Monday = Weak Day

Atleast for the next few weeks it does!!!! Mondays is going to be a love/hate bittersweet relationship for a while. We are working on JM Presses to bring up my triceps strength & it was pretty hard. We also re-worked back raises, which I'm also weak at, but, it went better than when we first tried them.

Competition bench w/ 75 lbs. of Chains - 95 lbs., 105 lbs., 115 lbs., 110 (2 sets) all for 4.

Cambered Bar JM Presses - 65 lbs., 75 lbs., 85 lbs., 95 lbs., all for 6. I did these with a safety squat bar at the Seminar last weekend. I was very weak and Shane highly recommended me to start doing them. He said they could bring up my bench very quickly. But Brian doesn't have a safety squat bar. We tried them last week with a regular bar, but, it was too much thinking & I had a little bit of a rough time getting the concept. So, he came up with the idea of using the cambered bar!!!!!! Worked super well, in my opinion.

Shrugs - 95 lbs., 3 sets of 12. <3 My saving grace of this cycle! <3

Back Raises - 5 sets of 5. I hung off the end of a decline bench. The leverage was much better and I was able to get myself much higher because my legs were on a downward slant. They didn't seem as hard. And as of currently, I don't have any broken blood vessels in my face :) SO! I think we hit a jackpot. I'll know for certain in the morning.

<3 Stretching <3

Using chains twice a week is really gonna help me with stability. I swayed a lot to the right today. But, every time I felt it, I tried to squeeze myself tighter. So, it's gonna be good.

All this Monday stuff is gonna help me improve. You're only as strong as your weakest link. So, working on the weaknesses can only make me better.