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Chambewy20
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Well haven't shared anything about myself around here and usually hang out on the powerelifting board but since it's a ghost town, I'll post it here.
So my training partner decided he wanted to see what kinda weight he could hit in a new shirt, my little buddy never showed so no board holder today, so I decided to go along with it and it went sorta like this...
135 x a couple of sets for ? reps
225 x 1 set of 5 or so, shoulders felt beat up a little, was trying to use my version of a Metal Militia set up, realized the bench was too low or the bar was too high, kept spreading my shoulder blades so put quarters underneath all 4 legs of the bench. Yes I train in a commercial gym with crappy benches and crappy squat racks so I bench out of the rack, it's the only way someone could drag the weight off of me if i got tattooed.
315 x 3 Put shirt on here, no belt or wraps, first didn't touch, let the shirt ride all the way to my chin and was able to touch on 2 and 3, basicly just dropped the weight fast and went almost to my belt... but it touched.
365 x 2 Put belt and wraps on here, did not pull shirt down much, no touch on 1, took it almost down to my belt again and dropped my wrists back and threw shoulders forward to touch on 2
405 x 1 No touch, weight didn't feel bad but partner seemed a little nervous and I wasn't going to try to take it way down on gut. My partner is a 165 lber and he's a bench only competitor, I don't know if he can deadlift 405 and wasn't going to find out.
455 x 1 Set up was pretty good, felt tight with a decent arch, I usually count to two, take a big belly of air and nod.... well dude could not lift it out of the rack so I basicly unracked the weight myself. Felt pretty good, shirt was jacked tight, started the descent, all was good until about two inches away and felt it wanting to stick, took it down a little further than usual and went faster than I wanted then the friggin threads in the sleeve seams started to crackle. I just blew out an old inzer shirt about a month ago and knew this cat could not pull this weight off of me. Nonetheless, I've pretty much been through all the bad things that can happen while benching so I didn't get rattled. The weight came out of the hole pretty good and started to stick about 3/4's through the stroke, my dude just yelled and stayed away from the bar, as long as it's not going down, it's all good.
The outcome was 50 lb. gym PR, I've never benched more than twice my body weight and it's halfway to 500. I've only been benching heavy for about a month and a half consistently. I used a single ply Metal x-type bencher, good shirt but I would not suggest it for a first time shirt or for someone who's afraid to do what they have to do to touch. In the end, I popped blood vessels in my eyes, all over my face, shoulders and ended up with a ton of bruises all over but it felt so fucking good.
My shoulders felt better then when doing partial ranges of motion and my face had the puffy swolen look, it's all good. Body weight was 218 that day and I've been glowing ever since... In the immortal drunken words of one of my best friends..."it feels good to feel good."
So my training partner decided he wanted to see what kinda weight he could hit in a new shirt, my little buddy never showed so no board holder today, so I decided to go along with it and it went sorta like this...
135 x a couple of sets for ? reps
225 x 1 set of 5 or so, shoulders felt beat up a little, was trying to use my version of a Metal Militia set up, realized the bench was too low or the bar was too high, kept spreading my shoulder blades so put quarters underneath all 4 legs of the bench. Yes I train in a commercial gym with crappy benches and crappy squat racks so I bench out of the rack, it's the only way someone could drag the weight off of me if i got tattooed.
315 x 3 Put shirt on here, no belt or wraps, first didn't touch, let the shirt ride all the way to my chin and was able to touch on 2 and 3, basicly just dropped the weight fast and went almost to my belt... but it touched.
365 x 2 Put belt and wraps on here, did not pull shirt down much, no touch on 1, took it almost down to my belt again and dropped my wrists back and threw shoulders forward to touch on 2
405 x 1 No touch, weight didn't feel bad but partner seemed a little nervous and I wasn't going to try to take it way down on gut. My partner is a 165 lber and he's a bench only competitor, I don't know if he can deadlift 405 and wasn't going to find out.
455 x 1 Set up was pretty good, felt tight with a decent arch, I usually count to two, take a big belly of air and nod.... well dude could not lift it out of the rack so I basicly unracked the weight myself. Felt pretty good, shirt was jacked tight, started the descent, all was good until about two inches away and felt it wanting to stick, took it down a little further than usual and went faster than I wanted then the friggin threads in the sleeve seams started to crackle. I just blew out an old inzer shirt about a month ago and knew this cat could not pull this weight off of me. Nonetheless, I've pretty much been through all the bad things that can happen while benching so I didn't get rattled. The weight came out of the hole pretty good and started to stick about 3/4's through the stroke, my dude just yelled and stayed away from the bar, as long as it's not going down, it's all good.
The outcome was 50 lb. gym PR, I've never benched more than twice my body weight and it's halfway to 500. I've only been benching heavy for about a month and a half consistently. I used a single ply Metal x-type bencher, good shirt but I would not suggest it for a first time shirt or for someone who's afraid to do what they have to do to touch. In the end, I popped blood vessels in my eyes, all over my face, shoulders and ended up with a ton of bruises all over but it felt so fucking good.
My shoulders felt better then when doing partial ranges of motion and my face had the puffy swolen look, it's all good. Body weight was 218 that day and I've been glowing ever since... In the immortal drunken words of one of my best friends..."it feels good to feel good."
