the bar isn't bending, its at an angle. his right hand's touching the line and his left hand isn't. why wouldn't you just draw a straight line from the center of the left plates to the center of the right ones? proves it right there.
Okay so that proves it is not on a machine.
The bar is bending slighty but not like it should...
His hands are wide supporting the bar. When you put 500 on a bench the bar doesn't bend much either, cause trhe supports are supporting bar near the weight. If you place a bar with that much weight on it with supports closer to the center of the bar the bar will bend. It is very obvious the people who think this is fake have NOT seen many people lift 400+ pounds in the gym in any lift. The deadlift a bar will bend cause the hands are closer together.
anyone else notice in the screenshot given that the plate furthest inside looks very different from all the rest?
That means nothing. It could be from another manufaturer, it could be newer or older. Why do you constantly post posts that prove you don't train or possibly never been in a gym.
It just doesn't look real the way he's lifting the weight. The bar doesn't change speed at all whether it's going up or down and like someone else pointed out, there's not even the tiniest hint of a sticking point at any point along the way, like you'd expect to see with that much weight. Not to mention that the bar should be bending at least a LITTLE with that much weight. The weights on the ends of the bar would be bobbing up & down slightly, etc.
For anyone who's seen someone really lift anywhere close to that much, it just doesn't add up.
Dan-O I am surprised at you. If you lift heavy weight very smoothly and at a constant speed the weights will not move clang or shake. It is the stop at the top and bottom that cause the weight to shake and clang. Unsteady lowering and pressing bar will do it to. I could easily bench 405 for reps up to a point where the weight make absolutely no noise, same speed very smooth. He doesn't go down all the way or up all the way. They are clean steady reps. I admit this weight is unreal and it appears the guy is strong as hell He has enormouse forearms and from the one pic his back and shoulders look to me he could possibly do this. He does do it kind of easy but who knows. But most of the things guys say on here of why theythink it is fake have absolutely not one bearing.
Youguys need to go join a gym. Have someone put 500 on the bench and look at it and see if the bars bends. If it does then the bar sucks and they need to buy a new one. And a Texas bar would not bend with jst 500 on it especially with it being supported where he is supporting it. And wheteher he is natural or not is defitiely questinable. But eatingn 3 times a day maybe right considering these guys in Japan like this eat 5,000 calories a meal easy
