20240203 Day 664 Part-2 - Pressing & Triceps

20240203 Day 664 Part-2
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Pressing & Triceps
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After the daily upkeep of conditioning and toes to bar I got into a second iteration of pressing this week.
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Since it’s not the best idea to increase my pressing load or my per session pressing volume, I’ll increase the aggregate volume with higher frequency so I can “have my cake and eat it too.”
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If you can’t safely or sustainably train a thing harder, longer or heavier, train it more often 🤷🏿‍♂️
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With that in mind, I basically did a replay of Monday’s workout starting with incline dumbbells. Since they’re light, barely heavy enough for a training effect, the key here is to cultivate the negative stroke and get as big a stretch in the hole as possible.
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Next, for Louie’s, I hit these wide at the bottom the Smith Machine for a slight DECLINE angle on the sternal pec and to grip the thick bar. I do these APFT style fast, looking to do a repetition/second in sub-maximal sets of 20-ish to keep the concentric velocity of each rep high.
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Last, I did overhead extensions, close grip with a straight bar. The EZ-Curl bar is… “easier” on the tendon at the elbow but that’s precisely the tissues I want the strongest for pressing/punching power so I chose the straight bar deliberately and just reduced the load. Like the dumbbells, with the lower load the key is the eccentric and stretch.
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And that’s it. Time to enjoy the weekend!
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