Sunday, August 3, 2008

Shoulders

SP: 5 x 5 x 120

hspu: 9, 4, 3, hold

ring dips: 20, 18, 12

SU: 3 x 250

ab twist: 100 x 20

It's my easy day, so I worked on my shoulder press. Keeping the weight relatively low (compared to my max) and using the fractional philosophy of slow incremental increases to help bust through the ceiling of stalled gains. I hit 195# once, back on 20 Oct 07 and haven't been able to match it since. I've hit 185# several times since then, but that extra 10# seems to keep eluding me. So I decided to follow a slow linear progression, starting well under my max and making small increases. Prolly won't see a PR for several months, but since (a) I haven't been able to reproduce my PR for almost a year and (b) I'm already well above the advanced level for that particular lift, I figure the slow, steady road to an elite weight for the shoulder press just requires a little patience.

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