Question about ME bench days

[Mike_Rojas]

Are you supposed to always use partials for ME bench day? I was thinking of mixing it up somewhat like this for instance:

week 1: 2 board press
week 2: close grip bench
week 3: floor press
week 4: incline bench
week 5: 3 board press
week 6: bench
week 7: floor press w/chains
week 8: wide grip bench

maybe alternate partial moves with fum ROM ones... Anything wrong with that?

 

[spatts]

As long as you're not maxing out....hell, try it and see if it works!

 

[Mike_Rojas]

As long as you're not maxing out....hell, try it and see if it works!

So maybe go for a 3 repetion max instead of 1?

 

[spatts]

Depends on the weight. If you're still going to go heavy, I'd go as low as 50-60% of max. You may handle it just fine though.

 

[Mike_Rojas]

Sorry, I'm confused

If I used 50-60% of maximum and maxed out, I would probably get 15 reps. I thought a Max Effort day was trying to go for a max single (or a max triple or max set of 5 for some moves). Are you telling me you wouldn't recommend maxing out on any full ROM moves on any ME days? Looking over the elitefts.com site, I haven't come across anything that said you should limit the ME day to partials.

I'm just trying to clarify what you're saying. Thanks

 

[Mike_Rojas]

bump

 

[Zander1983]

I think spatts has confused ME and DE days...

 

[Zander1983]

I should know better... spatts being confused?

 

[spatts]

No, I just have an idea of portion of my 1 rep max my various board presses are for 1 and 3 RMs. They'd be different than his, of course.