oh my god yeah I fucking hate that.
Thats why I swapped bench out for OHP when I went to commercial gyms. Plus the benches were too slippery.
I got powerlifting teammates who keep insisting I move up in weight on RPE 9.
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I think my brain just exploded.
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Lmao. Too bad i can only like this comment once
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Wait what? Do you think Iām on steroids because I have progressed from doing dumbbell bench press all the way to 100 lb bench press for one rep max? Yeah I was able to improve the 95 lbs. Is going from a 65 lb rack pull for 10 reps to a 95 lb deadlift mindblowing? I am talking one rep max with all my effort.
Or are you surprised that my chest is stronger than my legs?
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I think the surprise is the word strong being used to describe those efforts. Youāve certainly gotten stronger, but you are not yet strong.
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I am sorry I should have said STRONGER not strong
of course the title of strong can only go to HafĆ¾Ć³r JĆŗlĆus Bjƶrnsson.
He is number 1
No one thinks this.
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Beginning to feel trolled here 
Iāve had good and bad workout partners. Nothing worse than a lazy or whiny partner. My wife is actually great, she never complains and is always down for whatever I suggest, which is pretty much my only prerequisite - donāt be a pussy. I have a good friend back in NY where Iām from, and we would go way overboard every time.
Nearing the end of the workout:
āAlright, letās do 2 extra sets.ā
āNAH FUCK THAT BRO 4 EXTRA SETS SUPERSET WITH BURPEESā
āWhat? Okay.ā
Nobody ever said no. In retrospect, this was probably not a good thing.
I feel like Iām not too inviting to train with. Iām not going to complain, but Iāll be damned if I veer off what I have scheduled to train.
I feel like a convo would go like this:
Person:
āHey letās give some dumbbell work a go this time!ā
Me: āNo. Iām not messing up my benching schedule, and have all next week jumbled up. But have fun. Iāll be over thereā.
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Agreed - it was never really substitution or avoiding the work, it was more like adding on unnecessary work to everything in order to one-up each other. I just feel like it probably didnāt do us any good to make ourselves unable to walk after every workout.
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I was luckily smart enough to realize that at a certain point I knew what I wanted to do, what I needed to doā¦ for my own progress and thatās why I was in the gym every day. From then on if anyone wanted to train with me I was ok with it, but I wasnāt going to alter anything I had planned because of their presence.
I had plenty of ātraining partnersā who would mostly do their own thing while I did mine and weād touch base, nod, make jokes in Austrian accents etc between sets of our different exercises.
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