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>>173138 >>173190 I learned a way of breaking through bench plateaus. basically, you set up a flat bench in the squat rack, and move the bottom pins to the point of about 3 inches below your full extended bench press. load the bar with a number say, 30 lbs higher than your all time 1 press max. then you do lift offs. you do this for awhile, doing it as your first excersize on chest day for about 3 chest work outs. then you drop the pins by one and do it again for a few chest work outs. until you can get it to about a "half press". I was able to smash my all time rep max by nearly 20lb in one month. it is pretty brutal on the joints, so you gotta be smart about it. having said all of that, when I actually consciously switched to 90 minutes before closing time (the slowest time at this particular gym), and made sure that I asked the few people that were there if they had any work to do in the squat rack. even the ones who said, "Yeah, I was going to do squatz" still insisted that I go do my thing. I was done in 15 minutes anyway, and always brought all my shit back to where it belongs. Most of them needed up watching me and asking me what the hell i was doing. and learned something.
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