How many times can y'all rep 225 on the bench?

[Tres Leches]

I havent been to the gym since last march.

A hard shaky 5.

same

 

[MoveForward]

Yall boys don't need to be posting on The Coli. If this isn't cap, you guys are wasting your talent. We have potential strength athletes in this thread...

 

[MustafaSTL]

Couple things I hate: when people ask how many reps of 225 or what’s your bench max, the other answers that “deadlifts and squats or some shyt shows better strength.” Man ain’t nobody ask you that, they just asked how much you bench.

The other is going too far saying barbell bench does nothing. It may be true that dumbbell press or dips may be better for chest. Doesn’t mean barbell bench is a waste. I do all 3 on chest days.

 

[Mastamimd]

fair enough. i would often do super sets with deadlifts and pull ups.

funny enough i would always assume i could only do like 10-12 wide grip pull ups...until i actually tried 20 one day and did it with ease

I do twenty in sets tbh, about to move up to twenty five. Been awhile since I've lifted though.

 

[Ohene]

Couple things I hate: when people ask how many reps of 225 or what’s your bench max, the other answers that “deadlifts and squats or some shyt shows better strength.” Man ain’t nobody ask you that, they just asked how much you bench.

The other is going too far saying barbell bench does nothing. It may be true that dumbbell press or dips may be better for chest. Doesn’t mean barbell bench is a waste. I do all 3 on chest days.

what makes dumbbell press better? and ive neverheard of dips being better. i'm curious

chest days i would typically do flat barbell bench, incline dumbbell press, around the worlds lying on my back, pectoral fly machine, and then dips or tricep pullbacks

i miss the gym. this covid shyt got me fukked up

 

[ZEupTWN]

Yall boys don't need to be posting on The Coli. If this isn't cap, you guys are wasting your talent. We have potential strength athletes in this thread...

I use to hoop with a pierre garcon and a couple other lesser known skins otr...these dudes are in the 1% for a reason

 

[Prodyson]

My brother is 155lbs and does sets of 225. It's normal for my family at least.

If he’s 155 doing SETS of 225, he must be pure muscle. Definitely less than 10% body fat. 155 is pretty small... unless you’re like 5’5

 

[MustafaSTL]

what makes dumbbell press better? and ive neverheard of dips being better. i'm curious

chest days i would typically do flat barbell bench, incline dumbbell press, around the worlds lying on my back, pectoral fly machine, and then dips or tricep pullbacks

i miss the gym. this covid shyt got me fukked up

Some swear by them because of the range of motion you do with them versus the somewhat more limited chest work with the barbell. I think the same for dips. But I was just saying those MAY be true, but if someone asks what you bench, nobody needs to know other shyt is better. It just lets us know your bench ain’t shyt cause you copping pleas.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Yall boys don't need to be posting on The Coli. If this isn't cap, you guys are wasting your talent. We have potential strength athletes in this thread...

I use to hoop with a pierre garcon and a couple other lesser known skins otr...these dudes are in the 1% for a reason

its one thing to bench 225 for 20 reps.


It's a totally other thing to be able to do that while also being able to run a 4.4 40-yard dash and have a 40 inch vertical.


That's what being in the .0001% is really about.


Also you got lineman coming out of college that can bench 500+ lbs and run a 5 second 40. @shopthatwrecks can probably attest to that

 

[Bushmaster69]

I'm definitely not weak. I just don't even do silly exercises like the bench press. I train exclusively with calisthenics movements (i.e. pushups, pullups, dips, and squats). You know movements that build functional strength.

All I'm saying is the average guy is probably not as fit as elite NFL RBs. We know based on the combine each year that many of those guys can barely max out at 10 reps on the 225 bench press. Thus its highly unlikely the average Coli poster is doing that.

Its like guys who claim they can easily do 30+ pullups in a row when in reality that is world class caliber pullup endurance. Guys who focus exclusively on calisthenics can barely do that but we have random posters who don't even do calisthenics regularly claiming they can.

Oh so you one of them gymnastic nikkas in Lululemon that be doing a million pull-ups because that's all you can do.

Taking up space in the middle of the cross over machine and shyt cause you can't lift.

Aight playa.

 

[Swagnificent]

Oh so you one of them gymnastic nikkas in Lululemon that be doing a million pull-ups because that's all you can do.

Taking up space in the middle of the cross over machine and shyt cause you can't lift.

Aight playa.

Actually I mainly workout in the outdoors. At public parks that have pullup and dip bars. Sorta like nikkas do at the prison yard.

Only time you'll ever see me in the gym is when I'm doing barbell squats cause the leg muscles require lots of resistance to grow properly.

 

[jackswstd]

Hurt my shoulder so I don’t really bench press much anymore but I used to be able to do 10 reps of 225. Now I can hit probably 4 on a good day, I’m better with dumbbell presses. Less stress on the shoulders since it’s more of a natural motion.

 

[GreenGhxst]

Right now probably 6 or 7

If I had a little more weight on me probably 10

 

[1970s HeRon Flow]

7 reps on my best set

Its always been my weakest lift

I do 315 for squats ass to ground and sets of deads of 405, no wraps or belts either

 

[Lobo]

Mid training thru i could rep it 23 times. I tried it only once because I normally lift 315 as a working set.