PH 2014 Goals, Progress & Transformations Thread
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Hoofy said:
Clever. Is concrete really that heavy? Just thinking you'd have to pay £100+ for 60kg of iron.
Yup. I need circa 300kg of weights so this is the cheap skate way. I'll buy some weights along side to get a more accurate weight I want to practice with but for now can't complain The easiest way to ensure you get concrete weights that weigh the same is to weigh the "ingredients" before making the mix, that way you should theoretically get the same weight every time...
I was going to do similar, only problem is they are prone to cracking unless you put some rebar inside.
I was going to do similar, only problem is they are prone to cracking unless you put some rebar inside.
_bryan_ said:
The easiest way to ensure you get concrete weights that weigh the same is to weigh the "ingredients" before making the mix, that way you should theoretically get the same weight every time...
I was going to do similar, only problem is they are prone to cracking unless you put some rebar inside.
To much effort just used 3x 20kg concrete bags and 22 ish-L of water I was going to do similar, only problem is they are prone to cracking unless you put some rebar inside.
Will be interesting to see how they hold up though
Really enjoying my gym work at the moment, going 5-7 times a week purely weights work but am really struggling to up the weight on chest workouts.
I do a mix of bench press, bench press on smiths in incline, flat and decline, flys with dumbells and bench press with dumbells, but am still not able to up the weight....
This is doing 4 sets of 8-10 reps, doing for about 6 weeks now, really want to get my bench press up, 50kg seems pretty pathetic!
Any advice?
Chris
I do a mix of bench press, bench press on smiths in incline, flat and decline, flys with dumbells and bench press with dumbells, but am still not able to up the weight....
This is doing 4 sets of 8-10 reps, doing for about 6 weeks now, really want to get my bench press up, 50kg seems pretty pathetic!
Any advice?
Chris
supraboy said:
Really enjoying my gym work at the moment, going 5-7 times a week purely weights work but am really struggling to up the weight on chest workouts.
I do a mix of bench press, bench press on smiths in incline, flat and decline, flys with dumbells and bench press with dumbells, but am still not able to up the weight....
This is doing 4 sets of 8-10 reps, doing for about 6 weeks now, really want to get my bench press up, 50kg seems pretty pathetic!
Any advice?
Chris
Lose the Smith machine and the decline. I do a mix of bench press, bench press on smiths in incline, flat and decline, flys with dumbells and bench press with dumbells, but am still not able to up the weight....
This is doing 4 sets of 8-10 reps, doing for about 6 weeks now, really want to get my bench press up, 50kg seems pretty pathetic!
Any advice?
Chris
Try dips, close grip bench and narrow grip bench instead.
deadmau5 said:
supraboy said:
Really enjoying my gym work at the moment, going 5-7 times a week purely weights work but am really struggling to up the weight on chest workouts.
I do a mix of bench press, bench press on smiths in incline, flat and decline, flys with dumbells and bench press with dumbells, but am still not able to up the weight....
This is doing 4 sets of 8-10 reps, doing for about 6 weeks now, really want to get my bench press up, 50kg seems pretty pathetic!
Any advice?
Chris
Lose the Smith machine and the decline. I do a mix of bench press, bench press on smiths in incline, flat and decline, flys with dumbells and bench press with dumbells, but am still not able to up the weight....
This is doing 4 sets of 8-10 reps, doing for about 6 weeks now, really want to get my bench press up, 50kg seems pretty pathetic!
Any advice?
Chris
Try dips, close grip bench and narrow grip bench instead.
TheJimi said:
deadmau5 said:
supraboy said:
Really enjoying my gym work at the moment, going 5-7 times a week purely weights work but am really struggling to up the weight on chest workouts.
I do a mix of bench press, bench press on smiths in incline, flat and decline, flys with dumbells and bench press with dumbells, but am still not able to up the weight....
This is doing 4 sets of 8-10 reps, doing for about 6 weeks now, really want to get my bench press up, 50kg seems pretty pathetic!
Any advice?
Chris
Lose the Smith machine and the decline. I do a mix of bench press, bench press on smiths in incline, flat and decline, flys with dumbells and bench press with dumbells, but am still not able to up the weight....
This is doing 4 sets of 8-10 reps, doing for about 6 weeks now, really want to get my bench press up, 50kg seems pretty pathetic!
Any advice?
Chris
Try dips, close grip bench and narrow grip bench instead.
- do a warm up set e.g bar for 12-15 reps
- followed by 3 sets increasing weight each set up to 8 reps
- 2 sets increasing weight again of up to 5 reps
- last set make it so you can rep out minimum of 3, if you get 3 in week one, aim for 4 in week 2. Keep doing this until you hit 6-8 reps then up the weight again to 3 rep min.
Alternatively you could follow wendler 5/3/1 which I have a drop box link to android app if you want it
ETA: don't be afraid to do any program with dumbbells instead of bar as well. IMO dumbbell>barbell for bench press. Doesn't sound logical (and may only work for me ) but if you've seen my vid above, I stopped pressing around 7 weeks ago and did dumbbell and 1 barbell session prior to that
Edited by smiffy180 on Wednesday 16th April 11:49
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