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Bench WTH??????

  • 05-04-2011 11:09am
    #1
    JohnnyMustang22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭


    No doubt this topic has been discussed before but here is my account of it...

    I've been training for about 3 years now. Pretty Regular but not religiously. Due to current work load i haven't been training much or heavy lately. Most weeks I only make it in to the gym at the weekends. a 2 hour session on sat and sun where i try to hit the whole body between the 2 sessions.

    My BP on the bench is 105kg....1 rep max maybe 6 months ago....Since then I have not lifted heavy or even tried to. I have worked on chest now and again but never really much more than 70-80kg.

    So last saturday I decided to work on chest for the first time in a while. I tried 50kg -12 reps solid, up to 70kg - 10 reps solid, up to 90kg - 6 reps solid.........then i thought I'd try 100kg just for a laugh and pushed out 2 smooth reps but struggled on my 3rd rep.....Normally 100kg would be a big struggle for me. I then pyramided back down to failure. But over all i was very surprised at how much weight i lifted and how many reps i manged.

    My understanding was that you lose strength after a few weeks when you are not training????

    Or is it becasue I set no goals on saturday, I just lifted what i could and kept going. Because i had no mental target to set from several weeks of lifting I was not mentally holding myself back?????

    Or was it just one of those "good days"?


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  • #2
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,232 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    JohnnyMustang22 wrote: »
    My understanding was that you lose strength after a few weeks when you are not training????

    Or is it becasue I set no goals on saturday, I just lifted what i could and kept going. Because i had no mental target to set from several weeks of lifting I was not mentally holding myself back?????

    Or was it just one of those "good days"?

    You were training, you just weren't training singles or low reps you were training at 80kg higher reps.

    Maybe you had bad form and went as strict as before.

    Were you are bigger in general, so the 100kg wasn't as relatively strong?

    2 reps at 100kg, you might of got 105kg out, you might not. Nobody knows really when it's that close.

    Maybe 105kg wasn't really your max potential 6 months ago. Maybe you'd of smashed 110kg if you tried. Maybe you got 105kg on a bad day.

    My point is there is just way too many variables in something like this that nobody can ever say why this happened.


  • #3
    JohnnyMustang22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭JohnnyMustang22


    Mellor wrote: »
    You were training, you just weren't training singles or low reps you were training at 80kg higher reps.

    Maybe you had bad form and went as strict as before.

    Were you are bigger in general, so the 100kg wasn't as relatively strong?

    2 reps at 100kg, you might of got 105kg out, you might not. Nobody knows really when it's that close.

    Maybe 105kg wasn't really your max potential 6 months ago. Maybe you'd of smashed 110kg if you tried. Maybe you got 105kg on a bad day.

    My point is there is just way too many variables in something like this that nobody can ever say why this happened.

    My strength hasn't changed much, if anything I've got weaker from lack of training.

    My form is exactly the same as always.

    I am 93kg at the mo. I was 89-90kg when i did my BP. but that extra weight is fat not muslce.

    Agreed, that there are many variables but the point of my post is the fact that I could lift that weight after a few months of minimal training, no supplements, crap diet, sitting in front of a computer for 12-14 hours per day......


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