sugapablo’s BodyBlog

Broke my personal best yet again this morning, pulling a 240 pound deadlift.  Felt great!  And yet, again today, I couldn’t do one complete wide-grip pull-up.

Is that normal?  How come I can pull that much weight off the ground, I can bench and squat more than my bodyweight, but I can’t do a single wide-grip pull-up?

Anyways, still stoked about the deadlift, so I won’t let it bug me too much today. 

Another mini-milestone in the odyssey I’ve undertaken here.  For the first time in my life, I’ve bench pressed more than my weight.

I weigh around 152-155 lbs.  Today I got over my plateau and got one rep of 160 lbs.

Again, this won’t break touch many of the other BodySpace members personal bests, but considering I started last year benching 65 lbs., I’m thrilled!  Tangible, quantifiable results!  Henry Rollins was right, the iron is a great friend.  She never lies to you.  When you do good, she lets you know it.  And she makes you earn it!

P.S.  I weighed my bars, and after adding their weight to my deadlifts, and adding a little bit more, I was able to get my deadlift up to 225 lbs.

Ok, for everyone else here, a 200 pound deadlift isn’t impressive, but for my skinny ass, pullin’ a 200 pounder today for the first time was a big accomplishment for me.  I’m stoked!
A journey of a thousand miles, ya know…

P.S.  Anyone know what a 6′ standard bar weighs?  Because it was 200 pounds in plates.  I never count the bar since I don’t know how much it weighs.

I just got back from Dick’s in Homestead and they had dumbbell racks, two tier, nice sized, that they were trying to get rid of.

Normally, $99, they had them for $4.93. I wasn’t planning on getting hex dumbbells today, but I bought the rack at that price. (I was pricing them because I want to get a set of hex dumbbells.)

They have one left, floor model, but it’s in good shape. They we’re just "two years old" the guy said and they were clearing it our for new inventory.