I've squatted 545, deadlifted 595, and benched 315x3
My younger brother benched 315x3 in high school, benched 435 at 19 years old, jerk pressed 375, etc.
Drug free as well.
Impressive. Very nice.
Now let's see Paul Allen's squat.
I've got videos of most of it - will see if I can dig them out, but I'm not sure what the point is. Is there a prize for who can lift the most? The average drug using bodybuilder can surpass these lifts with ease.
Where on earth do you get your information from? The idea that most people are anywhere near the numbers you stated belonging to you and your younger brother is not even close to accurate. It's basically Getbig lore continually trotted out as fact.
If a person bench presses 225-lb, they are in the Top 1-3% of strongest people who go to the gym - and when you consider that only 15-20% of people go to the gym, it means that a bench press of 225 puts you in the Top 0.15% to top 0.6% of strongest people in the general public.
That means that a person who bench presses 225-lb is the strongest person out of between 167 and 667 people in the general population.
A 315-lb bench press is WAY beyond that, and a 435-lb bench press at age 19 is probably around or above state records in multiple states.
As for deadlifts, the average man deadlifts between 185-225 pounds. In no world is deadlifting 595-lb common, and if you deadlifted that, you would be aware that pretty much no one in any gym you attended did that.
It does make me wonder how many people have no awareness of the frequencies of these lifts in the general population, or who are simply just lying. For example, Jewish Getbig strength athlete Walter Sobchak curls the cambered bar for reps, and claims my 510 deadlift at 170 is light. He doesn't realize how much he exposes himself as someone who doesn't even train when he makes such mathematically inept statements.
If your brother bench pressed 435-lb at age 19, that easily puts him in the Top 1% of the Top 1%.
However, it is impressive to me that most Getbiggers go to gyms that are stronger than Westside Barbell. Because it's not like the number of 400-500+ bench pressers at Westside would be a litmus test by which to determine how common such lifts would be at other gyms or anything. No - on Getbig, this is apparently common.
Except it's not. It's like how Squadfather claimed to be some big strong jacked guy, when in reality, he was 5'11" and 325-lb of fat and died.
He was lying. And that's all he was ever doing.
https://forums.t-nation.com/t/500lb-bench-press-how-common-are-they/227781
