This is a snippet of a weekly review I did for our athlete Scott. He’s added 45 lbs to his bench with the team and is now competing at Bench Worlds in Iceland with us next month! The main take home message here is the value of going off verbal commands, versus anticipating your own. Big difference, and a small thing you can add into training to make you a better prepared athlete on the platform
Now I will keep one week off because im goin to trip to crete with wife. Then I will drop the weights and check the premium side of this. Last comp 10 weeks ago I benched 10 kilos less than this. So this has been my best cycle in a loong time. Havin lots of problems with keepin position earlier.
Okay Big Benchas, what does everyone see?? I am beyond frustrated, I went from being able to get 12 reps at 135, to not even 3. I took a 3-4 month hiatus from benching with my legs down, because it had been causing pain in my knees. These are pain free now, but I feel like I am missing something. OR I have just lost strength 😭