When you decide that you want it bad enough, it will not matter what the foods you are eating tastes like. and don't get hung up on eating "good foods", unless you are a bodybuilder, there is no such thing as good foods. Anything with calories is good when trying to get bigger. If you want to get to a 500 bench, it aint going to happen at 165, unless you are greg warr, or somebody like that. Hell, Ricky Crain, Angelo Berardinelli, and Larry Miller have never benched 500, and these are some of the top names ever in the 165's. I know that you are heavier than that now, but the point I am making is that big people lift big weights.
Except for George Halbert, who I am not convinced is even human, I have not heard of too many people below about 250 lbs who have benched 700+. I think Chris Confessore and Kenny Patterson are about it, and KP may have been over 250 when he did 700+.
With about two exceptions I don't think there are any people below 180 benching 500, and very very few 181 guys have done it. At the Oklahoma Bench on the Beach this last summer, there were only 3 people out of about 80 that benched over 5 bills. All 3 were in the 242 class, and the tallest guy of the 3 was about 5 foot 10.
Re-read my post on the third page about what I did the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of college. That is what it took for me to put on some size. You are bigger and stronger than I was at your age. Will you be where I am in 10 years? If you play your cards right, and are willing to do what it takes, you may be way past where I am, you may be where Jay is. It is all up to you. And don't buy into this genetics bullshit. You should have seen me as a kid. You could not imagine a weaker, skinnier, more pitiful kid. I was sickly my whole life. As a kindergartener, I got sick, went into the hospital, and after a couple of surgeries, I got down to 29 pounds!!!
Genetics? I don't have them. Dedication? How's this. Last September, I went in to the doctor to get a vasectomy. The doctor botched the procedure, and cut an artery. (Don't worry, I still have my nuts, and everything works like a champ, now) Long story, a bit less long, I spent two weeks in the hospital, enduring 5 surgeries in an effort to keep from bleeding to death, had the doctors tell me they were going to have to cut my nuts off to save my life, 2 transfusions, 20+ bags of saline, nutsack swollen to the size of a cantaloupe, and missed over a month of work. I walked with a cane for a month after coming home from the hospital. I lost half the blood in my body. Within two weeks of being home, I was back in the gym. It was a month and a half before the swelling went down enough so that i could squat or deadlift again, but I had benched over 400 within a month of leaving the hospital, after having lost 20 lbs through the ordeal.
I don't tell this story so everyone will think I am tough or cool, or whatever, it is an illustration about dedication. And there are a lot of people out there who have dealt with a lot worse adversity than I have, and acheived much greater goals.
I would have went to the NASA world bench championships in Texas 6 weeks after my release from the hospital, except for the fact that I was told by my wife that she would divorce me for doing so.
Shit happens, life gets in the way, but if it is important enough to you, you will do whatever it takes to reach your goal. If your goal is to lift as much as you can in a particlular weight class, then that is fine, go for it. But if your goal is to bench 500, 600 or whatever, or to squat 700, 800, or so, then you better realize that to do these things, you are going to have to get a lot bigger and a lot stronger. It just works that way.
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