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What is considered good? - 8/2/2006 11:34:49 PM
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lachie_778
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As the title said, what does everyone consider a good ammount to lift?
Currently i'm leg pressing 135kg (300lbs), it sounds like alot, but i just dunno if it really is for the exercise. I'm pretty sure benching 50kg (dunno lbs) isn't that great. Ummm, forgot what i was going to say after that, but yeh, what is everyone's opinions?
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RE: What is considered good? - 8/3/2006 12:02:31 AM
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http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/weis1.htm
< Message edited by claytonhill -- 8/3/2006 12:03:33 AM >
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RE: What is considered good? - 8/3/2006 3:39:00 AM
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cpl
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There is no good amount to be lifting. Everyone's different.
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RE: What is considered good? - 8/3/2006 5:12:05 AM
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twistedlink
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Hmmm i dont reach any of claytonhills numbers, in fact my bench press is so low that even a average 123lbs guy would be benching more than me, that is very very dissapointing for me lol.
I dont know anyone at 123lbs who benches 135lbs+
In fact i dont personally know anyone aged 14-18 who can bench 135lbs period. and some of these people are 200lbs sports players.
Which leaves me to assume bench figures are strange to say the least.
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RE: What is considered good? - 8/3/2006 6:17:01 AM
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hawes
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My younger brother is 145lbs and can bench 231lbs. It will take time and effort to get to this level!!
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RE: What is considered good? - 8/3/2006 6:41:08 AM
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twistedlink
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ehh...does he do a fully slow down right to his chest, and slowly raise it back up?
Because i saw an old friend at the gym the other day who was lowering the weight about 4 inches and bouncing it back up and thought he was hot ****.
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RE: What is considered good? - 8/3/2006 7:59:27 AM
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Don't be so cynical Linky ;)
I've seen it done. Bench is all in the head, one to get the technique, weight raises quite fast.
He doesn't have to slowly raise it. If he's looking for a good bench and not mearly mass like us, then explosive reps are the way to go. Slow Benchers usually don't get to ever have High High numbers
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RE: What is considered good? - 8/3/2006 8:26:58 AM
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lol, ive never seen the weight done by someone under 160lbs from my estimation of my gym members. Bench 135lbs i mean, last time i saw someone doing 231lbs he was around the 200-220lbs mark himself.
I try to gain size and strength, and my raises arent slow slow, but slow enough for strength and size, and no matter what i do, i have and still do struggle to get my bench training weight above 110lbs. Accumulated time id say around 10 months has been spent bodybuilding and in it trying to improve bench, since i started at DB.com I have gained over 10lbs(solid lean muscle weight), and my bench has lowered.
I would find other peoples bench figures more believeable if i could even do 50% of the task theyre asking. But no. I am benching just .7 of my weight for my 1 rep max, that is actually under the expectations of most males, i should apparently have no trouble benching my own weight for reps and it should "start to get difficult" once i reach the 1.2x-1.3x marker.
Ive only known a few people at my gym that i have personally seen to lift 1.5x there weight, and call me stereotypical, but they were on something, steroids or not, they were on something.
My squats and deads arent high but i believe everyones numbers in them, because theyre big muscles, but when you hear about skinny people benching that kind of weight, it requires hydraulic type muscle power, which no human truly has, theyre either doing it wrong, or juicing.
That or english people are just weak, because ive seen quite a few english users here share the same opinion as above, i think one of them asked it one time too, because it seemed that out of the 4-5 engish teens here, who were benching 150-200lbs and weighed between them figures too, there were american teens, who sometimes weighed only 120lbs and apparently benching 400 odd lbs. You western people either have something in your water supplies, or a few people are BSing right now lol
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RE: What is considered good? - 8/3/2006 10:41:28 AM
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Rainman
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I only weigh 145...150 on a good day :D, and last time I maxed on bench I put up 170, nothin special but I was happy with it, that was a few months ago when I actually weighed closer to 138-140, lately I've been putting on mass and not really worrying about strength gains, but when school starts I'll max sometime, it MIGHT be 180 lol, but im not sure what it is now
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