Wow, lots going on here as usual ChickL. Glad to see your plugging along; lifting stuff, cooking stuff, killing stuff…Super!
Good work on the vids also.
Thanks Zman. Glad to hear your vacation was great. Sounds like you are getting ramped up for your meet. PRs in the near future!
90! You have come a very long way! That’s just great. Keep at it. I suspect once you get your form dialed in you will easily be hitting triple digits. After all, there’s only room for one double-digit bencher in these parts. And I have cornered the market.
Thank you K! I’m working on it. I don’t believe for one minute you are going to stay in the double digits.
Nope. You will both exceed that level in 2017!
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So much missed. Alright, now I’m looking forward to when 100 will be your bitch.
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Lol…Me too! It may be next year. But, I plan on hitting it, or die trying. 
My mom is awesome! She found me a new toy! It’s Christmas time in Texas boys and girls. Merry Christmas/ Happy Birthday to me! Bad news is… I am definitely going to have to throw some shit out to make room. Yeah, yeah, I know, I was supposed to wait until I hit my goal, but the price was too good to pass up. She even woke up early so I could go it before I went to work. Bless her pointed little head. She said it did not look like fun at all to her, but did a pretty damn good job of doing some bent over rows with just the bar…lol More bad news is that I have 3 jobs going right now. I don’t want to go to work, I want to stay home and play! 
Just a couple more weeks. I just need to hang in there a little longer.
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Er did I miss something? What’s the new toy?
Well, I told myself when I reach 100 lbs on my bench I could have an Oly bar instead of my standard 1 inch bar. That’s what I wanted for Christmas. My mom, not only found me an Oly bar, but the rack, bench and 205 lbs of weights! 
(For less than what I would have paid for a bar.) Now then, I have a dilemma, do I go ahead and use it, because I want to, or do I make myself wait till I hit 100lb goal???
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Um no you don’t wait, silly Chicken!!! Why?? You’ve been busting your ass. It’s an oly bar and good weight set, not a chocolate cake you have to wait for until all your brussel sprouts are gone :-/
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I know, right? It’s killing me. I can’t wait to deadlift with it.
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Okay, I am definitely going to have to have an end of year clearance sale. And get a heater. I am Texan, must have heater. Story time…
Last Sat. I go up to Pimp Daddy’s to take the MethHead some food. He has money to eat, but lives on .99 cent corndogs and burritos from the convenience store. More money for dope that way, I guess. No one is around, so I open the door and am immediately assaulted by the smell of spray paint. I am thinking, WTH? A customer gets there at the same time I do so I have to deal with that first. I go back to the paint room and low and behold during the night, he has fabricated a preacher curl bench! Complete with Pimp Daddy’s cambered bar, with the 25 lb plates. I return later that evening and he has finally drug he ass outta bed. He has set the bar on the floor so he can finish his paint job. I ask him what’s all this. He begins to tell me that he got the plans off the internet and how this would make his titties grow! I tell him this will NOT make his titties grow, it will make his biceps grow. He begins to argue with me. I am standing right next to the bar, so I reach down, grab it, and clean and press it up. He takes a breath from his argument and says, “Well I can’t do that in my RV.” I told him we were not IN his RV. (No attempt was made to replicate the movement. ) Then he proceeded to tell me he could not find Pimp Daddy’s smaller plates and the other bar. I told him the “other bar” was a triceps bar. Dumb look. Duh. Conveniently he changed the subject. When I went back a couple days later, the titty building machine was nowhere in sight.
On one hand, I would love for him to do something more constructive with himself, but I am afraid that if he gets all tweaked out, he is going to end up hurting himself. On the other hand, I would love to sell him some equipment, so I can buy me some more dumbells…lol. I know, that’s bad. Imma bad person. Shame on me. Think I’ll go by there with a sales pitch this evening.
At least a I spared y’all the story of the 300lb grocery store clerk, lecturing me on the evils of drinking gatorade. 
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I once saw Pimp Daddy and Meth Head in concert but it wasn’t my kind of music. 
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Hahahaaaa… Pimp Daddy and MethHead are brothers. One is a straightlace professional, the other has problems. I am sitting on the side of the road with a flat tire right now. Had to call MethHead to come bring some air. Yeah, I get mad as hell at him for doing the shit, but he is good about helping at times like this.
Sorry about the flat tire. Hopefully he gets there and helps you get back on the road soon.
I saw your BP video there. Good deal!
Maybe try doing a “pullup” or two to the bar before you unrack so all those “pulling” muscles are active. Then, on that first rep, unrack and get it in your locked out position. Still tight. Slow down a little and be controlled as you lower the bar to your chest. You want everything tight, from your back, all the way down through your glutes and quads. Even your butt and abs should be TIGHT. I think you have a lot bigger bench in you once you get everything activated when you press.
I just wanted you to know, I haven’t had to kill anything in weeks, until you said this.
Thanks Puff! I am hoping to get things straightened out soon, so I can get back to it.
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Thanks Dave. He finally got his butt out there. I really didn’t want to drag the spare out from under the pick up, in the dark, out on the county road, in knee high grass, with nothing but my cell phone flash light. I already found one rattlesnake today and didn’t want to look for another…lol. Turns out it would have been quicker. 