Progress in 2018 - so far

Pleased with the bench progress so far.  Squat and deadlift a little frustrated with the injury, but back on track now and largely focused on maintaining strength, adding to muscle.

Need to keep my natural PR junkie mind from pushing too far forwards with the desire.  While it seems ok from a fatigue point of view, the pain/injury aspect not so much.  From doing a little too much pushing for the last two weeks, I had a sore shoulder all weekend.  Seems to have come down from the peak pain, but need to keep it on track.  I don't really mind the a 2,5kg increase here and there, but 10-20 towards a PR attempt is not conductive.  Will see how this cycle goes for gains.  Wont have 10kg a block gain on 3RM, but happy to see how it builds for another 4-5 blocks.  Likely to be close to a big number.  Hopefully.

Also been tracking the training volume for bench.

Not particularly surprising that my volume has gone up from cycle one. But will be interesting to see how it moves over a series of blocks in the first half of this year.  Plan will be to continue for another 3/4 (basically May, June, July, and August) then back down.  Maybe see if I can go into a competition block for end of the year, and see if I can join a clublift somewhere.