[quote]conorh wrote:
Goodfellow wrote:
i’d like to see videos of all these alleged 300+ lb presses.
I don’t get it. Is a 300lb bench supposed to be a lot?[/quote]
I don’t know what gym you go to, but I don’t see 3 plate bench presses every day.
And here we have 4 pages of replies of guys saying they can do it, with pictures few and far between.
[quote]Mateus wrote:
dathibluline wrote:
Goodfellow wrote:
i’d like to see videos of all these alleged 300+ lb presses.
Check out my videos.
Damn. You’re definitely strong. The one question I have is do you find that you are still able to keep position and tightness on your shoulder blades when you do your own lifts with that much weight? Fairly hard to keep your shoulders pulled back on the bench when you are lifting 410 by yourself.[/quote]
Yea, its definetly hard to keep the shoulders back with that much weight, so it is a struggle to keep correct position and good form, but I work on that by doing dumbell presses. I find that if I can stabilize the free weights (I use 120s) it makes my regular bench higher. I always start the workout week with the free weight presses. Then on the last upper body day, I hit the reg. bench.
[quote]dathibluline wrote:
Mateus wrote:
dathibluline wrote:
Goodfellow wrote:
i’d like to see videos of all these alleged 300+ lb presses.
Check out my videos.
Damn. You’re definitely strong. The one question I have is do you find that you are still able to keep position and tightness on your shoulder blades when you do your own lifts with that much weight? Fairly hard to keep your shoulders pulled back on the bench when you are lifting 410 by yourself.
Yea, its definetly hard to keep the shoulders back with that much weight, so it is a struggle to keep correct position and good form, but I work on that by doing dumbell presses. I find that if I can stabilize the free weights (I use 120s) it makes my regular bench higher. I always start the workout week with the free weight presses. Then on the last upper body day, I hit the reg. bench.
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Doing chest twice a week huh. Why? Is that just the routine that your on or is there some underlying reason. Surely its not a lack of development!! Would love to see your routine.
Hand raised.
(1) 335 x 2 on press
Almost there for the other 2.
Hand up
Non-workout-glove-wearing calloused hand in the air.
[quote]Goodfellow wrote:
conorh wrote:
Goodfellow wrote:
i’d like to see videos of all these alleged 300+ lb presses.
I don’t get it. Is a 300lb bench supposed to be a lot?
I don’t know what gym you go to, but I don’t see 3 plate bench presses every day.
And here we have 4 pages of replies of guys saying they can do it, with pictures few and far between.[/quote]
Well, for a website supposedly devoted to serious lifting with a membership this large, it doesn’t seem unreasonable at all to me.
I don’t think I’ve seen a 315 bench in the commercial gym I work in. In the more “hardcore” gym I actually work out in, I’ve seen maybe a dozen guys do it, several of them under 180.
Anything I can do I just can’t be that impressed by to be honest.
bench 315
squat 425 x 2
dead 465 x 1 tried 500 today, it never left the floor.
[quote]sunshinboy wrote:
tried 500 today, it never left the floor.[/quote]
lol.
Personally, Closing im probably about 10-12 months away, This past month ive got 100kg (220lbs) on the Bench for a triple, So one rep probably around 110kg (242lbs), Squat ive it 140kg (308lbs) for 8 reps with more left in the tank, So maybe one rep close to 170kg (374lbs) and Deadlift ive done 195kg (429lbs) at a slightly to fat for my liking 208lbs so not very good at the moment.
MJ-Cartwright
Pontypridd South Wales
Did I mention I hate benching with a passion…
Incline 295, squat 405, dead 455.
Yes.
D
4 of the 5 guys I trained with at the college rec last spring had over 315 benches, and 3 of them had pulled 600, but they were also the biggest guys there.
Both hands are raised, I just posted videos in the performance photo forum to prove it, along with a lot more bigs lifts:
115kg snatch
370 front squat
140kg axe jerk
290 log clean and press
315 incline press
570x2 deadlift
700 pin pull
605 frame walk x 50ft
just to name a few!
Yes to all
315 bench for the first time two days ago. 450 squat 495 dead. I was inspired to hit 315 when I saw a kid benching in the rec center with the squat pad on the bar. I think this was so when he tried to bounce the 2 plates off his chest there would be less of a chance that his xypoid process would break and cause major damage. Wouldn’t have known if it did because he was always screaming and his partner was always pulling the bar off his chest.
yah.
Diesel City thanks for proving it man. Internet talk is cheap! Great lifting!
[quote]Goodfellow wrote:
conorh wrote:
Goodfellow wrote:
i’d like to see videos of all these alleged 300+ lb presses.
I don’t get it. Is a 300lb bench supposed to be a lot?
I don’t know what gym you go to, but I don’t see 3 plate bench presses every day.
And here we have 4 pages of replies of guys saying they can do it, with pictures few and far between.[/quote]
I train at a pansy Gold’s that won’t allow chalk and there are PLENTY of guys doing these numbers!