How much do you bench??

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  • Larissa_NY
    Larissa_NY Posts: 495 Member
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    This is the internet. Everyone on the internet benches 400 pounds. It's a rule.
  • bangingiron
    bangingiron Posts: 72 Member
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    Enough
  • whmscll
    whmscll Posts: 2,254 Member
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    ValerieMartini2Olives wrote: »
    ucalegon wrote: »
    Look at all these overachievers! 65lbs here. (But then, I started recently and have gone up from 45 pretty steadily!)

    I've made it up to like 80 pounds.

    I'm new to lifting also. I'm at 75 pounds with StrongLifts 5x5. Ya gotta start somewhere! My goal is to bench my body weight. Now, that's an incentive to keep losing!
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 9,747 Member
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    Ain't that the truth! lol At my peak in the summer, I wanted to bench 1.5x BW, but was a good 50# away. But I was able to make up the difference by increasing my bench by 20#, and lowering my BW by 20# (1.5x 20# = 30#).

    Or in numbers:

    Before: 255 by 202 BW (ratio of 1.26)
    After: 275 by 182 BW (ratio of 1.51)

    So my bench went up a bit absolute (20#) but went way up relative (.25 BW).

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