your max on the bench press?
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Topic: your max on the bench press?
Posted By: greenback
Subject: your max on the bench press?
Date Posted: February 16 2006 at 21:50
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I did 3 plates + 1X5Kg on each side, which gives... 330 pounds! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: February 16 2006 at 22:02
Silly thread  Anyway, I don't think I can lift anything on the bench press. I'm sure that the bench press would have an easier time lifting me Gotta go to the gym  -------------  
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Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: February 16 2006 at 22:08
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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!!
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Posted By: Mongo
Date Posted: February 16 2006 at 22:14
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I can do 37 lbs twice ------------- "The options are ever fewer on the ground these days" Fish |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: February 16 2006 at 22:18
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Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: February 16 2006 at 22:27
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Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: February 16 2006 at 22:29
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progaeopteryx wrote:Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 16 2006 at 22:31
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------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 01:01
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! |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 03:21
...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) ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 06:47
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I cant even press my own trousers!
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Posted By: krusty
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 06:53
------------- http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/contentChapterView.asp?chapter=309" rel="nofollow - Humanism |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 09:08
Total Gas Retain! |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 09:15
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Way to go, Greenbob!
And a regular genius at Spider Solitaire, too!
(I think the Velvet gang have a nob size-comparing thread you might be interested in, as well....) ^
Suddenly I feel so inadequate....
[IN 1993 I FATHERED A CHILD! >
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 14:32
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That beats me - I only managed to build a bookshelf. One of these days I might get around to putting it up ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 14:59
I wouldn't admit that here, if I were you -- this is clearly a thread for real "he men." ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 15:55
When I PM'ed Dr Proghole about that problem I though it would be confidential What about your hypocritical oath?!? ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
!!!!!!!!!!!!!Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 15:55
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Oh for the love of God. Edit: And it was only one post by the way. Aside: Damn you Ansen!!!!! ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 16:00
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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. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 16:24
------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 18:02
Why me? It's all Mike! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 19:10
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Haven't tried bench press for years now. Last time I tried, I was around 100ibs. And that was many years ago... ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 19:43
No, you were the one who posted it in the forum. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 19:58
I can do two 45's and two 5's 
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 20:46
Well it was pretty funny
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: February 18 2006 at 00:24
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that's what we call thread pollution! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: February 18 2006 at 00:33
Uh no. It was mainly Flossy and his dinosauric father. -------------
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: June 09 2007 at 21:44
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*blows some dust off*
Tested a while back. 220lbs! Not bad for a 16 year old who have never really trained with weights before  ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 09 2007 at 22:34
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Not sure if thats oz,. pounds, metric tons or what. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: June 09 2007 at 23:05
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Im January started to do many bench press until I managed to do 4 series of 25 repetitions with 90 Kgms every day. One morning while doing it I heard like a belt snapping and my arm grew twice it's wide, the sinew that connects the central muscle of my right triceps to the shoulder had broken and the muscle fell to the elbow, the strange thing is I felt no pain ar all..
Surgery is not recommended because the other two muscles of the triceps will replace the tension of the damaged muscle and the scar would be from the elbow to the shoulder plus something may go wrong and loose movility of the fingers, but I can't lift more than 5 KGMS for a year with that arm and no more bench press with more than 2 seriies of 20 Kgms after the year.
The doctor said I went too fast, so it's not important how much weight you can lift, but how prepared are you for the effort, it's better go step by step.
Iván
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Posted By: Kid-A
Date Posted: June 10 2007 at 06:22
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^ I always thought it was unhealthy to do it every day anyway, maybe I'm wrong.
I've never tried as much as I can, I lift 16kg 40 times, then 30 times again after a few different exercises. ------------- 
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 10 2007 at 13:20
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I've just done 5 sets of 10 reps at 210 lbs shoulder presses.That was after running 11.5 km. Bench press 330LBS? I can do that with me tongue...  |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 10 2007 at 13:29
12 oz. for hours on end. I can even do that with 16 oz. when I get pints.  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 10 2007 at 13:34
I'm not allowed to drink alcohol for 2 months!  |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 10 2007 at 13:36
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I don't bench, but I would say 80-90 lbs I can do comfortably.
------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 10 2007 at 13:38
do what with it? |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 10 2007 at 13:40
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Uh...bench it. I don't have a rack to hold the bar, so I'm really afraid to try anything more in case I drop it. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 10 2007 at 13:42
 I'm sorry to hear that Tony. I was recently on antibiotics for strep throat and couldn't drink for two weeks. Not fun. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: June 10 2007 at 20:11
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My max (when I used to work out) was about 135 pounds which was about 10-15 pounds more than I weighed at the time. Nowadays I don't use weights to exercise I swim, hike, bike, skateboard etc. ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: enteredwinter
Date Posted: June 10 2007 at 20:29
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I bench about once a week. I do 185 (each side has a 45 & a 25, and I think the bar weighs 45). I've been doing 185, exactly, since around the year 2000. I know I probably should try to increase it gradually, but I'm happy with the results, and I don't want to look like some steroided-up pro wrestler or something. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 10 2007 at 20:37
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What is a bench-press? ------------- What? |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: June 10 2007 at 20:54
| I can lift a 10 lb weight over and over. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 10 2007 at 21:12
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I don't even remember. I haven't weight-lifted in well over a decade. However, at the time I was muscular enough and wanted definition over muscle mass. So, instead of trying to max out, I did relatively light weights (my guess is somewhere in the 125-175 lb. regime) for many reps. At the time I could perhaps max out in the low 200s, but my memory for this is utter rubbish. Now hoisting pint glasses is the closest I'll get to "lifting"... |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 08:40
I swam pretty far yesterday -- stopping only occasionally to rest via my big pink floating "noodle."  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 08:47
A periodical all about benches. e.g. Bench Monthly or Bencher's Digest..etc,etc ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 18:25
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I've heard of pressing flowers but pressing benches is a new one on me. ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 18:32
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I heard some pressing news once. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 19:11
I had to press a pair of pants this morning.  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 19:41
 Bench Monthly lol - n00b!Benches and Brenchmen PWNS Bench Monthly, but The Bench Spotter's Journal PWNS them all!!!
You probably even read Deckchair Weekly you're such a n00b!!!!
------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 20:10
It is a well know and non-transmutable fact that Deckchairs are complex geometric structures that take the mental and physical dexterity of Real Men® to assemble without loss of digits and dignity. Conversely, benches are fundamentally simplistic and thus designed for girls and men who eat quiche and yogurt. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: June 12 2007 at 14:32
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25-30kg or so
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: June 18 2007 at 13:02
I don't know what my max bench press is, but here's a picture of me curling my entire house with one arm:
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: June 18 2007 at 14:14
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you beat 'em all Dan, this thread can be closed now.
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Posted By: purplepiper
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 02:52
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I cant do much...10 reps of about 90 lbs today. I can max out at about 120 though. I've never put in the time really, but i'm starting now. My pushup record is 29...that's good for me =) ------------- for those about to prog, we salute you. |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 02:55
| I was too afraid to be humiliated, so I never tried. But I can carry a piano up 20 floors singlehanded. |
Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 05:39
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I can carry my entire 600 CD collection in my pocket. The wonders of mp3 walkmen. ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 05:40
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I can carry the weight of the world on my shoulders ------------- What? |
Posted By: andu
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 06:37
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Actually the lyrics "The mighty arms of Atlas/Hold the heavens from the earth" were written about me ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 07:01
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Is that testosterone I can smell?
Or is it bull  ?-------------
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 07:08
^ It depends on wind direction and whether you are sitting ot standing.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 07:13
-inamingvase by Roy Harper -------------
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 07:16
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 07:18
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Bullinamingvase - Roy Harper album released @ 1976 -------------
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 12:49
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Oh dear Jim. I thought you were a Roy Harper fan. Unlike our mutual friend Mr New. ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 08:07
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Ah yes, Mr New - he of the scathingly ascerbic, yet critically accurate view, expounded at great volume, as I remember at a quiet point during Mr Harper's set at Cropredy:
" off and die, you miserable northern !!"
He really did miss his true vocation as an arts critic -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: darksinger
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 08:56
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i think my max was around 125-130...i'll have to go review my records at the gym... ------------- 
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