Thursday, October 20, 2011

If at first you don't succeed...rest?

There are times in the gym when the try and try again motto just doesn't work.  In the last post I talked about the desire to break 65 pound curls and how long it took me to break 125 on barbell bench press.

Monday I worked chest and back together.  I was supersetting barbell chest press with T-bar rows when I realized that I had just pressed 125 for 10 - without a spot.  So...I thought maybe I should go for 135 and see what happened.  I grabbed a spot a proceeded to press 135 for 7 without assistance and 1 with assistance, for a total of 8. 

When I stopped focusing on it and decided to rest for a while, I come back to it and it happens, seemingly without effort.  I could have gone up from 135, I am sure, but I didn't.  Go figure!

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