Thought I'd touch base. I wasn't able to get any footage this week for my vertical testing. I should be able to get some next week, so hopefully the gains will be noticable after 2 weeks.
I set a PR on my squat today (PR Squat 280x5). I was happy about that. If my squat keeps improving, then I feel like the week was worth it. I didn't get a whole lot of plyos in this week due to a weird workout schedule, and I do the plyos in the group class room at my gym, so if I don't go at the right time, they have a yoga class in there or something. Since I wasn't able to do plyos I did some explosive lifting, hang cleans, box squats, jump squats, and jumping bulgarian split squats (this exercise has the best name, lol).
This coming week, I really hope to get a 2 hand rim grab on video.
As far as upper body is concerned, my shoulder had really been giving problems the last couple of weeks so I did a little research and have come to the conclusion that I have some rotator cuff issues, I think it has to do with having a strength imbalance between my flat bench and my back and shoulder lifts. So I took some advice this week and cut out flat bench, substituting it with incline bench and did my shoulders with dumbells to take some stress off, and also did some rotator cuff isolation work. My shoulder felt really good afterwards so I'm going to try this for a few weeks and then go back to barbell military press.
I'm still waiting for the dunk video; you really aren't that far away from putting one down. I hope your shoulder feels better.
ReplyDeleteIt feels a little further away than that but I hope to make some fast progress and hopefully I will get that dunk vid.
Deletemy right shoulder has been bugging me as well ever since starting bench press about 2 months ago. maybe i will move to incline too.
ReplyDeleteI read this article. It gave me some good ideas. This guy also created the strength workout I used to do. http://www.ironmanmagazine.com/index.cfm?page=article&pID=918
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