Reason why I can only bench 135 for a couple of reps until my arms are burnt out after 3 years of benching?
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Reason why I can only bench 135 for a couple of reps until my arms are burnt out after 3 years of benching?
are you eating enough? you should not be looking like that after 3 years of lifting
I'm 6,5 and work 10 hours of hard labor as a construction worker 6 days a week. Can't eat 5k calories a day.
okay well theres your answer
But shouldn't I be growing stronger at least without eating a lot?
Nope. Can you build an addition to a house without extra material?
Wrong. Also what a horrible analogy holy fricking shit LMAO.
When you bench what is your training like, rep range, 1rm??
Mostly 3x5 but then I do 8-12 for volume.
How have you been trying to progress. What weights are you using recently. Is it really that hard for you or are you being a pussy? I'm struggling to understand how an adult male who has lifted for 3 years can not rep out 135 like it's nothing
Muscles are built with protein. Don't take in additional protein, don't gain additional muscle. Simple as.
Strength isn't some magical DBZ shit, they are just your muscle contracting, no muscles=no strength , you can only get so strong without increasing muscles by getting better at contracting them, but eventually you would need more, and based on this picture you don't have a lot.of.it
You are decently strong, your arms are just a lot longer than someone who is 5'9 making it a lot harder for you to leverage the weight.
Lanklets can have a tough time looking ripped in pictures because of how hard it is to fill out their frame with muscle. For a short guy it's a world of difference. You will get to mog people in real life though a lot just by being 6'5 alone so no sympathy here.
>6 5 172 pounds with that gut
ok homosexual which number did you blatantly lie about
I don’t have a choice for where my body stores fat. Look at how skinny my legs and arms look.
By my estimate he's lying about all of them. Weight, height, job hours, all of it
amazing how people talk about how great trade school is and how much of an amazing job shit like construction is, just to not have a life and have every hobby completely crippled because all they do is work with 1-2 days where they can actually work and live life
He looks pretty (skinny) fat tho
Do you have klinefelters?
U have to incrementally add weight to bar moron
I know but I still have reached my goal of 3x5 to be able to add more weight to the bar.
I'm guessing genetics, I just cannot press like I can row or squat. I pick up a 90lbs dumbbell to row like it's nothing but pressing with a dumbbell hardest thing ever to do.
This isn't something genetics comes into play with
What else could it be then? I’ve been hitting 135 for years now, never missed a day at the gym and bench twice a week.
Well from construction work, I don’t use my chest for anything at the gym. I’m not pressing bags of cement at the job, only deadlifting.
Do pushups, construction doesn't work your chest except when you throw a sack of concrete up on your shoulder.
You're not married to 3x5
Add weight do fewer reps
> pick up a 90lbs dumbbell to row like it's nothing but pressing with a dumbbell hardest thing ever to do.
I don't get how it's possible that you can do 90lb dumbell rows but not look like you lift at all
get a better job and lay off the beer
If a linear progress program stopped working get on an intermediate program. Its that easy
Bro you look like shit. Go on a high protein diet, count your calories, maybe even gonon a deficit and lose some weight, fatty.
You look like a woman trapped in a mans body. It’s impossible that youve been lifting consistently for 3 years. Everyone itt took the bait lol
I've never missed a day at the gym.
nah he's just a natty with subaverage genetics. even for natties with average genetics it's a grind. I've been lifting like a maniac for 5 year and finally hit a 3 pl8 becnh
do you understand the difference between 3 years 135 bench vs 5 years 3 plates? 5 years 3 plates is fine. Skinny high school kids can bench 135 with little training.
It's honestly just a waste of time for him, he should probably just give up.
How's your sleep?
I have the exact same problem. Plateau'd at 130 when I was 19 and fricked off to calisthenics/martial arts for awhile.
Just got back to it and rocketed up to 130lb bench but it's stuck.
Somedays I can do 7 reps 130lb db bench some only 4.
It's fricked because I just hit 140lbs on the shoulder press and I don't know what in the frick is going on.
Honestly idk, I've been consistently hitting bench for the past 3 years. I've switched things up, I've done crazy amounts of volume, ate like 4-5k calories. Right now, I'm at the point where I just don't have the motivation to go to the gym anymore.
If youre being honest and actually trying in the gym then you probably just have the type of genetics where you cant build muscle at all. Roids are your only answer or you really think hard and change something. Because right now what youre doing isnt working at all
Yeah, I think I'm just a non-responder to weight training. I'm literally destroying my body at the gym for no gain.
I always do every set to failure.
When I tracked my calories, I was getting 160 protein. I think that's more than enough for someone who can only bench 135.
All threads are bait it's just a point to start talking from
Did you try... HIT?
(With a drop set)
Are you hitting at least 1g/protein/lb body weight?
If not, that's a start, and clean up your diet.
Do eggs and turkey sausage in the morning. Ground beef for lunch/dinner if you have to.
Once you get past the strength gains from mind-muscle connection, and I know this sounds shocking, you have to actually gain muscle to lift more weight. Have you tried lifting?
anyone who seriously replied to this thread is a gullible moron
I don't know if this is bait or not. I'm going to assume it's not bait.
You **need** to do what I'm going to tell you to do. Read Practical Programming for Strength Training and clean up your nutrition. If you fail at that, pay for a coach because it seems like you don't know what you're doing.
Sure are a bunch of homosexuals itt. I started off at the gym weighing 105 lbs. Couldn't even bench the bar. One year later I was benching 135 for 5x5. Fricking weak piss ants who don't know how to apply themselves.
S to spit.
Are you a woman or just 5’3 man? How were u 100 lbs
Damn dude you look buff