>>77200654
5'9"
About 3 months from a 180# initial 1RM

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>>77200657
>tfw 5 years at the gym and still can't do 225 1rm
i'm starting to feel like i have very low t or something considering my huge mantitties

>>77200654
Something like less than a year?
Body weight was around 180-200 it's been over ten years so I don't remember, but it was only slightly over body weight relative.
Wasn't for 5 reps though, It was just for 3 so I could say I actually did it as a goal. afterwords dropped back down to normal progression.

>>77200654
6'1". Started at 175 bench press and took almost 2 years to get a 225 bench press for reps (I don't do orm). My first 6 months I didn't know what I was doing though

>>77200654
youre not eating enough protein retard

>6 foot
>I don't know I was like 15 years old

>>77200803
I eat like 90g TOPS and i hit 2pl8 at 85kg bw and i deadlift 5pl8
I dont think there's a single say in my life where i counted protein or got even close to the 0.8g/lb or whatever meme you guys follow. Maybe once every 2-3 months when eating out at a meat place otherwise i live on eggs and my aunts food

>>77200664
Volume and pin presses

>>77200654
11 months, 5'11"
i started at like 75x5, i was a weak bitch all around but my chest was super weak relative to other muscle groups
i kinda had a breakthrough once i narrowed my grip, works much better for my elbow valgus. i used to do ring finger on the rings, now i do pinky about an inch inside. that and i started doing more chest and tri work outside of benching.

>>77200654
225 is a joke I did that in 6 months after starting with 1pl
Now 3pl requires actual effort but is achieve-able natty by any male

>>77200981
315 is genetically above average and 50+% of guys are genetically locked out of ever achieving it no matter how hard they try.

>>77200654
5'6 150lbs. Maybe a year

>>77200664
Post routine

>>77200986
Let me guess, you’re one of those guys?

>>77201013
nah I bench 430

>>77201029
Post dat body

>>77200654
5’9”

Can’t do that for five, but I had a 225 lb 2-rep max like 6 months ago. Now my max is like 215.

>>77200654
2 years maybe

How can a grown man not bench 225 for reps?
You literally don’t need a good routine or any supplements. Just bench once a week for a few months

2 years, at 80 kg 176 cm boomer
But I did dumbbell presses before even trying bench, so first time benching I did 80 kg I think

>>77200881
Yeah, go ahead and post body.

>>77200654
Took me a few years as a kid as a result of poor training. Stuck to starting strength protocol for too long and didnt up the volume where needed. added volume in the wrong lifts, and didn't get enough protein or recovery. That said, I did get to 315x5 eventually. That took a lot of growing up in many different ways, spiritually and intellectually. Living a godly life and abandoning the hate in your heart can do incredible things for you. Take care anon. :)

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>>77200837
>6ft8
>I was 12 years old
By 16 i realized that being a powershitter is retarded. I lift for aesthetics. If I kept training that way I'd end up looking like picrel.
>>77202182
>Stuck to starting strength protocol for too long and didnt up the volume where needed.
I hate that texan bastard for bastardizing Reg Park's 5x5. If you trained the way Reg intended 5x5 to be trained you'd have looked much better. Probably lift more too.

>>77202275
How does 5x5 training make you obese? It doesn’t require you to eat 5000 calories a day

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>>77202280
I mean the way it's trained nowadays. Powerlifters lift with shit form to lift more weight and eat too much to get fat enough to move more weight for the sake of moving more weight. They also have a hate boner for isolation movements.

>>77200654
160cm and not even close yet
best i did was 85kgs for 5 reps

5'8.4

225lbs for x7 last week on my first set.

been lifting consistently for 4-5 years.

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>>77202275
>5x5
>hogging a machine for 5 fucking sets in a commercial gym

>5’10
>started lifting 2.5 months ago
>can barely do 145 for reps
it’s over for me

>>77200654
6'5" Honestly, you probably need a better program. If youre struggling with 225 for 5, drop down to 295 for three sets of 5 and do starting strngth. Build your whole body stronger and larger. Rpitoritze nutrition and sleep. Just do starting strength with excellent sleep and nutrition (start the bench at 220 and just add 5 pounds per workout) and in 5 weeks you will be able to bench 225 for five reps. You need to make your whole body bigegr and stronger - do not focus autistic ally on one exercise or bodypart. Grow.

>>77203802
Im a retard. Start the bench at 195, not 295 and not 220. In 5 weeks of proper SS youll be hitting 225 x 5

>>77200664
ok but are you locked in or do you just go there twice a week to fuck around? having a clear plan and pushing yourself every time makes a huge difference

>>77200654
5' 9"
1.5-2 years
I forget what my starting 1rm was but I was 165lbs skinnyfat, now I'm 165lbs lean with 1rm of 275

>>77200654
Bro just work it down to 155-165 over a week or so and start the week with heavy. Volume is king and add rest, military pressing 2pl8s btw.

>>77200654
>6’1
Idk maybe a couple years total but I started as a very skinny teenager and didn’t diet correctly at first. Once I started eating and got to about 185lbs, it took probably less than a year.

>>77200654
Well I started off as an extremely emaciated wow addict.
>5'7" (was 110lbs)
>1.5 years to 225x5

now 205 (9 years later) bench 335x8

>>77200654
Well I started off as an extremely emaciated wow addict.
>5'7" (was 110lbs)
>1.5 years to 225x5

now 205 (9 years later) bench 335x8

>>77200654
Well I started off as an extremely emaciated wow addict.
>5'7" (was 110lbs)
>1.5 years to 225x5

now 205 (9 years later) bench 335x8

testing

>>77200654
>>77200664
technique is shit
program is shit
diet is shit
supplementation is shit

>>77200654
>5’11”
>still haven’t after years of training

I’ve seen a big increase recently (135lbs to 185lbs for 3 sets of 8 reps in just a month) just from eating a lot more than usual. Got sick of getting nowhere with all of my lifts. I only weigh 165lbs, so for me it was definitely a diet issue.

>>77200654
6'2
I last benched 105lbs for 8 reps. Idk my 1rm or 5rm. I'm still a beginner though, 1 and a half months in. Last time I tried the gym I hurt my shoulders doing bench so now I'm going slow with double progression rather than linear progression on bench and overhead press, to give my shoulders time to adapt.

>>77206278
Test

>>77200654
5'11", maybe 5ish months? 315x5 took 4 years, and ive only managed 405x2 after 17 years.

>>77200654
>6'2''
>I don't know, is it a goal to low-rep bench less than your body weight?

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>>77200664
>7 years
Its so over for me

>>77200654
I'm like 5 lbs away.
5'11
Since switching from db bench (100x17 was my highest before)at home to a gym it's been about 8 months and I went from 140 lbsx10 to 220x5 in that time.

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>>77200986
replied to obvious bait award

>>77200664
>>77206935
I was in your same shoes and here's how I did it. First, really, was being ok with the fact that we're all not alike. While doing what works for others is in general a good idea, blindly doing so is a bad idea. For every person here going
>prolly a bit less than 5 months
there's untold masses of perma weaklings in every single office or school or McD's drive thru. Zero of these people will ever lift 135 let alone do a single pushup in their miserable existence. They are not here telling their story.

I realized a few things. First, I needed more variety. Inclines at different angles, slight, severe, vertical, every angle. Dumbell and barbell. Heavy as possible or light and sets of 25. Nobody does declines but they're critical. Literally begin the systematic torture of embracing variety to build vital stabilization muscles and connective tissue. You can feel yourself hardening up.

Second, figure out whether it's a heavy day or volume day at game time. After light warmups, I'd do a single rep at 70-75% one rep max. If you barely make it, it's a volume day. If you pound that fucker, it's a heavy day.

On heavy days I'd go straight to two rep max. Knock out those two. Try to knock down one more. Down ten pounds, knock down two more. Try to knock down another one or two. Down ten more, etc, etc, until you're Just. Fucking. Done. about to die.

You need to be possessed by Satan, part of the problem was me never truly going 100%. Really, really 100% all I have. And after I did so, for whatever reason I needed probably three or four days to really heal. Some people can bounce back in a single rest day but for me the numbers went up with more rest. They didn't go up on short rest.

For days you don't have it, you just do the opposite of heavy days. More of discomfort days. Do a hundred pushups with your feet on a stability ball, however long that takes. Do sox sets of decline dumbells. Do sets of 50 annoying angle incline dumbell 25lb. I got there.

>>77200654
So in terms of what makes bench easier, the ratio of pec divided by humerus is what makes you produce more torque. More pec and delt muscle fibers, thicker joints, different shaped torso for arch angle, thicker torso/chest lowers rom, different makeup of type 1/2 fibers which is largely adaptation to training, also training for years can slightly change most of the above factors since your body produces hgh into adulthood(big ears and nose on old people). Tris and delts make up for way less of the movement logically because theyre smaller muscles and to get a heavy bench you have to bounce it, even powerlifting they do this whether consciously or not in a way that doesn't fail their lift. 95% of people who are even discussing this are gonna either be on steroids or clueless. You wanna see something funny go look at reddit bench advice and look how everyone has similar physique attributes, nobody knows what theyre talking about. You're typically gonna be better off not even having read what most people have posted unless somehow you can tell they actually lift and have made meaningful progress.

There's no reason to worry about genetics it's useless, but it is largely negligible and you probably train many levels below those more successful than you.

>>77206959
Sometimes I feel like I'm arguing with what is primarily the patients of a mental institution.

>>77200654
Don't fall for people who say you're reaching your genetic limit. It's a huge cope people tell themselves to justify using roids or thinking they were training correctly and with enough effort. If you wanna increase any lift, forget weekly or monthly progress. Just bench 2-4x/wk depending on sets per session and programming shoulders and tris, incline is flat with different variants. And remember to deload, once every 6wks is for someone more advanced because it wears on your central nervous system and can break down your muscle and tendon fibers unproductively which you probably never really got to the point of anyways. Realistically do additional low impact chest/shoulder/tris more often and learn when you need rest days and deloads. Find how to move the most weight possible to train the movement, and do a ton of different variants like widegrip, flatback, half reps to save joints and lift more often, when to do an all out chest destroyer session, when to do another bench day before a 2 or so day weekend etc. It all comes with knowing your body and your level of progression since anyone with big boy numbers typically gets more out of less bench days a week since it takes longer to recover. Soon enough you'll look bigger than you ever imagined you could be.

>>77207131
How to instantly get bench up
>for me wider grip is easier, but for some really using shoulders and tris at the mid point of the lift is easier, I proportionally have more strength with chest
>arch and scrunch up real tight so your chest is elevated above your head as much as possible, make it more like a dip that's where you use the bigger pec muscles
>bring the bar further down to your ribs, similar to the above
>use the stretch reflex aka bounce the bar and use every muscle possible to move more weight
>spring from your hips to your elbows is my que, practice it by doing a shove with stiff arms and shit
>also practice stiff arm shrugging with your pecs almost, this adds to the COMPOUND lift
If you practice this and do it well you will add weight to your bench, probably 20lbs minimum. You also probably lack heavy dips and treating ohp like the lift it is. Something you should be doing a lot more often. For me I have to do heavy triceps and close grip bench a lot more, maybe post a little about the more complicated shit about how you have been lifting so others can see what you are probably lacking.