Max bench presses by famous people.

[Witchblade]

Yes but to be honest, I would rather my dip numbers go up than my flat bench numbers.

Everyone asks "what do you bench" - I would rather be the guy strapping 150lbs on myself and doing dips. Yes, I chose 150lbs because of Kelju you half gorilla mofo. I want to be that strong

How about being the guy that says "I don't bench, but I deadlift twice your bodyweight in my warm-up."

 

[Minhkey]

Whats so wrong with bench.. everyone always talks about how all noobs care about is benching, but so what? Isn't it a great compound exercise? I mean sure squats and dead lifts are important but I don't think there's any reason not to be proud of what you can bench. It kind of seems like people don't like to talk about how much they can bench and how to improve because others will be like "bench doesn't matter and no one cares, its all about deads and squats!"

 

[min0 lee]

Yes but to be honest, I would rather my dip numbers go up than my flat bench numbers.

Everyone asks "what do you bench" - I would rather be the guy strapping 150lbs on myself and doing dips. Yes, I chose 150lbs because of Kelju you half gorilla mofo. I want to be that strong

You can just try it for a month, it might help the other body parts as well.
The body gets stagnant doing the same routine.

 

[largepkg]

Whats so wrong with bench.. everyone always talks about how all noobs care about is benching, but so what? Isn't it a great compound exercise? I mean sure squats and dead lifts are important but I don't think there's any reason not to be proud of what you can bench. It kind of seems like people don't like to talk about how much they can bench and how to improve because others will be like "bench doesn't matter and no one cares, its all about deads and squats!"

Be proud of what you want to be proud of and fuck what anyone else thinks.

Incidentally, squats and deads are much more important than bench but bench is probably a solid third IMO.

I'm one of those tall, long reach guys and if anyone doesn't think bar travel has a shit ton to do with the amount of weight you can move then they're morons.

 

[min0 lee]

Incidentally, squats and deads are much more important than bench but bench is probably a solid third IMO.

 

[danzik17]

How about being the guy that says "I don't bench, but I deadlift twice your bodyweight in my warm-up."

Same kind of thing - I just like to dip in general. It's just a movement that after I started doing it I got seriously hooked. Same with squats and pullups.

It's also very satisfying to be able to bust out sets of 30 bodyweight dips without a problem when so many people can't do a single set of 10.

That and I've hurt myself deadlifting more than all other exercises combined. Yes, I need to freaking learn how to deadlift. Someone teach me

 

[danzik17]

You can just try it for a month, it might help the other body parts as well.
The body gets stagnant doing the same routine.

I might. I need to switch stuff up anyway - I can't do heavy leg exercises right now thanks to pulling my hamstring doing RDLs. Focusing a lot on my upper body at the moment, so I may do one day dips first, next day bench first.

 

[min0 lee]

I might. I need to switch stuff up anyway - I can't do heavy leg exercises right now thanks to pulling my hamstring doing RDLs. Focusing a lot on my upper body at the moment, so I may do one day dips first, next day bench first.

It really helped my inclines.

 

[Merkaba]

Whats so wrong with bench.. everyone always talks about how all noobs care about is benching, but so what? Isn't it a great compound exercise? I mean sure squats and dead lifts are important but I don't think there's any reason not to be proud of what you can bench. It kind of seems like people don't like to talk about how much they can bench and how to improve because others will be like "bench doesn't matter and no one cares, its all about deads and squats!"

It's exactly that. The root reason behind all noobs care about is benching. Its ego. They bench three times and week, doing 30 sets a workout, with a weak ass diet they're not paying attention to then ask how can I increase my bench.

I guess the populous has grown generally tired of it. Questions deemed "worthy" usually get a "worthy" answer, from what I've seen in my short tenure here. Its kinda like pop music to me. It gets old quick. I'm sure people can get great advice if they actually act like they've read the stickies or anything else for that matter, then post a question that doesnt sound like it's coming from Britney Spears. For instance. If you want to increase your bench take into account that you don't need to kill yourself in the gym first, then eat accordingly, and don't expect anything to happen overnight or overmonth.

 

[Witchblade]

As an exercise, the bench press is completely incomparable to deads and squats. Not the same game and ain't no fucking ballpark neither.

 

[kicka19]

the question is not what exercise is the best, they all are just part of the same game

 

[Merkaba]

btw there is no way in hell i could even 1rep max 100lb dbs

I usually finish up my major chest work with about 2 sets of 8 with the 100's on the 45 degree incline.


But thats cause my gym doesnt have anything higher!
Ha, I kill me!

 

[PreMier]

As an exercise, the bench press is completely incomparable to deads and squats. Not the same game and ain't no fucking ballpark neither.

i love pulp fiction

 

[GoLdeN M 07]

larry allen.. 700 lbs?! holy shit

 

[GoLdeN M 07]

As an exercise, the bench press is completely incomparable to deads and squats. Not the same game and ain't no fucking ballpark neither.

true
but theres alot of hype about bench pressing and how much people can max.