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when I walked in the gym last Monday morning, there was a painted chalk board on the wall. It had Men 750 / 1000 Women 500 / 800
my 1st question way, what do I get. Manager says, your name on the wall.

Anyway. I've laid off of lifting due to a pain in my shoulder. But I said lets see what this is going to take. So I did a little bench and hit 225 for 4 reps. went over and got loose on the deadlift bar and pulled 365 and finished with 315 on the squat. 905 combined, not bad for just testing the waters. Told the manager, I'll try it next Thursday (tomorrow). Thought I would get some lifts in and loosen up some. Well, that didn't happen but thought I could do it anyways. I put some numbers together knowing what I needed to do.
So this morning, I started on the bench. 255 - easy. Not used to the hold at the bottom. 275 pinned me. I'll take 255
Deadlift on the straight bar. 405 - it was heavy but it came up like I thought it would.
Squat. 365 and my ass was on the floor. Rethinking this whole thing.
But after some rest, I got it. Not going to lie, It was heavy.

So, at the age of 48 with a total of 1025 pounds, I'll be the top name on the board.

No other person has attempted it yet.

My EGO is satisfied and I'm going back to riding my stationary bicycle. I know if I set a date 3-4 months out, I could hit 1100 pounds, but I'm thinking "WHY"

My son is still going and has made good strides. He could hit a total in the 800-850 range, but he's like, don't want my name up there yet.

It was a little harder than I thought it would be, but I knew I could do it. But, it's a long ways from the 1470 in high school using the trap bar to deadlift with. 30 years ago it was 315 bench, 530 squat, and 625 deadlift trap bar. but 26 years of driving a mouse on a desk and not doing much but getting sorry and fatter, it happens.

thanks for letting me "brag" a little.

Question for you guys, what's your combined total? if you still power lift.

My bench sucks, and kind of always has.
 
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Back when I actually lifted all the time and was into powerlifting if I added up what I could do in this style my total would have been around 1300.

350 bench
400 squat
550 deadlift.

Right this second I’d probably be lucky to gross 800.
 
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Hey if your shoulder is bothering you on bench I'd try a slingshot. My shoulders aren't shot but I can't bench heavy raw anymore. Regardless of any stretches or any mobility work and perfect form I still get a pinch in my shoulder. I use a slingshot from strong, mark bells company. Not sponsored or anything but the slingshot has allowed me to bench pain free. I used it for accessory work when I lifted equipped but coming back just for my health and fun has been rough and it's a decent tool. Ben of big benchas youtube has been really helpful too, he does equipped stuff but he has really helpful raw advice too.
 
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Hey if your shoulder is bothering you on bench I'd try a slingshot. My shoulders aren't shot but I can't bench heavy raw anymore. Regardless of any stretches or any mobility work and perfect form I still get a pinch in my shoulder. I use a slingshot from strong, mark bells company. Not sponsored or anything but the slingshot has allowed me to bench pain free. I used it for accessory work when I lifted equipped but coming back just for my health and fun has been rough and it's a decent tool. Ben of big benchas youtube has been really helpful too, he does equipped stuff but he has really helpful raw advice too.
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Since then, I basically quit lifting. Now my lifting partner has gone to UNC-W and I haven't been able to get my ass up and go
 
About a hundred years ago (😆) my house was right next door to a little gym, so I had a membership. We were in there one night and my oldest stepson and his friend were with me. They were doing their typical tough guy one-uppers, and I was trynna do my treadmill.

Then they challenged me. Now, I’m no Lou Ferrigno by any measure, but because of my chosen profession, I AM retard strong….

I got on the leg press machine, and the top pedals said “750”, and the two teenagers stood on the weight plates, and I lifted the whole thing with both boys (who weighed 165 and 180) four or five times!!

I’m not that stupid anymore, but at the time, both boys were staring at me like a calf looking at a new gate!! 😂
 
NoodleMan said:
Hey if your shoulder is bothering you on bench I'd try a slingshot. My shoulders aren't shot but I can't bench heavy raw anymore. Regardless of any stretches or any mobility work and perfect form I still get a pinch in my shoulder. I use a slingshot from strong, mark bells company. Not sponsored or anything but the slingshot has allowed me to bench pain free. I used it for accessory work when I lifted equipped but coming back just for my health and fun has been rough and it's a decent tool. Ben of big benchas youtube has been really helpful too, he does equipped stuff but he has really helpful raw advice too.
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Love my slingshot! It's really helped my rehab my torn labrum
 
DC Bigdaddy said:
when I walked in the gym last Monday morning, there was a painted chalk board on the wall. It had Men 750 / 1000 Women 500 / 800
my 1st question way, what do I get. Manager says, your name on the wall.

Anyway. I've laid off of lifting due to a pain in my shoulder. But I said lets see what this is going to take. So I did a little bench and hit 225 for 4 reps. went over and got loose on the deadlift bar and pulled 365 and finished with 315 on the squat. 905 combined, not bad for just testing the waters. Told the manager, I'll try it next Thursday (tomorrow). Thought I would get some lifts in and loosen up some. Well, that didn't happen but thought I could do it anyways. I put some numbers together knowing what I needed to do.
So this morning, I started on the bench. 255 - easy. Not used to the hold at the bottom. 275 pinned me. I'll take 255
Deadlift on the straight bar. 405 - it was heavy but it came up like I thought it would.
Squat. 365 and my ass was on the floor. Rethinking this whole thing.
But after some rest, I got it. Not going to lie, It was heavy.

So, at the age of 48 with a total of 1025 pounds, I'll be the top name on the board.

No other person has attempted it yet.

My EGO is satisfied and I'm going back to riding my stationary bicycle. I know if I set a date 3-4 months out, I could hit 1100 pounds, but I'm thinking "WHY"

My son is still going and has made good strides. He could hit a total in the 800-850 range, but he's like, don't want my name up there yet.

It was a little harder than I thought it would be, but I knew I could do it. But, it's a long ways from the 1470 in high school using the trap bar to deadlift with. 30 years ago it was 315 bench, 530 squat, and 625 deadlift trap bar. but 26 years of driving a mouse on a desk and not doing much but getting sorry and fatter, it happens.

thanks for letting me "brag" a little.

Question for you guys, what's your combined total? if you still power lift.

My bench sucks, and kind of always has.
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Congrats on the numbers!

"I could hit 1100 pounds, but I'm thinking "WHY"" because Strength is never a weakness!

My current lifts as a 48yr old @325# BW is 320# bench, 535# squat and 590# deadlift. My goals are 600# on the dead and squat and not blow out my shoulder with benching.
 
Dirtydirtysouf said:
Love my slingshot! It's really helped my rehab my torn labrum
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Question. I’d never heard of this and I just watched a couple of videos. I like the concept but I work out at planet fitness.

All the videos are free weight bench and PF is smith machine. Can you use this benching with a smith machine?
 
Chdamn said:
Question. I’d never heard of this and I just watched a couple of videos. I like the concept but I work out at planet fitness.

All the videos are free weight bench and PF is smith machine. Can you use this benching with a smith machine?
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Yes you can it's designed to help you overload the press so the muscles can get in more work. I have never used it on a smith machine but I can't see why you can't. I've used it for heavy DB pressing and as a way to get in a shit load of pushups. I'd say it's worth the money. I have the OG type it's best for 315# benchers to over load by 15-20% more then your regular bench.

PS: if your in WS one weekend you are welcome to come over and test it out.
 
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I did it last night. 275 bench, 400 squat, and 325 deadlift. I think I had more left on the deadlift that I’ll get next time we do rep maxes.

My goal for ‘23 was 225 bench and one legit deep hang pull-up. I smoked the bench. Still can only do a nose up. Can’t quite get my chin up over the bar without flopping around. lol.
 
CHRIS_WNC said:
I did it last night. 275 bench, 400 squat, and 325 deadlift. I think I had more left on the deadlift that I’ll get next time we do rep maxes.

My goal for ‘23 was 225 bench and one legit deep hang pull-up. I smoked the bench. Still can only do a nose up. Can’t quite get my chin up over the bar without flopping around. lol.
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Get some man, that's good progress. I too am in the heavier squat over deadlift camp atm too

I found for pullups, engaging the entirety of the posterior chain and all the way up to the traps helped me go from one struggling pull-up to six strict hanging pullups back in the day.
 
CHRIS_WNC said:
I did it last night. 275 bench, 400 squat, and 325 deadlift. I think I had more left on the deadlift that I’ll get next time we do rep maxes.

My goal for ‘23 was 225 bench and one legit deep hang pull-up. I smoked the bench. Still can only do a nose up. Can’t quite get my chin up over the bar without flopping around. lol.
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Lifting big weight or stacking muscle is just fine, especially if that's your goal or what you are into. Same for running a marathon in 3 hours. But niche exercise/sport sometimes comes at a price when it comes to functional fitness (which pull-ups are). There is a balance among the exercise and fitness worlds, a big ol' Venn diagram, where all of these things overlap, a sweet spot. In fairness I have not found it, either. I can dead hang a dozen pulls, but I have not benched anything in years, and my squats and dead lifts are capped by my sandbag weights.
 
I'm currently hitting mid 1100s with 265 bench, 405 squat and 505 deadlift. I would like to hit 1,200 come May when the YMCA does their 1,000 lb club. I recently switched to wide grip bench to minimize shoulder pain so hopefully the increase in chest strength will get me well past 275 by then.
 
AirForce85 said:
I'm currently hitting mid 1100s with 265 bench, 405 squat and 505 deadlift. I would like to hit 1,200 come May when the YMCA does their 1,000 lb club. I recently switched to wide grip bench to minimize shoulder pain so hopefully the increase in chest strength will get me well past 275 by then.
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A wide grip my hurt your shoulders more.....just be cautious about it
 
AirForce85 said:
A trainer told me to try it to take stress off my shoulders and bicep tendons. I've done it once for a few sets of 135 and it felt good but that's also lighter than normal sets.
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To take the stress off of ur biceps is to use ur lats to lower the bar. I'll see if I can find a vid explaining that. I've got a torn shoulder labrum and I've had to bring my hands in from pinkies on the power rings to a thumbs length from the knurling and smooth. Huge help on the shoulder doing this and learning to use the lats to lower the bar.
 
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