How long did it take you, and at what body weight, to get 2pl8 bench?
>tfw all you want is 2pl8 bench
>tfw bench has only increased from 160 in January to 195 currently
>tfw accidentally hit 1pl8 OHP in the process
2.5 years for 5reps at 75kg bw
but i had super low consistency, and sometimes didn't go for weeks at a time
going from 75kgx5 to 2pl8x5 was all done in the last 6 months
>>37715611
even when I get to a 2pl8 bench I'll still only really be doing a few lbs over bodyweight...
It took me 7 months to get up to 155lbs
>tfw fatstrength only gets me so far
>>37715655
Teach me how desu
>>37715689
no idea senpai
maybe i'm just made for benching, because my squat is terrible in comparison
tried for 1rm the other day and hit 120 on bench :)
2 months lifting
177lbs
>>37715712
sure
9 months @ 79kg
I've been lifting for about 2years, but I've only been seriously lifting for 6months. I'm 160lbs, 5'8", and just hit 2pl8 today. feelsgood
>>37715709
>maybe i'm just made for benching, because my squat is terrible in comparison
iktfb
PRd 2pl8 bench and 2pl8 squat on the same day.
What about strict pressing 2pl8?
>>37715771
>still can't squat 3pl8
>not even for 1 rep
the one thing that brought my bench up was doing Smolov Jr. I'm now at 120kgx4 ... but I weigh 122kg so that doesn't mean much lel.
>>37715789
>tfw more than 2x bw squat
>not even at 2pl8 bench yet
I'd rather be a squatlet than a benchlet
>>37715741
...dead serious. Also did 135lbs OHP like my 2nd day in the gym. I don't understand why everyone freaks out about it, I am not special.
I did lift a lot in highschool for sports, muscle memory I guess. That was well over 7 years ago, and I was no where near benching 225 back then, so idk, maybe I am just very, very special.
roughly a year back when i lifted as a teenager
currently 3 months in with poor consistancy at a deficit, hit 87.5 kgs the other day, so it should be along in a few months, especially when i actually get to bulk
started equally skelly at 50 kgs both times, so i'm guessing technique and epigenetic effects are making it easier
2.5 years at 155lbs, can strict press it for 5/4/3 now p much.
Bout two years but had a really good bulk from 190-230 and hit 2pl8 for 5
>>37715812
could be tris
i noticed my bench and ohp exploded after i started doing weighted dips
really helps you lockout
>>37715829
maybe you have short arms
>>37715869
6 foot, 4 inch wingspan (6ft height)
>>37715889
CHAD OHPs 135 his first time at the gym while YOU struggle to get to 100lbs
I have been working out for 6 years now. I did dumbbell press for like 2 years when i went over to barbell i was benching 255lbs for 5 by 5 in like 8 months of barbell bench
>>37715611
started with 2pl8s. sorry bro if it makes u feel better i was skinny fat and a year l8er still skinny fat :( took ages to find macros
1 month.
149 pounds
>>37715611
You forgot to ask about about height. Bench is objectively easier for 5'7 turbomanlets compared to someone that's 6'0+
It took me two years to get a 2plmao bench on a brospit.
Right now I am cutting till September then I will be back at trying to get 1/2/3/4 x5
I can do 2pl8 as my one rep max and I just started lifting this week
I am a fatass though at 270 lbs and 6'2''
>>37716151
>Bench is objectively easier for 5'7 turbomanlets compared to someone that's 6'0+
No, it's not. Muscle is muscle on a 5'1" midget or 6'4" lanklet.
Fuck off summerfag
>>37716898
>5'7" with 2 inch ROM
>hurr so hard
>6'5" with 2 foot rom
>hurr I'm 5'7" muscle is muscle
The taller person is objectively doing more work.
>>37715611
>tfw already benching bodyweight
Feels shitty
>>37715712
>>37715829
>>37716067
strong e-statting
>>37716898
>what is range of movement
>>37715611
Took about 7-8 months for me. I dirrty bulked like shit from 155 to 185 in that time and went from 185x5 max to 225x5 max and a 260 1RM my ohp is 150x5 right now. if you really want to get stronger you need to shovel food into your face. Days where i eat like mad i feel twice as strong as days when i dont eat like a pig. You gain fat but you get stronger much quicker
>>37716927
It doesn't matter because in the end they are still lifting weight proportionate to their own muscles and bodies
bout three months from 60kg starting 1rm (kek at maxing day one) to 100kg with a decent powerlifting style pause.
went from 110kg to 98kg during that time
>>37716898
>>37716958
why are you so stupid?
>>37716898
Fucking retard. Please never post again, you have no idea what you're talking about.
160 lbs, took maybe 7 months to get 225 lbs
I got so close to 2pl8 1RM, I had 95kg.
But now I'm on a long-ass cut and I hope I can still bench 90kg, gonna see tomorrow.
About 1 month @ 80 kgs / 176lbs
Benched 1.5pl8 first time benching & 1pl8 first time ohp although it was my first time lifting I
was already /fit/ from 5 years of Taekwondo which we were made to do a lot of bodyweight conditioning.
Lots of pushups, squats, lunges, jumping, planks, etc.
I could rep out a few handstand pushups at 80kgs BW so I think that carried over.
>>37715611
ex-skelly 5'7'' manlet here, when I began I was 56 kg, took me a little over three years to bench 2pl8 for 5 reps, was 68 kg and bulking at the time
>>37716958
>this is one of those guys that will tell everyone their form is wrong
Please kill yourself. It is objectively easier for people with short limbs to bench press.
How much is 2pl8 again? in kg
>>37716898
I'm 4'6", I know for a FACT it's so much easier for me to move heavier weights than someone taller than me
Why? Because my arms are shorter
I don't need to move the weights as far of a distance
>>37716927
>>37716941
>>37716973
>>37716976
>>37717086
>>37717111
Hey, stupid fucks. Stop using these excuses not to bench or pretend that things are harder. Just fucking lift.
"b-but i'm objectively taller and therefore I can never be as strong as the short guy"
Fuck off, you sad, pathetic, desperate cucks that want to give themselves any reason not to lift.
Muscle is muscle. Go to the gym and shut the fuck up about innate advantages.
>>37717139
I was the last guy, think you may have skipped over my whole response famalam
(Before anyone asks it wasn't a typo, I'm a dwarf, some of y'all have prob seen me around before)
>>37717139
Nice sperging out, you done shitposting about stuff you don't understand yet?
>>37715643
is this future me?
>>37715839
What the fuck does this even mean?
>>37717139
lol keep embarrassing yourself
>>37715611
two years of weekly benching. i was 148 at 5'10. i benched 7x6x225 at 157 today. feels good bruhs
>>37717139
w=f*d
how to get better at bench? i've been stalled for like 6 months. everything is going up. fixed form a little but it still didn't do anything. at like 1.25pl8 while my OHP is 1pl8 and squat is 2pl8. i'm a manlet with a short torso so maybe that has something to do with it?
>>37717101
350 kg
>>37715906
kek
>>37715611
Took me a month.
5f11 180lbs
>>37717101
the other Anon is fucking with you it's around 100kg
Just eat more.
>>37715829
Same but it never improved until my bench caught up proportionally months later.
>>37715611
I started lifting in high school when I was 13 and 185 lbs of skinnyfat and it took me about one and a half years to get to 2 plates at 200 lbs. After high school I lifted on and off and only got serious within the last year or so. But every time I came back to lifting it would only take me between 2-4 months to reach 2 plate bench
>>37717316
185-200 from 13-14? How tall were you?
>>37717139
quality bait desu
>>37717333
It was actually 13-15 I went from 5'8-5'9. I was on a ridiculous amount of creatine back then though because I did stupid shit like loading phase bullshit rather than take 5 grams a day so its likely at least 5 lbs was just pure water retention caused by that
mfw lifting for 4 years and one rep max is 90kg, I'm lanklet tho
About a year and a half. Can get 8-10 reps now at 152 lbs. been lifting for 3 years
>tfw squat 330 for 4 reps at 160lbs 5'11
>bench 175 for 1 rep
life is suffering
>>37717219
Are you mixing your weight / rep range up? How about adding in some drop sets / negatives?
Also, bench more. 2 or even 3 times a week if your joints can handle it
I think it took me a year to get a 2pl8 bench, bur I am only 5'8". It's tougher for tallfags (or even short dudes with long arms).
Don't remember weight at that time, but currently I have a 2pl8 (230, but same shit) 5RM at 176lbs.
>>37715611
A year and a half at 135. I got injured and after half a year of not lifting I'm barely at 185 at the same weight
>>37717139
>cucks
>excuses
>this upset
Stop projecting
>>37715611
3 months, I was around 85 kg.
Getting to 2pl8 x5 took me another year (actually, it was 2pl8 x 7, but that was the first time I did 2pl8 for more than 3 reps). 90kg bw
Got to 3pl8 x 1 right at the beginning of my 4th year, 4 months into winter bulk, body weight was exactly 102,8 kg in the morning and 104,0 kg in the evening (I log this thit twice per day when I bulk).
3pl8 for 3 reps happened 3 months later, in the middle of my vacation, so no bodyweight recorded for that one (bw was between 106 and 107 kg).
Getting ready to bench 150kg/330lbs this week, bodyweight is around 108 in the morning and 110kg in the evening.
>>37715761
From my experiences we're never lifting seriously
>>37715771
I just hit 375x2 on low bar. feels goodmaaaan
>>37715771
Man, I wish I had this problem. I hit 2pl8 squat before I could even bench 1pl8. I don't look like I lift at all even though my squat and deadlift are respectable because nobody can see those muscles. Feelsbadman.
14 months lifting after 1 year cardio/machines
230lbs 6'5
>>37715611
> never benched 2pl8 in highschool
> quit lifting
> start lifting at 26
> Bench 2pl8 after lifting for 2 months
> weigh 180lbs
I then I plateaued around 250 for like 4.5 months now
>can only bench 90kg for 3
>nearly two years lifting
>weigh 110kg
>>37715789
>tfw when I squat, I get stuck at the bottom of the rep, even with 2pl8
it doesn't feel like there is stress, it's as if I lose all muscular tension at the bottom of the rep and I physically can not move from the bottom. I can leg press like ten pl8s and deadlift 4.5pl8 so maybe it's a mobility issue?
>>37715611
Took me like 1 year at 200, but I was a fatty and only 17 or so. I'm at 3pl8 now at 270
>>37720714
Maybe try decline for a bit?
I was hitting 185 for 3 sets of 10 around 2 years in but i couldnt do 205. So i switched to powerlifting style bench with big arch and wide grip.
Technique makes training a big difference.
I got that 225 bench almost right away when i did this.
>>37720694
What's your routine look like? It shouldn't be hard for you to do 2 plate for reps, you could probably get there soon as well if you change your routine to a more strength based one. Assuming you are eating right and recovering etc.
>>37720772
Did SS, now TM
Can Squat 4pl8 and deadlift a little over 5 though. I've been sick a lot though.
>>37720714
If you are doing low bar squat you are going too low
>>37720802
Yeah I'm doing lowbar, this might sound retarded but am I not supposed to go ATG with lowbar?
If it's easier for short people to lift more weight, how come everyone in The World's Strongest Man is so tall?
>>37720840
Most can't go much below parallel without dropping glute and hamstring tension, the position is conversely not conducive to maximum quad extension
>>37720840
No, just to/SLIGHTLY below parallel
>>37720846
You don't do anything that is remotely similar to a bench press in strongman.
>>37720857
But a short person has a smaller ROM for deadlift and has to press less distance in OHP. Surely that change in ROM is more beneficial than having a larger frame and being heavier
>>37720874
>ROM for deadlift
Yeah, but they also have total shit starting positions. Lanklets pulling conventional are almost exclusively the strongest deadlifters.
And again, there is that thing about absolute strength, but it can often be harder as a lank as a beginner. Most strongmen train for nearly a decade and they all take copious amount of sterons before competing.
And then again, even though they're all tall, Zydrunas Savickas, which is arguably the best strongman of all time is only 190cm.
Those socks ...
>>37715611
I don't bench because I don't have a spotter, but I do dumbell bench presses. I hear that DB bench isnharder than BB bench. How do the two equate? I usually do 5 reps with a pair of 75s. How much would that get me with a barbell?
>>37720792
If it's any consolation when I did SS I would stall over and over at like 65kg bench while I could squat 3 plate. I swapped to PPLPP and my upper body lifts have shot up, 2 plate bench 1 plate OHP in like 6 months from when I stopped SS.
>>37715611
idk ive been lifting for a month and im 125 lbs away from it so far
2-3 years at 66 kg bw
>>37720930
There is a huge diffrence in techniqe, but if aesthetik is goal, don't worry
>>37717281
It is 100...
>>37715611
Like 3 months of serious lifting. Weighed 210 lb at a height of 6'3. Creatine helped a lot.
Is 2 plates considered a lot? I think I missed a meeting.
>>37715829
I believe you. I was also doing 135 OHP for reps my first month. It didn't seem like a lot then and really seems like nothing now.
I'm surprised by how fucking weak the average /fit/izen apparently is based on some of these responses. Either that or we're being trolled.
4 years at 65kg
what manlet award do I win?
>>37720932
I have been adding 2.5kg per week on upper body lifts ever since I got back in the gym so there is that. Actually stalling on deads now funnily enough but that probably means I should switch my programming again.
>>37717101
1 plate is 20kg. So 4x20kg & the bar is 100kg total.
>>37721083
The much coveted are you even trying award.
BW 91.5. Been on a meet on 25.6. last week.
Bench press 157,5kg.
weigh 200lbs
still not at 2 plates
but used to lift 2 plates 6 years ago when i weighed 195.
took a 2 year break from lifting so trying to catch up
>>37721044
Nah, depends on size, you lift like a lil bitch brah. Not even bw
6 months lifting
at
around 78-81kg bodyweight, dont really remember
>>37715611
9 months, 8th grade year
Bodyweight was 170 lbs
>>37721706
>Not even bw
>225 is less than 210
>>37715611
12 months @ 70kg. Only for 3 reps though.
>>37719498
That's some deep shit anon
>>37721044
I don't think it is. I'm like 5'8 180 and I can do 2pl8 after like 3 months. I think it's a meme
>>37715789
>tfw i can squat 4pl8 but can barely bench 1.5
i want to fucking reassign my skill points now
Im benching 90kg for reps and it's my third chest workout today in almost 2 years.
i was fat af and started with 185 5x5 and could bench 2pl8 as a max right off the bat. wall pushups at 300lbs is like heavy benching no joke. still fat af because potato chips and am potato.
6 months to get it for 5 reps, i'm a fat fuck though
>>37716954
Well said sir
>>37717139
Angry manlets on suicide watch
>>37719391
you're a big guy
>>37715611
i think it was about 1.5 years in, closer to 2, that i attempted and got the 1rm 2pl8 bench, im a slow progresser though, started from basically untrained and no sporting background
Started at 5x40kg
2 months in and I'm at 5x50kg, 1RM probably around 60kg
is 100kg 1RM possible by the end of the year for me?
BW 67kg and rising
>>37715611
6'1 at 165 lbs I could do 2pl8 for reps took me a year to get from 1pl8 to 2pl8
a year ish, 165lbs
I'm 150, 5'10, currently at 205, I feel so close.
>>37715829
> maybe I am just very, very special.
You sure are
>>37722376
how long?
>>37717219
Think about it not as shoving the bar toward the ceiling but as trying to increase the space between your shoulder and the bar. You'll know you've done it right when you feel MUCH more stable.
>There are people who hit 2pl8 bench before 1pl8 OHP
Wat
>>37715611
>8 months.
>at 90kg
5x5, 3 times a week, 21 y/o
115kg 9 months
>before
75kg, 5'9
>after
84kg, still 5'9 hold me brehs.
>>37722337
>fat fu
Absolutely, eat more.
