Next week's going to be sweet. We'll see how the pec holds up. DE Bench will be changed to RE Bench for the oncoming 3 weeks. 5 x 5 bench press is going to be pretty difficult to get back to. It'll most certainly bring down my OHP's to some small extent.

Gonna be interesting to see how well it'll help bring up my 1 RM for bench pressing. I found speed bench is VERY important for an increased bench so far! More so for using bands of course.

I think when I first started with Matt back 17 weeks ago, my flat bench was somewhere around 345 lbs since I had a pec tear AND was doing DC training, which has nothing to do with flat bench!

Now I'm currently at 395 x 1 on my own. Almost 405 lbs, with the 2 finger spot about halfway up. So tremendous progress incorperating speed bench and max efforts. Now we'll see if there's more to be gained with RE/DE bench days in three week cycles.

Obviously there will be since there will be an increase in upper body mass with the repetition method. Plus, this will give me a greater opportunity to work on my form....Specifically, the path of the bar moving from sitting on my lower chest to lockout in a "J" fashion. I've been neglecting that lately, so it'll definately help.

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