king crusher Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 I consider my set up to be nearly perfect on bench and I have it down to a point. Every single is set up exactly the same like a mirror image. I wanted to see if I could get 10 singles with 315 perfect form. I did it and am very happy about it. I rested about 2min each attempt. I actually could have kept going. Next week I am going to go for five sets of 315x2. See how that compares. Anyone ever do lots of singles like this? I feel its a good compliment to going for a max or something each week and burning out. Quote
Buccos1 Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Nice! I've done similar with deadlifts ... Not speed pulls but something along the same lines. When my max was around 465, I was doing singles at 440 -- 6-8 sets. Did this for a few weeks and came back soon after and hit 2 PRs. 1 Quote 2023 Goals Huge Golden Bastard - DU Big Bastard - DU Bodyweight Press (semi-strict) 2.75 x Bodyweight Deadlift 1.75 x Bodyweight Bench Press 1.85 x Bodyweight Bench Press Close my easy #3 again MMO cert. 5'9" 180bs. 7.35" hands nearly 40 years of consistent, hard and heavy training YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/CarlDonatiJr
king crusher Posted January 8, 2015 Author Posted January 8, 2015 Deads is actually where I got the idea. The best I've done on deads was 515x1x10. My 1 rep max then was 565. So pretty high % of max for 10 singles. I'd put my bench max at about 340ish right now. But I haven't tried a max in some time. Quote
Shoggoth Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 I did it for a while and progressed well. The programming I followed was Ditillo's heavy routine and as soon as I'd hit ten good singles I'd add 5# the next week. Minimum would be 3-4 reps. There was a couple 5 rep sets at 75% prior and 1-2 rep outs at 65% after the singles. Quote Jason Steeves"Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell us the secrets of life, because we're not ready. But maybe they'll change their tune after a little torture"My YouTube: My linkMy Blog: My link
EJ Livesey Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 I actually did something similar to this today. 305 3-5 seconds down 1 second up, 3x3. I'm a little sore. I've found the key is to change things up often so you can get one more rep or add a few lbs every week. Quote Junior steel bender in training The only limits are the ones YOU set. De-feat-ist (noun)Somebody who accepts failure as a matter of course 6'3" 258lbs of pure man
king crusher Posted January 8, 2015 Author Posted January 8, 2015 I actually did something similar to this today. 305 3-5 seconds down 1 second up, 3x3. I'm a little sore. I've found the key is to change things up often so you can get one more rep or add a few lbs every week.yeah slow negatives are awesome for shocking your system. At the end of most every bench session I'll usually do 225 than 135 with my feet in the air and pause on chest 1 solid second. I'll just rep as many as possible. But sometimes I'll do the slow neg and pause. Of course not getting as many reps Quote
JoshW Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 I would do doubles up to 120kg then do lots of sets of 130kg 1 rep. Worked very well! Quote Goals for 2016 Certify bastard DONE Bend bastard in BB wraps DONE Certify big bastard Certify Hexabastard Certify Shiny bastard
EJ Livesey Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 (edited) Yesterday I didn't hit chest hard, just wasnt feeling it. I focused on squats. So Friday I'll hit my chest hard. Probably do Dumbbells starting at 140 and working down to 70s. I'll have all weekend to recover. Edited January 8, 2015 by EJ Livesey Quote Junior steel bender in training The only limits are the ones YOU set. De-feat-ist (noun)Somebody who accepts failure as a matter of course 6'3" 258lbs of pure man
CANCRUSHER Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 On my heavy days i always do 10 x 3 on everything . Quote CoC 4 closed CoC 4 upside down closed GHP 9 closed
king crusher Posted January 8, 2015 Author Posted January 8, 2015 On my heavy days i always do 10 x 3 on everything .so is that ten sets of triples? I do like triples. Quote
CANCRUSHER Posted January 9, 2015 Posted January 9, 2015 On my heavy days i always do 10 x 3 on everything .so is that ten sets of triples? I do like triples. Yes i usually do a light day with 6x6 and an heavy day with 10x3 or 8x3. Quote CoC 4 closed CoC 4 upside down closed GHP 9 closed
Allan435 Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 (edited) I consider my set up to be nearly perfect on bench and I have it down to a point. Every single is set up exactly the same like a mirror image. I wanted to see if I could get 10 singles with 315 perfect form. I did it and am very happy about it. I rested about 2min each attempt. I actually could have kept going. Next week I am going to go for five sets of 315x2. See how that compares. Anyone ever do lots of singles like this? I feel its a good compliment to going for a max or something each week and burning out. I used to train bench using singles only. Even my warm ups were singles. I did some heavy benches in my day (all raw) and never got sore- due to singles. I would usually do some sort of % singles. For example: if my 100% max was 410, Id do the bar x1, 140x1, 230x1, 320x1, 370x1, then Id go back down in the same steps I came up. Some times I would also do a weight for reps- which were singles kind of like what you said above. Some times I'd put 320 on, (after warming up using singles) and do a rep, wait a couple minutes, do another, etc- until I felt my form begin to change due to fatigue, and I'd stop for that day. My best gains with bench were when I would do it once every 6-7 days. Edited February 27, 2015 by Allan435 1 Quote
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