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I dont include the weight of the bar because 20kg is so trivial it makes no difference.

In fact, i actually expect the weight of the bar to include me.

I do include the weight of the bar.
 
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Hmm I suppose you're right about comparing weights, I swear nobody counts it at my gym and it's a proper old school gym in an old factory with some of the old gold gyms weights from the 70s and with old chipped paint on the walls.

Sweet I just got 20kg stronger in less than a day. Gains are strong this week!
 
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Nate Silvers said:
Maybe he said something else but I think he was talking about something happening past 25 reps. Forget that anyways I'm just amazed at 60kg @ 56 reps for the size of the guy (saw his video). But is this including the bar weight as some people include that in the total weight?



Because I'm interested??
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jesus.

It was the bar plus 20kg plates each side. so 60 kg in total.


I never tried it before for reps, but I do warm up with 60Kg 20 reps during my routine.

The bigger guys barely managed 40 reps. The guy that beat me in the log lift came 2nd on the bench press challenge with 49 reps. Third place was 45 reps, and then lots of people where around the 40 rep mark.

And it was bar to chest and full lock out every rep.

Edit: Been training since I was 15, I'm 30 now. Had a 5 year brake stopped completely and have been back at it for 1 year. Training for strength and not size and currently cutting for the summer, so I'm sorry that I'm not big enough for you. My max bench is 160Kg but have been stuck on this weight for 6 months
 
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What's all this bench pressing 60kg about? no body want to do proper challenges anymore :(
 
Gecco said:
jesus.

It was the bar plus 20kg plates each side. so 60 kg in total.


I never tried it before for reps, but I do warm up with 60Kg 20 reps during my routine.

The bigger guys barely managed 40 reps. The guy that beat me in the log lift came 2nd on the bench press challenge with 49 reps. Third place was 45 reps, and then lots of people where around the 40 rep mark.

And it was bar to chest and full lock out every rep.

Edit: Been training since I was 15, I'm 30 now. Had a 5 year brake stopped completely and have been back at it for 1 year. Training for strength and not size and currently cutting for the summer, so I'm sorry that I'm not big enough for you. My max bench is 160Kg but have been stuck on this weight for 6 months
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Thanks for replying. It's still impressive and respect for doing it, you must be strong to out rep the 2nd place by 7 reps. You warm up like I lift my hardest so to me it is very impressive. I've only been training for 6-7 months though but I hope I can do that too someday.

Ah if you've been training that amount of time then it makes sense, I was going to ask that. I just expected you to be this MONSTER huge guy because I wasn't counting the bar so it was like 80kg to me at 56 reps.

Holy **** 160kg I couldn't even imagine lifting that, that's more than what I squat! Did you get stuck at a weight before you hit 160 if so how did you overcome it?
 
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That would just snap.
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My training partner is stuck at 140kg, and has been for a while but he does not take his diet serious. He just started creatine to try and improve on the bench.

Whenever I was stuck I either increased my caloric intake and or changed from barbell to dumbbell for a month and then try again. If that doesn't work you can try putting 20kg more onto your bar than what you can currently lift and try for 1 rep with someone spotting you and letting you struggle for a while. Do this for 1 month and then try again for your pub you should be able to improve it.

This is just what works for me. So have a play around and see what works for you.
 
Gecco said:
My training partner is stuck at 140kg, and has been for a while but he does not take his diet serious. He just started creatine to try and improve on the bench.

Whenever I was stuck I either increased my caloric intake and or changed from barbell to dumbbell for a month and then try again. If that doesn't work you can try putting 20kg more onto your bar than what you can currently lift and try for 1 rep with someone spotting you and letting you struggle for a while. Do this for 1 month and then try again for your pub you should be able to improve it.

This is just what works for me. So have a play around and see what works for you.
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160 is very respectable, how much do you weigh and what does your deadlift and squat look like?

I think you could really benefit from a more structured and progressive approach to increasing your max.
 
I'm not doing it serious anymore, I used to compete but just doing it for fun now. Only entered this comp edition as it was done by my local gym and they gave away free membership and protein for the winners.

My dead lift is 220 and squat 200. I have been cutting for a while now for the summer, I normally carry a lot of fat with me around. Currently weigh 88kg. Down from 101kg. Maintaining my pb.
 
160 @ 88kg is very good, even the squat and deadlift are respectable too. Shame you don't compete anymore, you'd do well.

Doing singles however isn't great for increasing strength. I've been making great strength gains on chest recently if you're interested have a read of my log. All this while maintaining a BW of 83-84kg.
 
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My training partner is stuck at 140kg, and has been for a while but he does not take his diet serious. He just started creatine to try and improve on the bench.

Whenever I was stuck I either increased my caloric intake and or changed from barbell to dumbbell for a month and then try again. If that doesn't work you can try putting 20kg more onto your bar than what you can currently lift and try for 1 rep with someone spotting you and letting you struggle for a while. Do this for 1 month and then try again for your pub you should be able to improve it.

This is just what works for me. So have a play around and see what works for you.
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I'm trying creatine at the moment as I'm on a vegan diet and I heard vegans get amazing results from it. It really helped me lift, I got 10 more reps on bench compared to before, it was like this energy came out of nowhere and I couldn't even feel the fatigue. Also it seems to work mentally too, I am solving more problems now and learning things really fast.

Tried the negative rep thing, that seriously pumps your arms up like crazy. I've been trying to add just 5kg plates to each side, I used to think what was the point it's so light but it really helps you progress. It's just hard for me being 6'4", fast metabolism, medium frame, ectomorph, vegan and fully natural which I heard takes longer.
 
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well folks, had 3 weeks off the gym in the hope it would heal my bad back and it has made almost no difference.
So first night back in the gym and I felt like absolute *&^* tonight.

My sternum has started randomly hurting the last week or so and doing chest exercises tonight has not helped it one bit. It hurt most when doing dips so god knows what is up with me (going to see doctor next week about a knee problem so will ask him whilst I am there)

Hope this feeling blows over soon as training tonight was NO fun :(
 
That sucks. I don't know what happened to your back but three weeks sounds awfully short for an injury recovery. Doesn't it take two months for a muscle to fully heal? I mean fully heal back to 100%.
 
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