Nowadays mothafuckas lie

Switched our max effort upper body exercise from bench to military press for a few weeks. I was pretty excited all day about this, cause I feel like my bench has stalled a bit, and I really like overhead pressing.

Military Press

45x8

85x5

105x5

125x3

145x3

150x1

125x8 --for this set, I put 125 on the bar, turned to Sean, and said "give me a number." He said 6, so I nailed 8.

(assisted) Chins - 2 sets of max reps

orange band x 12

orange band x 12

These two sets are for hypertrophy purposes, so I did them all assisted in order to hit higher reps.

Superset: Inverted Rows & Face Pulls

BW x 13, 35 x 15

BW x 10, 45 x 10

BW x 10, 45 x 10

BW x 12, 45 x 12

About halfway through that superset, my neck started to hurt and feel really tight. Not being a bitch, I pushed through it. This only caused it to hurt worse and worse. We were supposed to hit shrugs next, but doing these, even with light weight, sent a shooting pain up my mid back, trap, and into my neck. I ended up skipping these, as well as the curls that came after that. I figured that I got my "bang for the buck" exercises in, and it wasn't worth it to hurt myself more. I did a little googling, and Ascendant seems to have explained my problem exactly. I hope he wasn't banned for giving bad advice, because I took it, and iced my neck and popped some prescription Aleve. It still hurts, and I can barely turn my neck, but hopefully it'll go away in a couple days. I cut my warmups short today, because I was running late, so it could have been due to that. I don't know exactly.

Anyway, I sat around while Sean did some shrugs, and then, since I got my Gymboss today, I had to try it out. We did a tabata finisher. I stole the bodyweight one from this article, except that I'm too awkward to figure out how to do the "speed skips" correctly, so I just did more squats. Sean didn't want to do this, so he hit a log with a sledgehammer instead. I really liked the gymboss. It was super easy to set it up for 8 rounds of 20 secs work: 10 secs rest, and it really kept us on task. The beep was loud enough to hear clearly. I would definitely recommend getting one if you are doing any sort of timed intervals, because it makes the ordeal infinitely easier and more precise.

Music: Bun B - Keep it 100. We listen to a lot of UGK when we lift.