Woodworking Plans Bench

Building your own workbench for the garage is a fun practical project for anyone why likes working with his hands. A workbench provides an area where you can ticker to your hearts content. Someplace you can cut, carve, cobble your way to the next greatest invention.

Planning is essential for a successful build. Skills with tools and woodworking are important, but you still need a plan now matter how skilled you are.

There are workbench blueprints you can buy, or you can design your own. Take a look at the blueprints even if you do design your own, because your bound to glean some new ideas just by viewing other designs that have been hashed out already. You can always modify someone else’s design to fit your needs.

A good starting point in planning your workbench is to measure the dimensions of your garage. Get a good idea of how much work space you’ll have available at any available location inside the garage. Any workbench you build should fit this minimum criteria.

1. Access to electrical outlets. Extension cords bringing power to a workbench is no a good idea, and could violate local codes. In case of fire, you could find yourself without insurance.

2. Don’t crowd out the floor space. You’re going to need plenty of floor space remaining for the hot-rod you’re planning to build – or the wife’s Volvo.

3. Consider distance from the garage door if you plan on hauling materials directly from your truck to the workspace.

For the DIY workbench designers out there, consider building it permanently to the exposed wall studs in your garage walls. This type of bench is, for all intensive purpose, permanent, but can easily be dismantled in needed. It gives work space far more sturdy than the types found for purchase in the hardware store, and can be customized as much as you want.

Once you have a good idea on the size and location of your workbench, it’s time to consider storage space for tools, supplies and raw materials that you tend to work with most. You can build shelving underneath the workbench to provide enormous amounts of storage space for hobby supplies or other garage relegated storage. Cabinets or shelves above the workbench provide additional storage, or you can always use pegboard to arrange tools for hanging storage.

Finally, with location, and storage options figured out, it’s time to calculate all the supplies, and tools you’ll need for building your new garage workbench. Try not to leave out anything. Accurately calculate the number of screws or nails you’ll need so you make sure to buy enough first time around. You’ll have a good idea of the cost of your project by accurately projecting these needs. You can save a lot of money buying these fasteners in bulk, and if you have some left over – that’s one less hardware store trip the time you need nails.

With these line items complete, you can being. It really doesn’t matter if you plan on buying plans for a workbench or going with your own design. Follow these handy helpful hints and build the last workbench you’ll ever need.

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What would you think if I told you that it’s possible to add over 100 pounds to your bench press inside of 4 months? Would you think I’m crazy? Well, I’m here to tell you that it absolutely is possible. I know because I did it. A few years ago, my bench press went from 185 pounds to 300, in just over 3 1/2 months! In case you are wondering, I have never taken any performance-enhancing drugs. I didn’t even take any supplements at that time. So how did I do it?

Well, there were a handful of contributing factors, but believe it or not, there were only three keys that were absolutely essential: 1) I used very strict exercise form, 2) I made a regular practice of attempting to lift more weight than I thought I could (with proper form, or course), and 3) I gave each muscle group enough rest days to fully recover in between workouts.

What do I mean by “strict exercise form”? In the case of the bench press, strict form means keeping your feet on the floor and your butt on the bench. If you feel the need to lift up your butt or arch your back like you’re trying to do a back bend, that means the weight you are trying to press is more than you can handle. Period. You’re better off training with less weight for a few weeks, and then coming back to the current weight when you can maintain strict form. This may mean putting your ego on the shelf for a week or two, but suck it up! It’s a small price to pay for a commitment to doing things right!

Strict exercise form also means staying within the correct range of motion. You need to keep your range of motion consistent with how the human body is designed. In other words, only lower the bar until your elbows are to the sides of your ribcage. If your elbows drop any lower, some of the weight your pecs are bearing with will shift to your shoulder joints. This creates a weak link in your lift, which not only gives you a less-effective workout, but over time will create rotator cuff issues.

By the way, the old notion that a bench press rep is “not complete unless you touch the bar to your chest” is simply not true, for 99.9% of the population. The remaining .1% have deep, barrel chests and short arms. Any of these people would make a good power lifter, because at the point where the bar touches a power lifter’s chest, his elbows are about even with the sides of his ribcage. If this doesn’t describe you, however, that bar shouldn’t come anywhere near touching your chest.

The second key I mentioned is to bite off more weight and reps than you think you can chew. As I made my way to benching 300 pounds, my workout partner and I would make sure the heaviest sets of each of our workouts were with more weight than we thought we could lift.

For example: Let’s say we saw in our workout log that in our previous chest workout our heaviest set of bench presses was with 205 pounds, for 6 reps. This workout, we felt confident that we could bench 215, but 225 would be too heavy. So how heavy would we decide to go this time? 225, baby! And to our amazement, we almost always lifted the weight! As you can imagine, these unexpected successes resulted in very fast strength gains! I must stress again that even on our heaviest sets, we always lifted with proper form. If we couldn’t lift the weight without cheating, that set was over.

As for sets and reps, we would start with a weight that we could perform around 15 to 20 reps with, and then add weight each set until we had to give it our all just to squeeze out even a few reps. Our sets generally totaled 4 or 5.

Finally, we made sure to give our bodies plenty of rest in between workouts. This meant training each body part no more than one time per week. Remember, your body builds muscle in between workouts – not during – so you’re better off erring on the side of too much rest than not enough.

And there you have it! Make sure your exercise form is crisp before you jump into doing super-heavy sets. It won’t do you any good if you injure yourself because you can’t control the weight you are lifting. The old adage, “If you are going to do something, it’s worth doing right!” never applied more.

Lift hard and lift safely!

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