When talking about how much you bench, you don't include

do you count your arms? do you count atmospheric pressure? of course not, these things are a given, you can't bench press without the bar anyway.

>>40596952
Your friend is right and you are a dyel retard

You only count the plates on one side - that's why it's called 1pl8, 2pl8, etc. 1pl8 is not the same as 135, which would mean 45*3 = 135 i.e. 3 pl8s on one side. Retard dyels on /fit/ think that 135 is the same as 1pl8 for some godforsaken reason.

>>40596952
Fucking pleb, i bet you dont account for the elastic deformity in the bench and your own bones.

Lrn2math u fukin scrub

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>tfw these threads are always full of the most retarded people on /fit/

>>40598742
correct except that one plate is 90lb, not 45, those are women's plates

> seriously hope you haven't been counting in wimmins plats

You actually count the bar twice if you're benching (1ce for each hand on it.)

>>40596952
Why wouldn't you count the bar?
You are still lifting the weight of it alongside the actual plates

>>40598805
OP was talking about 40 lbs on a side so I assumed she was a woman.

>>40598815
>1ce

Nigger you saved one letter

>>40596952
Actually you only count the bar, the plates don't matter

>>40598887
Pretty good anon

yfw you realise people new to /fit/ will read this and believe it

will go around telling their friends & gym acquaintances this new truth they think they've discovered

and then after a few months of this they'll realise why everyone was looking at them like they were retarded.

>>40599224
Stop trying to troll people in a thread that's giving legitimate advice, anon. That's not very nice.