Monday Bench Workout

The good news? I didn't have to drive anywhere in todays ice storm...and the dog loves playing in the snow.

The bad news? I'm a little sore from the 8 hours of filming we did on the weekend.

But the show must go on...so here's todays workout:

1) Snatch (3x2)

2a) bench press (5x5)
- something was tight (pec minor, I thibk) from the weekend photoshoot, so I stopped after my last warmup set of 225
- I will either try to bench again on wednesday or wait till next week

2b) db split squat (3x8) - did all of these

3a) powerblock incline press (3xMax) - skipped these as well

3b) powerblock elbows out row (5xMax)
- added two sets here

Jason ferruggia has a great post aboot overtraining on his blog: http://www.jasonferruggia.blogspot.com/

Read it. I've used his advice to help plan my workouts.

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I've also bought into two ideas given by Strength Coach Mike Boyle:

A) most people shouldn't have shrugs in their workout - if you sit at a desk or drive a lot, you probably have oiverworked traps...so you need other exercises for the low and mid-traps

B) for athletes, there's no reason to go over 8 reps.

And you might know by now that for mainb strength exercises, even for fat loss, I agree.

I think a lot of people will get more benfit with the lower rep range - using perfect forkm and an appropriate weight of course.

Do what you can,

CB