How old school R U?

[Maraxus]

I used to have the black weider bench with the leg extension. 150lbs in Sand-filled grey plastic weights, and the adjustable dumbells BOO-YAH!!! Oh it also had the connection for the Lat Pulldown. It was so hardcore, I remember between sets I would be Mortal Kombat I on my Sega Genesis. HARDCORE.

[Lozgod]

My dad bought me the sand filled weights so I could get big and kick the black kids asses. It wasn't a bigotry thing, but the black kids always beat up the white kids. He didnt know I was hanging with them and playing hide and go get it with the girls.

[detroit]

How many, while growing up, used to look at bodybuilding mags, "wanna be buff", and played around w/weights? (Only to give up later as it was obvious you weren't doing it because you really wanted to, it was some other outside influence like friends, a bully, etc.)

So, you went to your local K-Mart or other similar "all purpose" location, and proudly purchased a $69.99 bench press set-up, complete w/150 lbs. of weights, that were filled WITH SAND!!!!!!!!!!!?????

Anyone use these archaic things??



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Hell ya, i had a sweet DP bench with those sand weights that were in Kilos, and the lbs was in decimal format. Had the hallow bench press bar so when i put all the weight on it (probably like 130lbs...lol) it would bend the bar so bad it looked like the Powerhouse logo.

Oh yea i also had those kick-a$$ Lee Haney cutoff gloves with the built in wrist staps...

[SwoleCat]

Hell ya, i had a sweet DP bench with those sand weights that were in Kilos, and the lbs was in decimal format. Had the hallow bench press bar so when i put all the weight on it (probably like 130lbs...lol) it would bend the bar so bad it looked like the Powerhouse logo.

Oh yea i also had those kick-a$$ Lee Haney cutoff gloves with the built in wrist staps...

LMFAO.........that cheap azz bar DID bend........I think the long one I had eventually broke in two.......p.o.s...........



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[flexin-rph]

I even went as far as to place a large sucker-rod in the bar & filled the ends with
concrete to hold it in so the bar wouldn't bend & would be heavier...

[Lozgod]

OK I'm gonna go way back here. Did anyone get the Plant Sterols because the word was almost like Steroids ?

[SwoleCat]

OK I'm gonna go way back here. Did anyone get the Plant Sterols because the word was almost like Steroids ?

You know what..............ummmmmmmmm, man I can't even respond to this one!

Something I bought back in the day had this in it, and I did think "wow, sounds illegal!"

What a tool!

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[jbigdog69]

OK I'm gonna go way back here. Did anyone get the Plant Sterols because the word was almost like Steroids ?

So I paid a friend of mine to steal them. He would steal anything for a pack of ciggs......Hint hint...lol

[Duck of Death]

....Yeah I had that weight set with the concrete plates, the curl dumbbells and the whole nine yards..... One time I was benching in the basement and leaned too far to the side while trying to max out (probably with about 50 pounds - LOL) and the whole fricking bench tipped over. Me, the bench and the bar hit the deck amidst a poo-load of noise! My Dad came flying downstairs yelling, "What the hell is going on down here??". My reply (standard for the day) - "Nothin'".
I also got a really stupid "isometric' setup which was a wooden plank that you stepped on and put a chain which was attached to a bar in a metal thingie on the plank. The idea was that you would strain against the bar with NO movement and get really huge - Hee Hee! One night the chain slipped out when I was doing isometric curls and the bar whacked me right on the nose......... blood everywhere. Ah, the idiocy of youth.......

[Cycleon]

Still got the narrow bench that nearly collapses sideways back at the family home

worse, any of you ever send off for the $1 charles atlas info? (the isometric guy, kicking sand in the face) that was always in the comic books?

[SwoleCat]

Still got the narrow bench that nearly collapses sideways back at the family home

worse, any of you ever send off for the $1 charles atlas info? (the isometric guy, kicking sand in the face) that was always in the comic books?

OMG!!!!! I didn't do that, no, but I do remember those ads!

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[Prime]

My lil bro still has a weider bench in his room with about 35kgs on the bar.

[Psychotron]

How many, while growing up, used to look at bodybuilding mags, "wanna be buff", and played around w/weights? (Only to give up later as it was obvious you weren't doing it because you really wanted to, it was some other outside influence like friends, a bully, etc.)

So, you went to your local K-Mart or other similar "all purpose" location, and proudly purchased a $69.99 bench press set-up, complete w/150 lbs. of weights, that were filled WITH SAND!!!!!!!!!!!?????

Anyone use these archaic things??



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Haha, my friend's dad had those. Man the bench, i was afraid of that bench, it looked so cheap, gonna break it just sitting on it.

[Prime]

Haha, my friend's dad had those. Man the bench, i was afraid of that bench, it looked so cheap, gonna break it just sitting on it.

@ my old rowing club, the equipment was really old. We broke all the benches and ended up using the old discarded one. We had to tape a mat to it for padding and the supports that held the bar was only a little wider then your head. The thing was about as wide as the length of my foream. Using that i expected it to flip at least once.

[nsa]

I still have the adjustable bench in my basement with the sand weights and everything. Don't use it much anymore, but its still there.

[Cycleon]

OMG!!!!! I didn't do that, no, but I do remember those ads!

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I was SOOOOOOO tempted so many times - I remember looking at them at summer camp, thinking "Yeah!" but I never did it

[SwoleCat]

I was SOOOOOOO tempted so many times - I remember looking at them at summer camp, thinking "Yeah!" but I never did it

Suuuuuuuuuuuuure you didn't do it.

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[w_rballs]

**** u guys are old. ive only seen those comics on the history channel. haha

[Prime]

**** u guys are old. ive only seen those comics on the history channel. haha

i used to collec comics, and the really OLD ones used to have those ads in em

[SwoleCat]

Holy crap! I still have TONS of comics in storage from when I was like 7-15 or so yrs. of age. One day I'm going to see if they have those ads in them, and I'll scan a few of them, .

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[Prime]

I have the first appearance of juggernaught in the x-men The episode where mimic loses his powers to the super adaptiod and loads of others. Wow im cool!

[Cycleon]

I have the first appearance of juggernaught in the x-men The episode where mimic loses his powers to the super adaptiod and loads of others. Wow im cool!

X-men? all I had was archie comics and spidey - and they were quite different from todays stuff - xmen really did change that - but they didnt come along really until I was graduating high school

[Prime]

X-men? all I had was archie comics and spidey - and they were quite different from todays stuff - xmen really did change that - but they didnt come along really until I was graduating high school

x-men came out in the mid 60's. So you graduated in what 1966?

[Diesel]

So, you went to your local K-Mart or other similar "all purpose" location, and proudly purchased a $69.99 bench press set-up, complete w/150 lbs. of weights, that were filled WITH SAND!!!!!!!!!!!?????

Anyone use these archaic things??



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Yup.....hell I remember taking Weider Amino Acid pills that were the size of my fist...LOL


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[Diesel]

anyone have a 'green machine' when they were younger???

That thing was the sh!t!

D

[Lozgod]

anyone have a 'green machine' when they were younger???

That thing was the sh!t!

D

I had one in the 70's bro. I would put on my Land of the Lost Slee-Slack halloween costume and ride it.

[Diesel]

I had one in the 70's bro. I would put on my Land of the Lost Slee-Slack halloween costume and ride it.

Holy Sh!t!

Land of the Lost........I forgot about that show....

D

[Diesel]

I would sit on it in the living room while watching the Electric Company...

D

[SwoleCat]

Yup! I had a green machine (love the way that thing moved!!!!!) as an upgrade from my big wheel!

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[jbigdog69]

Man we are really telling our age now...lol I had a green machine..but I rode it so much the wheels cracked and eventually fell apart. Oh...and I loved the land of the lost. The little blond was hot. But what was up with that little monkey dude??

[Animal Cracker]

I had the Grey plastic, sand-filled K-mart or Sears weights-no bench--I would get all swole, thinking I am a badazz-drop the bar...and the weights would srack and crumble inside!

[Animal Cracker]

Man we are really telling our age now...lol I had a green machine..but I rode it so much the wheels cracked and eventually fell apart. Oh...and I loved the land of the lost. The little blond was hot. But what was up with that little monkey dude??

I had the green machine- but my wheel had a flat spot worrn on it..so when I would ride..you could hear me coming from about 100 yards.

[SwoleCat]

I had the green machine- but my wheel had a flat spot worrn on it..so when I would ride..you could hear me coming from about 100 yards.

ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!! Cla clunk, cla clunk, cla clunk!!!!!

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[craneboy]

How many, while growing up, used to look at bodybuilding mags, "wanna be buff", and played around w/weights? (Only to give up later as it was obvious you weren't doing it because you really wanted to, it was some other outside influence like friends, a bully, etc.)

So, you went to your local K-Mart or other similar "all purpose" location, and proudly purchased a $69.99 bench press set-up, complete w/150 lbs. of weights, that were filled WITH SAND!!!!!!!!!!!?????

Anyone use these archaic things??



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yea, i had something close to that i think mine were filled with cement and i had a "bull worker" remember those bro?

[big daddy k de]

swol i had the same bench lol i remember it was ok for a little bit when i 1st started but when i was benching around 250 at 15 or so the bolts poped and the bench fell apart allmost killing me .... then i saide ....HOLY$$%@#$% and went to a real gym lol

[SwoleCat]

swol i had the same bench lol i remember it was ok for a little bit when i 1st started but when i was benching around 250 at 15 or so the bolts poped and the bench fell apart allmost killing me .... then i saide ....HOLY$$%@#$% and went to a real gym lol

Yeah, that's when we all tried to make our OWN bench, or use the coffee table!



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[Diesel]

Old School......

The first women I choked the chicken thinking about was Lonnie Anderson when she was on WKRP in Cincy....

D

[Diesel]

Or maybe it was the girls from Three's Company.....



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[Juggernaut]

There were sand filled weights? Get the hell out of here....that had too have been well after my time......we didn't have such things...you spoiled bastards. I had a tractor tire, an axle from a 62 chevy and milk cartons (hell no we didn't have plastic for another five years) taped together with duct tape and filled with rocks. That and throwing bales of hay and lifting cows was what made me the He-Man I am today!

Concrete/sand filled weights........who thinks this stuff up? hahahahahahaha

[Juggernaut]

Old School......

The first women I choked the chicken thinking about was Lonnie Anderson when she was on WKRP in Cincy....

D

No Mary Ann or Ginger.........you were a late bloomer. hahaha