BallsToTheWall: Bench Pressing

BallsToTheWall 10.17.18	My brothers! Can you feel the powaaaaaa?
Cygnatti 10.17.18	benchpressing is scurry tbh.
Nazzadan 10.17.18	Hell ya Balls. I've been eating less like a piece of shit and hitting the gym 3 days a week, trying to get a 4th in to the rotation.
Relinquished 10.17.18	i’m glad i’m still within the 300 range but I dip herenthere. not easy compared to the days we’d gloat about it more than now.
DarkSideOfLucca 10.17.18	I'm basically the same age as you. What is your diet, dude? I've been cutting down on sugar, but that's about it. Even that has made a huge improvement. I go to the gym every day but I don't eat too well and I drinkly every night so I'm trying to change that a little.
BallsToTheWall 10.17.18	Lots of eggs with Ezekiel bread and cheese, vegan protein drinks to go, smoothies with heavy cream, almond milk, bananas, fruit, peanut butter and egg protein powder, steak, eggs mutilgrain waffles with peanut butter, chocolate milk.
BallsToTheWall 10.17.18	Occasional vegetables, oatmeal,mashed potatoes.
DarkSideOfLucca 10.17.18	Thanks man! I'm gonna stack up on all that at the grocery store later m/
Relinquished 10.17.18	the essentials
BallsToTheWall 10.17.18	Time to make some steak and a tequila sunrise.
BallsToTheWall 10.17.18	Hilariously enough, 15 pound dumbbell extensions murder my elbows but heavy pressing and weighted dips are fine.
TheNotrap 10.17.18	I feel the blood of the kings
SymbolicInTime 10.17.18	My max varies a lot, as I struggle to stay consistent diet-wise. I ate clean af for a couple years and wasn’t making notable progress. So then spliced in lots of junk eating. Then I made fast progress for three or four months, then it eventually started to have the reverse effect. I’m just kinda stuck atm. Anyways, my 1 rep max was 285 while weighing 210. Right now I’m 190 and haven’t tried s 1rm in a long time. But I only can do a few reps of 225 rn. Guessing my max is around 230-235. I had dropped all the way down to only two reps of 205 like a month and a half ago though. So I’m slowly gaining back some strength.
DominionMM1 10.17.18	it's called old man strength homie
bloc 10.17.18	Changed up my technique recently by narrowing my grip and it's helped prevent a lot of shoulder pain. It forces you to tuck your elbows more and thus brings more triceps in but that's a small price to pay. Did the same with my dumbbell chest movements as well.
bloc 10.17.18	As for good meals/snacks: oatmeal with natural pb and protein powder is #1 choice for me, tuna out of the can, cottage cheese, greek yogurt, turkey sausages once a week, avocados, etc
Thalassic 10.17.18	Sets I could go up to 308 to 330 lbs a year ago. Lost quite a bit of weight and now I keep my sets (8-10 reps) up to 286 lbs.
BallsToTheWall 10.17.18	Good shit. I’m at 179, trying to get to a final weight around 185.
DominionMM1 10.17.18	i’m actually scaling back on the weights and doing more running and swimming to cut weight. I’m shooting for a lean 170 or so.
BallsToTheWall 10.17.18	I despite running without a purpose. I need another sport if I’m gonna do that.
DominionMM1 10.17.18	i do hill sprints so there is sort of a purpose with each sprint
BallsToTheWall 10.17.18	That’s better. Fuck jogging and treadmills.
DominionMM1 10.17.18	yeah i've never set foot on a treadmill because it looks awful to do
StrikeOfTheBeast 10.17.18	Nice gains man.
Trophycase 10.17.18	treadmills are like hell on earth
BallsToTheWall 10.17.18	It feels good to feel better and stronger now then when I was in my mid 20’s to 28.
Relinquished 10.17.18	gotta surpass yourself always the older buff guys at the gym seem to have it more together than when you start off as an idiot. experience is everything at the gym.
BallsToTheWall 10.17.18	When you’re sick of tired of being sick and tired you gotta make the change. I feel more clarity in general by eating better.
DominionMM1 10.18.18	my biggest hurdle has been and still is beer. i'd be ok if could drink lower calorie beers but i love my big brews.
WoodeeX 10.18.18	try HIIT training, improves strength and cardio and torches fat
bloc 10.18.18	I already sweat like crazy doing my simple split routine. It is so fuckin puzzling to me when I see people lifting at the gym and there's not a drop of sweat on them. My face and back and chest are always drenched within 30 min.
guitarded_chuck 10.18.18	sweat with pride, if you arent sweating youre almost for sure not working hard enough
guitarded_chuck 10.18.18	idk what my bench is i dont really care about numbers and prefer dumbbells cause i think its better for stabilizers/core but its prob ~275 only use barbell for squats/deads
DarkSideOfLucca 10.18.18	"my biggest hurdle has been and still is beer." Same, not drinking beer every night is a massive goal of mine aha - sort of cancels out going to the gym every day
guitarded_chuck 10.18.18	weed is a bodybuilders best friend, good for inflammation, gives you a ravenous appetite, helps you sleep after you do lines of pwo keep the booze to like 3-4 drinks once a week as a reward for making another week your bitch
BallsToTheWall 10.18.18	Benching was always an exercise I felt inferior about. I had plataeaued for years so just the fact I feel good about Benching now is a moral boost. For everything. Then I throw reverse pyramid dumbbell inclines and dips and pushups. Today is leg day.
DarkSideOfLucca 10.18.18	Yeah, I used to smoke before workouts back in college but now in my older age weed makes me so fucking anxious in public places that it's not really an option anymore. Also, that whole anxiety thing makes it a terrible social drug for me - it's mostly just for watching movies/jamming music in my bed now lol But yeah, I'll just cut out a few week days of drinking beer and start eating way less sugar. Hopefully that will do it.
Calc 10.18.18	315 will be my max until I die, my shoulders are no longer suited for heavy benching.
JoeTex 10.18.18	500 lbs after 2 runs of smolov jr
AlexKzillion 10.18.18	I was at 175 before I fell off the wagon. Chest has always been my weakpoint. Feelsbadman
bloc 10.18.18	Chest is my weakest muscle group too I'd say
BallsToTheWall 10.18.18	It was mine too till recently.
MebalZahari 10.18.18	Gave up these shoulder wreckers for a bit. Getting back to it.
BallsToTheWall 10.19.18	I am going to have to cut back on the dairy. Too much gives me the runs and an enflamed asshole.
GhostB1rd 10.19.18	I stopped benching after the weight stack I had access to felt like a feather at 205. Now I just do 305 lb. total weight dips and heavy overhead dumbbell presses towards the back third of my workout.
StrikeOfTheBeast 10.19.18	#BenchSquad
Trophycase 10.20.18	"I am going to have to cut back on the dairy. Too much gives me the runs and an enflamed asshole." Yeah man I cut out most dairy 5 years ago or so. Mostly drinking milk and eating yogurt (I still have a bit of cheese every now and then). Done wonders for how good my stomach feels and I don't really feel bloated much anymore.