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Originally Posted by el borracho
Attempted a PR on the bench yesterday morning... missed it by >< much (think I fatigued myself on some of the prior sets). Probably try again next Monday, even though I haven't been going ultra-heavy two weeks in a row. Going to do slightly less reps on the early sets and see if that makes the difference.
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My BP workout now is always the same:
8x50%, 5x75%, 3x90%, 1x100% (repeat until you can't do 1 rep). Usually I end up doing 5-7 sets or so of 1 rep max. You'll find the 1 rep max shoots up.
Saying that, I'm kind of plateau-ing at the moment so need to get over this hump, but my one rep max is 242lb (ish) and I am 175lb (ish) so I'm pretty strong for my size. Not sure how to improve from here. My best ever BP was 260lb, but I was a good bit heavier. Lost a lot of fat (and some muscle) since then.
For other chest exercises I do more reps and fewer sets and try to mix up different stuff but I like to go heavy on the bench....