3 plate bench

Training
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How long did it take to crack a 3 plate bench without using steroids. List age,training time and bw

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16.5 - 17 years old

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What? :man_shrugging::man_shrugging::man_shrugging::man_shrugging:

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I started lifting the summer of 2004 when I was 19 and hit 3 plates September 2007.

BW went from 180 to 270.

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Yoiks! I was a late bloomer.

Hit 315 at about 35 after a long ass time, body weight 160 lbs.

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Sadly, Iā€™ve not yet cracked that milestone. Iā€™m a shitty bencher and itā€™s always been 2 steps forward, 2 steps back. The only thing thatā€™s ever really helped was gaining weight. If im being honest, Iā€™ve probably never put the effort into my bench as my other lifts because progress is discouragingly slow. Maybe thatll be a T-ransformation goal in 26.

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Its the sunk cost fallacy of weight training. Look at the weight moved gained of squats & deads, then bench. Lotta squeeze for not a lot of juice.

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Iā€™m from NZ and Iā€™ve seen 1 guy high school age on video hit 3 plates from here,and that was on vid. Thereā€™s probably been a few but not many if any

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It would be an interesting if not convoluted study on how many reps it takes an ā€œaverageā€ lifter to attain that milestone from scratch. Sure we have prileprins chart and RPE to ascertain how far away you are but an actual volume measurement . Who knows and where would u be able to start. You would have to have recorded ALL your workouts

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That would be pretty neat. I had a fair bit of interference and divided interests in goals from wrestling to other more run/swim/pushups/ calisthenics, then back to weights, manual labor stuff. Alm things that contribute to being strong in general, but not specifically.

Once I buckled down and really focused on improving the bench, squat, & deadlift it probably took a couple of years to go from about a 250 lb. bench to a plateau at 275, then up to 300+. I topped out at around 325, then life changed and training along with it.

I read on here once upon a time about the 10,000 hours theory to achieve expertise. There might be something to that with strength & conditioning too. Not necessarily 10,000 hours exclusively lifting, but overall it works out to about 5 years in work hours/vocational training.

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I had the luxury of having a good base to draw from physically. Being raised a corn fed farm boy and doing allot of physical labor at a younger age had some carry over i feel.

Plus most guys i feel back when I was a youth put more of a premium on strength over astetics I feel also.

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315 no lift

:laughing:

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19, weighed like 190 and a bit over a year of training. I was running some bastardized form of madcow 5x5 lol

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Yeah if memory serves i believe i was around the same bodyweight as yourself.

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I think I was 21 and around 240 pounds. Not one for the purists a gym lift - ugly enough to be a modern art masterpiece :rofl:

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Never have, never will. My shoulders are fucked from baseball. I hit 275 for a triple when I was 21. Nowadays, I can bench more high incline than flat.

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Still not there. I feel like it will be a huge achievement for me. I just hut 185 overhead and I think i get to 225 overhead before 315 on bench

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IMO, a two plate overhead press is more impressive than a three plate bench press

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I feel like it is laziness on my part that it has taken me so long to approach these two milestones. It is 100% tricep weakness.

In my defense; when I was working hard on getting triceps in line, i developed some elbow issues due to overtraining. Mainly because I felt the need to hit every weakness hard rather than doing one at a time.

I am 40 and have worked construction and oilfield since 20. My body is held together by stubborness and resilience

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