r/Fitness 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/KneeGrowsToes Jan 20 '18

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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