I have had a reader asking to be a guest blogger for about a year now, and I have finally given in. I do not endorse these training techniques, but I figured maybe you could use an alternate view. *
Increasing You’re Bench Press, By G McP
I been reading articles on the All Health Network for some time, and I have to say my training methods are totally against to what is talked about here. I’ve been going to the gym and slinging weights around most of my adult life, so I know what I am talking about here. I have talked to some of the most muscle bound apes there, and most of them seem to follow some of the stuff I want to share here. I’m hoping Rob will let me write a couple posts here, because I got way to much information to plug into one days post (otherwise it’d be like a hunnert pages long or sumpin)
Advice From a Dumb Bell
First of all, these pansy methods of ‘weight training’ What the heck man? I am tryin to lift all the freakin weight I can, and I do, and it’s pretty impressive. I’m not trying to boast here, but I am benchin more than twice my body weight, which is in itself pretty much.
This is a good place to start talking about form. “Proper form” Rob’s always harping on. Well, I think that’s a bunch of BS (pardon my French) but it is. If you ignore this one little piece of Rob’s so called advice, you can easily double what you are lifting within a week, or two weeks at the very most. Don’t take the weights down too far, just enough that you start to feel it a little bit and then push it back up as quickly as you can.
Start off adding just another 25 pounds on each side of your straight bar when benching. Don’t worry about that being 50 pounds, just think about it being only 25 pounds per side, that makes it mentally lighter and we don’t want to strain our mental ness. That’s one muscle I know I don’t need to build. For sure. You don’t even need a spotter, this’ll be a piece of pie.
In the event it does seem a bit heavy for ya (unlikely) just yell really loud. Not any words or anything, cause you might alarm someone, just yell something like “NN-GARPH!” and try to feel the veins on yer neck stickin out. Then you know you are in the zone. Sometimes if the weight seems really heavy I also stick out my tongue. This is a little known power lifter trick which mostly only I use and know about, but I am willing to share. This might take a bit away from the volume of your yell, but that’s OK.
That’s probaly enough for now. I don’t want you overloaded with information for your next gym visit. Just try to keep this stuff in mind. See ya around the iron.
*hopefully you know this is satire, and please don’t follow this ‘advice’ -RB
