Strength Benchmarks
Monday, September 14th, 2009Been doing CrossFit for over a year now and tonight we did some strength benchmarks to see how far we have come.
A bit disappointed that my deadlift PR did not go up since it had been increasing consistently.
I tied my PR at 385 and then benched a strong 260. That is down from my PR of 300 but CrossFit doesn’t focus on bench strength at all.
They feel it is irrelevant….so I felt good I had only lost 40 lbs of max strength since all my other strength areas have increased so much.
I feel very good about tonight…keeping in mind I only weigh 170#.
So my Deadlift is 2.25x my bodyweight and my bench is 1.5x my bodyweight.
I’m pleased with those numbers.
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