Lift Ability Reduction? o.0

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Hey, I haven't been on for long being that my summer's been packed lately, but I've come back with a problem waiting to be fixed.Okay, so I've been lifting weights so far in a healthy fashion - a day with a day of break following - but lately, I've noticed a small drop in my ability to lift. I was going well until I noticed it was a bit hard to do the amount of lifts for a rep with that weight. So I dropped down three pounds or so. I think that was alright, until today, I had to drop another three, which, is still pretty hard for me. So am I not just getting enough sleep or something? I do get eight hours of sleep, and I do eat enough during the day - my eating habits haven't changed. This seems to be only the case when I'm working on the arms and chest; my leg and back days have no problem. But still, I'd like to know what the heck is going on with me.

It does - in fact, a lot. Thanks, I'll try switching up first. If that fails, then I'll switch and reverse the routines. Once again, thanks! :]

It's always sad when you see that same guy come in week after week, load up the exact same weights, do the exact same reps, and walk away. He's not that big or lean, so I can't imagine he's content with his size.

I'd go up and offer him some advice, but I hate people who offer me advice in the gym, so I never return the favour, unless asked of course.

Okay, just to make extra-sure, what I'm going to do is1. Changing a type of exercise with another/Add more weights/Reverse my whole routine?

so, when you mean changing up, do you mean, for example, if I were to do bench presses and military presses on the same day and usually did the bench first, being that I favor it (but it was the one I had the problem with) if i began to do the military ones before the bench, would that work? Or would I have to change one of them with another type of exercise.

Try doing decline bench press, then some dumbell flyes, then some Arnold presses, then upright dumbell presses and finish up with some dips. Unless that is what you normally do. Just mix it up, new exercises, different orders, more weight/less reps or less weight/more reps. Think of anything and everything that you can do that will burn the muscles, but the body won't expect.

i like adding in what my old football coached called burnouts where u would pyramid up then immediatly drop 1/2 of your heavest and lift till you cant anymore then rest and drop 1/2 that weight and repeat. you dnt want to do it daily because it wont give your body time to rebuild it but if u want a really good change up every few times and a good work out do it.
ps just on a side note i hate doing burn out squats.

Okay, so today is the day I attempt the switching on my exercise. My original task would be to do two exercises with six reps three times.This time around, I'm going to switch their orders, and instead of doing six reps three times, i'm thinking of doing eight reps three times, being that it has been a month and a half already, but I'm just double checking here to see if I adjusted anything wrong before I actually did this. I've also added 7lb or so.And just to make sure I really didn't do anything wrong, what would be the appropriate weight range for a 13-15 year old?

Bench Pressing :T. Wow; I knew there'd be factors but I'd never guess this many.