At 12 years of age and unable to buy a bench, my first day using my new plastic covered weights! I made my own bench with an old door stacked on top of 2 “rickety chairs!” Not good! – “The” Trainer Outdoor Training Specialist /Consultant- @61!

There I was and I barely could manage lying on that old door and getting the bar on my chest ready to do a set of bench presses! The problem was that I went to failure and at the end I couldn’t get the bar off my chest and I was training alone! So I pushed the bar off, all the while scraping the heck out of my chest and seeing it starting to bleed! But guess what? Yeah, I did that on a regular basis because at that time, I wanted to go to failure every time! – “The” Trainer Outdoor Training Specialist /Consultant- @61!