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max amount for someone natural and average
just give me a ballpark estimate
just give me a ballpark estimate
What's the max amount a natural human can bench?
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royale13ii
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There are a bunch of Samoan guys in Iraq with us, and they are naturally huge and alot stronger than the average guy, so that needs to be factored in.
Well, the world record is like 1,008 or something like that. That is FAR from natural, but still mind boggling someone could even hold that much weight.
Bench press has many factors to it. Its hard to deterimine what a so called normal trained person can bench. The diameter of your chest, the points of your muscle attachment, CNS, body weight, etc.. I even read that you can determine someones bench press max(the most they will ever be able to bench) by the size of their wrists. Someone who never took any drugs(roids) and no lifting shirt would be hard pressed to bench over 500 I would imagine.
I don't think that someone who never lifted before would be able to bench their body weight, unless they were in great shape(pushups etc.). They would improve quickly as they got used to the feel, improved their form and developed thier stablizing muscles.
Bench press has many factors to it. Its hard to deterimine what a so called normal trained person can bench. The diameter of your chest, the points of your muscle attachment, CNS, body weight, etc.. I even read that you can determine someones bench press max(the most they will ever be able to bench) by the size of their wrists. Someone who never took any drugs(roids) and no lifting shirt would be hard pressed to bench over 500 I would imagine.
I don't think that someone who never lifted before would be able to bench their body weight, unless they were in great shape(pushups etc.). They would improve quickly as they got used to the feel, improved their form and developed thier stablizing muscles.
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I've been training the benchpress for about 6 months.
Right now I can bench 255 about 3x. My benchpress seems to go up easily even though I have very long arms and small wrists.
I was wondering if it will be possible for me to bench 400~410lbs some day.
Right now I can bench 255 about 3x. My benchpress seems to go up easily even though I have very long arms and small wrists.
I was wondering if it will be possible for me to bench 400~410lbs some day.
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As far as the limits of human strength, I would say 500 with no bench shirt is probably very rare without juice.
There have been a few guys that I think could press 700 raw and natural. A guy named Henderson did a 700 press a while back without a bench shirt. I'm not sure if juice was involved but this was also a 400 pound man.
There have been a few guys that I think could press 700 raw and natural. A guy named Henderson did a 700 press a while back without a bench shirt. I'm not sure if juice was involved but this was also a 400 pound man.
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Micker said:
210lbs
im 6'2ft and my bodytype is ecto/meso (big quads, small calves, small wrists, small arms, big delts, big back, big chest, big neck)
Now my bench is 265 x3, squat is 245 x 3, deadlift is 315lbs x 5
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Body weight.
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210thelion2005 said:
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santa clause,
there is no average figure in reality, or at least not one that really means anything. there are people who, because of their build and genetics, will be hard pressed to EVER bench press 300lbs. there are people who, if they benched 300lbs, would look quite muscular and "built". ive seen people who could bench 300lbs quite easily. there is a guy in our gym right now who is 45 years old, in college he played O-line for alabama, and lifted, and could bench around 500, with no steroids and no bench shirt. he hadnt worked out in almost 25 years, and started training again about 6 months ago. within a couple of weeks he was doing sets of 5 with 315lbs, and could probably max over 400lbs! just a naturally strong guy. hes also huge, not in a muscular sense, but just a really, really big guy.
personally, i was not huge in high school, i wrestled in the 171lb class my senior year, and could MAYBE bench 260lbs or so. by the time i was 24 or 25 i was bench pressing over 500lbs without drugs or bench shirt, and had gained a LOT of muscular bodyweight. there were quite a number of guys in high school who seemed to be more genetically gifted than me, and who kept training after high school and college sports, but who never did near that amount. i probably would have done quite a bit more eventually, but i tore my right pec completely off fooling around with some gymnastics move, and that coincided with my switch to olympic lifting and swearing off the bench press forever.
I know anohter guy, who was fairly big but not muscular, who was just built to bench. he trained about once a week, coming in to the gym after work, and working up to a max on the bench press. looking at him i would have believed he could do 300lbs, maybe 350... but the damn guy did around 450lbs every week, and could do 315 for 10 very fast reps. he claimed he once succeeded with 495, and i believe him. i know guys who look more muscular than him, who you would think could do more... who couldnt succeed with 300lbs.
you have to remember that the bench press isnt really a great indicator of strength, or of whether one person is stronger than another. a lot of anatomical factors come into play, the biggest of which is arm length. a guy with short arms and a barrel chest just doesnt need all that much muscle to put up big numbers in the bench if he is skilled at doing it... kind of like a guy with a short torso and long arms being able to deadlift big weights.
there is no average figure in reality, or at least not one that really means anything. there are people who, because of their build and genetics, will be hard pressed to EVER bench press 300lbs. there are people who, if they benched 300lbs, would look quite muscular and "built". ive seen people who could bench 300lbs quite easily. there is a guy in our gym right now who is 45 years old, in college he played O-line for alabama, and lifted, and could bench around 500, with no steroids and no bench shirt. he hadnt worked out in almost 25 years, and started training again about 6 months ago. within a couple of weeks he was doing sets of 5 with 315lbs, and could probably max over 400lbs! just a naturally strong guy. hes also huge, not in a muscular sense, but just a really, really big guy.
personally, i was not huge in high school, i wrestled in the 171lb class my senior year, and could MAYBE bench 260lbs or so. by the time i was 24 or 25 i was bench pressing over 500lbs without drugs or bench shirt, and had gained a LOT of muscular bodyweight. there were quite a number of guys in high school who seemed to be more genetically gifted than me, and who kept training after high school and college sports, but who never did near that amount. i probably would have done quite a bit more eventually, but i tore my right pec completely off fooling around with some gymnastics move, and that coincided with my switch to olympic lifting and swearing off the bench press forever.
I know anohter guy, who was fairly big but not muscular, who was just built to bench. he trained about once a week, coming in to the gym after work, and working up to a max on the bench press. looking at him i would have believed he could do 300lbs, maybe 350... but the damn guy did around 450lbs every week, and could do 315 for 10 very fast reps. he claimed he once succeeded with 495, and i believe him. i know guys who look more muscular than him, who you would think could do more... who couldnt succeed with 300lbs.
you have to remember that the bench press isnt really a great indicator of strength, or of whether one person is stronger than another. a lot of anatomical factors come into play, the biggest of which is arm length. a guy with short arms and a barrel chest just doesnt need all that much muscle to put up big numbers in the bench if he is skilled at doing it... kind of like a guy with a short torso and long arms being able to deadlift big weights.
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