The Session

Well, everything went smoothly. I hit a 315 close grip bench, which I was pleased with, having detrained more than trained the last 9 months.

My shoulders are holding up well, which a attribute to the extensive prehab I've been doing for them, including the bent over shrug work.

We had an v-bar lift off.

The v-bar is a 1" piece of cold rolled steel with a small square plate welded to the end.

I eventually hit 250 with my left hand, Blob hit 230. Since he's the grip meister of the group (along with the Man from R.I.D.L), he was somewhat taken aback at my talent for this lift. Riddle hit around 185, proving that giant hands and overall hand strength apparently don't carry over to the v-bar.

Many wise cracks were made over the kettlebells. For example, Bob demonstarted several "hip opener" moves, and "shoulder opener" move, with the poods.

Sometimes there was too much pood to go around.

Heh.