I have zero doubt. I saw your old pics and you were pretty ripped. I’d bet you could have thrown up even more given motivation to go after that one arbitrary stat.
How Many Times Can You Bench Press 225 pounds?
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I have zero doubt. I saw your old pics and you were pretty ripped. I’d bet you could have thrown up even more given motivation to go after that one arbitrary stat.
I recently benched about 240, to elbow-lock, once. The tricky part was rolling out from underneath before the girl came crashing back down and pinned me there for the rest of the night.
I had a tryout with the Jacksonville Bulls of the old USFL back in the day. Had spent about a year working out like crazy and doing a lot of running also. I was 6'6" 272 lbs at the physical. I could do some serious weight back then. I am now 60 years old and if I could give all of you younger guys one bit of advice it would be to work with resistance training and using your body weight for weight training. I can barely lift anything over my head anymore due to shoulder pain. I have had 6 knee surgeries and will be looking at replacements in the next few years. If anyone has ever had the build to handle heavy weights it is me. I have had 3 different orthopedic surgeons tell me I have the biggest bone structure of any patient they have ever had, yet I suffer daily with pain in my shoulders which they all contribute to heavy weight training. As for running get a bike or swim. As you get older that is hell on your knees, ankles and hips.
Well I guess I am not being trolled, because that is a lot of defensiveness, deflection and googling ; not to mention a little anger especially for someone who says he doesn't care. Really hard to follow what your saying here because it contradicts what you have said in other posts.
-15 at 225 is a nothingburger for most guys under 40 to build up to with a year of dedicated service - Yet you are telling us that you only workout once a week and walked right off the street and knocked out 14 reps; even though you are out of shape, over weight. Now you kept your incredible feats of strength from workouts over 10 years ago.
- As for myself and my friends it took approximately a year to get from benching 135 8 to 10xs to being able to do 4-6 reps at 455 which is where 3 of us including me decided to stop and one decided to keep going out of bigorexia. Again some changes in your original statement, before it was "well under a year and you were knocking out 225lbs for 29 easy reps; but at least you went ahead and increased your feats of strengths.
- Heck, I would bet an actor dedicated to physical fitness and with not only a personal trainer but a dietician nutritionist could do what I took a year to do in six months....oh wait, they did. Their name is every actor in the 300 and Chris Pratt. You seem to have some affection for actors and how they get in shape for movies, obviously we can see what guys or gals look like in movies and it is also common fact that these folks do get a personal trainer, dietitian and are well known for taking performance enhancers neither you or I could think about affording. I really don't see how what an actor from 300 or Chris Pratt have to do with an average Joe working out and in less than a year benching 225lbs for 29 easy reps; let alone now throwing up 455lbs.
- See I would really want to engage him in our various foreboden topics but I suppose here is where I’m stuck doing it. Finally tribe I appreciate that you think about me so much you have list of subjects you would love to engage me in; it really is nice to know people think about you when you are not around. If it would help you out I would be willing to post non banned subjects and you could engage me on them; maybe every 7-10 days I could do this for you. I am kind of busy, but since you seem to have such an affinity OI wouldn't mind helping get you your rangernole fix. I think it would be cool to discuss things with someone who not only went to Billy and Mary Law School but has such mad google skillz.
Again, you apparently have no idea what actual strength training looks like if you think what I described is “feats of strength”. It’s something probably 80-90% of men can do if they actually dedicated themselves to it. Also who said I was an “average Joe” at the time, I specifically said we worked out six times a week for 2.5 hours while taking Creatine pre and post workout plus redline and a couple otc energy and amino acid products and we did pre protein isolate shakes and post full protein shakes. We didn’t need a dietician and nutritionist because I prosecuted dietician and nutritionists at the time for DOH so I had to be well informed on the subjects. So yeah, almost any dude under 40 could do it as long as they were very dedicated. Four 30 yos tried, two lawyers, a paralegal and a physics doctoral candidate. All of us succeeded and were roughly on par with only the guy who had a head’s start being 10-20 lbs ahead of us. Then I stopped once I met my girlfriend now wife. The end. Nothing special but it does require special dedication I no longer have.
Nor do I really think I could it now (not the easy 225 reps, but workout six times a week to build my strength back up). My shoulders and one elbow get inflamed too easily now and while I can ignore it for a once a week workout, I doubt I would be willing to put up with it all week every week.
So again. Nothing I said is unbelievable or even impressive it’s just fact.
While I do think some guys can accomplish what you stated most guys that are 5’10-11 200ish can’t without help, not in a year at least nor do I believe a self described over weight guy who works out 1 time a week can throw up 225lbs 14 times, only 5 reps shy of an FSU lineman at the combine this year. But hey if you need message board believers to get through your day I am in. Oh and congrats you were real close to the world record bench for a 205lb man, which is 545 today so I assume 10-12 years ago it was under 500lbs and since you did reps at 455lbs I have to assume you could of been the record holder. Pretty impressive.
See again you prove your lack of understanding on how anything works. Being overweight has literally nothing to do with strength see every world’s strongest man competitor ever. If anything it’s beneficial for energy reserves and you don’t have to go as deep to get a countable rep as skin and bones competitors and you’re still mind numbingly ill informed.
“The current world bench press champion is Ryan Kennelly, who pressed 1075 lbs (487.6 kg) in November 8, 2008. He has gradually improved his world best mark after beating the previous holder of the record Gene Rychlak Jr who pressed 1010 lbs (458.1 kg) in 2006.”
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Also, just to show how little you know about this, I wasn’t even that close to the women’s bench record.
The women bench press record (single lift) belongs to Sandra Lönn from Sweden, who lifted 235.0 kg (517 lb) .
Reading comprehension much. I said for a 205lb man. Not the overall record and no kidding power lifters look different than body builders. Also never said anything about weight or fat or anything else other than the fact the numbers you are throwing around for yourself back in the tribe world class lifter days and today are bs. I get it you need people to think you are mr everything, unfortunately this time you kind of stretched the believable to far. No worries though I am sure this is the only time you have done this. Kind of sad though that someone who seems fairly successful needs to spout bs so often.
I’m getting a lot of enjoyment from presenting information showing your world view is 100% wrong while you pigheadedly stick to your assertions that what I said is impossible because you can’t do it. Makes me understand all of your other incredibly wrong views and why logic and facts never work with people like you.
Nope never met you; but I know bs when I see it and hear it and dude claiming to bench 225lbs 29 times easy coming from barely repping out 10 with 135lbs all in much less than a year, throw in a 455lb bench (I think your said multiple times) and now he works out once a week, is over weight and out of shape by his own admission but still walks in the gym and throws up 225lbs 14 times that is bs. Of course I guess I could believe you were a few reps shy Derwin James at 21 reps, Izzo at 18 reps and 306lb Leonard at 19 reps
Man that is a heck of a once a week work out; you mind sharing that workout because I have a feeling we are all doing it wrong. By the way not sure what the deflection to world view, prosecuting dietitians, etc has to do with your claims of near world record bench pressing; and don't sell yourself short you were close to the female world record of 517lbs. You said you did 455lbs multiple times, all with much less than a year of training. Just think if you had gone the full year; you would have been the male holder of the female world record bench press. Heck in today's culture you could just say you identify as a female and shazzam you add world record bench press to your resume.
Me too and here I thought I would be bored killing time in the Atlanta airport
Some people have no clue how much 225 lbs. actually is in real life. Just for comparison, it is around 7 cinder blocks (most men have built furniture with cinder blocks). It is around 7.5 cases of 16oz. bottles of water (probably had to put one of those in a cart at some point). It's a little more than 5.5 bags of water softener salt.
Keep going...it's about 225 one pound bags of sugar.
It is also something tribe can bench press 29 times easy in his prime and 14 times now that he is overweight, out of shape, works out once a week and in his 40s.
Oh sure. Use something people can relate to.....how'm I gonna confuse people with this help?
What where I antagonize Ranger enough that he offers to meet me at the dump.
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The state is for measurements of distance and area, the pullet is used for weight. Come on man.
Oh no worries your not antagonizing me. I find you kind of funny in a sad way and this is kind of fun. Watching you change subjects, write things that have nothing to with the facts, deflect etc. I have never understood people who have/are successful in a field but have the need to always make stuff up, but it does make for fun reading. So I guess I should thank you for helping me pass the time in an airport. I really can’t wait for the next thread where someone posts “who has climbed Mt. Rainer and you chime in with “never climbed Mt. Rainer but I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, but you felt you had to climb since your parents named you after Sir Edmund Hillary.
Pullet?!? Oh no. I'm not falling for that again. I need the cash up front, or you can just pullet yourself........
Well. This thread has certainly taken a turn.
If I had to chime in with my ‘expert’ opinion, I’d say getting a bench to 400+ in a year (natty) is the extreme exception rather than the rule. Not out of the realm of possibility, but nonetheless a rare feat.
If I had to chime in with my ‘expert’ opinion, I’d say getting a bench to 400+ in a year (natty) is the extreme exception rather than the rule. Not out of the realm of possibility, but nonetheless a rare feat.
Thanks Tarpon I know you used to lift pretty seriously and were a trainer I believe. What is your opinion on the standard 5'11" 200ish guy getting 4-6 at 455lbs after their workout with a starting point of 135lbs for say 10 -12 reps, all in less than a year?
I don’t consider it anything special because all four of us did it together, but we did workout 2.5 hours for 6 days a week doing nothing but strength training.
What if I told you instead of counting up from 1-14, I counted down from Mericuh to Guns?
(Down) “Mericuh” (Down) “Coors” (Down) “Hannity” (Down) “Ammo” (Down) “Truck Nuts” (Down) “Bud” (Down) “Muddin” (Down) “Jew Media” (Down) “Her Emails” (Down) “Commies” (Down) “Feminazis” (Down) “Rush” (Down) “Guns!!!”
(Side note and honest query, is feminazis still a negative word for you types considering you’re now the bestest of buds with actual nazis? I might be a little out of date with your lingo.)
I assume that works better than logic and facts on you, but here let’s try facts again. It’s not unreasonable at all to expect an under 40 nonectomorph healthy male to get 5 lb strength 1RM gain a week under a 2.5 hour training session and maximum nutrition. 5lb increase times 52 weeks is a 260 lbs increase to your 1RM. Considering I was doing reps easily at 135 my starting 1RM was probably somewhere in the general neighborhood of 200-225. Add 260 to that and you get....465-485. Add in a lot of what we were taking OTC then is no longer allowed we probably would have been slightly ahead of the curve. And since you have obviously never done this even remotely seriously and know what the %*%* you’re talking about, 5 lbs increase a week is not some magically high number, there would be weeks where I’d feel better and bump my final set up 10 lbs a week. Then there’d be a slack week where I might be sick and miss a session and get no gains, so it apparently did average out to about 5 lbs a week.
And no you’re not going to increase 5 lbs a week doing a one hour workout and no nutritional supplementation. A typical “weekend warrior” doing that would expect an increase of about 10 lbs a month or 2.5 lbs a week. The difference in our growth is because of the extra 1.5 hours of training mixed with adequate nutrition to support it and two days of rest between muscle groupings. Doing it the smart albeit difficult way, 5 lbs is not mindblowing.
Also since I could see your eyes glaze over from facts plus basic math from the safety of my home, we also high fived each other a lot and said “Go Mericuh” on a regular basis.
Also since I’m sure Ranger’s next tactic will be to say that 5lbs a week is unbelievable growth here’s a published first hand testimony of a trainer who got over 10lbs a week out of his charge.
https://www.trainingcor.com/increase-your-bench-press/
https://www.trainingcor.com/increase-your-bench-press/
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