Trust me, you can get there...
a few months ago, I could barely do 10-15 pushups at a time and it was embarrassing... so i focused on that with the dumbbell chest presses of sets with the 50-55/60/65/70/ 75 dumbbells doing as much as I could do in each set.

I'd been flirting at 205 and thought that was my plateau of being able to actually get a set in. but the other day, there were guys around so if i needed help, they would've pitched in... threw 2 45's on each side and got amped up and did it and then thought, well that wasn't too bad, I can do that again.

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Posted by Rep520

Member since Mar 2018

10476 posts

Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:46 pm to Lawyered

My bodyweight is 190 and my bench has always been weak. For me, 225x5 is as good as I've ever been. I console myself that it's paused, so I could probably do more touch and go.

Got a late start after helping neighbors try to evict a snake from the backyard. 5 giant sets of speed bench, arm over arm rope pulls and weighted dips.

Finished with 3 trap bar deads, then farmers walk, then 2 trap bar deads supersetted with tricep ext sled drags. I've never done the combo of trap deads/farmers/more trap deads and it was puketastic.

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Posted by steve123

Member since Jul 2011

1323 posts

Posted on 5/10/18 at 12:43 pm to Lawyered

Man, I weigh 180 and that's where I'd love to get. I'm on my second run-through of Greyskull and I seem to be plateauing at the same place I did the first time - 3 sets of 5 with 205. I'm trying to decide whether to switch to 5-3-1 or just focus more on incline, close-grip, etc. and then come back to flat bench in 3 months or so.

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