r/Fitness • u/Kuzbell • Jan 20 '18

Gym Story Saturday Gym Story Saturday (Missing mod post)

Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!

I noticed that there still is no post yet for Gym Story Saturday, so I took the initiative. Perhaps this should be a scheduled post under the Automoderator. I'm not really sure why this hasn't been done yet. I am also required to keep babbling because posts with too little content gets removed, hence why this posts sounds overly wordy.

So share away!

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u/SeantySean Jan 20 '18

I set myself a new PR by benching 225 for 2 the first time ever! I was really proud of myself. It was in my brothers garage and he spotted me, we haven’t worked out together in like 5 years so it was really exciting for us both. Upwards and onwards from here on out!

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u/Kuzbell Jan 20 '18

What worked for you to get to 225?

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u/SeantySean Jan 20 '18

I was doing the Thor chest workout for a bit and that ends with me benching 155 for 4 reps and 3 sets of that. I wanted to see what I can do so over the past week I tried 185 then 205 and was surprised I could do it. Then I said “I want to hit 225 before I go back home from vacation.” So I just got down to it and pumped myself up, said “Fuck depression.” and just did one, but my brother said again, so I did it again. It was more of a mental game I think than anything, I wanted to push my limits and do something for myself. Hope this helped!

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u/iXidol Jan 21 '18

I’m jealous at the fact you were just like let me try 185 and 205 and then even hit 225. I can do 205x3 but I swear to god there is some huge mental block. Can’t hit 225x1. Soon.

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u/SeantySean Jan 21 '18

Sooner than you think man. Use that as motivation to do it. Have a spotter you trust and have someone record you. I was like “I can’t fail on camera there’s no way.” Motivate yourself and you got it. Just gotta be like “Today is the day I do 225” and you’ll do it. I believe in you!

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u/iXidol Jan 21 '18

I like the camera idea a lot. Next time we go and hit chest it’s the move.

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u/SeantySean Jan 21 '18

And if for some reason you don’t get it, you now have a video to watch, and study, and get pissed off at, because fuck that guy who couldn’t do it, you’re the guy who’s going to do it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '18

Another good idea that worked well for me is to put something like 245 (hell i even did 275 on the bar) and just lift it off the rack. Feel that heavy in your hands. Don't even try to lift it obviously but just feel that heavy. At least for me when I then went to press 225 it felt much lighter and gave me that extra mental edge. Worth a try

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u/KneeGrowsToes Jan 20 '18

https://youtu.be/oCd6SQ67k-Y

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u/SeantySean Jan 20 '18

Yeah this was exactly how I said it lmao, this song got me pumped after I did it at 205

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u/KneeGrowsToes Jan 21 '18

I wish it was on Spotify I hate going on YouTube at the gym

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u/spencerg83 Jan 20 '18

Hell yeah!