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Training Over 35 Lifter
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[quote]kpsnap wrote:

[quote]Oldman Powers wrote:

Incline Press - Smith Machine- (bar only weighs 15lbs so I have to remember to calc right)
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How do you know this? I actually looked up the manufacturer of the smith at my gym to see what the bar is counterbalanced to: 23 lb. The last gym I was at it was more like 50 lb. Amazing the variation of the weight of these bars.[/quote]

Hey KP -

Yeah, I had to look for the label on the machine. It felt way to light to be a standard weight.
Most people think its a 45lb bar on those things, but invariably they are counterbalanced much lighter.

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Great benching Mr.Powers. Sounds like you got this dialed in now.

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I know its 60 lbs more but you have a shot at one day benching twice your weight. Just great pressing OP.

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[quote]Oldman Powers wrote:
Tomorrow I take my youngest up to college and say goodbye for the semester.

Official empty nester and dirt poor for the next 4 years.[/quote]

And my youngest just started school for the 1st time. My wife is going stir crazy. It’s the 1st time she’s had the house to herself in a long time.

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Damn fine benching…and dips. Steve is right. Benching twice your body weight is very doable.

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[quote]FISCHER613 wrote:
Great benching Mr.Powers. Sounds like you got this dialed in now.[/quote]

Thanks Fischer - You put me on the right track.

BTW - It makes me feel all randy when you call me Mr. Powers.
But you can call me Mike.

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[quote]ecogenx wrote:
I know its 60 lbs more but you have a shot at one day benching twice your weight. Just great pressing OP.[/quote]

I honestly haven’t even thought of that. 60lbs doesn’t sound like much, but for Bench and Millies, it’s a bunch. I hope someday to get there.

Looking back to a few years ago, 300 seemed way out of reach so maybe there’s hope.

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[quote]LittleStrick wrote:

And my youngest just started school for the 1st time. My wife is going stir crazy. It’s the 1st time she’s had the house to herself in a long time.[/quote]

Now its party time for your wife! She’ll love it.

Just got back from a 1200 mile journey to check my daughter into her dorm and pay my first bill. I’m beat.

Now that there aren’t any kids around, I get to run nekid all over the house.

Tripp: Hey, Pop?
Al: Hey! Tripp. What are you doing here?
Tripp: Just came by to get some stuff. What are you doing?
Al: Feeding my fish.
Tripp: Yeah. I see that. You’re naked. In my room.
Al: Well, this is my Naked Room. I mean, it’s my house. A man ought to be able to do whatever he wants to do in his own house. Wore a suit for forty years.
Tripp: So now we got forty years of…
Al: No suit.
Tripp: No suit. Alright. I’m gonna let you get back to feeding your fish.

Matthew McConaughey and Terry Bradshaw - Failure to Launch

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Well if you keep up the lifting, you’ll have a better body than Bradshaw. Maybe the wife won’t mind at all.

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[quote]Oldman Powers wrote:

[quote]LittleStrick wrote:

And my youngest just started school for the 1st time. My wife is going stir crazy. It’s the 1st time she’s had the house to herself in a long time.[/quote]

Now its party time for your wife! She’ll love it.

Just got back from a 1200 mile journey to check my daughter into her dorm and pay my first bill. I’m beat.

Now that there aren’t any kids around, I get to run nekid all over the house.

Tripp: Hey, Pop?
Al: Hey! Tripp. What are you doing here?
Tripp: Just came by to get some stuff. What are you doing?
Al: Feeding my fish.
Tripp: Yeah. I see that. You’re naked. In my room.
Al: Well, this is my Naked Room. I mean, it’s my house. A man ought to be able to do whatever he wants to do in his own house. Wore a suit for forty years.
Tripp: So now we got forty years of…
Al: No suit.
Tripp: No suit. Alright. I’m gonna let you get back to feeding your fish.

Matthew McConaughey and Terry Bradshaw - Failure to Launch
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I’ve never seen it. Now I want to!

I’ve already explained to my daughter what a scholarship is. And informed her that she is going to need one…or a job…or both.
Of course, in 9 years, it’ll all be free…right?

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C8/W3
BW 192

Squats/Mili’s.

Squats:

Warmup to 225
250 x 5
280 x 3
315 x 4

335 x 1
335 x 1
275 x 5
275 x 5

Standing and Seated Calf Work

Standing Military Press:

Warmup to 135
145 x 5
165 x 3
180 x 5 (PR)

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[quote]Oldman Powers wrote:
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Now that there aren’t any kids around, I get to run nekid all over the house.

[/quote]
I hope you put a towel down before you sit on the couch.

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[quote]Oldman Powers wrote:
C8/W3
BW 192

Squats/Mili’s.

Squats:

Warmup to 225
250 x 5
280 x 3
315 x 4

335 x 1
335 x 1
275 x 5
275 x 5

Standing and Seated Calf Work

Standing Military Press:

Warmup to 135
145 x 5
165 x 3
180 x 5 (PR)[/quote]

Great work! Strong squats and the 185x5 MP is great! Looking good…

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[quote]ecogenx wrote:

[quote]Oldman Powers wrote:
.

Now that there aren’t any kids around, I get to run nekid all over the house.

[/quote]
I hope you put a towel down before you sit on the couch.[/quote]

Lovely imagery.

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[quote]ecogenx wrote:

[quote]Oldman Powers wrote:
.

Now that there aren’t any kids around, I get to run nekid all over the house.

[/quote]
I hope you put a towel down before you sit on the couch.[/quote]

But if I did that, my wife would never use the towel again. Waste of a perfectly good towel.

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[quote]LittleStrick wrote:

Great work! Strong squats and the 185x5 MP is great! Looking good…[/quote]

Thanks LS.

I continue seeing PR’s with Deads and Millies. Not so with Bench and Squats. Ever so close though. Missing them by a single rep. I need to man up.

Deload begins…or maybe not…

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If you are depressed about your bench now like I am, go check out the link in Snapper’s thread in PW. It will make you feel even worse. There’s a 132 pounder with long arms throwing up just shy of 300 lbs. raw. I almost started to cry.

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And she’s really hot to boot.

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[quote]kpsnap wrote:
And she’s really hot to boot.[/quote]

Yes - I’m in lust.
Over her Wilks score that is. :wink:

www.132poundsofpower.com

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When I see women like her lift, I’m really, really impressed [obviously]. But it also makes me want to bang my head against the wall.