5/3/1 Close Grip Bench. 3+ Day.

Damnit

Today was okay. I wanted 10 reps for my final set at 260lbs (10 reps at 255 last cycle) and nearly had it, but my triceps died right at the end. It's always a weird progression on my bench reps, going from an easy rep to hitting failure on the next. It's pretty frustrating. I should have expected only 9 reps anyway since I got 12 at 245 last week (subtract 1 rep for every 5lbs added, giving me 260x9 for today). I'm also dumb since my last workout was OHP when usually squat or deadlift precedes bench. Still, 260x9 is a PR and the heavy singles work I did afterwards all felt very strong, much stronger than last cycle. Slow and steady progress on the bench, as usual. After my heavier singles I did 5 sets of 5 with the 110lb DB's for flatbench and supersetted them with 110lb DB rows also for 5 sets of 5.

Goals for today:

200x3
230x3
260x3+

Lifted:

200x3
230x3
260x9
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heavier singles after (again, these aren't to failure):

275x1
300x1
305x1
315x1
325x1 (PR)
315x1
315x1
315x1
315x1
315x1
315x1 (these were all really easy)
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3+ Day Progress on Bench:

• Cycle 1: 210 x 8

• Cycle 2: 215 x 7

• Cycle 3: 220 x 8

• Cycle 4: 225 x 10

• Cycle 5: 225 x 10* assisted on last rep 

• Cycle 6: 230 x 9
• Bench stalled, so just a few cycles of just hitting prescribed reps, and also Smolov.
• Cycle 1: 245x8
• Cycle 2: 250x8
• Cycle 3: 255x10
• Cycle 4: 260x9

Video of 260lb set below. Lost all tightness and blew it...: