actually.......fiberoptic, i'll tell you benching bodyweight in 2-3 months is KINDA ez you know~
I think in 4 weeks of training (when I was 16 or so), I could already benchpress 61KG's which was my bodyweight. Then again, i was a major push-up'er ....so i guess that kinda helped.

They say, there're a few stages where the weights seem to never go up.

135LBS
225LBS (I can attest to this, been stuck here on bench for months!)
315LBS

It seems there's a psychology thing attributed to these 3 sections. So they suggested using more plates in smaller numbers to cut off the psychology effect.

btw....can post those threads?

How would you define light? How would you define heavy? If you move a poundage which is 80% of your 1RM, it would be considered heavy for you but light to a stronger individual. But you still would be trying to move that weight up in the concentric phase as fast as possible even though it would look slow to an observer because it's "heavy". And as for the eccentric phase of the lift, I'm sure as hell when he says fast, he doesn't mean dropping the poundage on your chest while doing the bench press with no form of control over the weight.

And as for the subject of going to failure, a trainee needs to learn how to reach near failure in most of his sets; eg. one to reps shy of failure. This comes with experience and knowing your own body. Because going till failure all the time will severely tax your central nervous system and nobody wants that. We're not talking about physiological recovery in this aspect, we're talking about neural failure. And also, there's concentric failure, eccentric failure but that's another story.

And no, that's too broad of a statement already, benching bodyweight that easily so soon. Too many factors involved. A skinny 60kg kid can obviously bench bodyweight easier and faster than a 90 kg trainee. The former doesn't impress me but the latter does.
How you recover depends on your nutrition and what you do outside the gym. Most Malaysian trainees do not take care of their factors OUTSIDE the gym. Your muscles grow while you're resting, eating and sleeping, not in the gym. Like what T + 1 says, you stimulate hypertrophy and improve neural efficiency in the gym, you grow outside the gym.

Darklight means u have to fight with people outside the gym to get stronger. Haha. Im just joking, i think what he means is you have to take care of you nutritions and rest outside of the gym.

its not do or dont. do everything, is the best way IMO. like the westside program. dynamic, repetitive and maximum effort.

Water is optimal. I sometimes drink 3 litres of water in a single workout session. Not forcing myself mind you, i get that thirsty.

u mean drinking 3 litre of water during a workout session that last around 1 hour is normal?

he pressed 90lbs dumbbells.
30kg dumbbells are quite heavy for incline bench press. i press less than u, just 65lbs

Lol... I wish! That's already like a pro bodybuilder's standard. Those aren't 60kgs man. Dumbell progression isn't easy like barbells.

gto force u do quite an amount of swimming eh. u like swimming? lol

replied your journal! tick the do not merge iwth previous post tag to bump up your journal

u mean those machine they use in the market to weigh fish and vege? lol

I go clubbing sometimes but when people force me to drink, I pretend to sip at it and empty the cup elsewhere if i have no choice and they don't take no for an answer. Alcohol + creatine = bad combo. Cell dehydration = extreme catabolic effect.

Alcohol alone decreases testosterone levels. Ever figured why some of you aren't growing as much as you'd like?

LOL...I laughed really hard when i saw that pic.They must have some sorta holy steroids there.Divine steroids.LOL.

Lol...Sorry...I am kinda like economical guy...I will normally go for price first...That's why most of my bb mechanism are second hand

one post workout minimum cost me 7 bucks at mamak, rice + meet + vege + egg la. i spend 1-2 meals every day outside. usually pre pre bed or dinner