There was one border I could never cross, though. I wanted to be able to bench my own body weight, but I just can’t. Apparently I started too old and it would literally take me the rest of my life just focusing on bench presses to reach that goal or something.
I’m hard-capped at 45kg. Add even 250g on that (I tried!) and my left arm goes down, goes back up about half-way … and then can’t go any further, no matter how hard I try and no matter how long I try for. At 45kg I can do 10 reps if I push myself hard and don’t mind a day or three of pain across my chest and in my left elbow. At 45.25kg I can’t do shit. It’s really weird.
Even though I can squat 150% of my body weight, give or take. (As my bastard trainer put it: I have sturdy peasant legs. He seemed to think that was a compliment!)
Yeah, after six months of hitting that wall I stopped trying to push it and have switched to maintenance only.
I mean I’m still stronger than 99.44% of the women my size (and probably stronger than about 80% of the men I meet day to day). Not bad for someone who was wallowing in depression, right?
There was one border I could never cross, though. I wanted to be able to bench my own body weight, but I just can’t. Apparently I started too old and it would literally take me the rest of my life just focusing on bench presses to reach that goal or something.
I’m hard-capped at 45kg. Add even 250g on that (I tried!) and my left arm goes down, goes back up about half-way … and then can’t go any further, no matter how hard I try and no matter how long I try for. At 45kg I can do 10 reps if I push myself hard and don’t mind a day or three of pain across my chest and in my left elbow. At 45.25kg I can’t do shit. It’s really weird.
Even though I can squat 150% of my body weight, give or take. (As my bastard trainer put it: I have sturdy peasant legs. He seemed to think that was a compliment!)
That’s frustrating. Everyone has a limit, even olympic greats though. The fact that you’ve hit the limit of what you can do shows how well you’ve done
Yeah, after six months of hitting that wall I stopped trying to push it and have switched to maintenance only.
I mean I’m still stronger than 99.44% of the women my size (and probably stronger than about 80% of the men I meet day to day). Not bad for someone who was wallowing in depression, right?
Not bad at all!