Yo! This Chest workout was CRAZY!!!!
Today I trained with these two animals who I’ve trained with a few times the past couple months. Thes guys lift soooooooooooo freakin heavy and they look like monsters. They’re both very impressive strength and appearance wise. Anyway, everytime I train with them they push me to my full potential - making me go as heavy as I can - they spot me and make me go when I think I’m done or make me try a weight that I don’t think I can do. Anyway, look at this workout I did with them yelling and screaming at me today…
Flat bench - warm up 135 lbs/185 lbs 5/5 reps
225 lbs 7 reps
255 lbs 6 reps
275 lbs 4 reps - rest 10 seconds - 2 more reps
315 lbs 4 reps
355 lbs 2 reps - I went for a 3rd rep and my arms gave out.
365 lbs 2 reps
Incline bench
135 lbs 10 reps
185 lbs 8 reps
225 lbs 4 reps
225 lbs 4 reps - 4th was pretty much forced
Flat flyes
50 lbs - 7, 6, 4 reps
That’s it, but it took a long time b/c all 3 of us were working in with eachother.
So, I’m very happy that even though they were spotting me I was still doing a lot of the work on those extremely heavy sets. They were very impressed and shocked that I handled the 315 as well as I did… that’s why they made me try 355 and then 365. I would never attempt to lift 315 lbs by myself or even with another person spotting me. These guys just pump me up and they are good spotters. It was an awesome workout though… benching weight that heavy feels amazing and the pumps were really good since it was so fricken heavy 
I think really my max bench is only 275 lbs, but it was cool to work with the heavy weight and get my body and mind used to the extremely heavy weight.
Bascially I was just all excited b/c those #’s are freakin insane for my size and weight… I mean 365 lbs is 210 lbs more than my body weight!!!!
Good times
Some day I’ll put up 315 lbs with out a spotter… not anytime soon, but someday
August 13, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Your an animal Joe! Welcome back from vacation.
August 14, 2007 at 6:50 am
You sound really pumped!
It feels so good to push yourself to the limit, and to get the extra help, well that’s just a bonus.
Good for you. All the best with the bulking. That’s where I’m at too.
Keep pushing that iron
August 16, 2007 at 4:04 am
Amazing! Way to go heavy. Your chest is going to explode!
August 16, 2007 at 3:57 pm
NICE workout! Yeah, I LOVE training with monsters in the gym. Forces me to push myself MUCH harder than I would on my own.
August 20, 2007 at 11:35 am
Awesome benching! It’s nice to have someone stronger push you to be stronger. Keep the faith…-|-