The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

@tcBob @chris4x4 Do you even lift?

 

Nah, I stay right around #195 and I'm 5'9. Usually 5#s either way at different points.

Recent total was 1215
Bench-355 Dead-485 Squat-375

Squat and bench are too close together for me at least it feels that way

 

look at this guy
with his #1 member number and his name spelled the same backwards as forwards

 

I feel like the numbers beside @tcBob will read:
Bench: All of it
Squat: More than You
Deadlift: Not enough weights in the gym

 

Nice. What about at 220? That's where I wanna be

EDIT: I found this this morning. It tells what "elite" natural squat, dead, and bench numbers are for each weight class from the 5 natural powerlifting federations. I averaged out each one and here my numbers if I were 198 lbs:

squat: 595
dead: 666
bench: 414

I'm only off by a total weight of 590 lbs lol, which would put me at 1675...I'll keep dreaming

 

Quite a few of us are heavier than you. I am at 205 this morning. I haven't maxed in years so couldn't tell you were I am. Guarantee I could hit the 1000lb club though. Deadlift and squat alone would get me close enough that a weak bench wouldn't matter.

 

It's all relative anyway. I've heard that for every inch, you need to add/subtract ~10 lbs. to kind of make everything relatable...I dunno if it's true, but, if so, at 5'8", I'd be 175 and at 6'1", I'd be 225. Man, I wish I was 6'1"

 

Yeah, outside of highschool i never cared about the 1000lb club. Its pretty cool to get it the first time but after that its whatever. I just lift what feels good now and that keeps me and my joints happy haha.

 

Elite numbers are for extraordinary lifters.
Here is a link to the nationals in 2015 and the numbers moved.
http://usapl.liftingdatabase.com/competitions-view?id=992
For a 220# guy, I'd say your doing good over 1200 still. Also looks like I woulda have placed in the top 30 in nationals last year (my weight class would be under 264) Whoop whoop

 

back on the headphones...if anyone wants a set of bluetooth ones so they don't smash their chest when doing bench these are good. My neighbor just got them and likes them. I still have my LG pair but the quality and sound seem good on these. Also for $12 can you really complain?

http://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Hea...qid=1456156834&sr=8-1&keywords=bluetooth+dreo

Use code 2JXNJM70 for the $12...

 

Are you saying I'm not extraordinary? B/c my mom says different.

220 is wishful thinking...I'm 205 right now and the most I've ever weighed is 209. It's gonna be a while before I'm 225. Maybe around June. That'll put me cutting from like Aug-Jan...I'm gonna be fat this beach season lol

 

Let me ask you bromosexuals this: how low do you go on incline bench? I was doing it Saturday and I noticed that, if I went all the way to my chest, my shoulders got really involved, so I stopped when my upper arms were parallel to the ground. I felt it a lot more in my chest. Same goes for all the variations of flys. If I bring the weight down as far as possible, my shoulders start doing a lot of work. I feel bad for doing half reps, but I do shoulders on a different day than chest for a reason.

 

Everyone is different but I go down til it touches my chest.

 

I find the carryover of different exercises very interesting as well. Here is a little experiment I did by necessity a few years ago. I had herniated a disc between L4 and L5. After about 8 months rehab I was ready to lift again, but decided to change things up so that I wouldn't re-injure my back. At that time I had a 345 low bar squat and a 405 DL. Obviously, deads are now a high-risk exercise for me so I abandoned them completely. I also switched from low-bar to high-bar squatting because I feel that the more vertical back angle in the high-bar is safer for me. I also started oly lifting, a lot. So I was still pulling from the ground everyday, but at lighter weights with greater speed. Fast forward one year. My high bar squat jumped to 365 (20# more than my old low bar) and after 0 deads for 8 months of rehabbing my back + one year of oly and high bar squatting I pulled a 435 DL. I couldn't believe it. I still haven't trained the DL at all since then, and I pulled a 455 DL a few months ago and hit a 400 HBBS. Anyway, my point is that there's more than one way to skin a cat.

 

Depends on how much weight I am doing and how many reps I am doing. When I first get going with lower weight I usually tap the chest but towards the end when I am getting tired I cheat and bounce it so I purposefully don't let myself go to my chest to force the movement without cheating. I drop it just past my chin (which would be slightly less than parallel with the ground) and then go back up