[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
The OP wrote-
Does bringing the bar down until your arms are 90 degrees, without touching the chest, deserve bragging rights as your 1 rep bench max?
I am taking it upon myself to create some Gym Rules to help clear up issues like this.
Rule #1- If someone asks- “How much ya bench hoss??” The person being asked must assume they are talking about a full ROM bench brought down to the chest and taken to full lockout without a spotter touching it. This rule also applies to squat as well-squat to at least parallel without a spotter wrapped around you. Also, these lifts are also to be assumed to be free weighted, not smith or hammmerzzz strength.
Feel free to add to the list of Gym Rules. Although adoption of said rule must be approved by me to become law. I feel qualified for such an endeavor considering I have been both a bodybuilder and powerlifter and am not biased either way.
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I dont think its too plausible to hold bodybuilders to a powerlifter’s standards. Cant really declare 1 movement as “This and only this” while both bodybuilders and powerlifters do that same movement differently.
And if it will also please the court, id like to move that ‘a Max lift CAN be declared for HS or smith if said machine was included in one’s declaration,’ IE “My max is 5 plates on each side for a HS incline bench.” [/quote]
i think you are reading too much into this. i’m not talking bodybuilding or powerlifting. If that were the case i could throw in a whole list of rules that i have to follow for a bench to be really considered a bench attempt. I could have easily said that your feet can’t move, you can’t press until the bar is motionless on your chest, you can’t let it dip before pressing…etc. IMO, when someone asks how much a person benches, the vast majority of people assume that the movement will be full ROM. i have nothing against partial ROM movements. I use them pretty much everytime i train. I’ll go even further to say that I would never have gotten to my present level of strength without doing partials. But with that said, when someone asks what i bench i tell them what i can touch and go bench because that’s what people think of when they are asking.
I think some people are getting their panties in a wad because they feel like this is personal or that one way is better than another. Everything works. But we all know when some person asks us how much ya bench, they aren’t asking what someone benches on some machine or how much they can bench with half ROM or How much they can bench to a board or whatever. I would bet that I do more bench variations than anyone on this forum. If i wanted to I could say that i bench 675lbs because I’ve done that to a four board. But we know that would be absurd when in reality the question was really how much i could bench for a full ROM.
So if as a bodybuilder one is asked how much they bench, then the answer should be either this is how much i bench to my chest or I don’t do full ROM benches for a 1 rep max. It’s that simple.
As for your request to have Hammerzz strength machines made an option for being an alternative to the “waddya bench?” , I’ll have to decline your application. Everyone knows that if you are truely strong, there’s no way you could get enough weight on a hammmerzz strength machine to actually test a 1 RM:) good try though.
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If it would please the court, for the record, id like to state that i have not tried on, nor worn panties, and can in no way, shape, or form have them “in a wad” or any other form of Bunched state. Also for the record, Commando.
Seriously though, i dont know how the really big guys fit in HS benches. I can barely squeeze into the HS incline at my gym. Either Prof has a bigger HS machine, or he is a stretchy, pliable Mofo.[/quote]
i appreciate the fact that you don’t take this stuff too seriously. When you boil it down all that really matters is what you personally find acceptable for your goals.
this internet world isn’t real and most people here aren’t real. most will never compete or accomplish anything other than a really impressive post count.
i like your attitude akuma. you’ve taken some pretty heavy lashings in the past but have let it roll off.
i’m still waiting to see a 600lb smith bench though:)
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A. I just got back from several weeks of Volume training, so im easing back into the heavy stuff.
B. Did you get the package i sent you? It was a spoon… with which you could eat my ass. No But yea, lol, I dunno if ill be jumping on smith anytime soon, im enjoying doing free bench. Like i said, although my weights took a big hit, my size is reaping the benefits of my fractured ego.
So if i do jump on a smith sometime, ill be sure to take a video just for you, but dont expect it anytime soon. Lol, i hate having nonbelievers and being questioned, and Oh so loving proving myself, but unfortunately, in a game where growth takes months to years to measure, when you hit something that is increasing the size of your stretchmarks by every other week, you have to stick with it.
