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Benchpressing Anonymous
I've only recently been taking my upper-body exercises seriously. At the beginning of this year, I was struggling at 85LB. Today, I lift 165LB.

You may be immediately thinking "85LB?! You weak piece of shit!" Well, I was weak, but my body was more than capable of doing that weight at the time. It's just that I was terribly inexperienced. I did not know the proper posture nor technique to do it properly. Over the past few months I have learned those and they help quite a bit. If I could go back in time to then with what I know today, I bet I could've easily hit 110LB at that time.

Keep your back arched a bit with your feet planted firmly, inhale air, swiftly bring the weight down and tap the bar against your chest, exhale air, and push with all your might!

You can't get away with just benchpressing and expecting results. When you're benchpressing, your chest is only half the battle. You must spend time curling weights, strengthening your arms.

I've noticed that lately I have been personifying weight. They're my enemies and I must emasculate them. Like recently I had trouble at 160LB, for days I couldn't lift it. When the day came that I lifted it, I was smug and called it my bitch. 170LB is a menacing foe, but I feel in a weeks time that it too will be my bitch.

I've grown to love benchpressing. It's tough, but very satisfying and you see real results very quickly. I love how my arms feel after a good workout. It's as if you took an air pump and tried inflating my arms, they feel ready to burst. It's a good feeling.

My goal at this point is to bench 200LB by the end of the year. I'm not rushing myself, I feel that will be more than enough time to achieve my goal. I don't know what'll happen next.
>> Anonymous
Almost as good as CURLZ makes me feels
>> Anonymous
as soon as you said "i've only been taking my upper-body seriously" i facepalmed and deemed this a fail
>> Anonymous
>>351375

Here's what I mean.

When I was 19, I didn't exercise and I was only gaining weight. I weighed 175LB. It was then I decided to change. I took up long-distance running.

That was two years ago and I never stopped running. I was never really interested in bulking up, now I am and I'm very dedicated to it.
>> Anonymous
>>351391
SQUATZ FAGGIT
>> Anonymous
You're still weak you pompous turd.
>> Anonymous
I lol'd
9/10
>> Anonymous
>>351398

OH HO HO BROTHER! I know the importance of the squatz.

Squats help my running game, dude. I do squats every other day!
>> Anonymous
>>351375here

well good for you for running but honestly to just focus on your upperbody is bad, focus on both upper and lower body. want a big ass lowerbody to support your heavyweight ass? then do SQUATZ and lots of them
>> Anonymous
>>351401
yea i agree, nice effort

9/10
>> Anonymous
>>351408

I know you're going to say my routine isn't perfect, but here is what I do:

EVEN DAYS: Benchpress, Long-distance run
ODD DAYS: Squats, Curls, Lunges (while holding 25LB weights in each arm)

sprinkle in 200 crunches a couple of days of the week and that's my routine for you.
>> Anonymous
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Hey OP, dont listen to these trolls. Congrats on the accomplishment, and good luck on getting to 200.
Its always a good motivation to read threads like these when I'm in a similar situation myself.
>> Anonymous
Oh also, I'm not fat. I used to be a bit flabby back then, but today I'm lean and toned.
6'1", 160LB.
>> Anonymous
>>351426
damn thats the exact same as me almost.

6'2 162'ish.
I really want to get up to atleast 180 from muscle gains, but that will take a while.
>> Anonymous
>>351428

Awesome. Indeed it will.

My brother, whom is a few years younger than me but took part in physical activity while I was just an inactive nerd, is 174LB and he benches 250LB. He doesn't take any supplements.

Do you expect to do as much as him when you weigh 180LB?
>> Ian Curtis !f0VMpnwSCQ
>Tap the bar against your chest
Stopped reading there.
>> Anonymous
>>351444
TBH, I doubt that I could. I don't put enough time into strength training to be able to increase my current bench which is around 150 (Yeah I'm pretty weak atm) to 200+ by the time I'm 170~. But I'm always hopeful, so its in the realm of possibility.
>> Anonymous
>>351447

Why don't you try explaining yourself?

I do not claim to be the foremost authority of weight lifting. Everything that I've done has been self-taught!
>> Anonymous
>>351454
edit-180*
>> Anonymous
the "pump" is only for your ego. Getting it is annoying as it affects your flexibility and extension.
>> Ian Curtis !f0VMpnwSCQ
>>351456

"2) Bouncing - This occurs because people want to be able to use stretch reflex as well as the flexibility and rebound properties of the sternum and ribcage to help get the bar up. The alternative, "using their pectorals, delts and lats", just obviously isn't their preferred method."

Basically by bouncing it you just make it easier on yourself. As Rip says, the bar should touch your shirt, but not your chest, and not bounce off.
>> Anonymous
>>351529

Alright, that makes sense to me. I understand that not bouncing makes it more difficult on me. More difficult means that I'm working harder and thus I'll get more of a workout.

Truth be told, I didn't always bounce it anyways. Only on high weights, really.
>> Anonymous
>>351529

That makes sense to me. More difficult = more of a workout.
>> Dr. Baron von Evilsatan
>>351391

Forrest?
>> Anonymous
>>351718
Griffin?
>> Anonymous
>>351428
Think that's the same as me maybe. I'm 1,91 meters and around 80kilos.

Currently benching 4x8 @ 55 kilos. Going to start with 60 after the my next sets.
>> Anonymous
>>351375
>>351408

He said "I've only RECENTLY been taking my upper-body exercises seriously"

not

"Recently I've ONLY been taking my upper-body exercises seriously"

Learn to interpret, faggot