@dawn16 ha! well, i'm not benching that much anyway (my 1RM is about 125 right now, at about 140 BW, and I went from 5 reps of 115 to 5 reps of 105), and I worked around the injury I had (broken ribs) by doing other upper body stuff -- mainly, a METRIC SHITLOAD of chinups, pullups, and rows. i...