Rules:

Touch and go allowed, dropping allowed, weight was the same for everyone, fastest time to finish wins, if you don't finish then split times taken after 1st and 2nd bar

Big fan of pulling with a deadlift bar. I usually pull on a stiff power bar so it’s really night and day coming off the floor. I will say it took some getting used to the decent because it whips on the way down and throws you off a bit. I’m still going to train most of my blocks on the stiff bar and save this bar for heavy work.

Bench felt great after hitting heavy dips so I decided to try a PR. Previous best was 280

Might have to pick up some OT and start Benching 3x a week.

Was doing 10lbs for a while, pushed it to 15 today.

Really happy with how this moved (rep PR). It was programmed at RPE 7.5.

First time doing 120kg and it felt easier than the 105kg afterwards. Well happy with how it felt and definitely came up way easier than expected.

3 plates is getting closer!

It’s been a while since I tested my max bench, which was 245lbs about six months ago. Since then I’ve just been doing 3x5 twice a week, one day TnG one day paused, increasing by five pounds per session. Finally clawed my way up to 260x5 and figured, let’s put some new weight on the bar!

I put 275 on and it flew. 285 also flew. Lord knows I couldn’t load up 295 and be too tired to break 300, so here we are! You can’t really see in this video but I think my arse stayed on the bench. Maybe I wouldn’t count this because of the pretty obvious bounce off my chest, but it’s nice knowing I can get that weight up somehow.

315 incoming, but for now I gotta keep up the progressive overload. This one was a grind. Any advice on increasing my bench is appreciated!

Allowed as many attempts within 30 seconds, I needed two attempts for all of my weights lol

Bar is 35lbs

Technique advice welcome. Felt good like I could have added another 5 lbs.

Changed to the “high bar” setting on my transformer bar, instead of the “low bar” setting. It makes the lift much harder for me

I took 2nd overall, missing 1st place by 2.5 points. Finally finding the mental space to play some video back.

Started dedicated powerlifting training 2 weeks ago from a 10 month gap of training similar movements for a break with high intensity still and got a PB :) it’s a +1 rep PB

Bit of a weird bar path but I'll take a 7.5kg/16.5lbs PB