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Is it possible to keep improving?
Posted By: Jesse Israel (72-36-15-245.actaccess.net)
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2008, @ 10:29 a.m.
Without adding weight, extraterrestrial supplements, better equipment?
In a recent comment by Jim Ray, who tongue in cheek ragged on J.T. Hall and Cyrus Ford and their lack of progress in their bench presses this year, I was stuck wondering can you continue to make progress year after year ad infinitum?
Paul Anderson capped out at 900-1000 on the squat depending upon who you beleive. Kaz 661 on the bench. There is a ceiling as to what the human body can do, and then do over and over again.
While watching my 16 year old son lift, it is gain after gain after gain, while for me, it is trying to hang on. Unless I add some costumes, layers, super supps, I don't really expect, ok, I do, but don't tell anyone, to add another 100 pounds to my big ol' bench.
In conclusion, it seems to me that J.T. Hall's 473 pound bench at meet after meet raw can be considered a hell of an achievement. At most of our advanced stages of lifting, gains are incremental at best, thus the reasoning behind the suits and supps, because it does get old trying to improve and having limited results. My hats off to those that just continue to plug away and love this sport for what it truly is; a test of self against self! Bravo to you.
This in no way is against any other method used to feel stonger and should not be construed that way.
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