miked512’s BodyBlog

Alright, so a few weeks ago, I read the naked warrior by pavel tsatsouline.  Good book, I highly recommend it.  I just can’t do any of the exercises in it.  I’m "greasing the groove" to get there even though I’ve been slacking on it.  Anyway, that book made me realize why my bench press weight was never going anywhere.  It also kinda explained to me why I’d see all of these flat chest bastards benching a whole bunch of weight.  Then again, the fact they even do it wrong has a lot to do with that as well.
Apparently a memo went out several decades ago that there were two types of bench presses.  Elbows flared for bodybuilders and elbows tucked for powerlifters/weight lifters.  What had I been doing all these years?  The bodybuilder method.  Boy, was I in for a shocker.   I always wondered why I could see all these people benching 300+ lbs all the damned time and be small as shit.  Why?  Muscles in proper alignment for maximum pushing power versus muscles in alignment for maximum pectoral fiber stimulation.  I guess thats what I get for using Lee Haney form even though he never benched over 315 lbs.  I always found that weird considering his training partner who was smaller than him, Ropeman Felder, was considerably strong as an ox.  I guess the both of them never caught it or didn’t really care.
So of course I decided to change it up a bit.  Apparently, the weightlifting method was the way my training partner had been doing it all along.  Wow, this is taking some getting used to.  I feel actually pretty crappy that my bench poundages have dropped as much as they have since I’ve tried this new form.  Oh well, now to get the hang of it.  I guess I’ll get even more muscle and strength growth once everything falls into place and my normal recruitment patterns adapt to the new form.  Until then, I guess I gotta keep pumping at it.  I’ll get it though, I’m just feeling a little dumbfounded.  I’m also upset that after all of these years I’m just finding this out.  Wow, the things we learn and how we learn them.  Maybe I should have read the naked warrior years ago.
LMAO, I wonder if I’ve opened the eyes of my readers a bit.    We’ll soon find out.