600 Bench, Is this Video Serious?

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[quote]Velvet Elvis wrote:

[quote]mbdix wrote:

[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
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Yeah, what? How does a vid of him having a 10 yard head start on a dude, who if he wasn’t riding the sideline would’ve BURNED him, have anything to do with him not benching what he claims? You literally just proved my “fanboy” point.[/quote]

The LB was running full speed while Allen was standing still. Allen did not have a 10 yard head start in any way. Yes, he had the angle. Yes, in a straight race the LB could beat him. But, the only thing you have proven to me is you have no clue what bad ass looks like. That was bad ass, and very fucking impressive. I get it though, it wasn’t a slam dunk on a basketball goal.
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That was an impressive play by Allen, but the best part was Dierdorf fawning over it calling it the greatest play he’s ever seen - a term he uses at least twice in every game he covers …
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Haha.

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Spotters on the sides aren’t helping in Allen’s lift.

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At the most the middle spotter was giving 5 lbs of assistance. So if you take 5 pounds away from the 705lbs lifted. He benched 700lbs. That’s a HUNDO more than 6-HUNDO

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[quote]mbdix wrote:
Spotters on the sides aren’t helping in Allen’s lift.[/quote]

I doubt they are. Remember, these are not professional “spotters”. These are ballplayers and Allen has 600+ on the bar. I’m sure they are going to make sure their hands are ready just in case.

I’m telling you. Prime Larry Allen could push 600+

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[quote]mbdix wrote:
At the most the middle spotter was giving 5 lbs of assistance. So if you take 5 pounds away from the 705lbs lifted. He benched 700lbs. That’s a HUNDO more than 6-HUNDO[/quote]

He was helping more than that. I’d bet a HUNDO dollar bill on it.

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Andy benches 315 lbs for 20 reps at 10:25, Bros Vs Pros 6 Part 2- Men's Bench Press Challenge! - YouTube

reach your own conclusions.

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[quote]BrickHead wrote:

This idiot is going to get himself killed, sooner or latter. He even had a rack to squat on, show off clown!!!

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[quote]mbdix wrote:
At the most the middle spotter was giving 5 lbs of assistance. So if you take 5 pounds away from the 705lbs lifted. He benched 700lbs. That’s a HUNDO more than 6-HUNDO[/quote]

Are you seriously wondering why you were being called a fanboy earlier?

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[quote]super saiyan wrote:

[quote]mbdix wrote:
At the most the middle spotter was giving 5 lbs of assistance. So if you take 5 pounds away from the 705lbs lifted. He benched 700lbs. That’s a HUNDO more than 6-HUNDO[/quote]

He was helping more than that. I’d bet a HUNDO dollar bill on it.[/quote]

Haha. You’re on. That’s a bet. Internet handshake on it

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[quote]AbsuM- wrote:
do some bars really not bend on 600?

is this guy a dirty fraud?[/quote]

It looks like there`s one fake plate per side, the third plate looks diferent and ~500 lbs x 4 reps seems plausible to his legit 315 lbs x 20.

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[quote]super saiyan wrote:

[quote]mbdix wrote:
At the most the middle spotter was giving 5 lbs of assistance. So if you take 5 pounds away from the 705lbs lifted. He benched 700lbs. That’s a HUNDO more than 6-HUNDO[/quote]

He was helping more than that. I’d bet a HUNDO dollar bill on it.[/quote]

Do you think Allen got more than a hundo poundos of help?

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[quote]Brett620 wrote:

[quote]mbdix wrote:
Spotters on the sides aren’t helping in Allen’s lift.[/quote]

I doubt they are. Remember, these are not professional “spotters”. These are ballplayers and Allen has 600+ on the bar. I’m sure they are going to make sure their hands are ready just in case.

I’m telling you. Prime Larry Allen could push 600+[/quote]

You must be a fellow “fanboy” that’s all

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[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:

[quote]mbdix wrote:
At the most the middle spotter was giving 5 lbs of assistance. So if you take 5 pounds away from the 705lbs lifted. He benched 700lbs. That’s a HUNDO more than 6-HUNDO[/quote]

Are you seriously wondering why you were being called a fanboy earlier?[/quote]

Yeah I am. I didn’t make this video. I just remember this happening and found the video and posted it. Maybe there is at least one person on here that hasn’t seen it yet, or didn’t know about it. Just because when i watch this video I don’t see an excess of a HUNDO POUNDOs of help and disagree with how much the middle spotter is helping doesn’t make me what WhiteFlash has chosen to call me “a fanboy”. Even though he does have experience in turning down an arena football try out and all and that makes him an expert on how much force is being applied to the bar by the middle spotter. LOL. This is funny

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[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:

[quote]jbpick86 wrote:

[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:

[quote]jbpick86 wrote:

[quote]Brett620 wrote:
Larry Allen was as strong as shit. He pressed 225 41 times in the lineman strongman competition in 2006. He can’t do 700, or 675 for that matter. I think he could hit 650. But I did hear that before he was drafted scouts saw him bench 700 and squat 900.

I bet Anthony Munoz could move some weight. I remember they had a “strength machine” than was a computerized machine that tested your strength like something out of Rocky 4 in the 1980s.

Munoz broke it.[/quote]

He would be lucky to hit 600. Look how much help he had to have on 635. No way in hell he hits 650.
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I’d say he’s likely in the mid 5’s. That’s still strong as hell, but he just plain isn’t a 600 lb bencher.
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Yeah, I wasn’t really trying to insinuate that a mid-500 bench isn’t hella strong but that 600+ bench group is a fairly elite group of human beings. There aren’t many of them.
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I’m sure he could join the club for a 600 raw bench if he trained for it. But yeah, just not in it yet. [/quote]

No doubt he could get it with powerlifting training. And he may, may be able to push 600 for a good 1RM but I would have to see it.

To MB, do you know how easy it is to slow pull a 100lb barbell using just your fingertips like the middle spotter is doing. You can make it look effortless. My biggest thing is why the S/C coach allowed that to go on. To great a risk of injury and he could get the same if not better training stimuli from a weight he could actually do.

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[quote]jbpick86 wrote:

[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:

[quote]jbpick86 wrote:

[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:

[quote]jbpick86 wrote:

[quote]Brett620 wrote:
Larry Allen was as strong as shit. He pressed 225 41 times in the lineman strongman competition in 2006. He can’t do 700, or 675 for that matter. I think he could hit 650. But I did hear that before he was drafted scouts saw him bench 700 and squat 900.

I bet Anthony Munoz could move some weight. I remember they had a “strength machine” than was a computerized machine that tested your strength like something out of Rocky 4 in the 1980s.

Munoz broke it.[/quote]

He would be lucky to hit 600. Look how much help he had to have on 635. No way in hell he hits 650.
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I’d say he’s likely in the mid 5’s. That’s still strong as hell, but he just plain isn’t a 600 lb bencher.
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Yeah, I wasn’t really trying to insinuate that a mid-500 bench isn’t hella strong but that 600+ bench group is a fairly elite group of human beings. There aren’t many of them.
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I’m sure he could join the club for a 600 raw bench if he trained for it. But yeah, just not in it yet. [/quote]

No doubt he could get it with powerlifting training. And he may, may be able to push 600 for a good 1RM but I would have to see it.

To MB, do you know how easy it is to slow pull a 100lb barbell using just your fingertips like the middle spotter is doing. You can make it look effortless. My biggest thing is why the S/C coach allowed that to go on. To great a risk of injury and he could get the same if not better training stimuli from a weight he could actually do. [/quote]

Yeah, that’s why I agree it is an assisted lift. Because, the middle spotter’s fingers are on the bar. The side two are not helping.

My thing is this. These are pro football players. They are famous. They work out with this Dude who they realize is a fucking beast in the weight room. Why would all these pro football players come together to put this guy out there as a 7 Hundo poundo bench presser? Larry wasn’t looking for fame, the dude might have said 10 words his entire NFL careeer. Why would multiple NFL players, who have millions of dollars, who have fame, get together and showcase a guy doing a bullshit lift? Why would they do this? I would think if their best lineman was attempting this lift and needed help it would have been obvious movement on the weight by all of them helping out. They would not let possibly their best linaman get fucked up under that bar and it would have been (jerky) for lack of a better word. You can tell usually when a spotter takes away a lot of weight on a lift, a hundo poundos is a lot of weight to take off a lift. I didn’t see that happen

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[quote]mbdix wrote:

[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:

[quote]mbdix wrote:
At the most the middle spotter was giving 5 lbs of assistance. So if you take 5 pounds away from the 705lbs lifted. He benched 700lbs. That’s a HUNDO more than 6-HUNDO[/quote]

Are you seriously wondering why you were being called a fanboy earlier?[/quote]

Yeah I am. I didn’t make this video. I just remember this happening and found the video and posted it. Maybe there is at least one person on here that hasn’t seen it yet, or didn’t know about it. Just because when i watch this video I don’t see an excess of a HUNDO POUNDOs of help and disagree with how much the middle spotter is helping doesn’t make me what WhiteFlash has chosen to call me “a fanboy”. Even though he does have experience in turning down an arena football try out and all and that makes him an expert on how much force is being applied to the bar by the middle spotter. LOL. This is funny

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I brought up my passed up experience to combat the completely random and unnecessary shot you took at basketball and show that I’m familiar with the game. How you don’t see that you’re coming across as a total fanboy is pretty interesting.

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That is so fucking dumb. Football players (all athletes really) lie about numbers all of the time. 4.2 40’s!!! 45" verts!!! 2% bodyfat!!! 455lb powercleans!!! I’ve heard all of these and more. You can believe whatever you want, but arguing for the validity of a video where 4 people touch 1 bar makes you look pretty uneducated and naive.

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What you are saying here is that he couldn’t bench 6 hundo. That means everyone in that room knew he couldn’t bench 6 hundo. “Well, fuck it, even though we have all these white girls with big asses that we could be banging right now. Lets make some bullshit video starting with 6-hundo+35lbs and work our way up to 7 hundo. Maybe we can get famous from this?” “Wait a second we are rich, and famous already. And pretty much every club, bar, resturaunt we go to we get treated like royalty…fuck it lets make this bullshit video anyways” “Maybe there is a “fanboy” out there who will believe Larry Allen might be able to bench 6 hundo even though he might be getting some help with 7 hundo”

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[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
That is so fucking dumb. Football players (all athletes really) lie about numbers all of the time. 4.2 40’s!!! 45" verts!!! 2% bodyfat!!! 455lb powercleans!!! I’ve heard all of these and more. You can believe whatever you want, but arguing for the validity of a video where 4 people touch 1 bar makes you look pretty uneducated and naive. [/quote]

You can see light between the spotter’s hand on the right and the bar. If the spotter on the right isn’t touching the bar, he isn’t helping. Even though I come across uneducated I was still able to figure that out all on my own.

You come across to me as a disrespectful prick

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[quote]mbdix wrote:

What you are saying here is that he couldn’t bench 6 hundo. That means everyone in that room knew he couldn’t bench 6 hundo. “Well, fuck it, even though we have all these white girls with big asses that we could be banging right now. Lets make some bullshit video starting with 6-hundo+35lbs and work our way up to 7 hundo. Maybe we can get famous from this?” “Wait a second we are rich, and famous already. And pretty much every club, bar, resturaunt we go to we get treated like royalty…fuck it lets make this bullshit video anyways” “Maybe there is a “fanboy” out there who will believe Larry Allen might be able to bench 6 hundo even though he might be getting some help with 7 hundo” [/quote]

That is exactly what I am saying. This is nothing more than bullshit weight room ego stroking and to your point, if I were a GM and I saw this video, heads would roll in my S&C department. Not to mention, if you don’t notice the guys on the end helping and the significant change in bar speed after the bounce especially on the second lift, then you are sticking your head in a hole for the sake of not wanting to see the fairly obvious truth.

As I said before, he is strong as hell, but he aint 635 strong and I highly question if he is 600 strong.