Blast your bench

[Deciever]

i still remember the first day i benched ::thinks back:: i got 10 reps with 75, and 1 with 95 when i was 95lbs... i could never get 135.. then when i finally got it, it went up easy (i got it at 108lbs). once i got 185, i was happy as hell... and now, here comes 200.. im hoping to have it within 2 weeks.. im going to sart getting used to the heavier weights, just be unracking a heavy weight and holding it to get used to heavy weights

 

[Lumberg]

Deceiver:

That's a good idea. The other way champion bench pressers have accustomed their muscles to heavier weights is by using lockouts. You put a portable bench (the kind over by the dumbells) in a squat rack and adjust the side bars to hold the bar at about half to 3/4 or your full extension on the bench. Then you lie under there with like 205 and just bang out reps of the top part of the movement.

 

[ZZuluZ]

Wow. I feel so feeble. At 140 pounds, and at 15 I only benched 90 pounds or so. I never realized how bad this is.

I guess we all can't be blessed with good genetics like Jay.

-Zulu

 

[Cubanito17]

I remember the first time I benched it was at 13 i was messing around and I went ahead and thought the bar weighed nothing so i put on 25lbs on each side thinking it would only be 50lbs well i brought it down to my chest and......it stayed there i couldn't get it off in fact i ended up leaning on the bench to slide the weights off one side so automatically it would slide off the other and even the bar was hard for me to push up after that. I was a weak fuck at 13 comparted to 4 years later, when I can do 95lbs now with one hand about 3 times with shitty form. Just hold it in the middle and pause at the bottom. I did this just fuckin around pissing some kid off 2 months ago. he was doing it for 2(he's 14) got up and felt all hard and shit so i did it 3 times with one hand, just to fuck with him

 

[Deciever]

well today i did a chest workout (nothing great, and threw in some sldl (got up to 225x4, not too much of a problem)... and then went over to the powerrack to work on lockouts ..

i would just load up the weight, and unrack it and hold it for 10 seconds...

i warmed up with 135 for 10 seonds, then did 225for 10 seonds 245 for 10 seonds 275 for 10 seonds and finally 300 for 6 seconds. i was pretty happy, i plan on doing them again next week and going up to 315-330. hopefully this will make 200 feel light when i go for it..

ZZuluZ, we all have to start somwhere, i started benching 85lbs, but we all make progress..you'll catch up with everyone

 

[ZZuluZ]

Wow, that's quite a bit of supramaximal-- 150% of your max in fact, or more. Interesting. Very interesting.

" just to fuck with him"

Dude, how would you feel if a powerlifter walked up to you and started doing dumbell presses with your max just to make fun of you? Lift for yourself man. No flame bro.

Cheers,

-Zulu

 

[Deciever]

when i first started and i was benching 95, there was this one guy in m y gym who would do dumbell presses with 100's.. i felt weak as shit! how long have you been lifting for anyway zulu? its good to see more young people lifting

 

[Cubanito17]

ZZuluZ once again I guess u didn't see the first part where I put "he felt all hard and shit" meaning that he thought after doing that, that he was a hard ass. So I wanted to fuck with him. Hey if I'm in a gym and I'm maxing out lets say and I get up acting all big from the bench lookin round to see who saw me max out and screaming the whole time and some guy comes over and reps out my max for like 20 i'll see i deserved it.

 

[ZZuluZ]

Deciever, I've been lifting for almost exactly a year. I trained BB for like 5 months and made good progress (beginner gains). Then I got into WS. However I did it completely wrong. I never rotated, and did assistance with low reps.....ended up in major overtraining. My bench actually went backwards for a couple months which was really frustrating. I'm currently re-building a foundation with BB routines (strength based, like say Max-OT modified) and I'll be doing WS next year sometime.

Cubanito, ok thanks for clarifying. I did indeed misread your initial post. My bad again man...I know it seems like I've got something with you man, I don't at all. This just struck me personally because when I started lifting there were people who enjoyed humiliating me....I guess I took this personally.

CHeers,

-Zulu

 

[Cubanito17]

Hey it's cool bro just how can i make fun of you when i've never lifted with you...i didn't know until now how long you've trained. So i can't rank on a person for that. And since I'm from Miami and I'm cuban-italian I guess not many people understand my slang sometime so I'ma have to cut down on it. And just talk plain english that's gonna be hard for me but whatever.