1st invitational fern bench press challenge!
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good stuff Chubbs - I always found it very tough to move around the footy field at anything more than 110 - 104 optimum playing weight for me, which even back in the late 90s was getting too light to be a 2nd division NPC prop and even club level prop in the Valley. Nowdays that would be a centre!!<br />
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didn't do the challenge this morning, forgot - but weight in at the weekend at 89kg. - which gives me a weight to press of 62.3. So with the 'washer' plates at gym of 1.25kg, I'll have to handicap myself 200g and press 62.5. I hope that is taken into account... -
hmm he must be suffering from malnutrition!! take beer out of any frontrowers diet at your peril!!
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Had another crack tonight at the same weight and still maxed out at 20. Was a bit gutted as I thought I might sneak another 2-3 in. Hit the wall on 18 and the 19th and 20th reps were burners! Bugger was I did the rest of my workout and then came back and ripped out 3 sets of 6 at 95kg! so the endurance effort didn't seem to mess with the heavier lifting later on.
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Okay I tried this today. I did it after some active stretching and 2mins of KB swings to get the heart going and muscles warm (for me I just can't start lifting without doing something before hand). The weight was 60kgs and while I struggled to 18 got there with correct form. <br />
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I'm not a huge barbell bench lifter. The bench pressing I do is with dumbbells in supersets with a lower body exercise. I often do DB bench press for 8 reps and then followed with DB split squats/lunges or DB Bulgarian split squats. I've slowly worked up to a best of 35kg DBs<br />
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Something else I've been doing is lying on the ground with legs flat and doing alternating single arm Kettlebell presses. Best is 20 reps (10 each arm) with 24kg KB. Superset that with 24kg KB Goblet squats (Holding KB upside down under your chin with two hands) for 10 reps. Rest for 30secs and then repeat. -
DId 21 today at 62.5kg which i thought was pretty good til my mate sam had a go. He weighs slight more than me at 84 but his weights been coming down a bit lately and hes been lifting for a couple of years. Cranked out 41 reps at the same weight as me. Not too shabby. Also witnessed him row 2k in 6min 15 and he says he has a gone a bit faster than that too. Pretty farkin quick! Fit bugga.
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Good effort with 21 JK, nice to get past 20!<br />
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41 reps, that's impressive. Better than Slater/O'Connor managed in the challenge and they were lifting similar weights! -
[quote name='JK']DId 21 today at 62.5kg which i thought was pretty good til my mate sam had a go. He weighs slight more than me at 84 but his weights been coming down a bit lately and hes been lifting for a couple of years. [B]Cranked out 41 reps at the same weight as me[/B]. Not too shabby. Also witnessed him row 2k in 6min 15 and he says he has a gone a bit faster than that too. Pretty farkin quick! Fit bugga.[/QUOTE]<br />
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[quote name='JK']Oh he aint playing with us MN5, just with my mind. I was highly suprised at the ease he kept cranking them out. <br />
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But don't worry, I caned him around the golf course on Sunday![/QUOTE]<br />
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His muscles probably got in the way.
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Super effort that, no denying it, 41 is some fucken amount of reps ! -
[quote name='JK']haha hes not even that big. Just an animal.<br />
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Reckons it is due to all the years he spent cutting wood as a teenager when he lived over on [B]Great Barrier[/B][/QUOTE]<br />
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What's his name JK? My Mum's whanau are from there and every time I go back there I meet a new cuzzie -
missed out - programme change, doing LOW reps now - 12, 6,4,2. Is cool to be back into this. Managed 3 at 100 for my last set - stoked to be lifting heavy weights and my shoulder letting me (heavy for me anyway)!!<br />
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I had a crack tonight for the first time at the end of my workout. Did a warmup of 60kgs for 3 whole reps then managed to knock out 25 reps at 80kgs. Pretty stocked seeing I was farked by that stage of the session and I did it without a spotter. The hard part now now will be to do more next time. Might try this once a week. My goal is to do 20 at 100 I always peter out at 17.
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[quote name='ACT Crusader']Okay I tried this today. I did it after some active stretching and 2mins of KB swings to get the heart going and muscles warm (for me I just can't start lifting without doing something before hand). The weight was 60kgs and while I struggled to 18 got there with correct form. <br />
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I'm not a huge barbell bench lifter. The bench pressing I do is with dumbbells in supersets with a lower body exercise. I often do DB bench press for 8 reps and then followed with DB split squats/lunges or DB Bulgarian split squats. I've slowly worked up to a best of 35kg DBs<br />
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Something else I've been doing is lying on the ground with legs flat and doing alternating single arm Kettlebell presses. Best is 20 reps (10 each arm) with 24kg KB. Superset that with 24kg KB Goblet squats (Holding KB upside down under your chin with two hands) for 10 reps. Rest for 30secs and then repeat.[/QUOTE]<br />
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That KB stuff sounds like a good workout mate. I had a go with some KBs for the first time a few weeks back. I was surprised how different they feel to DBs. I really want to get some and start learning the movements.
