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Blast your bench

You poor guys. I see one problem right now. Your killing your selves! Ya gotta start somewhere. Ya at 15 , 16 i was benching ok for my size but let me tell you how it all begin.........

I was helping a friend clean his parents garage for 10 bucks each. I was 13yrs old. i found a March 1983 old ass Muscle n fitness mag. I asked if i could keep it they said sure. I read it and was fuckin blown away by the physiques in there. Holy shit i couldnt believe it. I asked my mom if she thought i could look lke that. She said if i really wanted too. So i begged her to please take me to wal mart and i would pay here back the 50 dollars for the DP bench and leg extension along with the 110lbs set it came with. Now all my buddies were maybe a year or two older, that little bit of time they had on me, not lifting just there bodies being a little more matured, definitly should when we all got to gether to lift. I had a litlle muscluar friend who was 15 he said he could bench all 110lbs i was like bull shit. He banged out like 10 reps or so. My next buddy went and got 2. Next buddy got like 5. His older bro got like 15. Now my turn...it fuckin crushed me. So we unloaded till i got it. Ya know what it was? My very first time benching? 70lbs. I weighed 120lbs. I was fuckin embarassed. But..it fueled me like you would never know. They would be like yo lets go do this or that, i would be like no man lifting after school. So after 6 months or so i quit. Another 6 months i started back. i did 6 months on 6 months off till i was 18 or so. BUt everytiome i would make my little comeback i could press a ton more then i finished with.

Your bodies have to mature. Some mature more then others. Some way faster then others. Just cause you got some hair on your balls does not mean you rmature! I had a friend who at 15 years old could bench 315 for 3 reps in his garage. At 5'9 and 190 lbs this mother was in shape! he matured fast. Hell before i powerlifted i could bench mor ethen him now. Back then he was leaps and bounds in from t of me. Now forget it. At 27 years old between me and him who matured faster then, means nothing now. I was built like him when i was 19! Now i am way bigger and stronger. Ya'll give it itme and dont worry about the jones's.

When you get to early 20's you will not be near your peak in strength , but you will by then know i fyou got it or you dont. Just make progress, every time , that i syour goal.

Sorry so long, you gotta remeber i type 80 plus a minute!
 
Zulu, bb gave me a great base to start powerlifting.. i went from 95lbs bodyweight, to 138 at one time in a bit over a year and a half. im sure you'll gain quickly again. im doing a blast your bench program now (talk about over training lol, benching 5 times a week, varying in volume). but its working for me . my 10 rep max has gone up , and i feel great. I will be maxing out 2 mondays from now, i cant wait!. if i get great results (like 20lb increase in 3 weeks) i'll be glad to send you the program, free of charge(my mom got it for me as a gift (20$)
 
Jay that's the inspiring shit I like on this board, see stuff like that is what I can relate too b/c although I am stil a kid I prefer to lift and not miss a workout then go chill wit my boyz or my g/f and most likely end up doing something stupid...FUCK THAT i'll get stronger while everyone else if fuckin round. And about the maturing shit I guess ur right I was wondering why one of my friends turned BEASTLY on me. This Kid I know is 17 3 months YOUNGER than me. And before summer he was 5 8 265lbs benching 260, squatting 300, don't know deadlifts but cleaning 205(maybe). Up to today he is 5 9 210lbs(pretty lean, muscular) benches very close to 400 I'm saying 390, squats somewhere in the 500's and cleans 270. Now Jay you said you cleaned before so I'm sure you know how hard it is too clean. Imagine a 17 year old doing this. He does goodmornings with like 315. Now I'm not saying that he did or didn't juice b/c i've been very suspicious lately about it. He seems to KNOW ALOT about it and where to take it(not the glutes) but He won't spill. He said his father powerlifted at one time don't know which fed he competed in but I think it was up in New York when he competed if anyone knows most of the people who have competed let me know PM me I don't want to post this kids last name on here. We've been good friends for 4 years now, but he's not that close to me to tell me if he's ever juiced or not and don't think he ever will. Just I think losing that much weight and getting a whole shit load stronger on the workout that I first posted on here that's my coaches is a little hard.


Sorry for the long post really got into this one.
 
That'd be real cool man....thx!! It would be really interesting to have a look.

A question about the program: Do you go to failure? IF you don't....I can see how it works (Pavel Tsatsouline advocates a similar policy). However if it is too failure I am REALLY curious to see how it works.

Also, isn't there a free version somewhere online? I think I saw that once...on BB.com, where we both also post. Not sure tho.

PL, thx, that was very motivating. I just wanna hit a 300-400 bench. I figure it's within my genetic potential. I wanna get as strong as I can, at least a respectful level.... then I'm going to adapt my training geared more towards overall health.

Cubanito....you didn't insult me, It's just that I've been humiliated (doesn't bother me anymore, I had little self confidence at the time) so it brought back bad memories.

Cheers all,

-Zulu
 
you never go to f failure.... NEVER . the one posted on bb.com is a 7 week program, less sound, less testimonials, but im sure it works decent... The link to the one im on was posted, but since then it has eben password protected and requires you to register to log in. i have 8 more days of benching. im so excited!
 
That is exactly what I thought. You might be interested in some information by Pavel Tsatsouline. If you're interested, I'll get some links; same principles.

Anyway, if you wanna share the link with me some time, that'd be really cool.

-Zulu
 
zulu, suprisingly, i own a kettle bell and the kettlebell book by pavel... graet program.. whoops my ass everytime. i do it for cardio sometimes if i am not lazy, and count that as my shoulder workout... the kettle bell is great though, i can do some pull throughs , cleans, jerks, presses... etc
 
Have you read Pavel's other book, Power to the People? I have not read but I feel fairly confident I understand most of what is in it.

He advocates similar, repetitive motions done frequently but never too failure...

-Zulu
 
i havent read it unforunately.... i hear its a good book... i had a bad training day today..very distracted... go over to www.wannabebig.com for my journal and my progress on the program in the online journal sections
 
Where on the site is the online journal's section? I'll have a look.... I can't seem to find it!

Why were you distracted man? I hate it when it happens. But I think I've finally gained complete concentration every workout. Except when I miss a lift I was really hoping to get. Then I'm pissed for like the entire day.

You can find lots of information at dragondoor.com and I have a website with a forum where you can talk directly to Pavel Tsatsouline if you want it. The guys has some excellent ideas.

Namely, hyperridation, which'll add a quick 10 pounds to your bench and high frequency training withuot going to failure.

-Zulu
 
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