Anyway an average lifter weight could be worked out? Interested to see that
The lightest guy seems to be Roman Eremashvili from Russia benching 502lbs raw at a bodyweight of 148. Theres also guys like Jeff Lewis who benched 512lbs at an impressive bodyweight of 524lbs. Maybe someday he will reach a bodyweight bench.
Are you sure that isnāt equipped? That sounds unbelievable.
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Im more impressed by the Bench than the Press. 1036lb. Thatās strong 
That is super impressive, both the lightweight and hitting 500 in bodyweight! I realised mean not average was what I should have asked for. I should plug the numbers in.
Whatās more impressive? The lift or that he can get to the bench?
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Glad he is still around. He owns a pizza joint must be digficult not to eat it.
One thing thats very impressive is that the dude squatted 1212lbs multiply. Thats 50lbs away from the all time world record. He did it at 530 bodyweight too. If you think about it he technically squatted 1700lbs.
Itās just plain weird to think about benching nearly 3.5x your bodyweight. How is 148 lbs even enough muscle to support that? Fuckin Russians.
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My guess is the insane arch.
I agree completely on Eddie. Some of the gym numbers he throws out when He wasnāt even training for those lifts and they were more accessories like on squats. I think he said his beltless squat rep PR was like 765 x8 , I think I saw a video where he did 540-560 for 6 on bench and they were clean reps. I donāt remember that exact number. And of course wrist strap dead he pulled 1100 on a stiff bar. A lot of ppl believe if he were to focus on it he could break all time total. All speculation of course unless he goes for it.
not very rare, i know dozens raw 500+ benchers, hence all is not in competition. i can do it to.
Did you revive a 5 year old thread, just to humble brag about your bench press numbers? 
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Youāll see it often enough to skew your view in powerlifting but just walking around or even going to commercial gyms your odds of seeing a 500lb bench press guy are close to zero.
This article says 1/100,000 which seems reasonable I suppose- pretty rare but not impossible
So in USA with 333 million of which half are men maybe you could expect to see perhaps 1500-2000 men who can do it
Of course ā¦ somehowā¦ Iāve met quite a few people who have a cousin, gym teacher or grandma that did it in high school 
Open Powerlifting shows that 3,228 lifters have done it in competition world wide. Out of more than 400,000 lifters. So Iād say thatās pretty rare.
Do they show a distinction between raw and support gear?
He replied to my five year-old post to revive this thread. Iāve got to say Iām pretty pleased with my entirely-pulled-from-my-ass guess at the time.
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Yes, I should have specified that the 3,228 number was people who had done it raw.
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