Bench Press Inspiration by Baab

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Posted: 15/3/07 at 2:48pm | IP Logged 

Bench press 1980 485 x 5. I was in a to the death bench challenge  w. Steve McMichael - 18 years NFL defensive line - at the time he was at New England playing nose and I was a senior at UT playing center , so that whole I HATE noseguards thing tends to get in the way a bit - he also was the big cocky All-American a**hole stud who was mean to the freshman -KILLED us in practice.....he gave us all "nicknames" -  I got called " little pussy " by him until this night.....a**hole........It's the week before the season starts and we're all snorting to hit somebody after a hard summer off-season of heavy lifting.....There was one special bench in the corner of the huge weightroom full of athletes...it had the best bar and these really tight Olympic  45's......ONLY the Big Dogs got to use it........you EARNED your way onto that bench and if a better bencher walked up , you moved over ....HATED that sh*t....McMichael moved me plenty when I was younger......a**hole......we did bench death battles to decide supremacy - sets of 5 until someone fails - guy w. the best PR single called the weight - we bounced the bar and were not strict REAL benchers - you play football fast and train like it .......... ...a hot Friday night -we trained like crazy and then  partied like crazy- Beer is the best recovery drink ever ...................I had just sat down on the special bench to get my mind right -KLBJ was playing a Ted montage..............  I felt an expectant air about the place ....a**hole slams open the doors struts in........Look!BamBams back in town!............... comes up and says "Move over little pussy".........I had had just about enough of his sh*t so I loudly CHALLENGED the man whose name was on the big weight room records plaque in 2 lifts - power clean and squat........A**HOLE!........weight room goes silent..... Dana LeDuc - strength coach -just starting out -  been w. Rams now for a million years - comes over and gets it ALL stirred up............everybody stops and crowds around - we start at 225 x 5...315...405....455....the school record was 465 by Tommy Nobis in the 60's - considered "permanent" by most people - McMichael had just missed 455 a coupla weeks before and I was throwing some Iron my ownself  -wow -  to beat THE Tommy Nobis and be the best all - time at THE University of Texas....what more could a little Texas boy ever want? McMichael looked me and says in that a**holey way " How much ya got left littlepussy?" and calls 485... place goes WILD- 20 lbs over the school record of a god.......McMichaels goes first ...blows the first 2 up and barely makes the 3rd to thunderous cheers........he comes over and sticks his chest right in mine in front of the world and says " Beat that, ya littlepussy!!!...............a**hole..........Ted Nugent blaring.....crowd doing this wordless chant like a call for blood....the redmist falls over my eyes.......this insane blast of tingley feeling comes BLOWING up my legs and explodes out the top of my head and fingertips - I feel like a GOD OF POWER has seen my plight and blessed me w. the power to crush my enemy......I give off this weird exultant roar and roll back on the bench.........everyone crowds around.........I lift it off by myself before Dana can get ready ... the first one feels like it JUMPS off my hands....Hammer out 3 more and pause at the top holding 485 at arms length and let the crowd love me.........a hot orgasmic feeling of victory pours through me as the crowd chants MY name......I fight the fifth one up and leap up into the mass of burnt orange muscles jumping up and down around me..........RRRRRRROOARRRRR!!!..............tribal bonding......teammates.........GO TEXAS!!!!!!..............to this day , my life is a quest to feel that again and to see my name at the TOP of the  list         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n  bsp;         &a mp;n bsp;      

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