Benches? I was doing floor presses after wrestling the bar into position. You
build up an awful lot of incidental strength that way.

Chris McClinch

-----Original Message-----
From: John Boley [mailto:johnboley@...]
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 9:38 PM
To: IronOnline@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [IOL] Re: John Boley and Re-Introduction


I love the descriptions of the "first" benches people used . . . its a
miracle any of us lived to tell the stories. My older brother fashioned
a bench out of 2X4s cut in various odd sizes (most of the wood was from
an old pile in our backyard - real fresh stuff) and the "notches" for
our Sears, plastic-coated, concrete barbell was meticulously chopped
out with a dull hatchet. The entire bench would waiver back an forth
with virtually any movement. We used that thing throughout our teens
until my mother decided it simply didn't fit in with the decor of the
Boley family room.
John Boley


On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 06:25 PM, Guy Miller/Cheryl Stewart-Miller
wrote:

>
>
> The first bench consisted of an ironing board laid underneath two
> wooden chairs
> (the spindles that supported the legs) we'd roll the bar off the seat
> of the
> chair and begin our set. Till I was 14 we did the bench press, seated
> press, and
> BB curl 5X5.........legs? huh, that's what pants were for.
>


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