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so sam you curl 100?

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i can only curl 80 on one bar...i can curl single 50lb dumbells and my bench sucks id prolly max at 115-120...i do bicep tricep forearms the most...lat pulldowns about 130 with those..seated close grip rows of which the weight i dont know..

sam ...all your things are in the 100s like squats i can imagine, but 100lb on a bar to curl is tough

[Samwhore]

so sam you curl 100?

I can bench 100, not curl,

[birdgirl73]

Before I had to ease up on my exercising last month after I was in the hospital, I could bench 90, but the truth was that much weight was hard on my elbow and shoulder joints even through my muscles could handle it well. That's one bad thing about getting older. The muscles can sometimes keep up ahead of the joints once you've logged several decades of heavy physical activity. I'm taking glucosamine/chondroitin for the joint trouble, but I'm not yet allowed to get back in and work up to my previous weight levels.

[sky valley]

I've been going to the gym for the last 10 years... my best bench is 318 for 3 reps. I am usally in the gym 5 to 6 days a week...

[206 DankySpanky]

i max out at 285

[MadSativa]

I work with 190 right now give or take 15lbs., I do twelve reps seven sets, three diferent styles of bench(incline, decline, standard) My max is about 420 three reps however that was about a year ago and I was working with heaveier lbs. then. Been lifting for about 15 years, have been slackin the past couple years though.imp: My incline leg bench is at 1300lbs.

[paulcky411]

i can only curl 80 on one bar...i can curl single 50lb dumbells and my bench sucks id prolly max at 115-120...i do bicep tricep forearms the most...lat pulldowns about 130 with those..seated close grip rows of which the weight i dont know..

sam ...all your things are in the 100s like squats i can imagine, but 100lb on a bar to curl is tough

50 pounds in each hand??? i seriously doubt that... you must be using the wrong form or doing something wrong... there's no way you're benching only 120 but you can curl almost half that in each hand...

the way i bench is by using free weights in each hand instead of a bar because i have no spotter... i started w/ 50 (each hand) x 10, then 60 (each hand) x 10, 70 (each hand) x 10 and lately 75 (each hand) x as much as i can... if it's only a few, i'll drop back down to 65 and go for 10

and curling... i can barely do 10 reps of 70lbs on a straight bar (proper form, without bending my back) which is why i have a hard time believing someone that can only bench 120lbs can curl 50lbs in each hand...

[FreshRollyG]

Yeah, i'm 17 at 6'ft and been weight training for nearly 2 years...

I use to be 128lbs @ 12.5%BF (bodyfat)

Now currently; 168lbs @ 9%BF

Train for an hour, 4x a week at the gym...

My lifts vary alot;
Bench Press (Barbell): 200lbs x 2
Bench Press (Dumbells): 70lbs x 6
Deadlift: 365lbs x 4

For being such a frail frame and my age, i've built up alot of strength and mass I guess...

www.myspace.com/freshrollyg

[GoldenBoy812]

I consider myself a genetic freak. The most ive ever weighed in my life was 171lbs. I consider myself an athlete first, and weightlifter second. So, taking athletics into consideration, bench pressing, and cheat curling are very low on my list when in training for competition. BTW, im an amateur boxer.

When you do exercised such as the bench press, cheater/true curls, triceps workouts, etc, you are really only working out small muscles, that have little to do with increased atheltic ability. Genreally, it is an ill concieved thought that lifting heavy weights makes you slow, and lifting light weights at high reps will increase speed. WRONG!!!!!!!!!! People have also been mislead to believe that lifting heavy weights for low reps will help you gain mass, while lifting low weight, higher reps will help you gain muscular definition. Again, WRONG!!!!!!!

My typical workout routine involves mostly olympic style power lifts, and the ultimate emphises on explosion. Remember, the way you train is the way you perform. Powercleans, cleanpresses, squats, snatches, dead lifts, weighted pullups, weighted dips, combined with my very own core strengthing workout are what i do in the gym. I do bench press, but only for max. I do dumbell press, and one arm dumbell press for chest workouts as well as 1arm, and behind the back clapping pushups. I work biceps, but only preacher curls, and wrestler curls. Also, ive aquired a personal preference for dumbells rather than bars.

The rest of my training will be running sand dunes, weighted sprints, bleachers, swimming, and of course actual boxing training.

Due to a really bad buldged disk , i was unable to workout for the last 7 monthes.

Im currently 155lbs. I have just been cleared to begin training. So Saturday i had to where my body is as of right now.

My max bench was 265, which was kinda depressing considering i was weighing 171 and benching 350. My Squat dropped from 530, to 360. My vertical reach took a monsterous hit form 41" to 31" . I powercleaned 200lbs 3 times, but couldnt hit 225 once, when i cleaned 290 8 monthes ago:wtf:. Last but not least, i could once dead lift 625, now i could only barely do 400.

On the positive side, I could still knock of 35 pullups; down from all time best of 51 but still not bad at all, and do 10 clapping pullueps. Oh yeah, was able to do 8 dips with 100lbs weight, formerly doing 135 in sets of 6.

Bottom line is benching and curling mean jack shit unless your an offensive lineman. If you think because you can bench 300 and cheater curl 100lbs, your gonna be unstopable, your wrong. If you have really big biceps, chest, and shoulders, and think you have one punch knockout power, again your wrong.

Power= Force x Acceleration. Seventy five % of your total human body power comes from you lower body and core. Remember the more muscle mass you have, the more slow twitch muscle fibre you posess. That makes you unathletic.

Sorry to ramble on, i just thought i would shed some light on the subject.

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