Day One, Week Three: Bench Press Bummer

Back to day one for the third week, and I'm left a bit discouraged. If you look at my numbers for the bench press below, you'll see that it appears I actually weakened a bit, arguably, since last week. Perhaps I've overtrained; perhaps I haven't eaten enough; who knows?

I've been improving consistently for like 5 months, so I was bound to hit a wall. Next week Mark's giving me a new workout, hopefully the break from benches will get me back to making improvements when I start doing them again.

Here are the numbers for today:

Heavy Bench Day
Exercise	4/9 2010	4/16 2010	4/23 2010	Week Four
Bench	135x5	135x5	135x10
	185x5	185x5	185x5
	225x5	225x5	225x5
	275x5	280x5	285x5
	290x5	295x5	300x5
	300x5	305x5	310x5
	305x5	310x5	315x3
	310x5	315x4	315x3
Dumbbell Bench Press w/Rotation	60x12	80x12	85x12
	70x12	85x12	90x11
	80x12	90x10	90x10
Pushups	12	15	15
	10	13	12
	12	12	12
Triceps Pressdown		175x12 (Y)	175x12 (Y)
		185x10 (Y)	185x11 (Y)
		185x8 (Y)	190x9 (Y)
Reverse Grip Bench Press	135x10
	135x12
	140x10

(Y) Machines at the YMCA