How much did you guys bench when you started lifting? i'll

I'm not sure as I had to start with dumbells in a shitty gym.
But I was doing SS with them and could only rep 15kg per hand for 5 when I started lol.

Most people who claim to bench 1pl8+ at beginning are either previously athletic to some degree, or lying. A few genetic outliers will bench a load anyway. I know a guy who was the "big guy" in school, never worked out but has a frame like a bull, he benched 2.5pl8 within a couple of months of starting hitting the gym. He has serious potential to be elite tier strong but he'd rather smoke weed and quit the gym. Fucking annoys me who with an average frame spent 3 years getting to a bench like his..

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i'm a grill btw

>>39015624
honestly, dont ask people here and dont take their numbers serious.
Just keep an eye on actual people at your gym.
Ive been going for 6 months now, i have literally seen 2 people bench 2plate.
Most athletic looking guys do one plate, maybe 70-80kg.

And i regulary see kids who are just starting, benching like 30kg, the other day i saw 2 kids do 25 or 22.5, i couldnt tell.

>>39015624
i started off benching 2 plate when i was 16. If you dont hit at least 3 plaet after 6 months of lifting you have shit tier genetics and will never make it.

30kg for 8x4, could probably go higher but I'm taking it easy, my breast filettes are already completely wrekt
I'm also recovering from auschwitz

It's not where you start but where you end up before stalling, keep it up.

>i get sad when people on /fit/ tells me they were able to bench 80 kgs for reps in their first week.
yeah and everyone here DLs 4pl8 and squats 3pl8

in reality when you go to the gym you see maybe one guy throughout the year who lifts those numbers but for some reason /fit/ is full of them

in reality most people here have been on SS for 2 months and think their progress will keep raising linearly for the rest of their lives so they e-stat the fuck out of everything and are actually really clueless to what it takes to actually start pulling impressive numbers

>>39015715
>Ive been going for 6 months now, i have literally seen 2 people bench 2plate.

Weird. I've been going three months and only seen a handful of people bench lower than 2plate. Fuck even the skinny kids seem to at least squat 2plate.

Feelsbadman

>>39015798
>thinking 80kg is spmething special
Maybe at your high school gym. Keep it buddy you'll hit 2pl8 enetually

>>39015789
i started at 40kg and ended up at stalling at 60kg

what now?

>>39015818
nah not me I started lifting with 3pl8 bench for reps

>>39015821
Eat more and keep going.

>>39015624
Started with the bar, 4 shoulder injuries later and I'm at 150kg.

>>39015624
i started out like 40kg im 55 now for a couple months, ive platoed hard, i have no idea what to do but its making me depressed

>>39015821
Had the exact same problem up until a couple months ago. I'm hitting 80 now, all you have to do is eat more.

Started 40 kg, 2 months of fucking around and now after another 2 I'm doing a plate. Happy enuff.

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>>39015624
I remember benching 40kg when i started. I hit 60 pretty fast though.

As of two weeks ago I hit 3 plates though. 140kg natty bench, and it only took 10 fucking years

>>39015848
Switch routine. Also do pushups every day and variations of them, decline, fingertips, wide, diamond etc. They will help develop your pecs. Every day means every day - you will see a difference in your bench within a few weeks.

>>39015868
i wont give my pecs time to recover then, i wont be able to push hard on lift day

I started out benching 25kg for a single, and now, two grindy and painful fucking years later, I can hit 130kg for a very very grindy 1RM on a very very good day.

If you think more than 5% of this board can do 1/2/3/4 pl8 i have bad news senpai

>>39015879
Then take one day off before "lift day". Still do pushups 6 days a week. Also if you really want to increase your bench you shouldn't be working chest once a week, do an AxBx split or something.

But nevermind me, you stalled at 55kg and know better about lifting.

>>39015624
>Would it be possible to hit 2 plates before 2017?

Nigga you'll be lucky to hit 2plates before 2018

so i start at a shity gym 2.5 months, the benches and bars are weasted so i only do dumbbell bench press, right now I do 60's next week I will start going to my uni gym, should I be able to bench 1p8? t-thanks /fit/

Something I noticed when I switched gyms is that the barbell is a lot heavier, putting pretty much all of my lifts to shame

>>39015999
Most people are stronger on barbells than dumbbells. With that said, if you've only really trained dumbbells that might not be the case.
Always better to start a little lower so you can work on form.

>>39015624
60kg

>>39015624
Started out benching about 25 kilos

Got myself pinned under 35ish

65 max, at 185 now

>started at 30kg for half-reps
>now up to 105kg x 3 correct form
took about 18 months, maybe I'm just low test by /fit/ standards

Started with 40kg 3 x 6 and am at 60kg 3 x 5 now after 3 months.
Could probably be higher if I ate more during that time.

>>39015624
I started with a 60 kg maximum and 50 kg f5 rep weight. But after my first week I did 60 kg for 5 rep

Started out with 20kg total (skelly as fuck), worked it up to 60kg in a few months. Just keep at it.

>>39015624
It's all about programming dude. I went from 1pl8 to 2pl8s in a year, going to the gym almost every single day, and eating a healthy, high kcal diet. You gotta ask yourself, do you want to bench 2pl8s or not?

>>39015868
Absolutely don't do this. This is assinine.

>>39015624
most people i've seen start around 30-35kgs , then they progress fast to 60-70kgs. At that point comes the first stall. I was like that and couldnt get to 80 kg bench no matter how hard i tried.

After 2 years i'm at 2pl8 bench but desu i dont really aim for lifting more weight all the time, i change programmes between bodybuilding splits and ppl every 3 months.

>>39016167
Lol wat. Are you asian?

I benched for the first time in the age of 15 or 16 50kg. At around the forth time i hit 60kg when i got the proper technique down. This was then followed with slow progress. Literally all of my friends who started back then where benching either 50 or 60. I played my entire life football (soccer) so i had an athletic base obviously.
If you havent done anything you'll be at the 30kg region and does not matter desu but all these people saying 1pl8 starting bench is high or special are orderline retarded and living in a delusion

>>39015624
started with 1pl8, but I had been doing pushups and stuff before

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First time benching I struggled to get 55lbs for 8 reps. Srs

I was 5'8'' 115lbs. Was a distance runner so muscle mass was non-existent.

Been lifting for a year and now my most recent working weight was 170lbs for 6x4 paused reps. Touch n go was 175lbs for 3x5.

Hoping to hit 2pl8 bench as a max by the end of the year. Current max is 205lbs so I gotta try hard.

Such is life as a skelly

90kg 1rm

>>39015624
45-50kg for a few reps but I was like 17 and never really did any kind of sport besides a few pushups here and there.
>110kg for reps now
not much by /fit/ standards but I still have room for growth.

>>39015624
When you guys talk about plates are you referring to 45 lb plates?

>>39016511
yes

>>39016402
>I played my entire life football (soccer) so i had an athletic base
and there it is

this is fucking 4chan m8, we're former basement-dwellers who were for the most part completely inactive up through our adolescence. you are absolutely an anomaly here.

>>39016511
no

>>39015624
former skelly, i think 95lbs was my 1RM

a few years later and i'm about to hit 2pl8
got diagnosed with quite low test a few months ago and am now injecting, that's gotten me past the 1.5pl8 hump and my progress shows zero signs of slowing

gettin some wrist pain tho

I struggled with 40 kilos

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don't have a spotter so I had to star with 15lb dumbbells because I could barely lift the bar, finally gonna lift one plate on Tuesday for reps.
I'm still a 137 skinny manlet tho

Never tried 1RM when I started but I struggled to get 3x5 at 50kg.

>tfw still can't get 90kg 2 years later
>4 plate deadlift though, fuck you rippletits

>>39016483
>>39016632
>there are people this weak on my board

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>>39015859
Same here,started at 40kg, hit 70kg in first year as 17yo
did not lift for 11years
got back into lifting year ago
bench 132.5kg now
pic related me back in 2004

>>39015624
65 pounds with shitty form. Now, after a year and 9 months 2 pl8lmao

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>>39016696
and last week

When I first started I stalled at 60KG pretty quickly. Could lift it comfortably for 3x5 but just couldn't lift anything heavier.

Worked my way to 5x10 (lol and focused a lot on my delts).

After that I was able to progress quite quickly. I think a lot of it was mental, I just had to get to a certain point to get by it.

>>39016722
Bruh you used to look like skinny Christian Bale

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>>39015624
>started with 35kg bench
>was 58kg bodyweight
>In comes SL 5x5
>squat and dl going up like crazy
>im 75kg heavy at this time
>Squat 100kg 1RM, Deadlift 130 1RM
>Bench press was a sad 68kg 1RM
>get dumped, bad feels, no appetite
>cut for 4 moths, back at 60kg
>find out about GreySkull LP
>all this new energy rushes into me
>my bench and OHP are higher than ever before, while DL and Squat a little weaker

pic related
benching for reps more than i weight.. good feels, good feels...

I started with 115lbs 10 months ago. I'm at 230lbs 4x5.

>>39016735
t-thanks senpai

>>39015624
I started out with around 40x5 and I'm at 85x5 now 7 months later.

>>39015678
eat more

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>>39015624
>50kg
1 month later doing 90kg 5x5

>>39015624
the only guys who start at 70kg are either:
fat
lying

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>>39016828
this

>>39015624
lol, I started with just the bar, because I wanted to perfect the form

after a year of training pretty good I was around 80kg reps, 90kg 1rm

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>>39016596
basically this

>naturaly athlethic
>propably high test
>good upbringing
>loving father
>propably even had a gf
what a faggot

>>39016828
Or people who actually did some sort of sport during their teenage years, not just sat in front of a computer the whole time.

Bad form
Fatasses
Teens who were involved with sports
Laborers or anyone who works carrying shit

My friend started at 100kg squat and 70kg bench for reps of 10. Some people are just freaks. For most of us its a grind though

Started at like 30x5 now almost 2 years later I'm here at 65x5 fucking kill me

>>39016903
>play sport
>magically give you significantly higher upper body strength

What sport were you cunts playing that just the act of playing the sport, is drastically increasing your base bench press.
All the sporty kids bench rubbish as well when they first do a bench press

>>39017352

Yes desu, a lot of people on here started as those super skinny kids who literally never do any exercise and have no muscle at all. Doing sports and stuff will usually mean you have some kind of muscle mass and more weight in general.

started with the bar (20kg) and couldn't even do 5 reps. 6 months later i'm at 60kg 4x5 pause bench, working up towards 5 reps before i microload again

>>39017352
Playing rugby helped me and my mates. Maybe you're just a little bitch.

>>39015624
84 kg bw, lifting for month
can do 50kg for few reps but terrible form so ill have to work on that before ill move on further
last time i did that was probably first workout i did that properly because first time i have sore pecs and area near them

>>39017479
fag detected

>>39017518
>Missing out on those post-game showers with the boys

Now who's a fag?

I started lifting in about high school but it was all with some crappy machine. I would here talk at school about how easy 1plt was and how benching 200lbs was hard. Me being a noob I thought every one was weak as shit cause I was benching 200 for reps on the machine, not knowing the huge difference. I started lifting free weights seriously with a routine in 11th grade and I remember my 1st 1RM was 180. Seeing how lots of guys were benching over 2plt and some guys over 300 I took it more seriously. Ended up benching 270 before I graduated, felt pretty good for my weight at the time (168lbs)

>>39016511
maybe.

>>39017554
l-lewd!

>>39015624
75 lbs/34 kg

>>39015731
>lmao 2pl8 at start
>3pl8 after 6 months

I was able to bench 4pl8 right from the beginning, now im at 7pl8 after 2 months

kill ursefl

> started around 70 lbs 3x5
> 4 months later, 145 lbs 5x5

I'm really struggling at this 145 plateau though. It's weird, shouldn't I still be in the "neurological gains" zone? Like, am I even going to build muscle benching 145? Feels shitty desu

>>39015624
>hit 1/3/4 all within the same month
>1 year on still haven't hit that 2pl8 binch
do I just end it?

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>>39015624
I have been training for 9 months and I can only bench 130 pounds 5 times and it's a serious struggle.

I started off 120 pound 6'0 skelly who could barely bench the bar

>>39017792
Nah m8. You probably just have bad bench form. You're likely the cat-backed girl of benching I bet. You just lay there loosely and bench.

I really hate the guys in here who say things like "lol ur weak i did ur numbers in 3 months"
Even if it's true, wich i doubt most of the time, it's really sad u feel like u need to proof urself to complete strangers and if u need to Bring other ppl down to feel better about yourself ur either a girl or just a fucking loser

>>39017826
iktfb I started off as a 110lb skeleton. Couldn't even bench the bar. Instead I started off doing knee push ups. Now after 3 years I can bench 2 plate for 5 reps.

>>39016696
Yo dubs man check these out

>>39017738
>lmao 3pl8
>started of with 10pl8

If you don't reach 42 pl8 by the next day you have shit genetics and should kill yourself.

>>39015818
this. I was at 90kg 3 months ago(stopped bp for push press) and I was and am a fucking twink

Whatever you do, don't let the DYEL fggts in a commercial gym serve as goals or limits to your progress. A far better approach is to look up national or world powerlifting records for your weight class. Now, that shows what humans are capable of. Let that be your motivation. It doesn't matter where you start as long as it is light enough to crank out 5-8 reps with decent form. What matters is how hard you lift and how long of a time period you do it for. Eating big, particularly getting enough protein, is another big factor. Hit it hard, eat big, sleep well and you will make gains. Be one of those little faggots fucking around with phones or playing songs on headphones or chatting with the dudebros and you may not make it very far. Big lifts, big compound lifts, that's what you want.

My collarbone area keeps hurting the moment I stop benching (ie after I rerack weight)

Asked about how to fix it, got answers of "don't cock your wrists back, don't push with shoulders when you lift it off"

Still retried, still hurts. Makes no goddamn sense.

Any tips?

>>39015624

60kg and fucked up both my shoulders because of poor form

i blame calisthenics

never did bench again

>>39015624
Honestly I was 240lbs at 5"11, could bench 1pl8 easily to start, the only real stat I could give was full rom 1pl8 for 18 reps. Didn't know about progressing weight because dyel AF.

After cutting down to 195 @ 16% bf I can only do 165lbs for 5. Feels fuckin bad man

My first day in the gym I was a spooky skellington who weighed 5'11 and 135 pounds and I benched 95lb 10 times.

>>39015731
kys for being such a negative faggot

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6 months ago I could only bench 65. I'm scheduled to hit 195 in the next couple days.

It's just a game of time gents.

>>39015715
This. 8 see loads of people doing the 4/3/2/1 stats except bench where most people are benching 1-1.5pl8

>Started Lifting 3 weeks ago
>Repped 40kg for 5x5
>Decided to stop being a pussy
>Pushed to 50kg the following week
>Pushed to 60kg this week and it was fine.

Newbie gains are the fucking shit I feel amazing. Granted I was putting more effort into in taking carbs and protein before and after my workouts this week, but I still think a lot of it is to do with my nervous system waking up from being sedentary for like 4 years, and just having the guts to actually move up in weight.

If it makes anyone struggling feel any better tho, I weigh like 140kg/320lb. My body is used to moving around a lot ore weight than it should have had to for a few years.

I started 3 months ago, benching 65lbs (45lb bar and 10 on each side). I now bench 110lbs.

however, I get so discouraged when looking online and seeing the average untrained male benches 135. like it will have taken me FOUR months of busting my ass just to become an average untrained person.

>>39021044

Don't buy that meme bro. Average start is closer to like 75lbs.

>>39021125
it's not just on /fit/ tho, if you google "average bench" you have dozens of sources from Livestrong, to BodyBuilding, to Mens Fitness, that all say most untrained men in their twenties can bench their body weight.

I'm not sure on their angle if they're lying about it. my best theory is that it's a survey and people lie on it/ don't actually know

>>39021226
quit your bullshitting

>>39015624
push ups are 100 time better the benching

>>39017352
What kind of rubbish football club did you play for that didn't make you do some basic fucking strength training?

>>39015624
>started around 95lbs
>current max is 405
>lifting for about 4 years now
Gains will come anon

>>39021226

they think because they can do 20 push ups they can easily bench their bodyweight if they tried

>>39015624
The bar

>>39015624
The bar

I bench 170 for 5 now

>>39015731
meh ,im 11 years old an can bench 5pl8 and i have a 12 inch dick.

>>39018443
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>>39015715
What gym you go to.