ok, I'm wondering about something here. . . most of the references I see on this site refer to the idea of actually bulking up. I weight 165 pounds, and although I wouldn't mind building some muscle mass, I really don't want to go over 180 at any point. My legs are pretty strong for my weight, I'm doing legpresses at 400 pounds for three sets of 8 reps. I'm satisfied with my abdominal strength too, doing a lot of bicycle and raised leg crunches is easy enough. However, on the bench press I'm lucky to get 3 sets done at 145 pounds, and I'm having similarly poor results for shoulder presses.

I'm just wondering what kind of results I should be going for to match the strength of my arms with the strength of my legs. I feel that if I were to get to the point where my upper and lower body strength were about proportionate, I would be satisfied with that level of strength, and then I would focus more on my endurance and doing more reps to get more solid. Anyone have any idea what level of arm exercises I should be doing to balance myself out? Right now when I walk carrying groceries or something, I feel like a weak man riding on a strong horse, if that makes any sense!