Can you bench your own weight?

Can you bench your own weight?

  • 1 rep

    Votes: 5 8.8%

  • 3 or more reps

    Votes: 27 47.4%

  • NO

    Votes: 25 43.9%
  • Total voters
    57
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I shouldn’t compare my own fitness to others but I do. So here’s another poll. Can you bench your own weight?
 
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fieldgrade said:
Not trying to be a wiseacre, but you weighed 110?
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No, at the time I was about 2% body fat and around 140. Math is bad; that’s 250%. That’ll teach me to use my head calculator versus the real one

I could press 350 one solid time. I was warming up at 185#, working out at 225. I only did that weight once as a max; there were a few Samoans in my company who were lifting some seriously heavy weight and they spotted me. They also really helped motivate/pump me up for it. I wonder if it’d been other people just randomly there if I would’ve hit that max without the encouragement

That was a long time and a lot of lost workouts ago
 
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I was in the 300# club in highschool. I was 172-200 at the time. Now I am 230 and while I am pretty sure I can bench that once if I had to I'm not doing reps...
 
At my peak on active duty (30-35 y/o), I went ~185/190lb & regularly benched 215 for 4 sets of 8 reps. Was never big on one-rep maxes, but did put up 280lb in BLET for our physical fitness test (10 years ago).

In high school (@170lbs), I screwed up my shoulders benching 245x6, 255x6 & 265x6.

I'd be lucky to put up my body weight one time now, but am slowly working on changing that.
 
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Never beeen able to bench my own weight.
 
for the past year and a half I have been working on getting back in shape, but neglected my upper body pretty bad. Cardio and endurance is pretty stellar now, but I am weak as a kitten when it comes to my arms. So, no, I cant get close to my body weight, but over the next (rest of my life) I will be working to get there.
 
Nope.
But the trainer I had at the YMCA is also the head weight and strength coach at A&T. Built like a 5" shorter Micheal Clarke Duncan. He warmed up with 330#. Could bench 550#.
 
Yes. I usually warm up with my 215. Haven't been to the gym in the last 3 months though. Time to get back at it.
 
Of course....NO. I can't bench my purse's weight! And I bet nobody can bench my fat a**!

**(Sorry for busting up the seriousness of the thread with inappropriate levity, I'm low on caffeine at the moment.)
 
I used to have my weight class' bench max in high school. Up until about 7 years ago I could bench 285, which was then about 130% of my weight.
 
My weight (200#) about 5 times, the last time I tried (maybe a year ago?). That last one I definitely needed a spotter or I risk killing myself....

Now I measure push-ups instead for muscular endurance.
 
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Chest has always been a weak spot for me, but have long considered bodyweight 1RM a bare minimum for me to consider myself anything remotely fit. Not sure of current 1RM, current program has me doing multiple sets at or above BW and a few below.
 
Nope , not even close . But right now i weigh about 285

The guy who used to run the gym i worked out at holds several world records , i saw him do 625 lb. Bench , 1200 leg press and chest press with 210 lb dumbbells . Still the most impressive thing i have seen in the gym was a local MMA fighter who weighs about 155, he put 180 lbs of plates on a belt and chains and did full body dips
 
I got close one time about 25 yrs ago. My benchable weight was going up and my physical weight was going down but life got in the way.
 
I can do 4x4-6 with 225 but if I step that up to 230+, my right shoulder pops out of socket on the first or second rep (I weigh 250 atm)
 
fsj80 said:
I can do 4x4-6 with 225 but if I step that up to 230+, my right shoulder pops out of socket on the first or second rep (I weigh 250 atm)
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Yeah I had to cut back on heavy weights. I had gotten up to reaching the 2 rep on the bottom of a
Pyramid work out at around 320 (can’t remember exactly but 315-325). I started really feeling it in my joints.

Now I don’t bench over 225 and just do more reps. Had a buddy of mine tear his pec benching 420 a couple years ago.

Once you get over 40 it’s best to leave the heavy weights alone. That’s my opinion anyway.
 
Probably, but I don't know for sure. had a major wrist injury a while back, and I don't go over 135 on the bench which I can do several times. I'm about a buck 90.
 
Chdamn said:
Yeah I had to cut back on heavy weights. I had gotten up to reaching the 2 rep on the bottom of a
Pyramid work out at around 320 (can’t remember exactly but 315-325). I started really feeling it in my joints.

Now I don’t bench over 225 and just do more reps. Had a buddy of mine tear his pec benching 420 a couple years ago.

Once you get over 40 it’s best to leave the heavy weights alone. That’s my opinion anyway.
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Yep, that is where I am at (49 and not worrying about heavy weight any more). But I have a torn rotator cuff and labrum in that shoulder, so that dictates the weight more than old age lol

I have switched to more of a workload capacity workout. Lighter weights, higher reps and HIIT/circuits than strength training. Recovery is a lot easier on my old bones/joints/muscles/cns
 
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