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I’ve been thinking about it for a while and I decided that tonight I would give it a go. It’s International Chest Day and I was set to work with dumbbells tonight so I was going to try to bench with the 80 pounders. I vividly remember when my trainer first grabbed the 60 lb dumbbells for me to bench with. My eyes almost popped out of my head when I saw them and I could barely get them up (with his help).

I did my warmup and started off with 65 lbs. For my final set I walked over and grabbed the 80 lb ones. When I had them sitting on my legs I was really nervous and had butterflies in my stomach. As I started falling back I thought "There’s no going back now." Getting into position and getting them up for the first rep was really ugly. At one point I could feel some panic setting in and for a moment I thought about dropping them. Then I thought "SCREW THAT!" and pumped out a total of 6 clean, controlled reps. Damn that felt great. The biggest unexpected surprise about lifting weights for me is discovering how great it is to look fear in the eyes and giving it the middle finger.

On a totally unrelated note, before I went to the gym I went to the grocery store. I stepped onto their scale and it said 158. I immediately thought "Wow, their scale is frakked up!" and went about my business. When I weighed myself at the gym the manual scale said I was over 157 and the digital one said I was 157. OMG. I lifted the 80 pounders for the first time on the night I hit 157 for the first time. I practically bounced out of the gym I was so happy!

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