Daily Archives: June 4, 2012

Jim vs. Shoulder Press, Weighted Bridges

Decided to do a strength day today, but wanted to keep my recent trend of pushing things. So I went with shoulder press, which I haven’t done since January. I used the off-kilter pyramid for loads, did sets of five reps, and while the weights looked light on paper, they didn’t feel light in practice.

70 x 5
90 x 5
110 x 5
100 x 5
80 x 5

Then I did some weighted bridges; like weighted hip thrusts, but from the floor instead of using a bench.

105 x 10
105 x 10
105 x 10

Not sure I dig the restricted range of motion on these. They still weren’t easy, but I felt like I was getting less out of them.