Bench Press going UP

[Knoxville]

Well my bench is finally making strides. I'm all natural right now and have been making good gains on bench. The only thing that I'm really doing different than before is that I do burnouts on the cable crossovers after I'm done with bench. I'm doing heavier tricep pushdowns and more reps on the dip machine as well. I don't know what or how I got over my plateau, but I'm loving it. I did 315 last night and thought what the heck and repped it 4 times. I put 355 on there and almost freaking nailed it. I went down slow, touched my chest, and got it up about 8 inches and slowed down and stuck. If I hadn't repped 315 for 4 reps, I'm confident that I could have nailed 355. Man, if I was told 5 years ago that I'd be benching 350, I'd have thought there was no way in the world that enough drugs, training or eating could get me there. Hard work prevails though. 5 years, man seems like a while.

Knox

[BBAddict]

Congrats-breaking through plateaus is an awesome feeling! Sounds like its a combination of more chest and tricep strenght. I also finish with some sort of x-over or fly to burn through whatevers left in my chest. That isolation movement is great for hitting chest independent of shoulders, tris. Keep it up-who knows where you'll be after another 5yrs!

[Knoxville]

I have never had access to the cable crossovers until now. I started lifting in a small gym, it just had the basics. The only machines it had was a hip sled and a push down machine. All homemade. Last night after I had 355 on bench, I put 120 on the crossovers, did that for 8 reps, waited one minute, put 100 on there, did it to failure, waited 2 minutes, put 80 on there, did it to failure, then waited 3 minutes and put 60 on there and went to failure. After that, stick a fork in me, I was done. 3 sets of triceps and I'm petered out.