Muse back!
March 13, 2007 / Tuesday
Wimpy Gimpy Cure
Dear Guy at the Gym Doing Lopsided Bench Presses,
If you take a moment to look at the bar you're lifting, you'll notice it has several symmetrical smooth grooves between the crosshatched grippable areas. Use these as guides for hand placement. That way, people won't look at your imbalanced bar and think you have a wimpy gimpy arm.
I'd have told you this in person, but since you're a guy it probably would have been a crushing blow to your ego, so I'm posting it here for you to find when you finally tire of that not-so-fresh unbalanced feeling and decide to search the internet for "lopsided bench press" or "wimpy gimpy arm".
A touch OCD when it comes to balance in the weight room,
Viv
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In other news, I'm back up to 95 pounds on the squat (yay, quarters, way less silly looking than dimes on the squat bar), although I can't remember whether I was squatting 95 or 115 when I stopped. 105, maybe? In any case, I'll need at least another session at that weight to make sure it's not too heavy for me to do properly. In better news, I'm back up to my previous high of 70 lbs on the deadlift. It felt pretty good, so I think I'll go for 75 next time.
Perhaps it'd be better to track these numbers in a spreadsheet instead. Then again, I'm not really serious about being able to lift a lot, and I expect these numbers to level off in the near future. I guess the blog's as good a place as any to record progress if it's just for a few weeks.
Tomorrow, UB!
March 13, 2007 04:34 PM | Gym:PSA/NTS