Had a rushed visit to the Y today to work on mobility and a bit of strength work.
I should have done my full gamut of shoulder/thoracic mob work but short on time and wanting to do some strict press, I mostly worked my my hips and hams with a bit of work on my shoulders/thorax.
Then I did my presses. 5 sets of 3 at 85% 115#, I toyed with the idea of 120#, but my last "warm-up" set at 115# was clearly going to be my first working set.
I used 135# as my max, which I'm not even sure I could hit if I tried. I've lost quite a bit since my year of strength ended 20 months ago.
Once I get my mobility worked out I'll have to find a balanced program to keep everything progressing, if more slowly, but not moving backwards.
So set 3 was rough, like, I-don't-if-I'll-get-through-set-4 rough. But I attacked it, really braced my core and it was easier than any of the previous sets.
Same for set 5. Pretty happy. I didn't think I'd make set 5 let alone get through it.
Yay.
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