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Forum ยป Which bench milestone has been the most difficult for you? 1,2,3, or 4 plates?

View Poll Results: Which bench press milestone was the most difficult for you to reach

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Thread: Which bench milestone has been the most difficult for you? 1,2,3, or 4 plates?

post 1644192623 08-03-2021, 01:24 PM
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Which bench milestone has been the most difficult for you? 1,2,3, or 4 plates?

From your personal experience which bench press milestone was the hardest for you to reach?

135
225
315
405
"Quiet boy! Where is your honor?.. Like all pure blooded Saiyans, Kakarot would rather die fighting than win with one of those disgraceful senzu beans as his crutch. Kakarot trained in the hyperbolic time chamber just as we did; now let's see what he can do."
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post 1644193743 08-03-2021, 01:41 PM
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If you are gonna make 2-3 plate you'll make it soon, within a year or so from the date you SERIOUSLY try going for it.

But very few people just luck ass their way into 4plate
Experience is a good teacher, not a kind one.
post 1644193953 08-03-2021, 01:44 PM
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315 as I never made it lol
Closest I got was 285
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post 1644194033 08-03-2021, 01:45 PM
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this format/question doesn't make sense if you think about it...
post 1644194093 08-03-2021, 01:46 PM
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none of them

i got to 5 plates without ever really caring for bench numbers

only lift I really cared about was conventional deadlift numbers.
**worthless college major crew**

*Always picks 4 Crew*

**HTC**
post 1644196713 08-03-2021, 02:23 PM
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Hit 1 plate pretty much right away when I started lifting. 2 plates took a couple years. 3 plates a couple more years. I have yet to hit a raw 405 bench. Come close a few times and kind of gave up on it to chase equipped bench numbers.
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post 1644197243 08-03-2021, 02:29 PM
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My bench has always been pretty ****ty but I assume it's because I always shoot for the 8-12 rep range for hypertrophy. I think my best was like 2 x 215lbs.
post 1644197313 08-03-2021, 02:31 PM
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3 plates considering it took me till last year to get there. Got to 225 in around a year maybe less. Will never get to 4 plates.
post 1644198443 08-03-2021, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted By Krackerjacked⏩
315 as I never made it lol
Closest I got was 285
^This. Then ended up with shoulder surgery and have not gone over 225 since. I rep it out now. I don't think bench is what did me in, it was all the weird shoulder chit I was doing.. behind the head pulldowns, dips platform at my old gym that was shoulder height, two bars and you'd stand in the middle. I use to get on there and use my core to do pushups with my legs lifted behind me... and some other chit.

Had 2 PT's and surgeon all call me an idiot for doin that chit but it is what it is now mane. I;m getting older anyways.
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post 1644198723 08-03-2021, 02:50 PM
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All great answers! Trying to get a scope of how the lifting community does in reaching benchpress benchmarks
"Quiet boy! Where is your honor?.. Like all pure blooded Saiyans, Kakarot would rather die fighting than win with one of those disgraceful senzu beans as his crutch. Kakarot trained in the hyperbolic time chamber just as we did; now let's see what he can do."
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post 1644198793 08-03-2021, 02:51 PM
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I would say 3 plates. 2 plates just came with time. 3 plates took longer and more 'failure' so to speak.

I got to 160kg, or roughly 3.5 plates. 4 is not going to happen now. My 1RM heavy lifting days are behind me.
Cook the man some eggs!
post 1644199043 08-03-2021, 02:55 PM
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Sitting around 330 x 2 atm. Probably take another year for 4 wheels. Hypertrophy > strength is my focus tho
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post 1644199163 08-03-2021, 02:57 PM
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Hit all 4. Would say 315 I guess. Never really prioritized flat barbell after like 205ish
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