Oh and it's even scarier when a guy tears his pec on 275 (spotted one geared up kid when it happened). We had a good weight program at my HS and I was benching 315 as a fairly light WR/tailback at 17. I think I got 275 when I was 16.
I think the key point possibly here is that you guys had a good weight program at school. The same could be said for the gyms back then too, usually the owner or one of his employees/other gym members would help set you on some kind of path whereas today they get it all advice from the cut and pasters off the internet who are not shown practicing what they preach.
I don't know how many times I rolled my head over the years when some wanna be internet guru cuts and pastes some 60 page abstract on hemoglobin levels and a bunch acolytes on there "claim" to have read it. These are most add fucks who barely finished their homework at night to get into college, gimme a break.
It's not that the info today is bad, it's that there is no real qualified in person constructive criticism, guidance and/or coaching except if you are rich
Wow!!
That is very strong for any weight. I was around there myself - 225 for 20 strict reps when I weighed around 170-lb or so.
Thanks. I didn't find it very impressive back then because almost everyone else any day of the week in my gym could do that give or take 10-20lbs. What impressed me about that day for myself is I did it without a warmup and had practiced with 225 for a couple weeks leading up not knowing the scale I was using was off by 10 lbs. I was working part time at that gym at that time and got caught up helpinh out with something else on my name got called 2nd lol so I had no time to prepare or be prepared that I in fact weighed 232 instead of 225ish and would have to do 10lbs more than I though, without a warmup