I REALLY hope so…
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Haha best answer.Same here, although a 315 incline seems way more impressive to me
For clarification when you say for everyone.
Are you talking about your average size adult male with no health issues? Also one that isn’t going to loose their shit if their six pack is slightly blurry and still there?
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Both yes.By everyone I mean average or even people with less that average built for benching.Average would be a better title, I just thought that it would be nicer to title it as the post on deadlifts (as a followup)
This is what I was thinking reading through the posts. Most will do it if they get heavy enough while training. How many actually do it is a small percent of trainees.
I think if gaining huge amount of weight is going to be done to achieve a big bench, that most men would do over 400.
Adding body weight has always been hard for me. Adding bench press weight has also been hard. Perhaps they are related! Lol. But seriously, I am currently eating an average of 3500 clean as fuck calories and the scale doesn’t move.
I think the guys deadlifting 600 lbs are the guys who are easily benching 350. but bench is also more depending on bodyweight.
From what I’ve seen in local level competitions, I think most lifters 165 and lower usually don’t even break 315. 165-220 I see a lot of low-mid 3s, with the bulk of 350+ benchers being 181+
I have a solution…
Particularly point 36
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Point taken, but macdonalds is a no. I also have this job which requires me to be able to move energetically and with agility for 8 hours or so a day, so that is a limiting factor to how constantly stuffed I can be. I know, excuses. By clean I don’t mean low fat or low carb, I just mean healthy fats and carbs. I could definitly add more healthy fat, easy way to get calories.
I wouldn’t do this for the sake of health, but for the sake of weight gain, under the circumstances you describe, I’d aim to get the majority of my calories after work. I’d most likely employ a weight gainer style shake for on the job to get in quick calories without loading the stomach down.
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A weight gainer shake durring the day isn’t a bad idea. My typical lunch now is 4 whole eggs and 2 cups of white rice. That doesn’t slow me down at all. I could probably stand a couple scoops of mass gainer in addition.
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Depending on how adventurous you are nutritionally, you could just mix the weight gainer into the rice. Perhaps use tomatoes to supply a liquidy base to mesh it all together.
At this point I should mention I have lost all conventions of normal human nutrition.
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Lol.
I used to do 2 egg shmuffins for breakfast, a protein shake and either a banana or peach at 10:00am, regular lunch (usually chicken or steak salad) another shake+fruit at 3:00, then after work the gloves would come off.
That managed to put on decent lean mass without feeling too heavy/lethargic. Lots of energy and it stayed down well.
As the temp goes up and exertion goes up a lot of people can’t hold down too much at once.
I’m not sure;
The number are metric but close enough.
Before covid I was aiming for a 250kg dead lift - which is 550lb. This felt much more achievable that a 150kg (330lb) bench. Saying that - bench is the lift I pay the lest attention to. I’m pretty sure my incline is almost the same as my flat bench.
FYI - body wight is no issue.
Thinking about going this route again. The last time I gained any appreciable amount of weight I relied heavily on these, and haven’t really gained anything since
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Yeah, after work I lift, then eat for the rest of the night. I need to up my prep game so I have to invest less time per evening in daily prep.
I had a few pizza places on rotation so that I was covered for not cooking a few times a week. 
Typically, a whole steak haogie (2x meat) a dozen wings, maybe some left over pizza if any survived would hit the mark. But that gets pretty spendy.
Big crock pots are a real boost too. And the grill.
The grill is great. It’s sunday and grocery day… that sucker is getting worked today.
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That’s what I’ve been thinking as I typed that. Doing inventory on have/need.
“I have 6 lbs. of ground, 2 big packs of breasts, 5 lbs. of chops…”.