I think I was up to 90 or 100 pounds.not your bodyweight silly.
not your bodyweight silly.
That was my bench. It took me a couple years to get to l plate a side, but man was I happy when I did it. :)i bet ::)
"after one year of training and at 16" i am benching 275 on the barbell press. but i have never trained for strength and never gone for lesss than 8 reps in any work set. never maxed out with dumbells, but i use the 85's for four work ses 8-10 reps each.
"after one year of training and at 16" i am benching 275 on the barbell press. but i have never trained for strength and never gone for lesss than 8 reps in any work set. never maxed out with dumbells, but i use the 85's for four work ses 8-10 reps each.
So you can bench 275 for 8?no no no..i said never gone less than 8 reps in a work set. testing for my max is not a work set. im glad to have got it once.CAUTION - We've seen your pics
---note this is coming from the most delusional kid---
Lost a bet my junior year when I couldn't press 60 on the universal. Started working out between junior and senior year (16 years old). Benched 190 at end of senior year. 245 at end of freshman year in college. 275 as a sophomore. 295 as a junior. 315 as a senior. 355 one year later. 370 two years later. 385 3 years later. 400 4 years later. 455 10 years later. 495 for a double last week.D'oh!!! You had me going there too.
Special "Okay, I Made Up all the stuff after 245" Ed
same bench i was using the year before except a year older and dirty..duh...
I don't max anymore but at 17 and 6' 165-170 i could do about 210 when i was locked up but that came from mostly doing lots of push ups and such cause we couldn't get to the weight room often so when i was there i almost only tested my max lifts.hahahaha, you're weak as a kitten.
I've been on a Cell tech cycle and have gone from pressing 135 x 2 maxing out to Monday night doing 675 for 8 on incline incline!!! ;D ;D ;D
hahahaha, you're weak as a kitten.
guys always make me laugh when they brag about being locked up as if having a 150 lb. bench press and bending over and taking it up the ass and biting the pillow is something to brag about, anyone who ever did time took it up the ass.
Corrections "WAS" weak as a kitten 8) But foreal the only other person who was stronger then me pound for pound when i was locked up was like 5'3" 5'4".
guys always make me laugh when they brag about being locked up as if having a 150 lb. bench press and bending over and taking it up the ass and biting the pillow is something to brag about, anyone who ever did time took it up the ass.
I remember back some years we had this big island guy who came down to the gym in order to 'shed some weight'. He probably weighed about 320 pounds. Never trained a day in his life.
Watched him put 135 on the bench and rep out 8 reps or so for a couple of sets - badly might I add even with his mate showing him how to do it. He hadn't quite got the form thing down - but fair enough since he had never done it before.
Didn't see him again until the following week.
Came in - put 135 on - did the 8-10 reps. Then piles on 3 plates per side and does another 8-10 reps. Then puts on another 2 plates and does 6 or 7 more.
Suffice it to say - we all pretty much just gave up bench press from that day on.
For myself - I couldn't even do a press up on a medicine ball for 1 rep at 17 years old. I was 'physically challenged' as a child.
I think I could bench press just about the bar when I started and it took a good few months before I could bench 135 even for 1 rep.
After a year I think I could do 225 for about 12-15 reps and in my first year of training I'm pretty sure i was training like 10 times a week. Crazy but true. No wonder I'm falling apart now.
That is the biggest crock of shit I've ever read.
What company makes this "Cell-Tech" and where can I buy it? ???
guys always make me laugh when they brag about being locked up as if having a 150 lb. bench press and bending over and taking it up the ass and biting the pillow is something to brag about, anyone who ever did time took it up the ass.
Muscle Tech and if you go to GNC on the first tuesday of the month, they'll hook you up! ;D
I've been on a Cell tech cycle and have gone from pressing 135 x 2 maxing out to Monday night doing 675 for 8 on incline incline!!! ;D ;D ;D
Brian - what are you suggesting?
I'm suggesting that nobody has ever benched 500 for 6 reps after a week of training. ::)
Brian - I stand corrected. I just reread my post and I realise I have inadvertantly overstated the case. What I should have said was he went to 3 plates per side for 8-10 reps and then added another plate to each side making 4 plates aside and did 6 or 7 more.
So around 405 pounds. My bad.
That then is a true story.
What a beast!
I've been doing incline incline bench presses myself lately - I take an incline bench over to another incline bench, set the base of the first bench into the seat of the second bench, climb up into the first bench, and rep out with a loaded barbell - great pump for the upper pecs and great for the "stabilizers" as well. For best results, have a pair of dumbells handy and superset these with incline incline curls, or throw in incline incline flies to preexhaust, or even triset if you're really ambitious!
I'm also doing deadslifts alot these days - I set up two olympic bars (with an equal amount of weight) on the floor, parallel to each other, about shoulder width apart. I step between the bars, bend down, grab each bar, and commence to deadslift them until failure... AAARRGGGHHH! What a workout!
Still bullshit.
Now if you do your incline incline presses standing, not sitting with your feet on the floor like Arnold did your a pimp! ;D
AFTER ONE YEAR OF LIFTING WHAT WAS YOUR BENCH?
I could almost bench the bar for 3 reps.
I went from 125 to 225 in one year and in the time since then have not even gone up another 100 pounds (close but not quite yet). I found that the fastest gains were toward the beginning.
But not all of the folks are gifted, some of the women can only handle 300 for 12 reps when they first try benching....the shame & pity of it!