What percent of the US population can bench 225?

1%

0.350%

>>40938648

Underage. Please go.

>>40938720
Turned 18 a couple months ago, I am a senior.

>>40938648
nigga in OP image grip so wide you could fly a plane through it

>>40938741
t. armlet

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>>40938741
>not grabbing on the outside of plates to get that fat grip bar action going

>>40938648
probably <10%

when i first started lifting weights i could barely bench 35 pound dumbbells.

>>40938648
considering there's % that's obese and obese people can easily bp 2pl8, I say 7-9%

>>40938785

btw this is my guess for males in the 16-35 age set (prime physical health, i guess.)

I think they did a study and it's like 1 and every 1000 man on average can do it.

>>40938648
Can't find the study but its like 2% of males will be able to bench 225 at some point in their life

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>>40938648
5%

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>>40938648
225 for what?

Saying 225 doesn't mean anything.

How many sets and how many reps?

If you can't at least do a clean 3x5 then you can't say you bench 225.

>>40939007
If you do 1x1 of 225 you have by definition just benched 225. Fuck off with your goal post moving. At least say you aren't "strong" until you do 3x5 or something

>>40939007
>1000 lbs deadlift is the now world record
>HURR BUT FOR HOW MANY REPS AND SETS
advanced autism

>>40938648
right now? probably <<1% being honest, maybe 10% goes to the gym and of that 10% maybe 5% of them can bench 225, /fit/ really distorts reality

>>40938955
no 5% of the population including women cannot bench 2 pl8s you fucking dip

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5%

People who dont lift or do some sort of workouts that involve chest stuff will not be able to bench over 100kg.

Its must be a stupidly low number.
Hell, it must be a low number if you only consider those who go into the gym.

Just keep lifting and bench 3 pl8s then people will shut the fuck up or theyre lying

>>40938648
I live in Germany, we have the same amount of unfit fatties like you guys, so probably 10% of the population does sports and from them maybe 2% weight lifting (in terms of powerlifting or bodybuilding). I'm benching only 110 kg, squatting 120 kg and deadlift 170 kg, and I find hardly anyone who is bigger than me except for security in clubs.

>>40939129
That means 225 is your max. Not your working weight. It's not moving the goalpost.

My working weight for the bench is 230 3x5. Officially have to get chalk to move further since even having a little swat on my heads causes my hands to spread during the bench. Shit sucks.

If your stalling, try doing a pyramid routine. Has broken many plateaus doing this method.

>>40939559
Your bench is ass and your grip is too

>>40939007
>Itt that one fat bald guy who wears a lifting belt 24/7 who used to rep 315 and nearly made it to the pro league before Injurying himself and is currently over bulking his 16 year old son who can't fit in jeans anymore as he drops him off to school in his Ford f150 with flames on it.

>>40939559
>Chalk
>Benching 230

>>40939559
You're not even close to the point of this thread, what are you even doing.
OP asked how many CAN bench 225, not how many can do full sets of 225.
Being able to bench just one rep means that they can bench 225, jesus christ.

>>40938648
Less than 1/10 of people who regularly train in gyms.

>>40939559
you must be the old fucker at the gym who wears a flame bandanna and gives out shitty, unsolicited advice

>>40938648
It's actually a surprisingly low amount. The average adult male can only bench ~1pl8 for a few reps at most. We see many posters here claiming that 2pl8 is light weight, but that is only true for people that lift and have been doing so for a while.

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>>40939007
If you cant clean atleast 225kg 3x5 then you honestly cant say you lift.

>>40938773
>he doesn't reach around the base of the bench and lifts it along with the racked bar and weights
and you wonder why your chest won't grow LMAO

>>40939727
Glad I wasn't the only one like WTF is this, bro your grip is shit if you chalk anything that light outside of a dumbell shrug. I chaulk before my Max bench efforts but I'm putting up 405 for singles

87.5kg bench here

bench always succeeds in psyching me out, I get nervous and lose tightness in my back arch or get too nervous for a 5th rep when the 4th already went slow

not very high, I go to the gym for 5 years and in that time I literally see maybe one person a week benching 225+

and this is already the section of the population going to the gym

so for overall % of the population, it's definitely a small number

>>40939909
>The average adult male can only bench ~1pl8
I doubt even that. It's easily achievable to get that level of strength but I've heard too many people that "used to gym" think 100kg is "very heavy".

>>40940203
I'm just basing this off of what I and other people I have taken lifting were able to do when first starting out. People that I would consider to have relatively average thin build ended up with ~35lb on each side for reps after the first two weeks.
From this starting point, they have to approximately double their bench in order to make it to 2pl8. It's easily achievable, in that most anybody that legitimately puts in the effort will be able to hit it after some amount of time, probably a year or two. That is much more than most people have put in. Most people don't make it. They let life get in the way or just get apathetic and quit. Talk to most anybody and they will say that they used to go to the gym. It may only take a year or two at most for most people to hit, but most people, even of those that take the initiative to go to the gym in the first place, don't even display that level of commitment.

>>40939980
he's not having a grip problem, he's having a shitty bar problem

benching with bars that have really shallow knurling sucks, as soon as your hands start to sweat you'll have a hard time keeping your grip from widening

t. guy who benched with the shittiest bar in the universe a few weeks ago and learned this

never had that problem before, but my hands literally started drifting apart on this total piece of dogshit

>you are kind of strong

5x5 225 reporting in. Had a set of 230x5 last week gonna add another this one.

Probably 2-3 percent.

Women cant ~50 percent left
Pretty much any man under 16 or over 50 cant (about half the male population) ~25 percent left
Only 10 percent of guys consistently go to the gym = 25*0.1 = 2.5%

>>40940612
your math is off

not everyone going to the gym is benching 225

most people aren't

>>40940660
I said consistently.

If you are a consistent gym goer you can bench 225. Otherwise just kill yourself.

>>40938804
Mathwise it checks out

>>40940687
you think 10% go to the gym consistently? that's a very, very high estimate

and i see plenty of people in the gym for years who never reach 225 (probably represents the majority of the people i see)

they're probably not eating or training right, but they're still there consistently and count in your 10%

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>>40939559
Rofl 230lbs using chalk muh sides

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>>40939967
>lifting 225kg
>not lifting 225 stone.

DYEL confirmed bro

You're basically only competing against men here, so let's just focus on that.

Most men don't lift. Period. Of those who exercise, most just run or fuck around on the elliptical. Of those who do lift, the vast majority don't lift heavy or do compounds and just fuck around on cable machines or dumb-bells.

I'd seriously think you may be in the 95th or 99th percentile, especially if you consider that 51% of all men are above 40.

>>40939559
>fat powerlifter chalking up for a 230 bench

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Get a load of this fucking guy

>>40939341
this.
I've only ever seen maybe 8 people (out of maybe 200+) bench 225+ with proper form in my gym
but then again, it is LA Fitness

>>40940475
Thank you man, the bar is basically as smooth as a babies butt. Didn't have the problem until I started hitting over 200lbs.

>>40939782
I don't consider a person's max relevant unless they are in competition, sorry man. Until that point calling out your maxes is just ego lifting.

>>40939858
Local autist with headphones in and the only one that brings a damn towel to the gym.

>>40939705
Oddly specific.

>>40941577
>I don't consider a person's max relevant unless they are in competition, sorry man. Until that point calling out your maxes is just ego lifting.
You still don't understand? It doesn't matter if you consider them relevant, or even if they really are relevant, you're missing the point of the thread.

>>40941708
I get it. I'm just saying its the first big goalpost, but feel like people cheat themselves in the long run by trying to hit it as soon as possible. The doesn't account for how much slower the gains get once you hit it as your working weight, but this has been my experience with it due to cutting.

Hell still consider myself just a novice for what I currently can do. Long way to go.

>>40941577
i really don't understand people who refute and continue when their point is discounted as irrelevant, not incorrect.
>what percentage of people walk on a daily basis

>you can't say people are walking when they're wearing shoes and you might as well say that bicycling is a form of walking because you're using another form of locomotion with the bottom of your feet not touching the ground.

it doesn't matter what your definition is whatsoever you autist, don't repeat it or explain it again, the definition was given in OP and the question is what it is, not what you think it is. fucking sperg.

>>40938648
>what percent of the US can bench 2pl8s touching chest?

even if it's just about doing one single rep, i'd estimate at most 1 to 2 percent can do it.
you have to keep in mind that there are a fuckload of women, children and old people. and even among men, there's a ton of fatties and a large amount of skinnyfats who aren't used to any physical activity.

and among the small amount of healthy adult men who are physically active, most do team sports or cardio based exercise, with no strength training at all. and of the tiny portion of them who actually lift, only a minority are on a level where they can bench 100kg.

>>40939559
lmao pls be bait

I'd say 1%. 66% of Americans are overweight/obese, and most of the rest don't seriously lift. Maybe top 5% of the gym-going population can.

>>40938648

In high school (class of 2007) I started maxing 185 in September and hit 255 by May. I've always beem a fat fuck since 9th grade, so I was probably 5' 11 and 225lbs.

Ten years later (6' 0, 245) and I'm benching a lot again. I have shit routine of 5x5, increasing weight by 20 pounds each time, once on flat then again on decline.

Flat bench starts 165>185>205>225>245. I've been having trouble getting 245 five times, so I'll typically hit it 3 times twice.

Same weight typically for decline. I'm hoping to hit 300 by July, but I'm also trying to lose weight and get down to 215 in the same time span.

I benched 295 when I was 13 in freshman year grow up

>>40938648
I am consultant, so I do sizing for a living. I can say for a fact all of you retards are off by factors of 10. Lmfao some of these numbers, 5%, 2%.

Learn something you cunts.

When I'm at the gym, there's maybe 3 - 5 men there who can bench 225. The gym has more than 100 people in it at a time. I'll call it 3% of those at the gym. I would then estimate that just 1% of the population goes to gym. Think of all the fatties, children, poor people, disabled, immigrants, and elders who cannot go.

My estimate is .003% of the US population. This equates to about 1M individuals in the entire US - that would be about 20,000 person's per state who can bench 225. Sounds reasonable to me.

I still think this may be on the high side.

>>40942287
Wow.
I didn't start repping 315 till I was 18, could only do 200 something at 13

What did you do to get that at 13? Were you living a strenuous active life or did you workout a lot as a kid?

>>40943478
when you put it like that I guess I am strong af

2x12 1pl8 + 5lbs master race here

>>40939559
better get some chalk for dem cheeks because Im about to spread em my man

>>40938727
im in highschool too m'nigga i hit 240 the other day but its my worst lift

>>40943500
>>40942287
i cant tell if youre estatting seriously or as a joke

>>40938648
I don't even see most guys at my university gym bench 2pl8 for reps.

I might be able to manage 1, but I've never tried.

Your friends are just faggots. People that don't work out don't generally recognize when you make great progress because its threatening.

>>40939007
This.

>>40939694
>>40939727
>>40939782
>>40939858
>>40940821
>>40941230
>This much salt.
>Over saying that "I bench 225" should mean WORKING weight not max.

Using chalk to prevent sweat on your hands is fine as well. Sounds like a bunch of envious faggots.

Which really IS depressing because 225 is a modest goal.

>>40939559
>Officially have to get chalk to move further since even having a little swat on my heads causes my hands to spread during the bench. Shit sucks.

You dumb faggot lol.

>>40944469
Not salt, your bench is literal ass. I dont need chalk and my working weight is 225 for 8x4 you shitter

>>40938648
225 is fucking standard.
Hell, 315 is becoming standard.
80% of men who have access to a bench press should be putting up 2pl8.
In fact everyone at my local LA Fitness is benching 2pl8 for a 3 rep minimum.

This is not to say 2pl8 is not respectable, but it is to be expected.

>>40938648
Depends on how much you weigh honestly. When I first started lifting weights at age 17 I maxed at 215 weighing 175. But I really wanted a 225 bench so I ate big and got big. Weighed 195 and could bench 235. But I realized benching 215 at 175 is more impressive than benching 235 at 195. So I hit cardio hard and really improve my form for bench since I stopped lifting for stats. Got 245 at 165 my senior year of college.

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>>40938773

>>40939312
>being this retarded

>>40946117
>But I realized benching 215 at 175 is more impressive than benching 235 at 195

False. It's pretty much equal.

>>40938741
you dum
also notice: leaning 45s meaning that's a warmup set

>>40938648
they're talking shit cause you're bragging. the only people you should take about weight stats with is gym bros at the actual gym. They actually appreciate it when talking about stats, but they want to see you do it first.

>>40939330
underrated post

>>40938648
>225
Who can't? Highschool football people were doing 400.

>>40944469
I don't know why people are bitching so much.
Using chalk doesn't magically make benching easier

>>40944469
Yeah, because that isn't even a common definition of "I can bench 225" as should be evident by now you fucking shitlord

Ps. Your bench is garbage

>>40940203
>Guy at work talks himself up all the time
>Says he can lift 300 lb bench and can squat 500 lbs
>He hasn't worked out in years so I offer him to go as a guest to my gym
>Can barely lift 85 lbs with bench and 140 lb squats

He'd pull any chick with his confidence though. Even if hes a weak little shit.

Am I weak af if I work out 4x8 with 225. More like 3x8 but I can manage 4 reps on 4th set I just do it to burn out a bit.

>>40940687
>>40940782

I think test levels are probably distributed in a bell curve like height. If so, there will be a portion of men who will never bench 2plate unless they get on the juice. Also, manlets are obviously going to be lower in absolute strength due to having smaller bodies. So, I wouldn't be surprised if 50% of all men were totally incapable of benching 2plate at any point in their life (without hormonal assistance) no matter how well they trained or ate.

>>40947098
Manlets are usually much better at lifting, especially at compounds and oly lifting.

>>40943478
This guy gets it right here. He may be lowballing a tad, but the answer regardless is a fraction of a single percent. You people estimating between 5-10% of the entire population are absolutely retarded.

>>40947380
You're right, relative to their weight they have an advantage. They're able to lift a larger multiple of their bodyweight. But I don't think they are advantaged in absolute strength. Bigger people can lift more.

>>40947098

Manlets tend to have shorter arms, so a 2pl8 bench is literally less weight for them than normal guys.

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>>40938648
It´s a good amount of weight, I guarantee that you´re stronger then most people your age (and older maybe).

My bench was 250 lbs but I never focused on strength, just hypertrophy and gradual strength gains in a higher rep range. It shaped my chest, shoulders and tri's well. Now I just use dumbbells because I mostly train alone, I'm doing 44kg dumbbells for 8 reps It's not great but I've seen 2 other dudes do the same and I'm a pretty dedicated gym. (no powerlifters or anything though alot of aesthetic dudes who lift way less then me.)

Sorry for the ramble, just focus on yourself and get as strong and swole as you want to be man.

>>40940475
>>40941577
So you're saying you don't have an olympic barbell in your gym to bench?
Wanna bet the barbell you use actually only weighs 30lbs instead of 45lbs and you, ironically, don't bench 225 for 3x5 yourself?

>>40947380
>>40947435
it's not just due to weight, it's also due to superior pressing and squatting leverages

>>40938648
i'm in the same situation. in my gym i am the only one who can do it, there's one guy that's 2 years older than me who benches much more ( near 3pl8s ) but most people can't even do 180, even the older guys. i am sure there are some who come at different hours than me but still there's few of them.

>>40940848
>stone
>not wrist curling 225 tons for reps

stop pretending you try

>>40947460
>100kg is literally less weight than 100kg when you have short arms

>>40939559
Chalk wtf faggot I have a grade 3 anterior delt tear and bench more than you... you need fucking captains of crush gripper traning.
And no, if you can do 225 touching your chest even once, then guess what: you CAN DO 2 PLATE BENCH

>>40939727
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>>40940821
>>40941230
>>40944660
>>40945326
t. hand sweatlets

>>40947489
it's not less weight literally, of course, but that guy has a point

a person with long arms will have to generate much more torque at the joints than a person with sort arms to lift the exact same weight

this is why you see a lot of guys with great leverages bench 225 and look like scrawny shit, and you see other guys with poor leverages bench 225 and looks pretty good

then there are also internal leverages (attachments and origins of muscles) that have an even larger impact on torque exerted at the joints, so you could have guys with the same amount of muscle produce drastically different forces

Damn you muricans are weak as fuck.
I go to a commercial gym in canada and most gym goers between the ages of 19 to 35 bench 225 or more. It's only a hand full of skellies, elderly and highschool kids that can't.

>>40939287
>implying that half of all guys at the gym bench 225

>>40947471
>it's also due to superior pressing and squatting leverages

I'd say that these are the sole reasons for the greater relative strength found in lower weight classes. After all, a lanklet shrinking themselves to a lower weight class (assuming they are already shredded and have to lose lean mass to do it) probably won't be increasing their relative strength but actually decreasing it. Each kind of body frame has an ideal level of musculature where they will display the greatest relative strength.

>>40947489

The real weight is the resistance your muscles have to pull against. Shorter arms mean better leverage. Better leverage means the weight is literally lighter at the point of force application.

Which is easier? Holding 100 lbs in your hand or on a stick 6 inches away from your hand?

Lever arm x weight = torque

So, you can do the following conversion:

(225lbs x normal length shoulder to elbow) / (Manlet length shoulder to elbow) = manlet lbs

>>40947584

>"""""most"""" gym goers between ages 19 and 35 bench 225 or more

You're also full of shit.
Intermediate bench press is your own body weight. 225 is advanced weight despite however much estating you want to do. Also Canadians are notoriously beta.

>>40938648
I think you should worry more about the percentage of males that regularly work out. Who cares about the 30% of 'men' that don't even try to improve themselves? I think the percentage that can lift 225 would be much higher if you pay attention only to males that lift.

>>40947584
>canada nu males
>calling anyone else weak

lmao, day of the rake soon low test gyno fag

>>40938727
I love how you call yourselves “seniors” when you babies can’t even legally purchase alcohol so daddy has to get it for you

>>40947626
>225 is advanced weight
Maybe for a high schooler or a girl

>>40947653

He's a senior relative to the other students in that he's in the final year of that educational establishment.
Not that hard.

>>40947655

Post a video of you putting up 225 right now with a time stamp stuck to your taint or else leave this board forever.
Oh that's right, you won't.
Because you can't.

>>40947634
Name one good American hockey team that isn't comprised of mostly canadians

>>40947664
Sorry bro I'm at work right now, we don't have as high of an unemployment as your shit hole of a country.

>>40947655
post a vid of a girl benching 225 with non-meme form

also, it's intermediate, not advanced. Still, not standard for people who have been going for less than 1-2 years

The percentage of people who at this very moment are able to go and bench 100kg is clearly very small. I feel that the more interesting question is what percentage of men could bench 2plate at some point in their life should they train and eat properly. Perhaps also including the portion of the elderly who could've benched that in the past had they trained then.

I think most people here would be surprised how low this percentage is. There's reason to believe that the population of gym-going men isn't representative of the potential strength of the whole male population. People who get disappointing results from training are more likely to stop. So the distribution of potential strength found among men who consistently train will be skewed toward a higher average strength potential than what would be found among all males.

>>40947574
>>40947610
I know what he meant, my autism just flares up when people incorrectly use the word "literally"

>>40947771
there is definitely some survivorship bias going on in the average gym population

you are already only seeing the people who got decent results showing up consistently

>>40947771
I'm gonna be contrarian and say that I think the percent of males having the potential to bench 100kg at some point in their life would be close to 100 if you count away cripples and the like. It's really not a hard goal

>>40939559
Chalk for 230? I bet u were chalking all the way back at 135 too you bum cancerous poof.

If u can do 225 for 5 reps ur 1 rep max is 260.

>>40947771
>I feel that the more interesting question is what percentage of men could bench 2plate at some point in their life should they train and eat properly. Perhaps also including the portion of the elderly who could've benched that in the past had they trained then.
Literally any healthy man or woman

>>40941577
its not relevant? dude benched 225, but for 1 rep only, so by your logic he can't bench 225

>>40943843
>>40943843
You can do the math similar to this about anything really. Think of a 4 plate deadlift, even less people achieve that.
Strong is relative to the sample pool you are looking at. Strong to the general population, very much. Strong to the average gym goer, yes. Strong in a serious powerlifting gym, DYEL.

My last session was 230 3x5. Getting to 225 was easy enough but hot damn getting past it feels tough as nails.

>>40943478
Sounds about right.

>>40947626
>225 is advanced weight
Uh, it's like a weight you reach when you've become devoted to "physical culture" i.e. advanced to the general pop but beginner or intermediate for a committed gym goer.

It's certainly an acheivement but I don't think it's deserves something as terminal sounding as advanced.

>>40943478
I'd say you have the right idea, but there's a decent number of young males who could just walk into a gym for the first time and bench 225. Think of all the labor workers and young athletes out there. Not a big portion of the population by any means, but it'd probably prop up those numbers to 0.005 or 0.006%.

>>40947840
>>40947887

Well, what would you count as a cripple? Guys with Poland syndrome would probably have a pretty hard time benching in general, so they're out I guess. What about Klinefelter syndrome?
Consider other hormonal issues that aren't any kind of specific disease but just normal variation? I'm pretty sure a portion of men naturally have have such a low test level that they will never bench 2plate. Trying to define "normal" or "healthy" is actually pretty tricky. You'll get all sorts ambiguous borderline cases with most definitions you try.

So I don't think there's enough of a basis to be very confident that you know this number. There's lots of things that make the question difficult to answer so I'm not confident I could guess the percentage within 10 points. I'm willing to say I'm 90% confident that the correct number is within the range 40-90%.

>>40947977
Personally I consider 225 intermediate. It's not a huge deal but it's around then that linear progression is likely to have stopped and most lifters will have to change their training to get to it or past it.

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>>40939559
>chalk
>for 225+5
wut

>>40947983
Having a hormonal or genetic dysfunction is outside the range of what I'd consider healthy, also those people don't make up a very significant portion of the population at all. My estimate is that close to 100% of healthy males could bench 225 if they had the proper training and nutrition, around 75% could bench 315 and it drops off sharply from there.

>>40947460
It's the same mass and weight( force acting downward). But the leverages are different and distance on which force applied to upward is different (force *distance = work).
Assuming two benchers of same body proportions but different lengths, the longer limb would do more work on the same weight.
Manmores might do more work and might be able to lift less earlier on, but they have more potential for muscle mass and can be much stronger than manlets

>>40938818
Males aged 16-20 are nowhere near their prime. Compared to 25-30 year olds they are little bitches.

>>40948021
i think your estimates are shit, and i base this on 6 years of going to different gyms

>>40940612
>any man over 50.

>>40947687
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vryoGcsso4
here, perfect form, 315lbs, girl

Anyone else only have either weak guys or fucking strongmen? It's either dudes struggling with 135 or dudes putting up 315 x10 at my gym. Feel like I'm the only middle ground.

>>40947626

LMAO 225lbs is NOT advanced weight.

>>40948041
People who work out at commercial gyms are extremely far removed from what would be considered proper training(or training at all, in most cases). Think of it in these terms: what percentage of the population can run a 10K? It's probably similarly low, but it's something that's perfectly possible for any healthy human to achieve, you're just not gonna get there by walking 30 minutes a week on a treadmill which is what most cardio "training" consists of.

>>40947607
Muscle growth isn't linear due to allometric scaling.
Same principle of saying" an ant can lift 1000 times it's bodweight, if it were human size it would dominate". Biology doesn't work that way
http://www.strongerbyscience.com/tag/allometric-scaling/

>>40945326
>>40946972
fyi not OP.

And even if 225 is far from "elite" or even "advanced" its well beyond the average person. Which is the ENTIRE point of this threat.

Anecdotally, I can pretty confidently say that as little as 10% of the people who bench at my gym can actually do 225 for reps.

If that's what you think is average you're delusional, or your idea of good form is really fucking bad.

>>40948112
While I do agree it is well beyond average, average is a pretty fucking low bar these days.

>>40947819

>I know what he meant, my autism just flares up when people incorrectly use the word "literally"

Except, I was using the word literally correctly, so your autism is wrong.

For example, person doing 225 lbs on a 45 degree leg press is literally lifting less weight than a person doing a 225 lb squat.

In the context of a fitness board, weight and resistance are synonyms.

>>40947604
5% of the people going to the gym my man

>>40948120
That's my point.

225 is a nice goal, and any more than that is good.

But people that go to the gym often get too wrapped up in their head and think all their shit is weak. I would probably say that as little as 155 for reps is a male average. Maybe even more.

For people IN the gym the average is closer to 195 --> 225.

And then for people that seriously go to the gym the standard is a bit over 225.

I don't think people should get all pretentious about it: you're already ahead of the pack just by going to the gym.

>>40939559
What kind of retarded elitist bullshit is that. Sure, maxing 225 isn't neccesarily something to write home about, but then you CAN lift 225, which is what OP asked about, you turbosperg autist.

>>40948026

In the context of a fitness board, weight means the best approximation of resistance experienced by the lifter unless a specific exercise with significant mechanical advantage is being discussed (e.g. Leg press).

To use an extreme example:

2 foot arm x 100 lbs = 1 foot arm x 200 lbs

The shorter arm can lift more weight because the weight is literally less at the point of force application.

This thread proves how disconnected from the real world this board is. [spoiler]Which is a good thing[/spoiler]

>>40948185
I agree, I don't think people should get pretentious about any lifts. I hit 1/2/3/4 awhile ago and all I can think about is how much more room for improvement there is.

>>40948218
Same here.

There's probably only 15 or so people that OHP as much as me in my gym, and at a university the number of people that go is in the hundreds easily.

12/3/4/ is a great standard gym strength level, but its pretty far above any normal person's average.

>>40948185
>you're already ahead of the pack just by going to the gym
This is incredibly true. Most people don't understand the difference between benching 1.5plmao8 and 2, even though the difference for someone who actually spends some time lifting themselves should be obvious.

>>40938648
Does that include the bar?

>>40948235
how much do you ohp?

also
>tfw no 12plate ohp

>>40940848
>lifting stones

Some sort of cave man or somethin? Get out of here...

>>40939967
holy fuck am i supposed to be clarence?

>>40948315
wait, you're not a hybrid of a potato nigger and the most powerful race combined together to make a superhuman that looks like harry potter? Might as well not lift then

>>40948212
Please stop.

>>40948333
fuuuaarkkkk

also
>irish
>most powerful race
kek

Besides myself, only seen about 3 people in my small gym do reps with decent form for 225. A few others can do 225 but it's with horrific form, not full depth, or their spotter has their greasy paws on the bar the whole time. Only ever seen one guy put up 3pl8 for any%.

My guess is that if you can bench 3x5 225 (with good form, full depth) you're doing better than 80-90% of normies in your gym who hover between 0-1.5pl8 for reps. Of course relative to powerlifters and experienced lifters 225 isn't a great lift. Relative to the general adult population (most of whom don't gym), 225 for reps makes you a god damn super hero.

>>40948493
Canadian from before;
I've seen at least 6 people bench 3pl8 or more.

>>40948345
we all know who the most powerful race is...

>>40948719
Their genes have been folded thousands of times.

>>40948268
Most i've done is 145 for 5x5.

I deloaded a while back to work on from and now i'm at 135 5x5.

There's definitely a few people that go in and push lmao 185 or more, but usually not for too many reps, with perfect form, or for continual sets.

There's probably a few dudes that use 65-70 lbs dumbells for seated OHP but otherwise it seems like I'm one of the few that does heavy strict presses.

>>40948099
That was an interesting read. Thanks for linking it.

>>40938648
Dude your fine. When I was in high school I first got 2plts the end of my junior year. We had one of the top 10 strongest football teams in Florida and I think about 20-30 guys in the school could bench over 2plt and about 3 guys over 3plt, and that's out of 200 something players. Be proud of your 2plt bench, it's was a lot of dudes goals in hs that not every one achieved.

>>40939559

If this is bait you are a master cause I just got fucking angry. OP didn't ask what percentage of people had 225 for their working weight you dumb fuck. Also what kind of weak ass pussy has to break "many plateaus" in order to get their bench up to 230 lbs, WITH CHALK for christ's sake? K Y S

>>40948065
Well that was pretty impressive.

>>40949061
>WITH CHALK for christ's sake?
What's with all the people in this thread who act like chalk is something negative when bench pressing? It's not like it makes the weight lighter. We get it lmao equipment is for pussies but this is a must for people with hand sweat

>>40947098
I am 99.99% sure that benching 100kg is achievable for all men.
>>40947380
>>40947435
>>40947460
>>40947471
Dumb, you can be short in absolute height but still be a lanky fuck and vice versa. For example: Jesse Norris, who is 170-some centimeters tall, good squatter, great deadlifter, sub-par bench.

>>40939129
1/2/3/4 implies working weight.

when someone says, "Yeah, I bench 225" they don't imagine some scrawny inverse catback faggot yelling at the top of his lungs while bringing the bar one inch from his chest and re-racking.
they imagine a dude who can just pump out a set of 225 with good form -- you know, a person that actually benches 225.

daily reminder that if you can't get 1/2/3/4 within a year then you are mentally weak and will never make it

>>40939559
I can bench 225 for 3x10, and I don't consider others claims of 'I can bench 225' to be valid unless they can use it as working weight for 3x10 as well.

Therefore, you can't bench 225.

>>40943478
This is more like it. So much retardation in this thread with people just randomly guessing 5%. Like if you put 100 people in a room 5 of them would be benching 225lbs top fuckin kek

>>40949378
>If you can't at least do a clean 3x5 then you can't say you bench 225.
You can't see how retarded this is to say? Nobody is talking about what is strong and what is not, just that it's a dumb fucking statement. You surely know what a bench press is, even if someone does it just once they have still performed a bench press. There was a clear question in the OP, and random anons subjective definitions which are just badly disguised attempts to brag about their shit bench stats do not matter in the slightest

>bench 2pl8
>you didn't just bench 2pl8 because you didn't do it five sets of three like in my Rippytoe book lmao

>>40943478
Your maths is wrong 0.003% of 300 million is not 1 million. It's 9,000. Personally I'd say it's more like 0.03% which would be 90k

>>40939243
topkek

>>40939312

Is it already summer?

>>40938741
Nigger detected. Speak English you fuck.

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>>40938648

>Intermediate
>Stronger than 50% of lifters. An intermediate lifter has trained regularly in the technique for at least two years.

This is 1 rep max btw. Repping 2pl8 is definitely on the advanced side.

Source
>strengthlevel.com
>Our bench press standards are based on 2,642,000 lifts collected from users of Strength Level.

>>40949575
it's like someone bragged about being an author when all they did was self publish their shitty fanfiction on amazon.
it's dishonest and all your rationalization is there to protect your ego from a subpar lift.

>>40947653
Amerifag

>>40938648
I can bench 225 10 times. What %can do that?

>>40949794
That is one dumb comparison to make to something as objective as lifting a certain weight up and down. Nothing of this is about bragging rights, or what should be considered strong and not.

>saying you bench 2pl8 when you bench 2pl8 is dishonest
Get into your thick skull that a 2pl8 bench is a 2pl8 bench no matter if you do it 1, 2, 3, or 20 times, and that you and the countless other anons with their own definitions don't get to set the rules according to the baseline of what you lifted last week. You guys if anyone are the ones feeding your egos by setting these arbitrary standards, because the only reason you are doing it is because you want to brag about your own lifts and reduce the efforts of other anons.

The exact same thing happened in that "only 2pl8 benchers allowed in here" thread
>you should be able to do it for reps
>you must do 3x8 or you're dyel
>3x8? lmao it's nothing at least 3x12
>you should bench 3pl8 to be in the 2pl8 thread

It's nothing but you guys trying to one up each other with "look at me I'm stronger!". Like a fucking daycare class on bring your toy-day

>>40949864
100% of untrained adult Chads

>>40950300
i didn't read your post. stop raging and consuming yourself with hatred for your lack of ability. sure, maybe you could lift 225 on a good day with horrible form and a pinch of back pain. good job.

>>40950456
>lmao didn't read (translation: I have no real arguments left)
>projecting
You and your bench aint shit

>>40950496
i don't need to make up grand stories about how i technically lift 225 even tho i did it only once when the stars aligned right because i actually bench 255 for sets of 5 reps.

>>40950518
You are making up some kind of fantasy image of me as a back arching weakling in your head just to feel superior, when everything this is about is the stupidity of making personal definitions of what a 2pl8 bench is. Are you deranged? Because that's retorical ability on par with a fifth grader

>>40950585
the only fantasy here is your 2pl8 bench

>>40950717
lmao epic meme my anonymous brother

>>40939007
Funny you say that. I've just came home from the gym. I've haven't done bench press since december, I decided to substitute it with weighted dips. I liked dips but it's giving me a weird pain in the elbow so today I decided to do bench again and I did 3 sets of 5 with 100kg. It felt heavy, tho.

>>40948212
That's torque (distance * force). You can specify resistance as torque, but why would you? If you can move the weight, you can move the weight.

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>>40939330
WHATEVER IT TAKES

I swear /fit/ is delusional.

Nobody who doesn't go to the gym regulary can bench 2pl8 and out of those who go, very few can do it. Maybe you all go to serious gyms or something and that's why you have such a skewed idea but take it from someone who goes to a normal normie college gym in American. There are maybe a couple of guys here, 5-10 or so, who can bench 2pl8. This is out of hundreds of people. The vast, vast majority of guys bench between 1pl8 and 1.5pl8.

I'd say you're stronger than atleast 95-97% of the population if you can bench that much.

>>40949220
BTFO retard

>>40951232
this is just my guess, but i think most gym goers are weak office workers, most people who work in construction are pretty damn strong, but they don't have the energy to go to gyms.

>>40938648
55 million people have gym memberships in the US
1/3 actually go to the gym
1/3 actually go to the gym to exercise and not to hang out, hook up, or eat free bagels or pizza
1/3 of the people exercising actually do strength training and not just hamster machines (majority male)
1/3 of the people strength training are in the free weight area and not just using machines or interval training (supermajority male)
1/3 of the people using free weights have an actual non-retarded progressive plan (almost exclusively male)
1/3 will stick with it long enough (a year or so for bigger guys, maybe two years for manlets) to confidently bench 2pl8 in a non-meme, non-contortionist manner
Maybe 75K in the US can do it. That's about 1/40th of one percent of the population.

Ironically that's about the same number of people in the US who claim to be "trans" LOL.

>>40947574
i hate this meme
taller people (usually) have a lot more muscle mass and can exert more force than a short guy
just try harder lanklets

>>40947686
>Canada
>not a shit hole
pick one faggot i grew up on the Canadian border and went to your shit country at least 3 times a month you cant lie to me

>>40946357
either weigh 245 at 165 was better

Less than 0.5%

>>40939705
Tbh would love to be that guy's son provided he has an uncle who can help with professional shit because no way is that guygonna be any help getting you a job after school. But I guarantee you that guy's son wrecks shit in the weightroom and tops out at perfect height.

>>40938741
This. How is he supposed to get any gains if he's not working muscles in any significant way?

>>40947771

Everyone should be able to bench 3 plates with enough effort. Maybe not 160cm manlets

>>40947653
t. high school sophomore

>>40948021
i think you are close but a little bit off some males are really small
id wager that 70 percent of all healthy males could bench 225 if they trained

>>40948212
where the hell did you go to school

I can bench 260lbs x1 on bench last time I tested it, I did 100lb dumbbells for 6 then 110lbs for three. 170lbs 5'6"

>>40949309
because chalk is completely unnecessary at that weight
my hands sweat like a river and i bench 250 w/o chalk

>>40939007
I think being able to complete a clean rep of 225 is a narrow enough filter to exclude most of the world, there's no point in getting autistic about it

>>40939559
Your fucking weak anyway, I was making 230 when I was a sophomore in high school. Don't make people feel bad for their accomplishments, I know you don't like it