Rick Weil?

Training Powerlifting
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Just saw his raw bench record, and all I have to say is holy F^&* 556 lbs in the bench, RAW!!! at 181 that is so freaking nuts I cant even imagine it, but anyhow, anybody know anything about this guy? I have seen his little training template randomly online but I am curious for more… maybe a short little biography? Also, reading an article online it mentioned that he might have done the 556 with a reverse grip, (any truth to this? correct me if I am way off base). Not only that but he still holds the record in the 165 division at 485.

These lifts were done more than 20 years ago and nobody has managed to break them, guy must have been a freak… Yea anyways, if anybody knows more about him or his training methods let me know.

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What exactly do you want to know? Kind of a random post. Yeah Rick weil was awesome. He has been around for ages, lifting before most of the people on this forum were even born. His workout routines are plastered all over the internet. Standard old school benching: once a week, low reps, believed in negatives.

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well, if the reverse grip was true for one… and then I mean, anybody have any pictures of this guy benching 556 raw at 181, that’d be a freaky photo, any more info on his training besides just his “workout plan”, any articles he ever wrote? Pretty much any more insight into how he turned himself into that much of a freak… He still alive?

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Weight Class Name X-Bwt Bench Press (lbs) Date
114 Andrzej Stanaszek 3.51 391 11/16/94
123 Rick Couch 3.06 377 4/10/93
132 Joe Bradley 3.00 397 12/6/80
148 Alex Poku 3.02 435 1/13/90
165 Rick Weil 2.94 485 7/23/83
181 Rick Weil 3.06 556 6/29/86
198 Mike Macdonald 2.84 562 10/4/80
220 Mike Macdonald 2.64 582 5/19/79
242 Jeremy Hoornstra 2.56 615 9/29/06
275 Ted Arcidi 2.36 650 11/13/83
308 Scot Mendelson 2.28 701 10/12/02
SHW Scot Mendelson 2.28 715 5/22

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[quote]hareboll wrote:
Just saw his raw bench record, and all I have to say is holy F^&* 556 lbs in the bench, RAW!!! at 181 that is so freaking nuts I cant even imagine it, but anyhow, anybody know anything about this guy? I have seen his little training template randomly online but I am curious for more… maybe a short little biography? Also, reading an article online it mentioned that he might have done the 556 with a reverse grip, (any truth to this? correct me if I am way off base). Not only that but he still holds the record in the 165 division at 485.

These lifts were done more than 20 years ago and nobody has managed to break them, guy must have been a freak… Yea anyways, if anybody knows more about him or his training methods let me know. [/quote]

In the 70s and 80s it was show up and lift, do it regularly, and take more shit. It also helped if you were naturally strong also.