Thread: Weight bench broke

And my wieght is also down to like 155.5 now

bye bye gains and strength

brb praying that a plane will drop a wieght bench in my front yard.we can all dream :|

I guess this means squats,deadlifts and then cry.

Sounds like the end of the world...

I might as well start making a noose.

Originally Posted by Witchblade

Sounds like the end of the world...

It is because I won't even have the money to even think about buying one until christmas and then my dad probably won't get it.

Originally Posted by Witchblade

Sounds like the end of the world...

This is also around the same time last year where i stopped lifting until end of dec and bench numbers went down and it will be like starting back at 205 max ifi get one for xmas.Worked my ass off for months and now it goes down the drain.

I guess I will jsut be startign back with my squats and deadlift.Only things I can do really. It was bad enough that gyno is forming in my right pec and now my pecs are going to shrink and the gyno will be more noticable.

If I had the money I would buy the "mega flat bench"


Bench / Incline / Unliateral press

Walmart.com: Gold's Gym Bench: Exercise & Fitness

can't you temporarily use a high school gym for free?

Originally Posted by Prince

Walmart.com: Gold's Gym Bench: Exercise & Fitness

I don't know if that one could handle 200+lbs of oly weights

Originally Posted by Little Wing

can't you temporarily use a high school gym for free?

I don't think we are allowed to use the school gym. Sports always use it after school and then i would have no pre workout meal.

Originally Posted by KEFE

I don't think we are allowed to use the school gym. Sports always use it after school and then i would have no pre workout meal.

Walmart.com: Weider 220 Olympic Width Bench: Exercise & Fitness

$198.88

Olympic width bench designed to accommodate Olympic width weights so you can train like the professionals - accommodates weights up to 310 lbs.

It's not broken it's just giving you a chance to use some ingenuity. When my bench broke as a kid I went to my dads tool shed, pulled out the drill gun and a 3/8's long bit drilled a couple new holes and then but a couple long carriage bolts through a new piece of square tubing I found in a neighbors garbage pile thus splicing it back together and it was twice as strong. Then I figured out what had caused it to break was the bolts had come loose and it had been wobbly for a long time putting stress on the metal until it gave out. To remedy that ever happening again I replaced every nut on my bench with nylon lock nuts and some loctite thread lock. And I had never taken shop class in school instead I'd taken Home Ec type courses like Food and Health Intro to Dietitian Sciences stuff, so you should be able to rig up some kind of fix with all that junk in your Sanford and Son yard.....

Originally Posted by KEFE

I don't think we are allowed to use the school gym. Sports always use it after school and then i would have no pre workout meal.

ask. i'm sure one look at you will let whoever is able to grant you permission see that you are serious about training. explain the situation and what is at stake. and pack a meal.

Originally Posted by maniclion

It's not broken it's just giving you a chance to use some ingenuity. When my bench broke as a kid I went to my dads tool shed, pulled out the drill gun and a 3/8's long bit drilled a couple new holes and then but a couple long carriage bolts through a new piece of square tubing I found in a neighbors garbage pile thus splicing it back together and it was twice as strong. Then I figured out what had caused it to break was the bolts had come loose and it had been wobbly for a long time putting stress on the metal until it gave out. To remedy that ever happening again I replaced every nut on my bench with nylon lock nuts and some loctite thread lock. And I had never taken shop class in school instead I'd taken Home Ec type courses like Food and Health Intro to Dietitian Sciences stuff, so you should be able to rig up some kind of fix with all that junk in your Sanford and Son yard.....

the welding came completely undone. Dad doesn't want me doing anything with the bench except throwing it away.

Originally Posted by Prince

Walmart.com: Weider 220 Olympic Width Bench: Exercise & Fitness

$198.88

Olympic width bench designed to accommodate Olympic width weights so you can train like the professionals - accommodates weights up to 310 lbs.

I would rather get the one i linked earlier in thread that has a 1000lb rating for 139 $

You can probably take the pieces down to a local welding shop and have them
weld in some pieces of scrap-cut angle iron, and the thing will be stronger than before...

Any welder worth his salt will want to help you out if you tell them
you wont make the team or something...
Or they might charge you like 10 or 20 bucks.

Boom, problem solved.



Or you could just throw the thing out
and start doing strength and conditioning lifts
from the floor like a real man

Originally Posted by KEFE

After looking at this picture more...
I realized that you should be able to fix it
gauging by the ingenuity of your family who invented the
Cardboard box-turned pet house.

Originally Posted by KEFE

I would rather get the one i linked earlier in thread that has a 1000lb rating for 139 $

How hard could it be to scrape together $139? You are 16 now right? Get a job. And LW is right, check with your school to see if you can use their gym; that's what everyone else who worked out in my HS did, including myself.

$139 will buy a whole lot of workouts in a real gym

Originally Posted by KentDog

How hard could it be to scrape together $139? You are 16 now right? Get a job. And LW is right, check with your school to see if you can use their gym; that's what everyone else who worked out in my HS did, including myself.

I jsut turned 15 and don't have time for a job with school havign to spend hours doing schoolwork out of school.I don't get money except christmas and my birthday and 139 is hard to scrape together when you get no money.

Originally Posted by The Monkey Man

$139 will buy a whole lot of workouts in a real gym

Don't have gas money for real gym. Not gonna drive 10 miles for a gym and then 10 back and theni have to have someone to take me

put that broken bench in a wheel barrow and walk to the next farm,
auto garage, or welding shop, who has a welder...

And slap it back together!

And do the walk, barefoot, through snow, uphill both ways,
through thumbtacks.

Originally Posted by The Monkey Man

put that broken bench in a wheel barrow and walk to the next farm,
auto garage, or welding shop, who has a welder...

And slap it back together!

And do the walk, barefoot, through snow, uphill both ways,
through thumbtacks.

and naked right?

Stack some bricks up. Oh yeah, scratch that.

Go to the mobile next door leg press up some cider blocks.