Ahhh yes. I had some biceps pain for a while after Smolov JR. it went away after sometime. Did some band work for arms. Change of bench grip may be good. I was benching wide, as I do now.
It seems with variability, the frequency must also vary. What’s good one week, may be too much too little the next. It all has to even out.
I myself have probably pushed hard for quite some time. I’ve done a lotttt of benching lately, probably the reason it lagged last session. From here on, my lifting will need to be very light. I meddled with rack heights, positioning on nearly all lifts to tidy things up. One day, a lower rack setting was perfect and me thinking this would always be my ideal setting, would find it incorrect the next session! Same with technique…which is why the variety would become a help and a hindrance.
Now my technique is ‘settling in’ and the next week, aside from one DL session which will only approach 90 % of my opener, will be performed. The rest will have to be light to allow compensation and the last week, frequency will drop to two days. This week is four, the week prior, 5-6-7.
This progress was a heart beat monitor wave, and not a steady climb as fatigue came and went. My only go now, is to make the strengtg ive built show up in max capacity on the meet day. I’m confident I can be ssuccessful, even if easy weights felt harder recently.