How much can u Bench Press?

Bullishness said:
Its not how much weight you can move, Its how much weight you look like you can move.......
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first off, I hate the how much ya bench question, but having said that I will say that I want to look stronger than I am so I concentrate on more important chest exercises like incline work. I had not done bench for close to ten years but decided to give it a go about three weeks ago at the goading of a buddy. after warming up, I ended up doing 315 for 12 reps clean, then walked away as I know my ego would have kept me going until I hurt myself.

I am not going to brag, but I think a lot of guys will know what my point is when I say that my arms are at 20 inches right now, and my shoulders are very well developed, and yes I am presently on gear.....but my point is, the amount of weights that I actually train those two muscle groups with would probably shock many noobs. I believe form and mind over matter, besides sleep and diet obviously, are far more important to developing muscles. it took me a lot of years to learn this, but it is definitely true, at least in my case.
I would recommend a lot of guys looking for size and shaping their bodies step back and take a look at your routines. so you're throwing up 45 pound dumbells on lateral raises because you saw cutler doing it. big deal, try dropping it down to 25 and try a strict form without swinging the dumbells up.watch your shoulders take shape in a few weeks.
drop the flat bench for a little while and do incline dumbells at a couple of different angles, or incline barbell. watch your chest development improve. you will look bigger, better, and unless you're training for sport specific or powrlifting, it's all about looking good right?
you can come back and tell me to fck off if it fails you, nd go back to your doing your thang, but I don't think that will happen. give it a go. 2cnts
 
big ass tire flipping

R1rider said:
Being big looks good but, its all about how much weight you can move and how strong you are in my book. i could give 2 shits about being big, its all about how strong you are

@ 28yrs, 255lbs and crusing atm i can comp bench 375, squat 495 and dead lift 585 lbs

there are quite a few guys at my gym who weigh a lot less and can move crazy weight, always amazes me. i got into power lifting about a year ago. my bench is my weakness keeping my overall total down in power-lifting( im 6-2 with a 6-6 wingspan).

now this is what i love(strongman event training)

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^^ i can flip this 660lbs bad boy for 12 flips till i gas out or 8 flips in 60 sec
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that thing ways 660lbs? man I'd hate to get a flat tire...lol. when I was young we used to climb inside those fuckers, and roll each other down hills and shit......maybe that's why we're so fucked up...?
 
crazyfmike said:
^^^^^^^^^^^ all about how a guy moves the weight, Slow, deliberate, 3 second pause at the bottom without resting the weight but ALL the way down and back up without locking elbows (locking out is resting).

Sure my heaving days are over but like to see some of bar bouncers and half rep guys keep up.....lol
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agreed mike, the famous Serge Nubret of Pumping Iron fame said show me someone who can bench 225 for 15 clean reps and I'll show you someone with a good chest.
 
Harnold said:
agreed mike, the famous Serge Nubret of Pumping Iron fame said show me someone who can bench 225 for 15 clean reps and I'll show you someone with a good chest.
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Serge Nubret's chest was symmetrically amazing. I've hit more "gym hero's" with this quote than you could shake a stick at.
 
R1rider said:
Being big looks good but, its all about how much weight you can move and how strong you are in my book. i could give 2 shits about being big, its all about how strong you are

@ 28yrs, 255lbs and crusing atm i can comp bench 375, squat 495 and dead lift 585 lbs

there are quite a few guys at my gym who weigh a lot less and can move crazy weight, always amazes me. i got into power lifting about a year ago. my bench is my weakness keeping my overall total down in power-lifting( im 6-2 with a 6-6 wingspan).

now this is what i love(strongman event training)

IMG_0073.jpg


IMG_0072.jpg


^^ i can flip this 660lbs bad boy for 12 flips till i gas out or 8 flips in 60 sec
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thank you so much for posting this bro. i love this site but seems to be more body building friendly over power lifting. here's a short vid of west sides brandon lilly doing some extremely heavy shirted benching. bro probably dont have a visible 6 pack but the mother fucker is as strong as an ox lol.

Brandon Lilly Shirted Bench Day 2/1/2012 - YouTube
 
Harnold said:
first off, I hate the how much ya bench question, but having said that I will say that I want to look stronger than I am so I concentrate on more important chest exercises like incline work. I had not done bench for close to ten years but decided to give it a go about three weeks ago at the goading of a buddy. after warming up, I ended up doing 315 for 12 reps clean, then walked away as I know my ego would have kept me going until I hurt myself.

I am not going to brag, but I think a lot of guys will know what my point is when I say that my arms are at 20 inches right now, and my shoulders are very well developed, and yes I am presently on gear.....but my point is, the amount of weights that I actually train those two muscle groups with would probably shock many noobs. I believe form and mind over matter, besides sleep and diet obviously, are far more important to developing muscles. it took me a lot of years to learn this, but it is definitely true, at least in my case.
I would recommend a lot of guys looking for size and shaping their bodies step back and take a look at your routines. so you're throwing up 45 pound dumbells on lateral raises because you saw cutler doing it. big deal, try dropping it down to 25 and try a strict form without swinging the dumbells up.watch your shoulders take shape in a few weeks.
drop the flat bench for a little while and do incline dumbells at a couple of different angles, or incline barbell. watch your chest development improve. you will look bigger, better, and unless you're training for sport specific or powrlifting, it's all about looking good right?
you can come back and tell me to fck off if it fails you, nd go back to your doing your thang, but I don't think that will happen. give it a go. 2cnts
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That is one mistake i had and made a total difference in training on chest day, i use to do flat bench at first then incline after, i reversed the process and start on incline first then hit the flat bench after, i always seem to obviously lift lower on incline then flat thats why i have started my routine of doing incline first and flat bench after!
 
Matt0071 said:
That is one mistake i had and made a total difference in training on chest day, i use to do flat bench at first then incline after, i reversed the process and start on incline first then hit the flat bench after, i always seem to obviously lift lower on incline then flat thats why i have started my routine of doing incline first and flat bench after!
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Same here. My chest made great progress doing incline movements first.
 
Interesting question that has good timing for me. I rarely do flat barbell presses for a variety of reasons including safety and age. At age 37, I find that my delts hurt when I do barbell presses. However, I just did 285 for 5 yesterday. This is a stark contrast to dumbbell press where I manhandle the 100s. Now that I am in my upper 30s, I'd love to find a gym in Chicagoland that has dumbbells that go past 100lbs. I am certain I could do 120 or 130s.

Plus, I am convinced that taller guys have a harder time with the physics of lowering a barbell (longer arms make it harder?)
 
Teutonic said:
A straight forward question deserves a straight forward answer.

Age 25 at 198 gearing a gram a week......paused bench in comp 365. 640 sq 660 dead.

Now at 48..225 x 12-15 on a good day.

Or, using an old power formula where the second rep counts for 10 pounds and each successive rep for 5....maybe 300. ( But I think the exploding shards of my rotator would create a kill zone-blast radius of at least 5 ft Ain t gonna happen..)
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I kinda like that formula brother!
 
There's a gym close to me all about that stuff. They have the tires, stones all that jazz. Called "Iron Sport". Hardcore power lifting.
 
^^ya i had to buy that tire and haul it to my garage. i wish more gyms had that kind of equipment

took a 16 lbs hammer and went to work on that tire today, great back and shoulder workout
 
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