What is wrong with me.

[Jrm181]

Everybody says that you should be able to bench your weight easily right? Well for some reason I cant. I weight 135 and I can only get 100 up 3 times. Same thing with squats. I cant even squat 100 I do like 70. But for the squats I dont have a machine or anything to do it with so I load up a bar and have to lift it above my head and rest it on my shoulders before I do them. I started the bench program and musclemedia.com to add 50 pounds to your bench and it worked. I went from doing 50-60 to doing over 100 now. But my chest is still small. Can you guys tell me some exercises and how many reps I should do for a bigger chest. My arms are good but I have been doing them for about 3-3 and a half months longer than my chest. Should I just continue with what Im doing for my chest?

[D&G]

Are you a bodybuilder or a power lifter - what you can lift don't matter, just try something different to what you are doind now i.e if your doing 12 reps try 4-6 and keep changing it around. Try pre-exhaustion if your chest is not feeling sore the next day. Maybe you are using a wrong grip and working ur arms more than chest - its difficult to know without looking at ur form but keep changing around and giving it ur best and don't worry about pundages.

[CASE]

How long have you been lifting? Your 135lbs thats about what i started at and i could only pull a crappy 70lbs. Even then i was doing it with the worst form ever. But as time goes by you start to lift more load, i was up to 100, 110,145,160,200 ect in about a year. Also work with dumb bells that was the biggest help for building my bench.

[damnJeff]

Don't even sweat it. The Bench Press is just a number and I believe it is a highly overrated chest exercise. Once I started using dumbbells and kept only 1 barbell movement my chest just swelled up.

BTW, I can't bench **** and I've put 2 inches on my chest in the past 2 months.

[Wintermule]

Keep working at it.

[PolishSasquatch]

bench is ****ign hard for me to increase. i find switchign betwen DB's and BBes helps

[Shoo Head]

I can only get up 50lbs...

But I use DBs

[Wintermule]

I like making posts next to ones that are seven years old because it's like, you know, stepping into the past almost. It's like, wow, someone wrote this seven years ago, and my post is right next to it like I'm talking with the past. What happened in that time? Did anyone participating in the convo die? Did they get rich? Bankrupt? Did they kill someone or save a life?

It's like stepping into the past and altering it. Like, being able to brush the fabrics of past memories and interact with it, jizzing all over the carpet and stuff.

[WorkoutKid02]

keep working at it and take whey protein after u workout...u will go up fast