Tears of the Desert by Halima Bashir & Damien Lewis

Author:Halima Bashir & Damien Lewis
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Biography & Memoir
ISBN: 9780345509901
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

Want to know why I hate 5x5?

Because every time I've tried it, and I've tried many different permutations, my bench goes

down. Not just down like when your zipper's partway down but no one can really tell unless

you pop wood and it pushes the two sides apart and people can then see your neon-green

banana hammock, replete with precum stains- I'm talking "I just followed what my Garmin

told me to do and drove off the highest point of the Grand Canyon to my fiery but Darwin

ordained death" down. Nevertheless, with all of the hype for those programs among the

young whippersnappers these days, I decided to give that shit another try. After a month,

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and seeing my bench, I figured I'd hang in and maybe see a rebound. Want to know what I

found? My bench dropped 20 lbs in two months. Yay for fucking me, right? So, I

wondered, I know everyone's a little different, but this shit is ridiculous. How could my

bench invariably drop on this program and Reg Park damn near grew a fucking cape and flew

with it- I mean, how did he hit a 500 lb bench with this bullshit?

BECAUSE HE DIDN'T FUCKING DO IT.

In Park's words: " I didn't have a favorite workout routine. I have done every routine and

every exercise in the book, but like most advanced trainers, I have found what exercises and

what routines give me the best results. What is good for one man isn't necessarily good for

somebody else. My bodyweight fluctuated between 230 and 245 during those years." (Kiiha)

His personal bests, as a bodybuilder and occasional Olympic weightlifter, were:

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Behind the Neck Press - 300 Lbs. For one rep.

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Behind the Neck Press - 260 Lbs. For four reps.

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Behind the Neck Press - 240 Lbs. For eight reps.

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One Arm Dumbbell Press - 165 Lbs. For two reps.

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Front Squat - 405 for a single.

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Lying Triceps Extension - 300 Lbs. For three reps. This was done at Muscle Beach

in 1957.

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Standing Dumbbell Press - Two 120 Lb. Dumbbells for five reps.

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Standing Dumbbell Press - Two 140 Lb. Dumbbells for one rep.

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Dumbbell Bench Press - Two 185 Lb. Dumbbells for five reps.

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Squat - 605 for two reps at Buster McShane and Ivan Dunbar's Gym in Belfast.

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Strict Barbell Curl - 200 Lbs. For one rep.

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Incline Dumbbell Press - Two 185 Lb. Dumbbells for five reps.

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Reg Park's Favorite Program

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