He starts off benching 250, and that was more than he had ever benched before? Is that a lot for someone for a regular dude? How about for someone who was this close to being on his way to being a pro football player?
And what about when he benches 350 - is that a lot? I honestly don't know.
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350 would be about 3 plates each side. not a lot of guys can pull it off at my gym (well, ive seen 1 in 6years...)
so for a guy who just go like "well, let's try it for fun" and manage to pull it off, yeah it would be impressive
Benching that much for his size is a lot of weight. I sort of liked the paint-cans taped to the bar thing. The thing I did not understand is why he would not have noted this at some point before in his life. E.g. during football training they would have pushed him in his lifting at some point. Or like he would have tried to lift a car, or move a refrigerator.
shareYeah that is a good point, when I was at my peak I weight about 165 lbs and got up to benching 320 3 rep max. That was incredibly hard to get to at that weight; but I was also doing calisthenics training and trying to max pull ups at the same time (got to 58 in one set, 120 in 3 sets). So a guy just working out in his garage and maybe weighing around 170, maybe 180; to press 350 was damn near impossible.
Good point about his football training but I got the impression from the character even when he was doing those things he would sub consciously hold back. It took some convincing for him to start to push his limits and though he may have thought he pushed himself when in football he probably wasn't. same deal with lifting the car or refrigerator; he was the type of person that would not try because of his self doubt.
I think there was some aspect of a subconsciously knowing he had almost supernatural ability but as a psychological defense mechanism he purposefully was blocking it; afraid of losing acceptance, afraid of being a 'freak', afraid of what it might mean.
Frankly I used to lift weights regularly in 8th grade and highschool with my older brother in our parents' basement. And I think the most I ever lifted was maybe 80 pounds. I never could lift my bodyweight. So to me 250 is pretty impressive. And 350 is even more impressive.
shareI’ve noticed that not 1 reply on here discusses the number of reps per set, the rest interval between sets, nor the number of sets.
Nor how much help you got in “doing” the sets. Nor how much range of motion in each rep.
A set of fewer than 8 reps means the weight is too heavy for you. It’s masturbatory, useless.
A rest interval of over 2 minutes renders the next set moot.
Partial range of motion means you do not know what you’re doing, but gives you BRAGGING RIGHTS with your dimwit friends. “Dude! I benched 400!” Yeah, through 5 inches.
Benching your body weight is a good target, so most guys can probably do 200 pounds if they train.
300 pounds is very impressive.
Hulk Hogan used to bench press 550 pounds, but he was sort of super-human.