Welcome aboard Lynchy. 120kg bench press, that's huge! Before I hurt my shoulder I think I might have just got to 57.5 or 60kgs. I got back up to 52.5 or 55kgs before I switched to dumbells.
Shoulder injuries are the worst. Hope yours is getting better.
120kg sounds huge but its all comparitive to body weight. As I weigh 120kgs ish. It isnt that great of a acomplishment.
Ah yes, very true! I'm still, people will be impressed when you can say that you bench press your own body weight
My shoulder is doing really well these days, I'm actually finding a bit of weakness in my "good shoulder" these days, I think it's just from carrying the bad shoulder for the past few months, hopefully it settles itself down soon.
Welcome aboard Steve, sounds like a solid plan to me, I work out 5 days a week at the moment, I was going doing 6, but I found I was dropping the Saturday work out once or twice a month in favour of going to a local metal gig. But now if I have to I can just turn a rest day into a exercise day instead if I have too.
Here we go again, hopefully more succesful this time round!!
Starting next Monday (7th) I shall be back on the wagon (I know I should be starting NOW but I still have a late xmas lunch at my mums this weekend so I don't want to offend, plus gives me time to prepare!)
My goals for this month are to simply get this whole fitness/weightloss thing rolling and get back into a healthy diet. I'm not setting any figures or goals, I'm after routine and positive progression!!
I will tidy out and setup my spare room "gym" this weekend and try and figure out what to do with all these weight things!!
Welcome back Gearhead! Sounds like a great idea to start on Monday, I'm sure you'll get on track this time, if you feel yourself slipping let us know and we'll kick your butt!
Sorry it took me a while to post here (Beardman's use of kg gave my calculator a workout lol). I'm in for at least 3x a week at the gym. I haven't seen the inside of a gym since my last college football practice, but it's way past time to remedy that.
Haha, sorry bro, normally I do the conversions for you silly yanks, but this time around I was in a bit of a rush, I was already late kicking it off as it was lol! (being the 2nd of the month for me at the time)
Get in there bro and hit it hard!
I did 5K run today, 250 crunches and shoulder and back exercies with weights, Beardy, I am on the 26k dumbell flat press so we will have to set a challenge!!
Haha I'm always keen on a challenge, last time I did that I said to my gym partner, "whatever you can lift I'll do the same reps at 1 increment higher", boy was that a fun night... It was even more fun the next day lifting stuff at work, because we did it on an arms night haha.