[quote]PeteS wrote:
^^^^^Derek, that is not necessarily a bad thing.
No Home Depot? Good lord I love that place. It sure as hell beats paying some numbskull to fix my drywall, plumbing, floor, etc. Big believe in DIY. [/quote]
I know but with my shoulder fubar’d, no longer can do the big bench etc. 
I like Lowes, bad Home depot experience.
[quote]cavalier wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
^ My arms are so short and I am so barrel chested I can do floor presses and the bar touches my chest. FML[/quote]
And this is a problem to a bencher how?[/quote]
For normal smart people it is a great problem to have.
For the knuckle dragging meathead I used to be it made me good at bench, BUT I never developed correctly and benched with bad form.
Hell I remember in HS benching 3-4 days a week.
Sigh. With my long arms and thin chest, I would just kill to have a problem like that. But I see your point - if things are too easy, you don’t have an incentive to get it right.
My Sheiko routine had me benching 3 times a week - which turned out a good thing, all that practice got my form better.
Sorry Matty, didn’t mean to hijack.
[quote]cavalier wrote:
Sigh. With my long arms and thin chest, I would just kill to have a problem like that. But I see your point - if things are too easy, you don’t have an incentive to get it right.
My Sheiko routine had me benching 3 times a week - which turned out a good thing, all that practice got my form better.
Sorry Matty, didn’t mean to hijack.[/quote]
Everyone posts in Matty’s log, he doesnt mind.
When I say benching 3-4 times a week, I mean Heavy and every week. When you are a young lifter its very easy to fall into doing what you do well a lot.
I also was a football player, nobody ever taught us how to lift in the 80’s. It was get under the bar and just do it. When I started back in my early 20’s I had a little better form, but did not lift with PL guys at the gym. It was me and my room mate and friend that went to the same HS. Now 20 years later I am dealing with impingement and tendon tears that need surgery.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]PeteS wrote:
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
[quote]PeteS wrote:
I would still keep it in as an ME lift. Main reason I haven’t is because most of my training partners are too stiff and ugly to get down to the floor, so we tend to pick board variations. I am committed to making some do floor presses with me now.
And wait, you ORDERED a two board? I know you are a New Yorker and all, but don’t you have access to a piece of lumber, a saw, and some screws or nails??? [/quote]
Hold up what is this lumber and nails you speak of???
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A few years ago I had to guide Roger from AF on how to start a grill over the phone… you guys are useless when it comes to some of this shit I swear. Does Home Depot not exist out there?
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I hope you took away his man card. How can you not know how to light a grill?[/quote]
LMAO! Awesome stuff.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]cavalier wrote:
Sigh. With my long arms and thin chest, I would just kill to have a problem like that. But I see your point - if things are too easy, you don’t have an incentive to get it right.
My Sheiko routine had me benching 3 times a week - which turned out a good thing, all that practice got my form better.
Sorry Matty, didn’t mean to hijack.[/quote]
Everyone posts in Matty’s log, he doesnt mind.
When I say benching 3-4 times a week, I mean Heavy and every week. When you are a young lifter its very easy to fall into doing what you do well a lot.
I also was a football player, nobody ever taught us how to lift in the 80’s. It was get under the bar and just do it. When I started back in my early 20’s I had a little better form, but did not lift with PL guys at the gym. It was me and my room mate and friend that went to the same HS. Now 20 years later I am dealing with impingement and tendon tears that need surgery. [/quote]
^^^ One of the main reasons why in those 'programs" the power clean/hang clean are in there as much as the bench, just that as kids/adults we only do the bench portion…
[quote]FISCHER613 wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]cavalier wrote:
Sigh. With my long arms and thin chest, I would just kill to have a problem like that. But I see your point - if things are too easy, you don’t have an incentive to get it right.
My Sheiko routine had me benching 3 times a week - which turned out a good thing, all that practice got my form better.
Sorry Matty, didn’t mean to hijack.[/quote]
Everyone posts in Matty’s log, he doesnt mind.
When I say benching 3-4 times a week, I mean Heavy and every week. When you are a young lifter its very easy to fall into doing what you do well a lot.
I also was a football player, nobody ever taught us how to lift in the 80’s. It was get under the bar and just do it. When I started back in my early 20’s I had a little better form, but did not lift with PL guys at the gym. It was me and my room mate and friend that went to the same HS. Now 20 years later I am dealing with impingement and tendon tears that need surgery. [/quote]
^^^ One of the main reasons why in those 'programs" the power clean/hang clean are in there as much as the bench, just that as kids/adults we only do the bench portion…[/quote]
Yep, I always hated cleans, cause I was not good at them.
Now I do mostly cleans, hell that was my whole workout today. I very rarely do chest work now. Someday I will get back to it and balance out.
I love this shit, please post away, hijack all you want, Im sure at some point I did it your logs as well.
Home depot gives me the shakes, sweats and vertigo…NO THANK YOU!!!
Man I didnt lift at all in HS, and in my 20s I was an admitted brotard, but I just didnt know any better…the effort was there but intelligence and lack of access to experienced lifters was not available. I benched like 5 days a week all with the worst form imaginable!
I’ve heard of phobias for height, darkness, snakes, water . . . but Home Depot??? We gotta get you to a specialist!
I keep benching, hoping my chest will eventually thicken and make the distance less and thus easier. Anyone with that experience? Or did all you genius benchers have a thick chest all your life?
[quote]cavalier wrote:
I’ve heard of phobias for height, darkness, snakes, water . . . but Home Depot??? We gotta get you to a specialist!
I keep benching, hoping my chest will eventually thicken and make the distance less and thus easier. Anyone with that experience? Or did all you genius benchers have a thick chest all your life?[/quote]
God made me a gorilla with T-Rex arms, which makes DL a fucking bitch for me.
DJ’s long lost prehistoric cousin
[quote]cavalier wrote:
I’ve heard of phobias for height, darkness, snakes, water . . . but Home Depot??? We gotta get you to a specialist!
I keep benching, hoping my chest will eventually thicken and make the distance less and thus easier. Anyone with that experience? Or did all you genius benchers have a thick chest all your life?[/quote]
Have you tried shortening your arms? 
How the hell did you capture a pic of the video…Im liking this! it shows my best side, the one not showing my face!!!
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
DJ’s long lost prehistoric cousin
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Yea that was Bob
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
[quote]cavalier wrote:
I’ve heard of phobias for height, darkness, snakes, water . . . but Home Depot??? We gotta get you to a specialist!
I keep benching, hoping my chest will eventually thicken and make the distance less and thus easier. Anyone with that experience? Or did all you genius benchers have a thick chest all your life?[/quote]
Have you tried shortening your arms? ;)[/quote]
Yeah, but the pools of blood and severed tendons were something of a turnoff.
I was just curious if some guys are lucky to be born with a sky high chest or if that develops with training.
Derek, your arms honestly don’t look all that short to me. Or is your avatar misleading?
[quote]cavalier wrote:
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
[quote]cavalier wrote:
I’ve heard of phobias for height, darkness, snakes, water . . . but Home Depot??? We gotta get you to a specialist!
I keep benching, hoping my chest will eventually thicken and make the distance less and thus easier. Anyone with that experience? Or did all you genius benchers have a thick chest all your life?[/quote]
Have you tried shortening your arms? ;)[/quote]
Yeah, but the pools of blood and severed tendons were something of a turnoff.
I was just curious if some guys are lucky to be born with a sky high chest or if that develops with training.
Derek, your arms honestly don’t look all that short to me. Or is your avatar misleading?[/quote]
Misleading cause I get in comp position pressing on floor press and it will hit my chest.
Have to wear size 50 short jackets and still long on my arms.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]cavalier wrote:
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
[quote]cavalier wrote:
I’ve heard of phobias for height, darkness, snakes, water . . . but Home Depot??? We gotta get you to a specialist!
I keep benching, hoping my chest will eventually thicken and make the distance less and thus easier. Anyone with that experience? Or did all you genius benchers have a thick chest all your life?[/quote]
Have you tried shortening your arms? ;)[/quote]
Yeah, but the pools of blood and severed tendons were something of a turnoff.
I was just curious if some guys are lucky to be born with a sky high chest or if that develops with training.
Derek, your arms honestly don’t look all that short to me. Or is your avatar misleading?[/quote]
Misleading cause I get in comp position pressing on floor press and it will hit my chest.
Have to wear size 50 short jackets and still long on my arms.
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fuck, you are barrel chested. I’m a 46 regular and shorten the arms a bit.
I dont know why, but I fucked up and DE upper yesterday when I should of done DE lower…god my short term memory is shot, long term Im fine, its like Im having early stage dementia…
DE UPPER
BENCH PRESS 10X2X205 65% 1 RM (320)
CGBP 225/10/8
INCLINE CGBP 225/5 185/10 135/12
CROSS BODY TRI EXT 40X12X4
DB FRENCH PRESS 100X15X2
SEATED DB CLEANS 30X12X3
FRONT PLATE RAISES 45X15 90X10X2
OTHER
MEADOWS ROWS 1PLT/12 2PLTX12X3
ISO HIGH ROW 2PPSX10 3PPSX10X2
Its fucking snowing in NYC already…a sign of winter to come…
Nice work. Sorry about the dimentia. Happens to old people.
