20th june 2020 session & one of the old garage gym dilemmas

20.06.2020

Really hot day. Last couple sessions were enjoyably hard. According to my current plans, I'm going for a lighter load on bench press today. Couldn't stop myself from going a bit further.

"Tiny bench" press

60 kgs *15

70*31

70*22

70*23 after a slightly longer break

70*17 narrow grip

 I put effort in keeping it stricter, I do have a bad tendency to not lock out. Every final rep of the set had to bridge (i.e. take my glutes off the plate), that's how I defined when it's time to stop. Really easy for everything except pecs. It makes sense, since I haven't benchpressed for a year (spring 2019-202) - back then I suspected that I snapped my right pec (only a tiny bit, it that makes sense, but it looked like my upper pec detached from a lower pec. It only looked like that though)

Thankfully, right now it's all functional.

Did some zercher half-squats 70kg *10 for fun, and some belt squats with 20 kg - to keep up the energy.

Why is it a "tiny bench"? Because it's literally that - a bench that I can only fit my upper body on. It gives me enough space to not touch the floor with my elbows. Arguably safer than a high bench - if it falls on my neck, it's going to be right on the floor. I simply didn't care about buying a bench, because I didn't train it. Back then, in 2014, I was more extreme about this stuff. All my training revolved around DLs and overhead presses. So, "tiny bench" it kinda like an incline bench too, because I place my butt on a 10 kg plate. It's definitely a cheaper option than a good powerlifting bench. 

Is it much worse? No, it isn't. Why would it be? I'm not training for very specific PL bench, I just need to get my pecs into a better shape. I'm rambling way too much again/ However, I do believe there's some value to it. I'm gonna write a post describing my "iron path" now.