Old Duffer
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Holy locomotive, Batman! This train.... all I can say is, "wow"
Pull up a chair boys n girls, old Duffer did a bad thing. And survived. Undamaged.
Pulling up a little history: for a month before this train left the station, my max bench (slight angle, on cable machine) was stuck at 250. The day I launched this journey, I barely broke thru at 255x3. Forward movement. I was happy. Then last week I decided to shake the tree by doing only my 1st set and then straight to max set. As seen just a few posts above I screwed up my bar height stops and did 260x8 short stroked. Went back after chewing myself out and did them again correctly for another 260x6. Workout partner was not there that day.
Today...did my warn up cardio and cable tris while waiting for her to get off the cables. I set up and then discussed the last couple weeks with her. "Do I run thru the 5x5s as normal or do I again jump to last set after 1st set (last is now increased to 270#) she looks over the numbers and responds ,"add more weight". Damn. I responded after whining, "I'll feel out the 270 and then decide"
160x6, straight to 270x6. Not too bad. Keep in mind this is 20#s above my plateau and an absolute record for me. She says, "see.... add more weight!"
Fine! I bumped it up to 300#s and told her I would do negatives but she would have to help me get it up and that would require her to straddle me on the bench. ;-) I get under, get set, look for her ..... and she is standing off just watching. Egging me on. So I hit it with all I had and ..... 300x5 !!!! And clean. Smooth. I catch my breath, get a drink. She challenges, "add MORE weight!" I swap some dbs around. She asks, "how much is that?". "320#s and that WILL require your help"
I climb under. Set myself. Look for her.... and she is standing even further away. Just watching. Waiting. Fine. I get pissed. Slam my back into the bench a couple times and hit it. Hard. And it goes up. Slowly. Breathe, check my posture, and do three grueling, slow, clean, vein-popping reps!!!!!!
THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY POUNDS FOR 3 CLEAN REPS :-O
9 days on the train and my bench went up 70 pounds!
Yup. Disclaimers. This is with training wheels. On cables. Apples n oranges. Everyone understand, because I do. It's not the weight in absolutes. It's the gain. Meaningless to some of you big boys, I know, but insane for this old, busted up pos body!
Also, no I won't be doing it again for a while. Good way to get hurt. My body is in no way ready for that kind of increase. ....but damn it's hard to say no when a pretty young thing says, "add more weight" excitedly! Lucky for me I stopped the daily tadalafil! !!!! Lol!
Weight today 224. Cals 2600.
Pull up a chair boys n girls, old Duffer did a bad thing. And survived. Undamaged.
Pulling up a little history: for a month before this train left the station, my max bench (slight angle, on cable machine) was stuck at 250. The day I launched this journey, I barely broke thru at 255x3. Forward movement. I was happy. Then last week I decided to shake the tree by doing only my 1st set and then straight to max set. As seen just a few posts above I screwed up my bar height stops and did 260x8 short stroked. Went back after chewing myself out and did them again correctly for another 260x6. Workout partner was not there that day.
Today...did my warn up cardio and cable tris while waiting for her to get off the cables. I set up and then discussed the last couple weeks with her. "Do I run thru the 5x5s as normal or do I again jump to last set after 1st set (last is now increased to 270#) she looks over the numbers and responds ,"add more weight". Damn. I responded after whining, "I'll feel out the 270 and then decide"
160x6, straight to 270x6. Not too bad. Keep in mind this is 20#s above my plateau and an absolute record for me. She says, "see.... add more weight!"
Fine! I bumped it up to 300#s and told her I would do negatives but she would have to help me get it up and that would require her to straddle me on the bench. ;-) I get under, get set, look for her ..... and she is standing off just watching. Egging me on. So I hit it with all I had and ..... 300x5 !!!! And clean. Smooth. I catch my breath, get a drink. She challenges, "add MORE weight!" I swap some dbs around. She asks, "how much is that?". "320#s and that WILL require your help"
I climb under. Set myself. Look for her.... and she is standing even further away. Just watching. Waiting. Fine. I get pissed. Slam my back into the bench a couple times and hit it. Hard. And it goes up. Slowly. Breathe, check my posture, and do three grueling, slow, clean, vein-popping reps!!!!!!
THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY POUNDS FOR 3 CLEAN REPS :-O
9 days on the train and my bench went up 70 pounds!
Yup. Disclaimers. This is with training wheels. On cables. Apples n oranges. Everyone understand, because I do. It's not the weight in absolutes. It's the gain. Meaningless to some of you big boys, I know, but insane for this old, busted up pos body!
Also, no I won't be doing it again for a while. Good way to get hurt. My body is in no way ready for that kind of increase. ....but damn it's hard to say no when a pretty young thing says, "add more weight" excitedly! Lucky for me I stopped the daily tadalafil! !!!! Lol!
Weight today 224. Cals 2600.
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