260, more gym stories

I set a new non-creatine bench mark today of 260 at the gym over lunch hour. It felt like I could have even gotten 265 possibly. I haven’t heard any new bench highs coming from the yard gnome lately so I am assuming that he has not passed me yet. Pip squeak.

There is a regular gym goer that I see quite often. He is stocky, not huge, not ripped but he’s strong. He has very odd workout routines. He will do the same exercise repeatedly with very high weight, very limited reps (1-3) with very long rest periods in between (5-10 minutes) It’s very odd and would seem very difficult to complete in under 2 hours considering the hour I was there he was doing the same exercise for all but the last 5 minutes. Today he was doing I guess what you would call a dead lift, except he wasn’t picking it off the floor, he was picking it off the squat rack. In total he wasn’t moving the bar more than 6 to 8 inches. Granted he had 5 or 6, 45 pound plates on either side of the barbell but still he was moving it such a short distance I was speculating if I could do the same feat. Last night there was some old man that used horrible form on every machine he was on, pulling the lat bar down to his knees, using the tricep machine as a modified ab exercise, crazy stuff.