hmm this seems like a great challenge. Im at 310 right now and 19 so 405 at 22-23 seems doable. Time to go bench!
[quote]ev1bl wrote:
What about this guy, drug free 528 paused at 21.
This thread was/is about members of T-Nation who are younger than 23 and can bench press 405 lbs. Why are there so many responses about 2nd hand lifts (I know a guy who knows a guy) and videos of random people bench pressing?
I’m curious. Has anyone besides bugeishaAD reached this worthy landmark since the time this thread was started in June? It’d be great to hear about how you’ve all progressed since your throwing your hats in the ring.
I got about 35 more lbs to go Sam. However, I am only 23 for another 7 months so I better get to it. I have been focusing too much on my deadlift, which is hopefully hitting 605 on Friday.
EDIT: I see the cutoff is younger than 23…damn.
[quote]ajweins wrote:
I got about 35 more lbs to go Sam. However, I am only 23 for another 7 months so I better get to it. I have been focusing too much on my deadlift, which is hopefully hitting 605 on Friday.
EDIT: I see the cutoff is younger than 23…damn.[/quote]
Damn, strong lifts there. Good shit and good luck on getting 405. Hitting that at 23 is still very impressive.
Im 17 years old. We are testing our football lifts for school this week (im a junior). ill hit the bench on wed. or fri and am looking for 330-335. Did the hang clean today and got 265 x2 so i should make it. I wanna hit 405 in a little under 7 months.
good luck to all.
Best bench to date is 345 at 21 years old, I will hit a 405 bench before 23. Barring, of course, major injuries or getting an arm blown off in Afghanistan.
My current max is about 315, and i turn 21 in about 5 weeks. I’ll go for 350 by my birthday and i’ll be going for 405 by the end of this year.
My record is 315 at 148lbs bodyweight, now im approaching 170lbs body weight and due to a broken hand and blown rotator cuff my bench has made it back to 270ish. Granted when I first hit 315 I was light because I didnt squat or deadlift, not so impressive now is it? 
I dont understand how some guys think trying to bench 405 is a bad thing. There is no harm in at least “trying” to get there.
Benching 405 under the age of 23 is not that difficult, especially if you start lifting seriously while still in high school.
When I went to the state weightlifting competition in Florida, there were an enormous amount of guys hitting 405 or so. They were doing this in the 220 weight class on up. It really is not that much weight.
I’ll add that I did a 350lb. cambered bar incline press at 21. That puts me in the 405 neighborhood for the flat bench.
[quote]Jereth127 wrote:
[quote]VerbalHologram wrote:
but I think my upper body frame is already pushing 80% of the limit for my height.
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Oh dear God, what…?
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I have the upper body of a smooth 215er (weigh 205 but have a disproportioned upperbody) at 5’7. While I have no doubt I can refine it and such, I am skeptical on whether or not I will be able to add more 25-35plds of lean mass to it.
Wish I could do this, but I am 2 months from 23, and I do not train equipped cuz I A) don’t know how and B) am barely surviving as a poor student buying whey and Flameout.
Also, at 6’4" with arms that hang pretty low, my strength is deadlift… Did Prof. X issue a deadlift challenge? I’d meet that!
[quote]ShadowStrong wrote:
Wish I could do this, but I am 2 months from 23, and I do not train equipped cuz I A) don’t know how and B) am barely surviving as a poor student buying whey and Flameout.
Also, at 6’4" with arms that hang pretty low, my strength is deadlift… Did Prof. X issue a deadlift challenge? I’d meet that![/quote]
Wait… you’re allowed to use a fucking bench shirt? Well than I can confidently say I’ll have it by 20 then…
mark me down for the challenge, 315 im 16 yrs old soffemore
[quote]deadlift655 wrote:
Benching 405 under the age of 23 is not that difficult, especially if you start lifting seriously while still in high school.
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Yet so far there’s only 3 people on the site under 23 that have posted doing it in this thread: Meganewb, Waylander, and BugeishAD. The rest of the posts (including yours) is second hand information about people who’ve benched 405.
Again, if it’s not that much weight, than why so few people that can actually make that lift?
LOL if X posted a DL challenge I feel confident to say I already got it…bench is my weak point atm. Would rather have it this way than other way around tho, for sure.
There’s no secret to moving big numbers. Just keeping that head down, mind focused, and training hard and smart week in and week out.
I was really focusing on a higher rep range for awhile (5-10), and sometime aifter this thread came out, I started working on my form and got better and working in the lower (1-3 ) rep range. After a few weeks of this, I had a day where I had a good feeling, went for it, and got it.
Now I’m focusing again on a slightly higher rep range for my top set of bench (4-7), and I’m handling 365 for reps right now. So I’d say the heavy work was highly beneficial.
I’m game.
I’m 20 and I have hit 345 on flat bench and 365 on decline. So I have 60 pounds to go in about 2.5 years. I’m planning on hitting 385 this year and 405 next year though. So, I’m not that far behind. My focus this year is on squatting 475-500 and deadlifting 550 though.
Damn, I wish I would of seen this thread earlier. I hit 365lbs a couple weeks after my 22nd Birthday/Before going into my last football season. I’ve since decided to cut all my weight after season (240 to 205 now), so there’s no way I can make 405lbs before 23. I hit a rack lockout of 405 today though, can that count? haha
hopefully ill get this by the time am 23! (am 18 now)