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 Is anyone here in the 500 club
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Pro Bodybuilder 
Posts: 340 |
Are there any 500 plus benchers on this board? ------------------    | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 330 |
I wish. . . It'll take me at least another year. ------------------  | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder 
Posts: 152 |
Unfortunity not. I'm young so I'll get there eventually but I'm more concerned with look good, and banging broads | ||
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Freak 
Posts: 2252 |
Before my pec tear, I was hitting 405 for 3 sets of 5 and damn near it, never piled the weight on to see and unfortunately never will again. . .I am happy just doing slow, clean reps with 315. ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 258 |
quote: yep, me too, i'm too young but will get there... ------------------ | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder 
Posts: 1013 |
485 here Went for 495 awhile back and no go. Amazing how 10lbs feels like a ton at this weight.
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 263 |
hit up to like 450 once when I injected a ton of prop in me the day before. never done it since. Maybe next cycle though, I can still get over 400 though. I'm not to worried about the weight I bench anymore. I mena I do wish to be strong, but I'm more worried about developing the muscle. ------------------
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 78 |
I can squat over 500...does that count? | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 120 |
I can do 250lbs 2 times....hehehehehe I never lift heavy anymore after screwing up my shoulder. Now, it is lighter weight with slow, controlled movements.... Still, with I could throw up 500...seen a few guys do it, just not me. Stones | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 559 |
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500 is a goal of mine. I trying to hit it by summer of 2003. 405 is this years goal. ------------------ | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 515 |
470 here. i think i`ll make 500 on this cycle. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 145 |
nope... 415 is where I've been maxing out! Hopefully soon! | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 264 |
465lbs three times on my best days | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 1317 |
Not yet. Had great progress this past year, so I'm up to 435 at 210. No wraps or shirt. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 88 |
Not yet, i'm stuck at 425 for 1 rep. Everytime that i do it though my shoulder hurts for like 3 weeks. So i don't ry it very often. Hope ya make it someday and everyone else on here too | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 898 |
Dont know what I bench... Not sure that I care... | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 250 |
I have hit 515. Today hit 405 for 6 clean reps at my old highschool. | ||
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Novice 
Posts: 8 |
A max is an ego thing, at the heavy weights in hurts your joints so bad that it screws up your workouts for a week. I have maxed 415 at 6'5, and tall guys always whine about the "I have long arms... " bullshit. Fact is, pound it or go home to your mama. Truth is, I have got my best growth from a full range of motion for 8-10 reps until it burns like crazy, and then forced reps. | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 496 |
i agree max is for egos. its not what you lift but how you look. ------------------ | ||
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Novice
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I would like to object to the 'max is for egos' line of comments. I competed in Powerlifting pretty seriously from 1993 - 1998. I achieved the following benches: 573 at 308 lbs I won't even tell you guys how many times I tried and missed 600 in meets Now... I am not really competing anymore... just interested in getting huge while staying lean and very strong, but I still find value in heavy singles. By doing heavy singles properly (including on your heavier warmups), you get the following: ability to concentrate fully on form and explosion confidence in handling heavy weights immediate stimulation and adaptation of the CNS to heavier loads How does this help you grow you ask? Well, if all you did was bench singles (as many of the top powerlifters now do), you wont see a whole lot of hypertrophy. Most accomplished powerlifters don't care. They are already big enough. However, try completing a nice heavy single then go down and take some reps. Do you notice how much lighter they feel? You have conditioned your CNS to handle weights and can take advantage of this throughout the rest of the workout. Do you notice how the weights feel lighter and smoother than they did on your warmups? You know... being in the powerlifting game a long while, do you know where I see most of the pec-tears came from? Handling heavy weights for reps on the top sets and heavy drop sets. I seriously haven't heard of too many tears on the max single set itself. Honestly! Personally, I have had numerous pulls over the years and most came on rep sets. One theory has been put forth on this which I buy into: when you are repping, your form gets sloppier on each rep due to breathing, ancillary muscles fatiguing, etc, etc. Also blood supply to tendons is less than to muscles. Heavy reps may actually be more detrimental to tendons than to the muscles themselves. Anyway... enough rambling.... I believe a nice conjunction of reps/weights and variation is the key to good growth and keeping from becoming stagnant. Peace, |
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posted February 15, 2001 04:48 PM
