I just thought I’d keep you all posted on some progress since ya’ll have been great help lately. Today was my second week of my mini cycle doing ME board presses last week I did 5 board this week I did 4. On the 4 board I have about 4-5 inches to lockout the weight. Well I got 475 which for me is a godsend. My lockout has becoming stronger week by week. By following some of the advice on here, and the bench press set up written about on the Metal Militia site I am closing in on my goal of 500. Thanks guys and wish me luck. I plan on attending a meet here in texas late June early July. I plan to destroy 500 there. Again thanks for all the help.
That’s awesome! meeting goals and setting PRs is one of the best feelings in the world. Good luck on your quest and keep pushing the heavy shit
Good job!!
hey way to go man, i to am going for 500. what meet are you lifting and how much do you weigh. also what equip are you using. i am meeting with a titan dealer this weekend at eric gunn’s gym in denton where i will get fitted for some titan equip. i am pretty pumped, he thinks ill get over a 100 out of their gear but i am a bit skeptical but with a 430 raw ill take a 100 any day. to be truthful i would take 70 you know what i mean
Good job, stick with the MM template and the gains will be consistent. I guess I’m lucky the first time I put on a shirt I got 500. Keep workin on your arch and form and 500 will fall in no time.
tt342
how much do you weigh, what was your raw bench the first time you put on a suit and what brand did you use then and what do you use now?
whats is your max now?
if you don’t mind tellling us.
full…right now im weighing around 240 and am using a single ply inzer phenom its my first shirt and still dont know how to use them right im not sure exactly what meet ill be in i skimmed the powerlifting usa mag and found 2 around that time later this month ill know for sure…does your gym in denton have a lot of powerlifters and such i might make a trip up there get some advice from some lifters if there are i need someone who knows how to use a shirt to actually critique me and help me out again guys thanks for the support hopefully i can talk someone in to getting me a video camera so i can tape the 500 this is really my first hardcore goal to achieve so id like to have it to watch know what i mean
the gym in denton elite fitness (i believe) isn’t the gym i work out at. i work out a a health club (unfortunatly) where i spend most my time begging for a spot. hence the reason i am going to meet my titan contact in denton. he is going to put me in a shirt or two and board press me i guess. pretty new to the whole shirt process.
anyway we are doing it today at 4pm in denton. i don’t know where you live in texas but if you live close post or pm me back and ill try to give you directions if you live in the mertoplex
btw, isn’t the pheonom alot of shirt for a first time shirt wearer, especially if you don’t have somebody with proper shirt experince? i mean gettting it on , breaking it in, tweaking it?
just wondering
I don’t mind telling you, I’ve only used the shirt(Inzer DD) one time because I’ve had a hard time getting Inzer to get the fitting in the arms right. I’m a 242er I hit 515 on my first workout with it and my “raw” max is 405 even though i don’t pay attention to it. I attribute the decent carryover in my first workout in it to Metal Militia training. And i get to meet Bill Crawford in a week I’m so giddy LOL.
full…it may or may not be a lot of shirt for first time user but it feels right on me unlike the blast, ehphd, and rage shirts ive tried on…the blast shirt felt like i was wearing under armour and rage shirt felt to extreme in the chest for me right now i just flat out didnt like the ehphd
congrats on getting to meet crawford. since i am starting to try gear i wouldn’t mind pick his brain from time to time.
tt342 you said you used an inzer dd. what is that? and you only lifted in it once or once so far?
cthdam more power to you trying all those shirts, getting somebody (novice body builder types) with all the opinouns while it goes on can be draining.
hey full i didnt really understand your last post its prolly straight forward i just dont get it…also i live about 2 hours from denton and right now im trying to find a good gym with some knowledgable lifters around so every once in a while i can go train with and learn some new things its hard right now cause my training partner moved and im lifting right now with a bodybuilder we are good friends but our training goals are different but i can always count on him being in the gym the same time as me and gimmie a spot when i need it…but like i said i need to hang around more powerlifters for advice
well hit 500 today. that titan equip is awesome. the titan dealer i was lifting with had to hold me back he thinks i easily had 515 or so, and i was in his test shirt. i didn’t even put on the shirt i boughtwhich would be tighter, he said we would work into in it in a few days.
as far as my post, just saying for me to try on a collection of diffrent shirts i would have to enlist the help of the guys at the “health club” i work out at, and they would be helping me put it on and at the same time asking why i do this and annoying questions like that.
as far as the gym goes, the one i work out at isn’t good but the one in denton looked ok. eric gunn is some stud lifter in the push and pull world and he is a trainer there so it could work out for you.
if you happen to find one in the DFW area let me know. i’d be intrested
Full, i shouldnt say it was the first time i used one. I tried a blast shirt a while back, cut the back open and it split in 2 after two workouts, i tried a friends Rage x and karins double denim but they were loose and gave me little support. Now my inzer double denim is fit right and with the neckline all the way up all I could get to touch was 515 and it was eeeeazy. I’m lookin for 600 with the neck pulled down at the bill crawford seminar woo hoo.lol
congrats on the 500 i guess now its my turn to get it ha