One of the reasons I really wanted to get into a house this year is the lack of space my current place has. One of the casualties is my weight bench, it simply won’t fit in the cottage, so I lost access to it during the cold months. I used free weights all winter, but missed some of the exercises I used to do, especially the bench press. Now that it’s warmer I’ve been out in the barn lifting weights every night as I had been until it got too cold, and man am I unhappy with how far I’ve regressed. When I left off lifting in early December, I was doing three sets of 12 reps, pressing 130# plus the bar weight and starting to slip in 15 reps on the first and second set. My first session this year, 2 weeks ago, I couldn’t even do 3 sets of 5 reps at that weight. I’m up to 3 sets of 6 but still, how pathetic is that. I’m not yet sure how I’m going to address this next winter, but I do know I’m going to deal with it somehow, even if the damned weight bench ends up in my living room.