Tee hee

[vicarz]

On bench today I was able to do a double with 225, then 4 more singles. Truly I would have preferred a spot, but each intense guy beside me was knee deep in their fuckoffheadphones.

Still, that 225 was totally mine today. I started squats etc. based on not being able to bench press 225. I figured if I could do that it would be enough. When I was going to do that weight for the first time, I wanted a friend to witness it so I could "prove" I did it. I had no witnesses today, nor are any necessary when I know it's what I can do - not a fluke.

I counted my maxes and I can lift about 945 lbs or more. I think 1k would be nice, then a real 1k where it all happens in a day. Then more. You know what would be a fun bench? 275. More fun than that? 315. That would be pretty.

I'm not as flexible as I ever was, but the absence of pain has helped me reach old and now new levels of strength. I'm calling the labral tear issue "dead" as while I have a tiny residual lack of flexibility, the pain is gone and my strength is back - if not greater. Overall I'm better than I was today than before surgery.

Hmm what can I get chopped up next!?

Comments

[turbogrrl.livejournal.com]

so, if you move 1000lbs of shit in a day, that counts? Cause I totally have.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Yes! In a sense...I mean I lifted 225 7 times plus nearly 50 times at 185...but that's actually a different measure, but a measure none the less!

Most people wouldn't consider driving a car...as moving the weight though.

[wantedonvoyage.livejournal.com]

Hulk smash! I hit 200 when I was doing strongman stuff, haven't seen it in a long time.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Well a big help to me was re-learning form. Oddly I did better with a more narrow grip, and I learned to do this odd back-dance to rock back and forth to get a strong arch in my back (without ass off the damn bench). Now I'm working on shoulder strength, platforming with my arch also holding my shoulders back and down...

200 aint' far off from 225. It's a damn good lift and really anything over 135 is "real." Now, if we could work on folks holding 135 up on the floor as if benching, while they swing their straight legs back and forth for some crossfit cult move...

[wantedonvoyage.livejournal.com]

The fuck? So it's like a bench in combo with a roman cross? I think it's called a roman cross... I've done that with heavy dummbells to anchor me down but never tried to combine a chest move with it.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

In a sense, yeah - lock in the shoulders...but don't ask me; spend hours trolling utube trainer videos :D