The Benchpress
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Regular ones are 20 kgs<br />
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Cheers Big fella.<br />
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I am pushing pussy weights at the moment, especially compared to Red Beards stats! awesome lifting. Best ever is 100kgs for two reps when i was 83kgs.<br />
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At the moment i am nudging 90kgs and pushing around the same, by the time the season starts proper i hope to be pushing the 100kg barrier.<br />
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The exercise i used to find most effective was the cable cross overs, which my present gym does not have. <br />
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Does anyone else suffer from "Bench Press greed". I make a gain one week and instead of consolidating that weight by upping the reps on it, i get greedy and want a similar gain within a week or so, generally leading to an early failure and knackering the muscle after a low amount of reps. Crap lifting. -
When to move up a weight?<br />
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Woudl like to hear people's opinions on this. When do you generally up the weight on teh bench. I have mentioned before that i get becnh press greed and try and make gains in weight pushed too often. I have addressed this by staying on my max weight now until i can successfully complete 8 bench presses with it. I will this evening move up a weight, probably by 2.5kgs on each end. <br />
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Go up in weights when you feel totally in control of the current weight at ah high reps.<br />
And yeah many years ago I was around 115% on the bench but never been that great on it, preferred incline dumb bells as you can concentrate on balancing arm and shoulder strength.<br />
Have just started bench press again and once I feel comfortable with muscle stability will alternate bench press with dumb bell incline and incline chest press and chest dips (with weights).<br />
Someone suggested shoulder press, be careful with that, as a lot of people have crap technique and overload, causing serious problems down the track.<br />
Wide shoulder chin ups are good stuff.<br />
Has anyone tried pyramid strength training? I vaguely recall it working for me but that could be memory playing up.<br />
Fuller I think Olympic bars are 20Kg but many softie gyms (ie where they clean up the sweat on at least a weekly basis) have 17.5 or even less bars so it pays to ask. -
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Go up in weights when you feel totally in control of the current weight at ah high reps.<br />
And yeah many years ago I was around 115% on the bench but never been that great on it, preferred incline dumb bells as you can concentrate on balancing arm and shoulder strength.<br />
Have just started bench press again and once I feel comfortable with muscle stability will alternate bench press with dumb bell incline and incline chest press and chest dips (with weights).<br />
Someone suggested shoulder press, be careful with that, as a lot of people have crap technique and overload, causing serious problems down the track.<br />
Wide shoulder chin ups are good stuff.<br />
Has anyone tried pyramid strength training? I vaguely recall it working for me but that could be memory playing up.<br />
Fuller I think Olympic bars are 20Kg but many softie gyms (ie where they clean up the sweat on at least a weekly basis) have 17.5 or even less bars so it pays to ask.<br />
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That has been my policy on this last weight. I have been cracking at for three weeks now and am up to an 8 rep completion for one set. I think i can push oput 5kg more on it and will have a go tonight.<br />
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Chest sessions so far have been:<br />
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4 sets of bench press<br />
4 sets of incline press on a smith machine<br />
3 sets of dumbell press<br />
3 sets of dips<br />
3 sets on a chest machine where you sit almost upright and push out<br />
3 sets of pec dec<br />
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yes, pec dec for poofs <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /><br />
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decline press rocks - such a limited range of movement, you can press some pretty good weights. Used to always do decline late in the chest workout, and could still press good weight! -
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what is pec dec?<br />
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Sitting upright, hooking arms behind two pads then bringing those two arms/pads together.<br />
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[url="http://www.dynabody.com/eqnew/pecdec.htm"]http://www.dynabody.com/eqnew/pecdec.htm[/url] -
Yeah. Enjoy watching chicks do that one <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' />
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[quote name='NTA']<br />
Yeah. Enjoy watching chicks do that one <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /><br />
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what about the leg version of the pec dec, a female friend calls it the "birthing machine".. -
[quote name='BrainDeadJnr']<br />
[quote name='NTA']<br />
Yeah. Enjoy watching chicks do that one <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /><br />
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what about the leg version of the pec dec, a female friend calls it the "birthing machine"..<br />
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Excellent if they are fit - horrendous if they are fat mingers. -
I did 6 reps at 100kg yesterday. First time I have been able to do more than a couple in months! Didn't row hard out previous to it though, just a 5k stint. <br />
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Going to get into a few more weights now, love lifting.<br />
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First time I have ever lifted 100kg and have it be above my BWÂ <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /> -
[quote name='Red Beard']<br />
First ever attempt on BB Bench Press tonight since surgery on my wrist in 2004. [b]Managed to knock one easy rep out at 120kgs[/b]. Wrist seems to have knitted back together nicely. Will incorperate the bench back into my weights sessions now. <br />
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Bastard.
