Some Points Of Interest In His Life.
1. When my family moved to British Columbia, Canada they decided to live in The Very Beautiful
City Of Victoria for awhile.
2. After we lived in Victoria for awhile we then moved out to the end of The Saanitch Peninsula to a
small town named Sidney.
3. My family built a house their to live in.
4. I was allotted a small end of a wood working shop that had been built by my step father
to keep his wood working tools in etc. that was located in the back of the town building lot where
the main house had been built. My step father built a wall to separate my small end from his wood
working shop.
5. The size of my end of the wood working shop was about 5 feet by 8 feet.
6. I immediately set up my own little gym in this tiny little area.
7. I immediately started to exercise in my little gym.
8. This time I added a punching bag called a speed bag and a heavy bag that increased my knowledge
of exercising a little.
9. When I was 15 years of age I got my mom to buy me my first barbell dumbbell free weight set.
10. I started exercising with weights and made quick gains in strength.
Readers Beware!
Unfortunatly the little town of Sidney was murder crazy like Stouffville had been. I suggest that my
readers do read right now my article called The Swimmers Gang and my othert Blogg postings called
Old Sidney Something Or Other to understand my position of danger in the community of Little Old
Sidney By The sea.
11. The first thing that Little Old Sidney did do was it murdered one of my sisters.
12. In similar fashion as to what happened to me in Stouffville the same thing did happen to me in
Little Old Sidney By The Sea.
13. Because of The Town Of Sidney's bad murder conduct I was once again forced indoors. I could
not go about the town of Sidney very much. There was to much trouble of murder in the town. I
might have gotten myself killed.
14. I was forced by the town of Sidney to stay in my own little gym and exercise all of the time.
15. I made strength alright.
16. I soon became the strongest teenager in the town.
There is a space left blank here because I spent some time in The Canadian Army. This time that I
spent in The Canadian Army is covered in my blog under the title of My Army Life.
17. I carried on exercising and lifting weights through My Army Life.
18. When I was 18 I was back at home in Little Old Sidney By The Sea and out back in my gym
weight training again.
When I was 17 or 18 I broke The World Record for The Power Lifting Event called The Bench Press.
There came a day when I wanted to bench press a new world record.
I had to get my old wheel barrow out and load it up 3 times and wheel all of my weights including
my barbell bar quite a distance away from where I lived. What I had in mind is I got the idea of weight lifting against the new world record underneath the car port that belonged to an older man in
town. The reason for this is he owned a really big old time brass fish scale that was still licensed for
public use. I thought that I could weigh the bench press weights up on that particular beam scale after I had bench pressed them in order that everything was done legally as right as I could do it. It took me 3 and 1/2 days to wheel barrow my weights over to that guys house. The older man who did own
that brass fish scale was an athlete himself. There actually was no better place in town for me to try
to break the bench press world record than on his property so off I went.
Word got around the little town of Sidney that small Murray was over at you know whos house and is
going to attempt to set a new world record for the bench press in the power lifting event. All the guys
in town showed up and stood on the older mans property and off of his property and hid amongst the
trees etc. etc. and etc. Because of the nature of this town people started to shove one another around
and punch one another. This got to be quite a ruff scene.
I finally got the older mans home made bench that he used for bench pressing on. The older man was
quite a lot bigger than I was therefore his bench was far to far off of the ground for me to use. My feet could not even touch the ground. My legs just hung off of the end of the bench like dangling wet
noodles. At any rate the supports for the barbell bar itself were my own and I could and I did adjust
them to be just right. I gave up trying to think of how to adjust my leg length and the height of the old
man's bench. I decided to just let my feet hang in mid air off of the end of the bench.
19. I put the barbell in place and then I loaded up the bar.
20. The existing and new bench press record was 350 pounds.
21. I planned to lift 350 pounds to equal the existing world record and then put about 5 pounds more
onto the barbell in order to set a new world record.
22. I planned to beat the existing bench press world record and then return and set an all new much
higher world record at a later date but fairly soon.
23. "BUT?" when I warmed up I thought that I could lift a lot more than I planned to lift.
24. Therefore I approached the barbell bar and loaded it up to about 450 pounds.
25. I then laid myself right down underneath the barbell bar and did prepare my mind by quite
positive thinking to make this bench press lift go right for myself.
26. When I was lieing down underneath the barbell bar preparing myself to make this new world
record bench press an old friend of mine who was on the lifting platform with me did adjust
the barbell weight without my consent or my knowing that he did adjust that barbell weight.
27. I saw him standing there but I thought that he was going to spot for me.
28. Instead he adjusted the barbell weight by adding on to the barbell the fishing weights that were
made out of grey bricks and held together by strong wire and some more free weights.
29. There was a pair of these home made fishing gray brick fishing weights sitting right there within
easy reach.
30. One gray brick fishing weight weighed 117 pounds.
31. The other gray brick fishing weight weighed 128 pounds.
Readers:
The barbell now weighed instead of about 450 pounds 720-730 pounds.
This new weight on the barbell bar of 720-730 pounds was not even considered by myself to be a
weight that I would attempt to bench press at this time.
32. Because I did not see the man add those gray brick cement fishing weights onto the barbell bar
I did then adjust myself on the weight lifting bench and did lift the barbell off of the barbell rack
and did hold it at arms length.
33. Then I did a perfect bench press with the barbell bar and all weights attached to the barbell bar.
34. I did expect that this specific barbell bar bench press would be somewhat difficult to do because
of it being a new world record and it was somewhat hard to do but not that hard a bench press to
do.
35. Everything went just right and straight and the barbell balanced right straight right through-out
the entire lift.
36. The barbell bar bench press could not have been done better even my feet felt quite normal from
just hanging off of the end of the high up bench. My legs bent at the knees and my shins and feet
just hung straight down but not able to touch the ground.
Readers:
After I had placed the barbell back into the barbell rack I began to notice what the Odd Ball Man
had done. I stood up and studied just exactly what That Odd Ball Man had done by over loading
the barbell bar without my knowledge. I had some ruff words with The Odd Ball Man and after
making sure of the amount of weight that I did bench press I walked off home in a very bad attitude
thinking that The Odd Ball Man did try to cut me in half by over loading the barbell bar. That is
exactly what The Odd Ball Man and The Odd People Of Little Old Sidney By The Sea were and still
are like.
Therefore I, Murray S. Fenwick, that day did set a new world bench press record.
The following is what was on the barbell bar.
1. 4-50 pound weights that does add up to 200 pounds.
2. 4-25 pound weights that does add up to 100 pounds.
3. 6-10 pound weights that does add up to 60 pounds.
4. 2-5 pound weights that does add up to 10 pounds.
5. 4-1 1/2 pound weights that does add up to 6 pounds.
6. 1 cement block that weighed 55 pounds.
7. 1 cement block that weighed 50 pounds.
8. 1 gray brick fishing weight with wire that weighed 117 pounds.
9. 1 gray brick fishing weight with wire that weighed 128 pounds.
The total added up weight of all these weights is 726 pounds.
At this time when I was lifting weights I never included in the added up overall weight the weight of
the barbell bar or the weight of the dumbbell bars themselves.
Now pertaining to this world record bench press. The weight of the Joe Weider Barbell Bar
has to be yet added into the overall weight that I, Murray S. Fenwick, did bench press that day.
The Joe Weider Barbell Bar that I used was a Standard One.
The free weights that I used were Standard Ones.
I do not know just how much The Joe Weider Barbell Bar weighed because I never did weigh it.
There were plenty of good weigh scales about Little Old Sidney By The Sea. I weighed myself quite
regularly in my teenage years. When I weighed myself when I did bench press this new world record
bench press lift I weighed under 149 pounds.
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