Misc. progress thread

[Arch0wl]

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lol if everyone expected you to pause at the bottom for your 1RM bench every guy's claimed bench would go down 50lb if not 100lb

[Shouka]

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Pausing is required in competition though isn't it?

[Reach]

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Kind of.

The exact rules are murky.

You're given commands. You unrack and then hold the bar until you're given the first command to Start.

You press when you're given the press command, which is usually shortly after the bar touches your chest. It's supposed to reach essentially a paused state because you're not supposed to get a press command until the bar is motionless.

However, in reality that doesn't necessarily mean you have to pause though.

Watch someone like Dan Green press and you'll see what I mean. He lets the bar fall into his chest a bit so that he doesn't lose the bars elastic energy at the bottom.

It's still worth doing a lot of paused bench if you plan to compete, with exaggerated pauses, but in most competitions the pause isn't very long and many people get around it.


Great bench though.

My best benches ever are 275 flat @ 200 lbs and 245 on the incline.

[Shouka]

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Thanks for the clarifications Reach!

I've never tried doing an incline or decline bench so my numbers there would probably be very low.

[SCWolf]

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It's funny that you should say that. It turns out, that was the only goal I may have reached. I say "may" because the rep was a little shaky.

I agree though. My overhead press is far beyond my other lifts.



Results:

Squat: 325 (I had some upward progress at 335 but couldn't get it)
Bench: 265 (I only have 255 on video. My 275 attempt was stupidly close and I am upset)
Dead: 345 (This lift can die. I did 335 for 7 reps about 2 weeks ago and I'm not sure what went wrong. I failed an attempt at 365 and decided to just quit.
Overhead: 205 (This was probably the hardest I've ever fought to finish a rep)


Videos:

Squat:

Bench:

OHP:

Deadlift:

I got nothing. It went badly and I didn't have anything recorded

Good numbers. The OHP was a clean and press though, which is harder to perform.

Only thing I noticed was on the bench, try to keep your wrists straight. you'll prevent a lot of damage to your wrists as well as give you more control over the bar. Also that weight is far under your potential. I feel that if you clean up the form a little bit, you could easily nail 275.

[kmay]

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can you show me what you mean about the straight wrists? my wrists always hurt when i bench and i dont do that much weight.


finals kicked my training regimens ass. i had sooo much shit this finals week it was INSANE way more than I've ever had, but today was my first day back in a week and I killed my legs =] i feel so good

[Poison-]

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If you watch Shouka's bench vid that SCWolf quoted you can see his wrists are bent backwards a bit. Basically don't do that

[SCWolf]

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I'll make a video of me benching or something next time I go to the gym with Northstrong

[Reach]

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already have pics of chris benching in the wild

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii187/righteousone777/1500lbs-1.jpg

[kmay]

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oh perf thxx

[Arch0wl]

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so I'm not sure if this is 'progress' but I strongly suspect my shoulders are limiting my progress at bench press.

triceps are my strong point. I weigh 190lb and can do 12, if not 15 or more bodyweight dips easily after benching and a variety of other accessories. if I went in fresh, I have no idea, but it'd probably be over 20.

I thought pecs were my weak area, but I suspect they're in the middle.

my shoulders are garbage. my OHP is 25lb plates on each side, for reps of 8-10. adding to this, I usually feel shoulder strain after I bench.

going to add way more shoulder volume to my workouts from now on.

[.Gazelle.]

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fuck my shoulders, they're naturally loose to the point where i can partially dislocate them, sort of like this

I feel like they're holding back my bench, they hurt like hell when i plank etc.

[Reincarnate]

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190.8 lbs

edit:

magically 189.8 the next day

[Reach]

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Average 7 day weight down from 188.9 to 186.9 since May 10th. Getting solidly back on the cut train, haven't lost any strength.

[kmay]

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marcus keep it up! how much more do you want to go before you try adding mass?