How much weight do you guys consider good when doing Flat and Inclide Dumbell Presses?
And when you say the weight are you talking atleast 6-8 reps or only getting like 3 or 4??
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How much weight do you guys consider good when doing Flat and Inclide Dumbell Presses?
And when you say the weight are you talking atleast 6-8 reps or only getting like 3 or 4??
Anabolic Member
i consider respectable anything over what i can do for 6 reps. my gym stops at 125's and i get them for at least 6 on my last set of flat and inclind, so im sure fresh i could get higher but my gym dont go higher then the 125's
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I was talking about this in the chat room, my flat bench dumbell press blows compared to my flatbench barbell..
I don't use less then 120's 8-10 reps on the dumbell flatbench, and never less then 110's for 8-10 reps on the incline, usually by my 3-4th set, i have a guy help me up with the first rep then i just pump out at the least 8 good ones.. I know its very uninteresting, i was mentioning this in the chat room, but i am so much stronger on barbell its silly.. My buddy does incline FLYS with 100lbs dumbells, doesnt' say much now does it..lol...
Its a stricter movement, to steady the dumbells, and a bud of mine was looking at my form, and he said that i press over my head for incline presses, and i should be pressing out - this is hard to explain.. Ah it takes time, but I like them alot
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Last time I tried which was two weeks ago...I got 150's for 6 reps.......
Anabolic Member
125 for 4 but barbell bench is only 265 x4. i badly suck on barbell...Originally Posted by monster.
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i love watchin guys who can put up serious dumbbells....prolly cuz i can't. My normal for 8 reps on the 4th set are the 45's...gettin anything up off my knees is **** near impossible
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Impressive KC
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Impressive KC
when i can toss up the 60's i'll agree
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impressive still, as most girls I see around (save maybe 2 that I know) are still using the little silver (under 10lb) weights for chest press...
Female Member
strength comes easy for me until i reach the 45's....i always get stuck there. it's probably a mental thing and i should get a spotter to help but i'm too **** stubborn
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I'd say anything around the 120s and above is respectable...and somewhat impressive.
that being said, the highest I've gone is 95s for 8.
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My flat bench barbell workout i think is a stronger point, but not that much far off compared to the dumbell movements.. The hardest thing i had to work on as far as dumbell pressing was popping the dumbells up.. I say you gotta have strong front delts to pop those biatches up.. I don't steady one up, and then have someone hand it to me.. I'm sure i could go a lil heavier, with that method, but i havn't as of yet.. I found if on flatbench have both dumbells on your knees, and lean your whole body back knees and all you will roll the dumbells into position, it takes a few tries to steady yourself on the bench, but that seems to do the trick when you start to go heavy... LOL...incline presses, i can't even explain how i pop those up, same idea, but i'm not sitting on the bench, i lean back sit down and pop them up to my delts in one movement..
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When I was doing dumbells for flat I was doing 125 for 6-8. However since i swtiched back the barbell it has gone down. With the bar I am benching 295 for 2 or 3, yet I can only press 100's right now on dumbells for 6-8. Oh well in march I will be switching back to dumbells so hopefully ill be back up there in time. by the way I weight about 165-170 pounds.
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I am so impressed by some of the girls I see lifting. This one girl who was 18 at my gym was repping 135 with the bar. I thought that was real impressive. 45's on dumbells for a girl is extremely impressive. Some guys i know really really struggle with that.
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lol...j/k bro...haha..that was a pretty good one, i didn't think it would work though
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I havent done flat in a while, started with incline two weeks ago and I went up to 105s and did 15 then 115s and got 8. It was so hard to get it off of my legs up to my chest. There is no way I could do it with out a spotter
-MS
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No kidding! That's where I have my problems. Just getting them up is the problem...then trying to not drop them hard at the end of the last set is the next challenge. I like trying to lift as heavy as possible...but dang I have problems here with heavy dbells. I don't know how in the hel! you guys get dbells that heavy off of your knees!!??
peace,
ttgb
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my prob is always getting that first rep up...i can always get them off my knees...granted i've only gone up to 95s...but that first rep up is alway a biatch...
Associate Member
Weight is relative i say 140% of your body weight or more is impressive.
Anabolic Member
so true, so ill include my body weight, im 178 give or take a few depending on the time of day, i rep 125's for my last set of chest work out after doing barbells and all for 6-8. and my max for flat bench is 345. thats almost double my body weight.
and yes i do it all to help me get the pretty ladies lol... to bad thats usually not what there looking for at all hahahahahah.....
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last week i hit 110's for 8. made me happy that was incline too.
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120 for 8' reps on incline every week killer excersise.
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150's for 6
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140's for flat@6-10reps, and 110's for inc. @6-10 reps
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I do 6-8 rep range of probably 60lb dumbells....i have to be damm careful cause of the SHOULDER THOUGH!!! grr.....
Anabolic Member
the most i did was 85 for 6 dam i feel like a weak biatch..
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thats cuz you are...
Anabolic Member
hey im only lifting for like a year or a year and a half.. okay okay im a weak biatch...thats cuz you are...
Since we have no dumbells over 65, I have no idea how to compare these lifts. I would like to see both barbell and dumbell numbers for comparisson.
Anabolic Member
65? where do you work out jenny craig? j/j
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Time to change to porkies.....like I did
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just did 130's this morning for a set of 6
Anabolic Member
i don't do flat dumbell b/c it's a very unnatural motion for me. I do incline with 95's for 8 if i'm fresh/having a good day.. and incline flies with 70's.
Anabolic Member
Man you boys are some big ass dudes...when I was cycling I was able to do 125s both incline and flat...however, I took a long break after ****in my should up...now I do 90s...on my last set..which means I start lower...I am sctually heading more towards the cut look...so I do more reps lower weight.
You all are impressive lifters...IMO I doesn't matter how much weight you lift...just being in the gym is good enough...we'll all get to the heavy weights...someday...lmao
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My golds gym only goes up too the 150's and I was getting them for 15 on flat so I have't done them in a year. But on incline I can only do the 140's for 8
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