1/9/20
I ran into a dude that I hadn’t seen in 5 years, from way back at the old commercial gym, at pf today.
He’d muscled up in the interim, and was saying that he’d actually lost some gains having been into heavy lifting for a time.
He was talking about feeling limited by the 75s when doing chest.
I just wrote about this, cosmic coincidence, getting to share this in real life.
(A coworker had also randomly went to pf with an old buddy the day before as well.)
I shared with him one of the things I did to make pf more challenging…
“Have you ever done one arm presses?”
“No.”
“Okay then, try this. Take an adjustable bench, and a dumbbell, do the first set standing, the next set at the highest incline, then each set drop a notch with the last set flat. Repeat on the other side.”
“Sounds good, sounds like it will allow me to get more out of the 75s”
You could extend that even more going to floor press at the end.
I’ve enjoyed on flat bench taking a bell (usually the 50lb) and with one arm going many angles not on the raised bench plane, but on the horizon in relation to the shoulder.
The “gironda one arm dumbbell bench” is a blast, something I feel would’ve been useful when I was putting the shot back in high school.
There’s always a way to get more out of what’s available.
Persistence & Tenacity