135-225 Incline Bench

Absolutely possible if you make increasing the lift your number one priority. It gets less possible with every asterisk you add. For example, not wanting to gain fat, working around an injury, actual goal is to build 30+ pounds of muscle while losing bodyfat, etc.

How many workouts per week?

What’s the plan when you hit a plateau in a month or two?

Like the guys are saying, it’s an oddly specific goal and you’d be much better served by choosing a more well-designed plan and giving yourself a bigger timeframe.

405, and it’s been like that for a while.

FWIW looking back on my training log, started lifting seriously in April 2016, first started tracking in June and was doing ~185x5x3 and by the end of the year was up to 225x5x3, then up to 255x6x3 Jan 2018. So 70lb increase in 2 yrs

3 days a week strength based workouts with little bodybuilding,bout plateu dont know honestly.Yea I don’t want to be 250lbs and bench 225,I want good relative strength.

Appreciate that u do them pain free,i regret that I cant do them.

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Thats long time,but going from 185 to 225 its not the same as going from 135-225 right?

Its just a relative frame of reference, ~185 was basically my minimally trained starting point and I was able to put on 40lbs in 6 months. With proper training/diet you can expect a similar faster increase in the beginning then gains will taper off as time goes on

A bench press so sorry you hang your head in shame after every session.

It’s good that you don’t want that, and fortunately that’s also not something you need to concern yourself with, given that you a) don’t weigh that much, and b) don’t bench that much.

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You talk about 85 lbs of LBM as though it’s hard to gain or something…

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