Max Out day tomorrow

[largepkg]

Friday I'm going for my max bench. When I started this journey 4 months ago I was pressing a grand total of 160lbs. I'll be putting up 200+ if all goes well tomorrow. This is very important to me as I set this goal 4 months ago.

What intervals should I start at? eg. How much weight, how many reps before going for the max?

 

[BIG C]

Good luck with your max!

I went for 300 Monday and I did somehting like this.

2x 10 bar
2x 10 135
1x 5 185
1x 3 225
1x 1 275
1x 1 300
1x 1 315<miss>
1x 11 225 burn out

I'm not sure how it would break down for you, but it worked for me.

 

[trHawT]

Good luck, bro!

 

[Alaric]

Best of luck to ya!

 

[Erik]

I am trying to break 315 in the bench press. I have been stuck.
I am trying hard work paitence and not being to wrapped up about it. Really...what does it matter?
Enjoy, Live and love large and if you can...bench big!

 

[aztecwolf]

I wanna get back up to the 250 i did a couple years ago, bench press has never really been on of my stronger points, although i'm really not that strong in general, oh well

 

[JerseyDevil]

Friday I'm going for my max bench. When I started this journey 4 months ago I was pressing a grand total of 160lbs. I'll be putting up 200+ if all goes well tomorrow. This is very important to me as I set this goal 4 months ago.

What intervals should I start at? eg. How much weight, how many reps before going for the max?

I'd warm up with the bar first. Then go to about 60% of your projected max and do 5 reps. Then load 75% of your projected max and do 3 reps. Now go to a weight you KNOW you can do a triple (roughly 90% of 1 rep max), and do a single rep. After that, GO FOR IT!

Let's say your projected max is 205 (here is a good calculator - http://www.strengthdisk.com/OneRMCalc.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=105&KEY=&ATCLID=).

bar x 10
125 x 5
155 x 3
185 x 1
Try 205

 

[largepkg]

Thanks for your support guys.

Today I got up 215 lbs. I damn near shit myself. I know this isn't much weight for a lot you but my previous max was 185 lbs 3 weeks ago. Jersey I did almost as you said (not seeing your post).

15 x bar
10 x 115
6 x 155
3 x 185
1 x 205
1 x 215
1x 225 (just missed it)

I think I could get 225 up next time I was just a bit worn out. Also I only rested 1 minute between 215 and 225 because I felt so good putting up 215.
That I'm sure was a mistake, but hey we live and learn. 225 will go up by the end of the month then I will set a new goal.

Again thanks for everything! Without this board I would not have the motivation to do this on my own.

 

[JerseyDevil]

Congratulations on 215! It sounds like if you had omitted the 215 set, you would of had 225 no problem. Next time I would go a bit lighter on your warm up sets. Something like:

bar x 10
135 x 5
170 x 3
205 x 1
new max at 225