your first weight bench

[rgosit]

5th grade..

thin medal bench with leg extension and curls on the end...
maybe a 3 pound bar..and sand filled wieghts.. weighing 4.4, 13.5 pounds...and i think 28.2 or something...

it was pretty sweet

 

[erickthegreat11]

Oh yeah. I still have a wopping 80# of mystery cement weight and a hollow, bent, barbell with a crappy aluminum sleeve on it. I used to do some pretty stupid things with it. Like squat to the floor with 80#, reach failure at the bottom, then bend my head down and roll the bar to the floor! At my young age, that 80# could've really f**ked me up!!!!!!

 

[jeep310]

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

me too, till the plastic started to crack and the cement fell out of the weights.

 

[endpoint]

we had two milk crates and a wooden plank.

I still have the metal pipe with solid coat rack bases welded to the botom (must weight about 60lbs) hidden in the shed

that was my dads effort in me trying to lose weight when i was a kid. i guess he didnt want to put much money down......who wouldnt after all the toys i got as gifts and never played with..and al the hobbies i picked up and never continued

many years later i took up training for real......worked many hours a week and ended up with a nice little bench/squat rack, a power rack......and many plates.

 

[##spiderbaby##]

DP fit for life. powder coated blue with red sparkle vinyl, YES!

.75" tube steel, could barely put me head between the racks. Cement filled weights, collars with the threaded pin stop. Hell I even had the cable pulldown attachment and the leg extension accessorie. I was the man!

I was 9 years old. I am almost 30. Its still in my parents basement.

The old man comments every now and then that hes gonna pull it out... He'll colapse the damn thing. Dads are allways good for a laugh.


Good thread.


##spiderbaby##

 

[Sebass67]

Holy crap...i had the Hulkamania set too!
Can you imagine...maybe that is what got like 1/3 of us started?

Subliminal messages on the tapes?

 

[cure]

I remember being younger and trying to do pullovers using a dumbell with cement plates. The weights were held by little red plastic bolts. When doing these pullovers, i cant count the amount of times the weight slipped off and hit me flat in the head or face.