Everybody knows that in basketball the home team gets 'home court advantage' and in football the home team has 'home field advantage'. In almost every case, the home team plays better on their own court or field. Does anybody feel the same way with the gym? I never started lifting weights till I went to college, the college gym is the first gym I ever trained in, and its where I've done the majority of workouts in
Whenever I go home, I either go to a gym near my house or a friend's gym, and every single time I go I get MUCH weaker, especially on the bench press. The supports for the bar at either of the gyms I go to at home are terrible, so you have to kind of lift off, then pull the bar forward before you bench, so you don't hit the supports on the way up. I'm sure that takes some of my strength but it shouldn't be making that much of a difference.
I'm doing an HST routine right now and I'm starting the 2 weeks of 10 reps, so I did 235 for a VERY easy set of 10 last Tuesday. So I go home on Thursday and I accidentally put on only 230lbs (you're supposed to start really low and increase the weight by 5lbs every session, so I should have been doing 240) and it was incredibly difficult for me to lift 230 10 times, which is ridiculous becuase I could do that with ease 2 years ago. I get back to my school gym about 4 days later and I do 245 10 times with ease, I probably had another 5-7 reps in me.
It's not just bench either, squats, curls, rows, everything gets weaker when I'm not in my school's gym. I doubt that the weights weigh different amounts between here and home, so I'm just left to guess that I have some kind of psychological advantage when I'm working out at school. Has anybody else noticed anything similar?
Whenever I go home, I either go to a gym near my house or a friend's gym, and every single time I go I get MUCH weaker, especially on the bench press. The supports for the bar at either of the gyms I go to at home are terrible, so you have to kind of lift off, then pull the bar forward before you bench, so you don't hit the supports on the way up. I'm sure that takes some of my strength but it shouldn't be making that much of a difference.
I'm doing an HST routine right now and I'm starting the 2 weeks of 10 reps, so I did 235 for a VERY easy set of 10 last Tuesday. So I go home on Thursday and I accidentally put on only 230lbs (you're supposed to start really low and increase the weight by 5lbs every session, so I should have been doing 240) and it was incredibly difficult for me to lift 230 10 times, which is ridiculous becuase I could do that with ease 2 years ago. I get back to my school gym about 4 days later and I do 245 10 times with ease, I probably had another 5-7 reps in me.
It's not just bench either, squats, curls, rows, everything gets weaker when I'm not in my school's gym. I doubt that the weights weigh different amounts between here and home, so I'm just left to guess that I have some kind of psychological advantage when I'm working out at school. Has anybody else noticed anything similar?
