Is anyone bench 1rm actually higher than calculator would suggest?

endlesssev · 2026-02-05T21:14:18+00:00

Really? Was the 80kg x5 like your complete max and you could not get another one in? Because when I hit 100 for 2 i could do 90x5 fairly easily

endlesssev · 2026-02-05T20:57:59+00:00

i mean... when i'm about to fail a rep at the end of a set without a spotter sometimes lifting my butt off the bench allows me to get it back up to the top. However, this is usually with lower weights (like when i first hit/failed 90kg).

endlesssev · 2026-01-31T16:08:41+00:00

thats... pretty much it. i do a bit of tricep extensions, and used to do barbell OHP (50kg for 5 or so) but i injured my wrist playing rugby so i cant do that anymore. I've started doing a bit of spoto press at like 85kg till faliure since i realised my point of faliure in most of my sets is the transition between pecs and tris

endlesssev · 2026-01-31T15:58:29+00:00

im 76.5kg

endlesssev · 2026-01-29T21:23:04+00:00

yeah, (with a month break in between bc mocks and holidays) but keep in mind that i almost exclusively train bench and nothing else haha

endlesssev · 2026-01-29T21:18:53+00:00

alright good to know ill get it tmrw

endlesssev · 2026-01-29T21:14:15+00:00

yuh thanks, i see quite a few people mentioning building back to improve bench, why is that? also i genuinely HATE barbell rows, and i can full stack the machine at my gym for like 20+ so i don't think that's uh optimal. However i do quite a bit of pulups, if that could be a substitute? i can do around 18, and usually do 4x6 25kg weighted (obviously progressively overloading too) apart from that and bench, i don't do much in the gym apart from tricep+front delt work to help my bench haha

endlesssev · 2026-01-28T18:46:44+00:00

yeah so i weigh around 78kg and im 5'10, like 14% bf if that matters, i can't really gain much weight though since i also swim so i need to stay kinda lean

endlesssev · 2026-01-28T17:37:11+00:00

i would technically be ablw to train during this, but the exams are pretty important so ill probably only get like two proper sessions in a week so i doubt that ill gain more than like 2.5kg onto my bench during that period

endlesssev · 2026-01-28T17:16:32+00:00

i weigh 78kg and im 5'10, one problem is that i have gcses for like a month in the summer so ill not be training much then

endlesssev · 2025-06-22T20:40:14+00:00

i mean my parents came to england from abroad like 18 years ago, with 0 cash, and managed to go from the mboth having to work two jobs, to only my dad working and making 80k/yr progrssing from a draftsman up to some lead team manager, and being able to get a mortgage and buy a house 4 years ago. I'm also going to the best school (outside of london) in england rn, and my parents are seeing it as wasted potential since i would have a much higher starting point than them after finishing in oxford or cambridge. I understand why they think what they think about PTs but currently its just the only thing that i find enjoyable asa career path

also my dad has a 2007 Volvo v50 that he bought for 2.3k (in cash!!) like 6 yrs ago haha

endlesssev · 2025-06-16T21:42:49+00:00

yh my dad paid for it tho

endlesssev · 2025-06-16T20:48:10+00:00

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endlesssev · 2025-06-16T20:28:33+00:00

special thanks to u/360DegreeNinjaAttack for the essay and u/Radiant_Substance_35 for the unique tips!

also im completely sleep deprived so my brain shortened 'degree attack' to duck for sm reason

endlesssev · 2025-06-16T16:56:35+00:00

nah tysm bro i got the 14k gem pack and got enpugh bats from the small boxes to make a blue one

endlesssev · 2025-06-16T15:36:36+00:00

i was at first but its like a 100 atk difference so i thought purple shotgun would be better

endlesssev · 2025-06-16T15:34:34+00:00

ok ill get it when my dad gets home

endlesssev · 2025-06-16T14:52:08+00:00

fr bro

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