- Incline Bench: 185*10 195*9 200*9 - lactic acid
- Pullups: 40*5 40*5 40*4...still decimated from higher reps on incline
- Rope Pullups: 6
- Standing Press: 95*10 105*10 115*7 - lactic acid again.
- DB Rows: 120*10 120*10
- DB Flat: 100*7 100*4
45 minutes
So as I noted previously, I was going to do a cycle of 8-10 rep sets on virtually all movements. I figured it couldn't be that hard, even though I haven't gone over 4 or 5 reps on a set of a major exercise in 36 months. I threw 185 on the bar for incline benching, got to 7 reps and started to feel the lactic acid building up, and on the 8th & 9th it intensified. The burn by the 10th I thought was going to liquefy my pecs. It's going to take a couple weeks to get used to this....fortunately I'm bulking so the higher reps should help build muscle mass, and the extra work should chew up some calories metabolically. After the 3 sets of incline benching my delts/tris/chest were completely done pretty much. I tried the pullups with a lighter weight intending to do sets of 10, since I can do 3-4 with 80 lbs hanging off me. Yeah, wasn't happening. You can see things like the DB rows that I actually have been doing higher rep sets on recently were unaffected, but the exercises I made the change-over on were tough sledding. We'll see what happens next week. Can't wait for leg day tomorrow!
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