your first weight bench

[macDbol]

anyone have a shitty ass weight bench that u kept in the basement or whatever? i had a crapola weider joint my first year of H.S. that came with 110 pounds of weights and a barbell, i felt like the man benching that

 

[Latimer]

My very first bench was some little shitty one. Complete with the plastic, cement filled weights. I don't even remember how I obtained it, I was pretty damn young. I had it in my garage and basically just used it after I went swimming in the summer. It's kind of funny thinking about it now, but all I used to do were about 5 sets a bench presses and then bicep curls(that's actually like what 1/10th of the people at my gym do now) . I'd follow that up by hitting the heavy bag. Even before that I had that old Hulkamania kit. It came with a jump rope, 2 5lb or 3lb plastic dumbells, a sweatband, 2 wristbands and a sweet audio tape with Hulk Hogan telling you what to do and loaded with motivational sayings. I used to listen to it and workout in the dark in my basement. I have no clue why I did it in the dark. My first real bench was a decent weider olympic set with 310 lbs of international weights. It had a leg curl/extension attachment and a lat/tri pulldown tower attachment. It was a pretty good set for a 7th grader. I kept that in my basement and later in my garage when I added some more equipment.

 

[The mann]

hell yea i had those cement weights and the bench with the rack that only your head fits in when you lay down.....

 

[needsize]

I remember the old cement weights, they were too fat and took up too much room on the bar so I had to use straps to hang extra weight off the end of the bar.
Trying to squat out of my bench was always fun too.

 

[Stryc-9]

I had a crappy York bench that would always wobble around all over the place....

....and those plastic covered cement weights - shit - those were the worst!! They would always crack at the seams and all of that white powdery shit would get all over the place....my mom thought I was smoking crack instead of working out....

 

[mekannik]

My first bench.... oh the good old days. I worked out in the equivalent of a YMCA in my town, this club was sponsored by a deceased millionaire who endowed the library, park, and free 9 hole golf course in town.

ANYWAYS - the management relegated the free weights to this room that you had to climb 25 STEEP steps to get to. The room was 20' x 30'. 3 windows that opened. 2 radiators. In the summer - it would reach 90+, no ventilation (even with the windows open). In the winter - 45 (if the radiators kicked on the 90+).

It was heaven.

The two flat benches we had were hand made by guys from the steel mill in the town. 1/2" worth of padding - 10" wide. The BEST part was the supports - they were MAYBE 12" apart. Prison quality. To load up a bar - you put one #45 plate on, slide the loaded side all the way into the support, goto the other side and load a #45 plate - slide the bar back to the middle.

I don't know how many times some newbie moron would come up and not understand the concept of a seesaw.

 

[The mann]

needsize......i forgot about that,sticking your neck under the bar between those close racks and set up for squats......

 

[Mighty Mouse 21]

I remember the Hulkamania set. I still have a picture from when I was like eight or nine, lying on a piece of foam, bench pressing the whole 10lbs with my hulkamania sweet band on.

 

[Exodus]

I remember the Hulkamania set. I still have a picture from when I was like eight or nine, lying on a piece of foam, bench pressing the whole 10lbs with my hulkamania sweet band on.

that has got to be the funniest thing i have ever read on this web site........


i had the cement weights too........ it was great......... i had a DP (fit for life) bench.......... oh how those weights were heavy.

and squats.......... oh those were a power clean and press and then lower it behind my neck.......... so you figure how much weight i could use!!?!?!?!?

man im glad that i was the only one in the room.

X

 

[Natedawg73]

I had the POS cement weights too. In fact, I still have em. I use them on my super old curl bar. I've been meaning to get a nice weight bench and whatnot, but since I am away at school for most of the year I haven't yet.

Oh yeah, my weight bench at home is also one of the ones where your head barely fits between the supports. At least now I have the Weider 315 lb international weight set.