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Every exercise I do increases in strength and endurance over my last 2 weeks, except bench press.
I finally have Mr. Riptoe's book, and am already avidly studying it for correct form and focus each exercise, but despite putting into play the techniques advocated in his book, my benchpress strength is increasing at a negligible rate. Im struggling at a sissy weight for a guy, and although I don't judge myself in comparison to the weight others lift, its still becoming frustrating when the skinniest guy in our group is now repping higher benchpress weight than me. Any suggestions? |
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Final rep, bar touches my chest, I push, it goes about 4 inches up.. a struggle, and it gets 5-6, and stays there. This is using all the strength I can summon to push that bar.
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I don't know if this is entirely normal, and Im not sure, though I have a good clue as to why, but I go to the gym, workout, losing whatever food weight I have in my stomach from breakfast, then I go do my 20-30 minutes of, if 20 min, HIIT cardio, or, if 30, 6mph slowly increased to 9 mph run; but here's the odd part - I know I weight myself too much.. "Once a week is enough"... said someone on some forum at sometime - I weigh myself after the weights, and I'll be around 183 and dropping, and then I'll weigh myself after the run, and I'll be 8 lbs lighter.
Am I just dropping water weight or what? |
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I don't know if this is entirely normal, and Im not sure, though I have a good clue as to why, but I go to the gym, workout, losing whatever food weight I have in my stomach from breakfast, then I go do my 20-30 minutes of, if 20 min, HIIT cardio, or, if 30, 6mph slowly increased to 9 mph run; but here's the odd part - I know I weight myself too much.. "Once a week is enough"... said someone on some forum at sometime - I weigh myself after the weights, and I'll be around 183 and dropping, and then I'll weigh myself after the run, and I'll be 8 lbs lighter.
Am I just dropping water weight or what? |
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