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MPS
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You don't bench chit...you would break a nail.
How much can you bench poll
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You don't bench chit...you would break a nail.
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Super B
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that dont mean chit. now if you can dumbell press more than the weight of your wife or girlfriend in each hand...... thats something to be proud of
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Super B
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that dont mean chit. now if you can dumbell press more than the weight of your wife or girlfriend in each hand...... thats something to be proud of
How about the wife and girlfriend in one hand?
How about the wife and girlfriend in one hand?
dude you all ready pay the wife to be with ya, how can you afford to buy another chick to be your side action?
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Super B
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Your wife does it pro bono......eek:
In high school I was 5-6 119 pds..benched 385...(but that was on a machine not free weight.) and that was many many years ago..be surprised if I could get 180 up today....
machines don't count...in fact they make your actual bench a negative number!
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Bkinz
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Thats why I cant bench anything over 155 haha Then agian im 14 and 6'3" with a 6'5" wing span. I'm beginning to think all the odds are agianst me.
Start lifting now. I'm relativley tall and lanky too. I didn't even start lifting weights seriously until I was 23. If I would have started at the peak of natural testosterone production (IE, when I was 14 or 15) and lifted all the way through that period until I was 23 or 24 I'd probably be bench pressing 500 pounds right now.
Your body naturally produces the most testosterone from shortly after puberty until you peak at around 20 years old, then it starts to taper off after that until it finally levels off at whatever it's going to be for the rest of your life at around 30 or so.....so what that means is, you need to take as much advantage of your youth as possible ...... its never going to be easier for you to get strong as it is right now
You have to look at from the angle that you have a lot more frame to hang muscle on than smaller guys even if "technically" they have the leverage advantage lifting weights ....
Lift hard, and don't even worry about "supplements" ... they're seriously %100 useless. Youth is on your side, milk it for all its worth
Back in the day when I was stationed in Germany I could bench my entire 310lb Olympic set. I was on a Kasserne that was small enough that we did not have a gym so I never knew my max weight I could bench. Now days with streched shoulder ligaments and several shoulder dislocations I would be lucky to be able to control the 45lb bar. I got the daily pain to go away in the shoulders after doing archey a couple years ago but I havn't worked out other than 12oz curls at the bar. It is time to get back in shape though and I'm getting ready to head to the gym starting next week. I always keept a daily log of what area I worked (chest) the excercise, how much weight and how many reps I did and if I was doing crazy eights, smooth reps or power lifting for max weight. If I remeber right my lifting buddy took this pic of me a couple hours after I got the bench put together and we each eventually pushed up the entire 310lbs going for max weight. (not all weight on the bars cause I had to stablized the bench from flipping over when not lifting.) I would have liked to have known what my max was after I was much bigger and was able to pull off doing 10reps of 310lbs of crazy 8's. I probably weighed around 220lbs in the photo and by the time I left Germany I was close to 270lbs at 6'6.
I entered the Army at age 18 at 189lbs and got out of Basic Training at 191lbs (yeah everyone else lost weight, I gained). I weight pretty hard about a year before I went in and ran 2-3miles every other night. And I will say this, I saw a lot improvement in definition and endurance by doing the field exercise the Army put us though Monday through Friday. Push ups were probably the single exercise that helped with my bench press. You can drop at almost any time and knock out 20, work your way up to 50. And then see how quickly you can knock out 50 (in proper form). You can work different areas of the chest from hand position and orientation. Place your hands close together for diamonds to work the inside and space the wide apart with your thumbs pointed toward your head to work the outer chest and shoulders, Place them at your side with your fingers and thumbs cupping the ground facing forward to work the arms and chest. The last position was my preferred method when taking a fitness test because I could go faster and max the push ups for my age at 72 in 2 minutes.. This method was preferred by a lot of guys in my unit that maxed the push ups and also helped save energy for the run. But I also worked out after so I had the endurance to be able to max the 82 sit ups which most of us tall guys do well on anyway. And I could also run the 2 mile rin in 12:54 when the Maximum score was 13:00 and minimum was 15:54. During basic and AIT I had trouble pacing myself on the run and shin splints, I also sucked at push ups. But I believe that mixing the push ups with my workout and doing a few every day helped improve both my PT score and my benching. I'm not so sold on the idea of working out one muscle group a day (chest, arms, legs, etc) I know the body needs recoup time and the Army doesn't give your muscles much of a break. Some guys including myself turned to Ripped Fuel to keep us going and Creatine to recoup. Though I'm not so certain how safe Creatine is as I have heard young guys having heart attacks who were using the stuff. But I havn't seen any official on it and realistically if someone is using supplements they are probably working out more than the average guy. When your young your body recoups on it's own faster anyway and the more you work it and feed it, it will grow. I'm not much of a believer in the miracle supplements that they are going to make you look so good or strong. Realistically you will be disappointed as I was and hopefully you will not look at anabolic steroids as a solution. But in the event that you do be aware that you may be able to avoid physical repercussions but you always risk personal relationships and jail time for possession.
Great documentary on steroids and suppliments "Bigger, Stronger, Faster" http://clip.vn/watch/Bigger-Stronger-Faster-1-4-www-Movies4w-com,W0Fa
I entered the Army at age 18 at 189lbs and got out of Basic Training at 191lbs (yeah everyone else lost weight, I gained). I weight pretty hard about a year before I went in and ran 2-3miles every other night. And I will say this, I saw a lot improvement in definition and endurance by doing the field exercise the Army put us though Monday through Friday. Push ups were probably the single exercise that helped with my bench press. You can drop at almost any time and knock out 20, work your way up to 50. And then see how quickly you can knock out 50 (in proper form). You can work different areas of the chest from hand position and orientation. Place your hands close together for diamonds to work the inside and space the wide apart with your thumbs pointed toward your head to work the outer chest and shoulders, Place them at your side with your fingers and thumbs cupping the ground facing forward to work the arms and chest. The last position was my preferred method when taking a fitness test because I could go faster and max the push ups for my age at 72 in 2 minutes.. This method was preferred by a lot of guys in my unit that maxed the push ups and also helped save energy for the run. But I also worked out after so I had the endurance to be able to max the 82 sit ups which most of us tall guys do well on anyway. And I could also run the 2 mile rin in 12:54 when the Maximum score was 13:00 and minimum was 15:54. During basic and AIT I had trouble pacing myself on the run and shin splints, I also sucked at push ups. But I believe that mixing the push ups with my workout and doing a few every day helped improve both my PT score and my benching. I'm not so sold on the idea of working out one muscle group a day (chest, arms, legs, etc) I know the body needs recoup time and the Army doesn't give your muscles much of a break. Some guys including myself turned to Ripped Fuel to keep us going and Creatine to recoup. Though I'm not so certain how safe Creatine is as I have heard young guys having heart attacks who were using the stuff. But I havn't seen any official on it and realistically if someone is using supplements they are probably working out more than the average guy. When your young your body recoups on it's own faster anyway and the more you work it and feed it, it will grow. I'm not much of a believer in the miracle supplements that they are going to make you look so good or strong. Realistically you will be disappointed as I was and hopefully you will not look at anabolic steroids as a solution. But in the event that you do be aware that you may be able to avoid physical repercussions but you always risk personal relationships and jail time for possession.
Great documentary on steroids and suppliments "Bigger, Stronger, Faster" http://clip.vn/watch/Bigger-Stronger-Faster-1-4-www-Movies4w-com,W0Fa
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The only real side effect to creatine is dehydration, or if you are taking mega doses of it (say 15g a day which does ZERO good) then it overworks your kidneys since that is where excess creatine is processed.
Overall, creatine is safe for %99.99 of the people who take it ... you literally have to be starving yourself of water to have it cause any side effects.
Outside of that it's a trade-off. It does aid in decreasing your recovery time slightly, but you do retain more water and gain water weight because of it.
Overall, creatine is safe for %99.99 of the people who take it ... you literally have to be starving yourself of water to have it cause any side effects.
Outside of that it's a trade-off. It does aid in decreasing your recovery time slightly, but you do retain more water and gain water weight because of it.
back when I hit it hard I would cycle creatine. Maybe 1 month on, then off, 2 weeks, etc. Just keep on the water since it holds moisture.
The biggest thing Bkinz if you are serious about gaining mass is to up your calories, especially protein. I would hve 2-3 shakes a day and in one year I packed on 20 pounds of muscle, my body fat never went past 6 percent.
start out doing 3 or 4 days of whole body work outs. When you start getting on it harder and heavier do 4-5 days of isolated areas. Chest, tri shoulder. Then back, abs, bi's. then legs, etc.
If you want I have some really really good workouts that an old buddy wrote up for me. pm me and I can email them
I've read about things like that happening too ... it's really sad ....
You should't be lifting heavy trying to max out unless you're using a saftey cage or have a spotter .....
Some days I'll lift really really heavy without a spotter, but I have the crossbars in the saftey cage set to where I can't drop the barbell on myself ...
Thats kinda tough to do with shoulders sometimes, but I've learned my limits
I've read about things like that happening too ... it's really sad ....
You should't be lifting heavy trying to max out unless you're using a saftey cage or have a spotter .....
Some days I'll lift really really heavy without a spotter, but I have the crossbars in the saftey cage set to where I can't drop the barbell on myself ...
Thats kinda tough to do with shoulders sometimes, but I've learned my limits
I've seen so many guys get hurt unnecessarily in the gym. A Guy may know their limits but try to unconsciously show off and gets hurt in the process. I'm the type now that walks in with my hoodie on my sweats pulled up with headphones on and doesn't look around at anybody. I go in knowing what I want to do, focus on my workout, record my results and get out. This way I'm not even tempted to push beyond by other peoples glances etc. I don't even talk to the gym rats anymore while I'm there. I've had to many that simply start up a conversation to either brag themselves up, offer to sell me steroids etc. Granted they are not all like that but those few bad ones just cause me to not want to talk to people at the gym unless they are staff.
I stick to the daily 12oz. curls haha
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