Showing posts with label bench press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bench press. Show all posts

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Hey, Chuck Norris! How Much Ya Bench ?


/or 20 answers Chuck Norris would give to the eternal question: “How much ya bench?”/

1.I bench press so heavy that sometimes Jesus and God call Mary for help when they spot me.

2.I bench press so heavy that sometimes all steel workers in China need to work overtime in order to manufacture the weights I need on my barbell.

3.I bench press so heavy that when I bench it feels like there is an elephant invasion in the state.

4.I bench press so heavy that when I bench all priests in the world say: “Holy shit!”.


5.I bench press so heavy that people need an IBM supercomputer to count the plates on the barbell.

6.I bench press so heavy that when I bench the Earth changes its orbit and becomes flat.

7.I bench press so heavy that when I bench all iron in the world cries.

8.I bench press so heavy that when I bench I don't bench anymore – I simply fuck gravity, hard.

9.I bench press so heavy that when I bench the Earth becomes a yo-yo.

10.I bench press so heavy that when I bench scientist start thinking the dinosaurs are back.

11.I bench press so heavy that when you upload picture of me benching Facebook's servers fail due to the large file size.

12.I bench press so heavy that when you tweet about it your computer explodes.

13.I bench press so heavy that when I bench Superman is shitting his pants in some dark place on Krypton.

14.I bench press so heavy that when I bench you no longer wonder who created the pyramids. You know it was me.

15.I bench press so heavy that when I bench you know why Big Foot sucks balls.

16.I bench press so heavy that when I bench the Virgin Mary loses her temperance.

17. I bench press so heavy that when I bench the Iron Man knows why he is gay.

18.I bench press so heavy that when I bench time makes an exception and goes back in order for people to see my lift once more.

19.I bench press so heavy that when I bench George Lucas has to suck dick to afford a camera big enough to record my lift.

20.I bench press so heavy that when I bench Hercules feels like a cheerleader.
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Unrealistic Expatations - Give It To Me Baby One More Time


I have talked about having unrealistic expectations many times on this blog and Rookiejournal.com. Today I decided to cover the same topic once more because I saw an interesting discussion on StartingStrength.com (no link on purpose...u mad son?). 

Bret Contreras a.k.a the GLUTE GUY has posted a video of his first powerlifting meet. Here it goes:



The guy immediately got criticized by the Starting Strength fat fucks:

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While I don't really care to defend the Glute Guy I find it amusing how people on Starting Strength have lost all contact with reality. And numbers such as 350 squat, 250 bench  500 deadlift are not considered respectful. 

Reasons can be found here: http://www.rookiejournal.com/steroids.html

To be honest the majority of people I've seen in the gym cannot squat 350, cannot bench 250 and definitely cannot deadlift 500 pounds. I've trained in many underground gyms. One of them was considered a powerlifting gym and a lot of high level powerlifters from the town were training there. All of them were on steroids. They were deadlifting 750 lbs +, benching 600lbs+ with a shirt and squatting 700-800lbs with equipment. In other words pretty strong guys. Besides them virtually all people I've seen including local bodybuilders would consider 350 squat and 250 lbs bench a good number. To give you a better perspective I've seen a guy who is 275 lbs and very tall ( 6'4 ) struggle with 300 lbs bench for a double. Yes, he was on steroids and was obsessed with powerlifting. 

So, why is that?

Virtually all articles on sites such as T-Nation, Starting Strength...etc are talking about guys lifting insane poundages. When everybody around you talks about 500lbs bench presses it's really hard to take a 200lbs bench press seriously. At the same time there are guys who are ectomorphic and have really long and thin bone structure. A good example would be Snoop Dogg or Chris Rock. Guys like them will need a few years to bench 200-220 lbs. If they don't give up, get on a cycle or simply join the Starting Strength fat fuck community.

"Reality. It hits you like a cold slap in the face."

In the end of the day however the consequences are paid by the brainwashed Starting Strength guys. 

Keep Dreaming Guys. It's All About How Bad Do You Want It ?


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Friday, April 5, 2013

Leg Drive And The Bench Press


I never got all this hype about the leg drive during a bench press. Really. Famous coaches like Louie Simmons and who not are talking about the bench press like it is some sort of science. Let me tell you something - leg drive during a bench press does not do much. I would even say that it may be problematic if you are not very experienced because if you use your legs too much you may get out of posiiton and who wants to get out of position? Leg drive is overrated. Want a prove?

Here's Siamand Rahman bench pressing a ton of weight and he obviously is not able to use leg drive. 



There's no need to overthink. Just make sure your legs are firmly connected to the ground and use them to keep yourself stable on the bench. Other than that it's pretty much only upperbody.
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