Thursday bench

Was planning on going up to an opener, but shut it down. Had a tough time getting comfortable, and right arm has been spasming lately to compensate for my lack of external rotation on my left side, I'm fixing this up every day, and just doing a lot of face pulls, and a few days of external rotations, and I'm sure I'm soon going to be holding a bar pain free whenever I want to squat.

went to 275x1

face pulls
100

Sat around and kind of coached after that, helped Ohri out quite a bit on ironing out his bench, hes been releasing a bit above his chest then bouncing it a bit, we just changed that to almost release, pause on chest, internally rotate the the elbows, while keeping forearms below the wrist, using lats off the chest and pushing the elbows out to lockout. Things are feeling good, so going to stick with it a bit. Gotta make sure my leg drive is better, wasn't feeling very good with that today. I think I should have done a full warm up, thinking about it, I didn't even have a sweat going... so probably not the best idea every. I've found the gym extermely cold lately, which is very annoying for me, as I prefer to stay very hot while I train, I find it a much lower chance of injury.

I really enjoy the times I just hang out and coach the guys when I don't have to lift. Only problem is, most of the guys don't really need me doing much with them to be honest, Dash takes care of himself, and has great technigue, but is always willing to spot at any time, as we are always willing to spot for him. Ohri has incredible technique, but we're just sort of working on total body tightness with Ohri, he's so explosive and fast with his squats, but a little hesitant with his pulls, and we're just going to raise his total volume on pulls, Ohri is so calm when he's lifting, he generally needs a meet to really get fired up for a deadlift, or me yelling at him. Cameron is an awesome powerlifter, he reminds me so much of of Paul it's retarded, I find their deadlifts very similar, and just general overall build. I think Cameron is trying out strongman this weekend, I think he could be very good at it. Megan we just make sure we always watch her on max attempts, just to get her used to people always staring... I find little things like that can make a big difference.

I've personally turned the entire gym into a jungle I have to be on top of. If someone is stronger than me, I just find a way for it to not count... so I'm generally pretty comfortable at meets, and find the people watching are enough for me to get psyched. Megan just sort of goes in, does her thing, an that's that. She doesn't need chit chat, but is always chatting with the other guys, but she'll max out, and if you were 3 feet away she wouldn't say a thing. It's that kind of work ethic I find freaky deaky... I applaud that shit, but if I'm maxing out, everybody better fucking watch. Lol. I've just told myself to enjoy it, as I sincerely hate it. That's the thing with Megan, she never gets nervous, she just gets annoyed and irritated, and that'll throw off her technique. I can guarantee, she'll be maxing out and laughing in between attempts at the meet coming up, I find that's when people compete at their best. I'm not worried for provincials, i'm mostly there just to turn in her attempts. Nationals, oh boy... I've handled at a ton of meets now, I don't really care that it's Nationals, but if I screw up a knee wrap there... yeesh.