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Hi folks! On a bit of a whim I've entered a bench-press contest in my gym. I'm no powerlifter, I mainly work out for my health, but I'm fairly strong for my size so I thought what the heck, let's see what I can do. The contest is on Monday! I've been preparing for it over the past week ... actually proper powerlifting preparation needs to be done over many weeks, typically about three months. So I'm not really going to be able to do well. But it's mainly for fun. I'm going to try to bench press 100 kg/220 lbs. My bodyweight is about 70 kg/154 lbs, and this will be taken into consideration at the contest. I reckon most of the lifters are going to be much bigger than me! Well anyways I'll also enjoy seeing who the really strong guys are.

"I'm going to try to bench press 100 kg/220 lbs. My bodyweight is about 70 kg/154 lbs"

That's not as good a ratio as an ant can lift, but hey, good luck !

I don't think any ants are going to enter! I don't think any are members of our gym ... haven't seen any training ... but then they can be hard to spot. Still I haven't seen any dumbbells inexplicably going up and down in the rack!

Anyways thanks!

Ants...

Way to go, Willem!

Maybe they only train at night, when noone is around