why we didn't do close grip bench. we'll get some overhead dumbell presses in for the tri's, more close grip and some others in upcoming workouts.

pre-workout i took NO-Xplode and Nitrix. i'm starting to see a difference with the Nitrix already. i woke up a little heavier today. just topped 165. it's been slowly going up during the week. post workout i took my Cellmass. tomorrow's a new day, i've got my heavy squat and dead day.