You could offer a 100lb weight advantage doesn't change the fact we are still going to be in the same weight class 5lbs apart
Maybe you should successfully press the 100s first because you haven't yet. You also don't get credit for what your partner thinks you can lift remember this is the same lifting partner spotter who didn't think you could get 325 a week ago now he is the expert on your strength?
I don't think you need to be an EXPERT on strength to tell someone had 5% more in the tank.
From how I felt and how the video looked, I am absolutely certain that I had a 340 bench press in me on Friday. I think it would have been a steady, but certain, press.
I'll get it Wednesday, anyway.
Unfortunately, my spotter has taken over numerous times unnecessarily because he only bench presses 160. So my only solution is to continually bench 10-lb below my max. My doing so, he can stand to the side and watch. I will re-rack to the middle rung if I can't make it, or he can help once I tell him to.
But for the contest, I want to press my true max...so I may have to get another spotter who knows when to intervene, and when to leave it alone - like when the weight is OBVIOUSLY STILL SLOWLY MOVING UP, YOU LEAVE IT ALONE.
I'm only annoyed with it, more because YOU are such a petty fuck about this, when it's obvious to anyone I got the lift. Even if it doesn't count, it's still obvious I had it, but noooooo, you can't just acknowledge I had that 325, because you are a petty fuck.
So I went back on Friday to get that 330 with my spotter standing AWAY from the bench, so you couldn't deny it.
I timed my 330-lb bench, and it took UNDER TWO SECONDS from touching my chest to pressing it fully:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyFTiI4tsAp/Meanwhile, it took UNDER THREE SECONDS for me to get 325, with my spotter's accidental touch:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx7CXcMtm4R/To go up 5-lb while decreasing my rep speed represents a decent increase in strength between workouts, but my point is:
A spotter should not intervene for reps that take under three seconds [for the concentric/positive/press portion].
There was no reason for him to think I was at any risk there, and he has done that with as little as 275.
He bench presses 160, so to him, it's a lot of weight.
So I will be benching 10-lb below my max from now on, until December 31st, when I will find a way to press my absolute max - most likely with another spotter who knows not to touch the bar unless I explicitly say "HELP".
As for pressing the 100's - as I have already said: I have pressed the 100's MANY times. My max performance was nine reps, and my form was PERFECTLY FINE, wrist kink aside. I have also pressed the 105's for 3. I will soon go to the 110's, once I get the 100's for 10+ reps with the form I did them for six.
Just because you don't think 350-380lbs is going to be hard doesn't mean it isn't maybe you should do it first before declaring it easy?
I have benched 320x6 @170, 340 @170, and 345 @183. Here's 320x6 @170:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CeN1RWeADHv/WHY would, at the very least, 345 be a challenge for me at 203? I have a full TWENTY POUNDS of body weight?
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I'll get 340 on Wednesday...but I may attempt 345 if I get that. And if I get that...350. I'm taking two weeks off training singles, so I may as well go all out.
It has always been an open weight challenge. Go develop some DDD cups if you think it will help but if you don't think I am going to sneak on at 11:59 12/31/23 and press 1lb more than you then you are daft.
No, you won't. I'm probably good for 345 TODAY. That means I have 12 weeks to make improvements, when I've only been training for strength for six weeks so far.
So even to get to 355 would mean I would have to add 10-lb to what I most likely can press right now, in more than as many weeks. So even a 1-lb increase in bench press strength would get me to 355.
That would require you to press 360 to best me, and that's only going to happen in the same universe where Walter Sobchak is stronger and better looking than me, and JustPlaneJane runs the 100m in 11.11s captured on a video...you know...that video she JUST CAN'T POST...you know...in that universe where she's one of the fastest White women in human history.
Meanwhile, in THIS universe, only 3,275 women have ran the 100m in 11.11s or faster, and about 3,000 of them are Black, lol.
JustPlaneJane basically did the equivalent of a White guy saying he ran the 100m in 11.11s, and is too stupid to see it.
LOL.
For me to get 355 would be +10 on my lifetime max bench, but with +20 body weight. Meanwhile for you, to beat that, you would need 360, which is -5 from your alleged lifetime max of 365 from 2002, but after you had numerous injuries and surgeries.
There would be every reason why I should get 355.
There would be no reason why you would get back to your former lifetime best, minus five pounds.
330lbs isn't going to cut it you will need to lift more than that.
I will lift 340 on Wednesday. Since we're nowhere near the contest end submission date, and nothing is on the line yet, I am asking you to change the leaderboard to say 340 for me, in good faith.
You're going to HAVE to change it in ~55 hours.
It would show you are a good sport to change it now.
