Just to make it four posts in a row.

no. just borrowing the best joke ever from the sitcom "wings".

360 last Friday.

Instead of doing my normal 3 weeks of lifting and one week of rest, I did 4 weeks of lifting. (By "rest", I mean I do only cardio for the week.)

I definitely felt some stress in my shoulders. That means back down to 355 for a while. It also means this year long push is over.

My next goal is to improve my swimming. Right now, I'm swimming a mile in 1 hour, 15 minutes alternating every four laps between sidestroke, resting backstroke, racing backstroke, breast stroke, and freestyle. After not swimming for 10 years, it's take me 4 months to get my form back, but I still tire easily. I'd like to get back down to a 45 min. mile.

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Nice acheivement.

I highly, highly recommend you back off on the heavy benching for a while and focus on some rear deltoid and rotator cuff training.

Heavy benching in the abscence of overall shoulder conditioning is a torn shoulder timebomb. You will never be the same. Trust me.

Ask yourself this- are you putting as much emphasis on your rear shoulder development as your bech press? If not- time to rebalance.

Benching is not a chest excercise.

I'm pretty good at lifting a fork.

Your accomplishment is admirable, however....

I prefer the Kenny Stabler workout.

Back before "Snake" retired form the Raiders a reporter asked him if he lifted weights in the off season.

His reply was, "Yes, 12-ounces at a time."

He never did, according to what I've been told. He'd just throw at the start of camp and his arm would be sore for a few days.

Only if time wouldn't catch up with us.....

Stayed at 365 for almost a year. Started doing more shoulder training, it has helped a lot.

So much so, in fact, that I did three sets of four at 370 today.

Hit 385 for the first time today. (Yes, I also did 375 and 380.)

I'm mostly trying to lean out now and am on a rather strict diet. I seem to be able to consistently increase strength, but I also seem to put on the pounds rather easily too. I'm at 285 right now and would like to get down to around 250 and keep the strength.

I've gotten multiple comments at the gym from people that I am really strong "for a natural guy". I guess a lot of people are juicing. A friend of mine did a body-building competition (who I think is in excellent shape and sticks to a very strict workout and diet) but placed dead last. He said everyone there except for him was juicing. This was a freakin' local Bloomington-Normal body-building competition!

I'll probably have to lay off the 3-hour weight lifting sessions when the baby is born. I've got no problem going back to a cardio-driven workout. It was fun while it lasted.

Ha!

Nice work!

Just be mindful that you can't grow and shrink at the same time. Meaning- don't reduce calories to get lean while trying to make strength gains. I'm sure you knew that though...

Considering that I used to eat like 10,000 calories a day, I don't think that cutting back to 4,000 will do me much harm. I'm also trying to eat more things with vitamins (more vegetables) and fewer carbs and fats. I'm pretty much trying to stick to lean protein, complex carbs, and veggies.

You are right, I can't grow and shrink at the same time, but maybe I can lose the gut and put on more muscle at the same time.

400!

And I really need to get on a better diet. Started walking 2-3 miles a day in addition to my workout. Cut back on the booze big time. (Went from spending something like $150 a month on alcohol to $30.)

Impressive. How much do you weigh?

I did 300 one rep. Not bad since I weighed 150 at the time. I was doing 65# semi-reclined supine 'butterflies' and tore a pec off my sternum. Been lifting 12 oz since. I carry around 185 no problem nowadays.

I figured the same thing.

290 right now. I'd like to get that down to 250. I also leg press over 700, so not all the weight is in the top...

OK Girly Man, I've got a challenge for you!!!

I'm 5'11", 235 pounds, 38" waist (should be 36 or 34 but that is life...), bet I could leg press 350 pounds, doubt I could do 140 pounds of your bench press routine, however I do have a challenge for you! ;-)

Lift 90 pounds. Does not sound like much. Do it 100 times, oh, this would be on lift, not a bench. Take ten minutes, do it 100 times again. Take 15 minutes. Now repeat four more sets. Complete the workout in three hours. This simulates doing your part of lifting and tossing and moving and stacking 1,000 square bales in an afternoon. Now imagine you are not in an air conditioned building, there is loose hay flying around, you are coughing and sneezing, the lift is from the ground up and tossed, and the bales range from about 70 to 100 pounds but average 85 to 90 pounds.

Complete that task and you will have matched a woman in her late 30's, my Wife!!!

I wish anyone the best in completing that. I used to stay ahead of her until this year, now she is putting in more than me.



and for some reason my mind was going to engine displacement and I was thinking of our old Chrysler 360 with the four barrel.....