Bench press - do you guys count the weight of the bar or not ?
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[quote name='MrBartMan']<br />
when you are lifting weight, you count every ounce!!<br />
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Thanks, thats just increased my BP by 20 kg in the eyes if a few naysayers !!! Excellent !!! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> ( in a Monty Burns voice ) -
ALWAYS! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> Anyone who doesn't count it, probably can't add 20 to anything <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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Exception of course is doing it on a machine, where I'm pretty sure they include the weight of the apparatus <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> Not that anyone serious about bench press uses a machine anyway! -
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ALWAYS! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> Anyone who doesn't count it, probably can't add 20 to anything <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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Exception of course is doing it on a machine, where I'm pretty sure they include the weight of the apparatus <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> Not that anyone serious about bench press uses a machine anyway!<br />
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It sure is easier on a machine, no need to use the stabilising muscles ! -
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[quote name='TB']<br />
I count the bar.<br />
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If that is all you can bench, you had best count the bar!! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
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[quote name='TB']<br />
I count the bar.<br />
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If that is all you can bench, you had best count the bar!! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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Damn right. -
until you take said confidence to the free weights and do a stevie Wonder impression! if you're not used to free weights the bloody thing twists and wobbles with a mind of its own!
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[quote name='Paekakboyz']<br />
until you take said confidence to the free weights and do a stevie Wonder impression! if you're not used to free weights the bloody thing twists and wobbles with a mind of its own!<br />
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The more you bench though, gradually it will stop happening. It takes time for all the little stabilisers to adjust, but once they do and it gets recordered into your your 'muscle memory' the shakes will becomne a thing of the past. -
Doing my benching at home but have dodgy clips on the bar keeping the weights on so they slide off one side and crash and bang everywhere !!!! The neighbours popped round to check I was OK !!! no holes in the wall ( yet ) I think I need a good spotting partner cos the wife isn't strong enoughÂ
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The muscle memory is a good thing though aye, if you've done it in the past it doesn't take too long to get back there although the first few weeks back were tough !!! -
Always count the bar but make sure the bar is 20kg first, many aren't.<br />
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Free weights-there ought to be an invention for free weights where if you get stuck a pulley type system pulls the weights back or up for you.<br />
I prefer free weights but it always depends on the exercises, your technique and your physical condition. Many jocks use free weights but with such crap technique they would be better off with machines. -
beep test, don't get me started..!!<br />
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and as for counting the weight of the bar in the title, I read it today, and thought, "Fuck, count the bloody dust particles that settle on it as you are lfiting too"!!<br />
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It is amazing how much weight 2.5kgs is when you are lifting max weights too!! going from 120 to 122.5 is sod all, but blows you away!! All in the head though I reckon, as on the odd occassion I have slipeed an extra 5kg onto the bar for prop Cyril, and he still gets the set out - loverly!! -
Not wrong, that little bit of extra weight can turn the arms to jelly pretty quickly. <br />
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Says in the latest Rugby World that Percy Montgomery can bench 165kg !?!?!?! its not like he busts through tackles and is regarded as a particularly "powerful" type player but if that is accurate then....hats off to the man...would probably only weigh 90 kg at the most too !!!
