Rate my Bench !

[Cynical Simian]

By the way, I'm no veteran. I'm just a geriatric gym rat who has grown old enough to have too many opinions and be unafraid to share them. The veterans posted before I did.

...a modest gym rat, it seems.

In all seriousness, my apologies if you think "veteran" misrepresented your (in my estimation, pretty high) level of experience and knowledge.

 

[liegelord]

Ericb:

What were your starting weight in each exercise and how many weeks did you do the 5x5?

 

[anotherbutters]

I cannot increase my records week by week guinness..

But like, in SF you should be breaking records weekly?

How about having a little faith in yourself!

It's true that you attempt to set records weekly, but we're talking about small increases. That might mean only 1kg per week on your bench and 2-3kg per week on your squat and deadlift. However, these soon add up if you consistently add a bit to the bar every week. The key thing is to keep the weight going up, even if it's only a little bit.

 

[mm107]

YEA THIS IS TRUE. Siek yourself out for it. EVERY day in the gym i tell myself i am going to be beating a or setting a new Personal record. EVEN if i dont, ill try and move on. But i have had success in beating my PR's.

Even if i only throw on the 2.5lbs on each side. its something. Plus slow proggress = permanent progress in my book =]

 

[ErikZ]

Thanx for the motivation ab
hahaha
My initial lift records were like, 30lbs less than that.
Maybe I do need to go SF.

However, this is a question I raised:
Don't you get overtrained for running SF like mad for like, 10 weeks?
Just a thought (yeah, I know you reset it once you stall and all, but doesn't it trigger ot?)

 

[blut wump]

The volume on the SF is low enough that over-training isn't really an issue.

 

[ErikZ]

Thanx BW

 

[TheOak84]

id personally work more on rowing and stall on the bench press, you want a good strong back and delts before u press heavy weights

 

[blut wump]

It's true, the row is a fair ways behind the bench press. That's one of the good things about the SF version: over a couple of months you can move the row faster than you will the bench.