your max on the bench press?

I did 3 plates + 1X5Kg on each side, which gives... 330 pounds!

I'm 49 and I don't "weight-out" as much as I used to, but I can still do about 10 reps of 200-250. 20 years ago I peaked at 10 reps of 350. But then again, I am 6' 8" and weigh about 290. So it's no real big deal.

Ok silly thread, but hey the male limbido is still alive and kicking! We're proggers, and we're not going to take it anymore!!

Edited by marktheshark

Edited by Bluesaga - June 19 2007 at 10:18

progaeopteryx wrote: I built a bookcase once.

Bluesaga wrote: I did 3 reps of 80 at my friends house.  I don't know if that is good for a first time or not (I'm 16).6 foot f**king 8??!!!!  I guess that's where the "shark" part comes in.

Hey, somebody has to be big! I just got the job, that's all. I didn't ask for it!

Besides, whatever happened to "real" men? I'm talking about hair on the back. Smelly armpits that can fart Close To The Edge with the hands underneath it. Low growly voices, assertion of authority, spinal columns made of steele.

Seems that there has been de-masclulation of men over the past 25-30 years. Men should be more "sensitive" and "understanding" and know what it's like to be a woman or a suppressed minority or whatever.

We have now classes that teach men to experience the pains of pregnency. What?! Excuse me, but it has been well established that there are biological and bahaviour differences between men and women.

So the bottom line is guys, lift those weights, smell-up those armpits, fart Close To The Edge and be a REAL man!

I cant even press my own trousers!

 

Jim Garten wrote: marktheshark wrote: So, the bottom line is guys, lift those weights, smell-up those armpits, fart Close To The Edge and be a REAL man! ...whilst retaining your feminine side; maybe invite your significant other to join you in a duet of 'close to the edge' involving close harmonies (and preferably open windows)

Total Gas Retain!

progaeopteryx wrote: I built a bookcase once.

That beats me - I only managed to build a bookshelf. One of these days I might get around to putting it up

Peter wrote: Syzygy wrote: progaeopteryx wrote: I built a bookcase once. That beats me - I only managed to build a bookshelf. One of these days I might get around to putting it up Can't seem to get it up, eh Szyzgy? I wouldn't admit that here, if I were you -- this is clearly a thread for real "he men."

When I PM'ed Dr Proghole about that problem I though it would be confidential !!!!!!!!!!!!!

What about your hypocritical oath?!?

I think I can bench 60 lbs. at 10 reps. I don't ever have a chance to build up because we don't have a bar to set the weights on and I feel inferior going to the gym.

The privacy of my own basement 10 miles underground where I can listen to 80s Rush and feel happy is just fine.  I am The Analog Kid.