[quote]RaspberryCookie wrote:
dswithers wrote:
It does no good to say you can bench press 225 for X reps unless you also give your body weight. If you weight 250 pounds a 225 pound bench press is not very impressive, but if you weight 165 pounds a 225 bench press is pretty impressive! That’s why thye have weight classes in power lifting!
Damnit!! When I was 165 my 1RM was 215… so close, so close![/quote]
At a bodyweight of 210lb I did 220lb for 25 reps
[quote]AznMscls wrote:
If a person can bench 300+ theres no reason for them to toss around 135lbs. The reason why people react negatively towards this lift is b/c its weak and out of place. Its like someone asking you how many times you can curl a 30lb dumbbell. You kinda want to shake your head in disgust and leave.
The “T” in T-Nation does stand for testosterone right?
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I think most agree with this. I warm up with more than 135lbs. It would be pointless to waste a workout dropping to that weight just to see how many reps I can do. I might as well stay home.
Do you work out at the columbia gym?
If this was directed towards me, yeah thats one of the gyms I work out at. Whats up bro.
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[quote]kdubson09 wrote:
Do you work out at the columbia gym?[/quote]
I don’t know as much as probably any of you but as a sales manager I know how the mind works. I finished of with 135 burn out and today I did it 86 times. My dumbbell incline I set out at 140 and sometimes 150. I must be doing something right and my mind tells me that it’s working!
Epic bump
Hell of a thread bump. I have seen, not only in this topic, but in other posts, people saying that 20+ reps is cardio. I feel like this applies when you do 20 reps with a weight that is your 100RM. But reaching your actual 20 rep max? That is a fucking challenge. If we’re really talking a true 20RM, you start to think about quitting at 5 reps, and you’re almost sure you will by 10. By the time you hit 15, you’re running on pure mental fortitude until you clear that last rep.
Other than warming up I just feel like it’s a waste of time for me.
135 x 20 = Widowmaker set for someone with a TM of 210-220
I would love to try this myself. Def as a good AMRAP finisher, and even better to do AMRAP 135 with progressive overload to work up to AMRAP 225 for the NFL-Style Combine test.
Never tested my max for 135 but my max for 225 was 8. Prolly have more in me fresh. I was doing doubles with the slingshot at 315 right before.
What a line.
As a carpenter I know how neurosurgery works 
Totally agree.
I don’t know why people think 10-20 reps is light. I’d do sets of three any day over higher rep sets if we’re purely talking about pain and difficulty.
Doing a double might be intimidating because the weight is relatively heavy, but it’s over pretty quickly. Try that with a set of 10 on the squats with a weight such that you have to pause every rep for two seconds to breathe. You’re fighting your body telling you to gtfo.
Yeah I know I could have chosen my words differently. Whats funny is a neurosurgeon deals with a different aspect of the brain that what I’m speaking of. I guess you as a carpenter didn’t know that was the case. You can hate away and I’ll keep pumping my gains up.
I don’t hate you bruno. You just made a comment that was funny, no harm no foul, eh?
keep on pumping yourself silly man.
55 reps
I did 11/8/6 reps at 198 lbs this week
My regular work out weight
Still can’t make 12/12/12 though
I can easily do 1 rep at 264 lbs
Trying to achieve 275 lbs 1 rep
Haven’t read much, but I’ve done 20 at 245. 135 would be torture.
Most I’ve ever done was 17… was shooting for 20
x2^^^^^.
I read a lot on these forums and a lot of the T-Nation articles before I started training. Actually read them for months. I started benching around 145 lbs my first few times on the bench. I went to 300 lbs in less than 15 months.
For the original poster that posted this thread. He could have made himself seem more more intelligent by simply asking “How many push ups can you do in 1-set?” Haven’t checked in a while. Back when I was in the 160’s, I put both hands on the scale, and came up with 125 lbs of resistance while doing a push-up, equivalent to 125 lbs on the bench. I can rep out about 80 of those last time I checked in one set.
The original poster made this thread when Talladega Nights was a brand new movie playing in theaters and George Dubya was halfway through his second term. Several people here could’ve made themselves seem more intelligent by checking the post dates.