Shoulder Presses, 7×3 and Out the Door

Posted on Aug 23, 2007 - 10:47pm by MarkFu in Training Log

This session was hours later than usual and with less time available so I made the best of it with this lift.

All my warm-ups were with empty bar and up to 95#. After that, my sets of 3 were spaced at 90 seconds apart.

125/135/145/155/170×2/160×3/145/

Bing, bang, boom, done and I’m outta here. If I got 170×3, it would be a 3RM but I came up short.

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