I made a rare weekday trip to Elitefts. It's about an hour away so typically I try to head up on either Saturday or Sunday, but I had some spare time and it's been 5 or so weeks since I've been there so I decided to make the hour drive to train.

After catching up with Lily, JD, and Matt Smith for the first half hour or so I started warming up. I wanted to try the new American Grip Cambered Bar , which was awesome.

Bench with American Cambered Grip Bar (used as a board press, not cambered bar) Barx10 135x10 185x5 225x3 275x3 315x3 365x1 405x1

I really, really liked using this bar as a board press. I used the widest grip for every set.

After that I messed around with the Bamboo bar (because it was already out).

I used the bands to hook plates to it. 25 per side x10 25's and 10's per side x 10 2 25's per side x 10

Chest supported rows 4x10 heavy

100 band pull aparts.

Here is a video, sorry for Lily Starobin's camera angle on the first part, but at least you get to hear her great commentating on the second part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p95u-mygNDA

Bryan Doberdruk
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