Your combine - bench press

[davos]

I maxed out around 170-180 when I used to lift a lot

[TheRealDeal]

If you can bench press your body weight and do pull ups, both with proper form, a combination of 30 times, you should be considered strong.

[Ccat]

or you prefer actual exercise like olympic lifting.

That's why you do it all. Bench press is a good lift. Our team does all kinds of stuff, bench, incline, military press, push press, power cleans, snatches, clean & snatches, deadlifts, good mornings, dumbbell exercises for a lot of different muscle groups, pullups and chinups, dips, squats, etc. Any lift by itself isn't going to be enough. Working out every area of the body with the focus on the legs is good.

[SorthNarolina]

Bench Press isn't helpful if you are out of shape looking to build mass. Modified push ups are the way to go.

[Mr. Scot]

If you can bench press your body weight and do pull ups, both with proper form, a combination of 30 times, you should be considered strong.

After a workout, I can be very "strong" :sosp:

["Ass" Dan]

I'm not very good at benching (I might've gone to a gym once in my life) but I can hold my urine for hours at a house party. That's a mark of endurance right there.

[Chimera]

If you can bench press your body weight and do pull ups, both with proper form, a combination of 30 times, you should be considered strong.

Does "proper form" include swinging your legs during pull ups? If so, I can go above and beyond your strong.

Just normal vertical pull ups, arms fully extended on each rep... maybe 5.

[Happy Panther]

I wonder how many of these "athletes" could beat me at Black ops

THAT should be a combine thingy

[TheRealDeal]

Does "proper form" include swinging your legs during pull ups? If so, I can go above and beyond your strong.

Just normal vertical pull ups, arms fully extended on each rep... maybe 5.

Yes and no bouncing the bar off your chest either when doing bench.

When I'm fatter than I should be I'm around 35 but when I'm at a good weight I'm around 50

[Metal_Sparty]

Bench is a good exercise, I get that its not king though. Its a compound exercise for some major muscle groups, its also a lift that you can put up a good amount of weight with; when you combine those with eachother its a damn good muscle growth stimulate. This is the same reason I love deadlifts and front squats. (Btw, Bulgarian split squats are hell, but a damn good workout)

Put up 245 earlier today at the end of my set, couldn't quite get a second. So I'm more positive of being close to 10 reps of 225.

[Metal_Sparty]

Yes and no bouncing the bar off your chest either when doing bench.

When I'm fatter than I should be I'm around 35 but when I'm at a good weight I'm around 50

This sounds like a fun test. I don't doubt I could hit 30, I want to know what I could get. Is tis just one set of each or can you come back to it?

[TheRealDeal]

This sounds like a fun test. I don't doubt I could hit 30, I want to know what I could get. Is tis just one set of each or can you come back to it?

Naw pump out as much bench as you can and then go to pull ups.

It's very very difficult

[Metal_Sparty]

Heh, that's actually somewhat like my workouts. My A set is bench, my b is pull-ups. I cap the pull-ups at 10, could do more for the first few sets, the bench is over my body weight though.

I remember a blog post by Nate Greene where he accepted a timed fitness challenge from a friend that involved crunches, pull ups, push ups, and dips I think. If I weren't posting from my phone id try to get the link.

[Liminy]

-1, As soon as the spotters let go, my wrists would probably break and my chest would be crushed resulting in my death.