200 kg bench press - clean or juicing?

boingyman said:
That's a pretty cool chart. Off the top of my head the 5 below Maddox are Mendleson, Spoto, Henderson, Sarychev and I think Maddox friend that hit it recently. Can't remember his name or if it was 700 or not. A guy I went to school with Chad Kalikimoku from elementary school all the way through college is in the 650+ club. One of the few that hit 650 at 275. I still remember in elementary school he was the only kid that could throw the swing around the pole twice in one throw at the playground, lol.

It would be cool if they did this per weight class. I'm currently just a peasant in the top 24.4%. I need to break into that top 10.8% club, but my training or lack thereof has been shit lately.
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TD Davis is the dude who trains with Maddox, just hit 705 raw for 1.5 reps. Failed the second obviously.
 
That's an insane bench juicing or not especially at his age but he sounds like he is a big bloke aswell.

The most impressive bench i've ever seen is from this Polish guy at the gym I train, he is about 5'6" and probably weight 80kg max and one day asks me to spot him, he is very unassuming and looks weak and he starts repping 110kg easy but tells me was having a weak day. I thought yeah, yeah like you do..

Then about a month later he is on the bench with his mate going hard and I swear this fucker had abut 160-170kg on the bar, I was in disbelief at his strength compaed to his size and build.

He then goes to the dumbells and was pressing 55kg in each hand.

He earned my respect for sure.
 
Hidden_Hand said:
That's an insane bench juicing or not especially at his age but he sounds like he is a big bloke aswell.

The most impressive bench i've ever seen is from this Polish guy at the gym I train, he is about 5'6" and probably weight 80kg max and one day asks me to spot him, he is very unassuming and looks weak and he starts repping 110kg easy but tells me was having a weak day. I thought yeah, yeah like you do..

Then about a month later he is on the bench with his mate going hard and I swear this fucker had abut 160-170kg on the bar, I was in disbelief at his strength compaed to his size and build.

He then goes to the dumbells and was pressing 55kg in each hand.

He earned my respect for sure.
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Your standards are impressively low.
 
ASUThermo said:
I hit 200 at under 110, 100% clean. I did it at 37 and have a repaired labrum on my left shoulder. I would expect it could easily be done by determined people with decent genetics and accommodating lifestyles.
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I am genuinely impressed by that, no lie. Especially since I've experienced shoulder injuries myself and they're a bitch and a half. Most I've ever seen at the gym was someone repping 160kgs on incline and thats it. Mind you this is in Europe where lifting isn't as mainstream as it is in the US. Most I've ever mustered up as a casual gym rat is 130kgs for 3 reps when I weighed 90 myself. Yes I know that is low as fuck.
 
dissectingaorticaneurysm said:
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Here's a distribution of raw powerlifting bench numbers. You are within the top 1% of male lifters if you can bench over 450 lbs. Mind you, these would be to strict powerlifting standard and not gym benching with a bounce.
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that's pretty cool! I used to be on Elitefitness.com wayyy back when (it's where I found out about sherdog coincidentally) and EVERYONE claimed 400+. always knew it to be BS but good to see that reinforced by this chart.
 
Ironnik94 said:
200kg is doable natural (i assume) at least if you're gifted.

A friend of mine benched 155kg at the age of 21 and he's rather short being 175cm tall, although he has rather short arms, at 170cm of reach.
(The average ratio for a male is 1:1)

His frame isn't naturally big either, his joints are pretty small, thus i'm fairly certain that someone who's got the right frame (being a big, stocky guy, ideally with rather short arms) and enough lifting and training experience can bench 200kg.

EDIT: Here are pictures of the friend i've been talking about:
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JUST MAKE A MOVE DUDE HE WILL SAY YES
 
BY FAR pound for pound gayest thread since that fat wreslting coach who always put up weird bodybuilding pics in his threads.
 
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