Travis Bell

There are some terrifically strong people over at P&B, take Travis Bell at a mere 23 years of age and a +500 lb raw bench.

The following video shows him working upto a 635 lb reverse band bench, which if you’ve ever done reverse band benches is rather like pressing through treacle… basically the bands make the 635 lb lighter at the bottom (in the manner of shirted bench) but the 635 lbs still retains it inertia of 635 lbs;

Mantrition

I mentioned MeatPlow’s Mantrition a little while back, I’ve put it into pdf format and it can be accessed here.

Bench Series

I’ve been playing around with a free program called Scribus which is basically like Microsoft Publisher the desktop publisher – as such I’ve redone BLOBERT’s Bench Series articles, it can be download from here and is 837 kB in pdf format.

AP’s Inch Press Video

Earlier I reported on AP’s Inch Dumbbell lift – AP sent me an encouraging email on my quest to see how much I could do and included a 4.7 MB video of him doing the lift which you can download by clicking here.

I’m currently at 51.3 kg…

I think that realistically I’m unlikely to get to the same weight as AP but I’ll just keep plugging away.

Getstrength

Here’s an interesting item from http://getstrength.com/;

They also make a barbell version for bench presses – these devices are functionally like the monolift and similar to the device I use – though I’ve not seen a dumbbell version before.