{"id":4688,"date":"2012-06-25T20:10:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T03:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2012-06-28T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:45:49","slug":"bench-press-goal-for-2012-met-335-pounds-3-5-reps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/2012\/06\/25\/bench-press-goal-for-2012-met-335-pounds-3-5-reps\/","title":{"rendered":"Bench press goal for 2012 met: 335 pounds, 3.5 reps!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I achieved my bench press goal for 2012.  My previous record was 330 pounds, three years ago, while weighing 160 pounds.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/cache.nebula.phx3.secureserver.net\/obj\/ODk3NDc4OUY0N0M2QUY3OUJCREE6MTQyZTViMTAxNjc2Mjg4YTc4OTc1OTBmNjJhMTE5YzY=?uid=1dce381a-fdd1-4e57-8166-c076686e7978\" alt=\"335 pound bench press on Paul Gale Network\" \/><br \/>\nI won&#8217;t stop here!<\/p>\n<p>Now benching 330 pounds when I was 160, meant that I was lifting 206.25%  of my body weight.  Fast forward to May 18th this year, and I got back to 325 pounds, while weighing 154 pounds (211.03%).  Today&#8217;s achievement is what I was going for all along, however&#8230;more weight than my old max AND an even greater percentage by me weighing less.<\/p>\n<p>I did a full 3 reps, solid, with the 4th technically requiring a slight lift by my spotters.  I guess you can call it 3.5 reps.  But anyhow, that puts me at 217.53% of my body weight which is awesome.  With my birthday coming up in another 12 days (July 7th), I just might go for 340 pounds on the 6th&#8230;but we&#8217;ll see.  I&#8217;m already satisfied with this number, but topping 220% does sound pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I achieved my bench press goal for 2012. My previous record was 330 pounds, three years ago, while weighing 160 pounds. I won&#8217;t stop here! Now benching 330 pounds when I was 160, meant that I was lifting 206.25% of my body weight. Fast forward to May 18th this year, and I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[164],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4690,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/4690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}