Dynamic Effort Upper: Floor Press! [PR]

After sustaining multiple low back issues the past year, and coming off a terrible showing at the XPC Bench Bash, I'm now I can do what's best for my body. I've recently opened up a new training facility, THIRST, so I'm trying to balance life and training the best I can, with hopes that I can compete in some capacity by the end of 2018.

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A fresh new wave of speed benching, or floor pressing in this case. I've done these a couple times and have really liked them, so I thought I would run a good wave of them and see how I can progress on it. Plus with implementing some squatting and deadlifting back into my programming, I figure this would be a good way to give my low back some rest mid week before jumping back in to the weights each Friday. I managed to hit a really good top set of 10 on my close grip work, and had some left in the tank. Next week I'll get a little more aggressive on that jump and see what I can get. Pretty quick training session otherwise though.

Items Used in this Training Session

Warm Up Lateral Raises DB Overhead Press Rear Delt Raises DB Bench Press DB Flys DB Skull Crushers DB Rows DB Curls 15 each

A1) Speed Floor Press vs 2 Chains Per Side 130x10x3 *Varied grips*

B1) Close Grip Floor Press vs 2 Chains Per Side 180x10 - PR

C1) DB Bench Press 85's x 20, 16, 13

D1) Chaos Overhead Press 3x20

E1) Mace Ball Pressdowns 3x20 E2) Cable Curls 3x15-20 E3) Seated KB Power Cleans 3x15

F1) Leg Lift Blast Strap Plank 3x10 per leg