Can you bench 220lbs

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EpicMickeyDrew
10/01/2025
05:33 PM
#1
and do you weigh less than 100kg
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Kisai
10/01/2025
05:35 PM
#2
I'm 5'5 and am a little overweight at 165 lbs. My fat ass can't bench anything.
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PMarth2002
10/01/2025
05:38 PM
#3
Probably not. I've never done a bench press before and I weigh 120 pounds.
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Jupiter
10/01/2025
05:39 PM
#4
I did in high school when I was on the football team. Could I do it now? Probably not lol.
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mach25687
10/01/2025
05:40 PM
#5
5'7 160 lbs and nope.
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archizzy
10/01/2025
05:40 PM
#6
Usually everyone goes with 225. 2 plates of 45s on each side and a 45 pound bar. Anyways yes but its not impressive when you are fairly big. When youre like 250 pounds yourself you should be able to lift it. Though I will say as a taller than average person I wear out on reps much quicker than my shorter stout friends who didnt have to move the bar as far.

But I stopped working out years ago due to health issues. Also I felt like such a wimp in high school as my best friend was an absolute beast. At 16 he was approaching 400 pounds on bench press. Went to college for sports nutrition and for nearly 30 years has been a personal trainer and has had pro athletes as clients. I was doing like a half or less of what he was doing on most stuff at that age.
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Relm_Arrowny_87
10/01/2025
05:44 PM
#7
I can't bench almost anything at all.
My muscles just do not seem to move in that direction.
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King_Rial
10/01/2025
05:45 PM
#9
305lbs is my max.
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misterbum
10/01/2025
05:45 PM
#10
Probably not
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EpicMickeyDrew
10/01/2025
05:54 PM
#11
King_Rial posted...
305lbs is my max.
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MartavisBryant
10/01/2025
05:57 PM
#12
I should be able to with the amount of time I've spent weightlifting, but I'm not even close. Genetically, I'm cursed to be weak as fuck no matter what I do. I've never touched a barbell in my life, but I can only do 110 pounds with dumbbells at a 30 degree incline. I don't know how exactly that would translate to a flat barbell bench press, but I know it's nowhere near 220 pounds.
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thronedfire2
10/01/2025
05:58 PM
#13
I can probably lift the bar
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Anony1125
10/01/2025
06:04 PM
#14
I think at one point I was doing like 140 or so, which was around my body weight. Seemed pretty close to my max at that point, and I can't imagine my max has improved since then.
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Murphiroth
10/01/2025
06:10 PM
#15
Prior to my current ongoing shoulder issues, yeah, but at the moment, no. Can't even move that arm very well in general.
ReturnOfDevsman
10/01/2025
06:13 PM
#16
I've never tried bench pressing, lol. I can do a couple of pushups at that weight, but I assume that's not quite the same thing.
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Mistere_Man
10/01/2025
06:13 PM
#17
Maybe, not sure as it has been a while. Probably though.
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Strider102
10/01/2025
06:14 PM
#18
Last time I actually did it In my 20's was 300.

Nowadays I doubt I could go above 200. Hell I doubt I could go above 150, especially with my shoulder in the condition it's in, and I really don't want to risk hurting it further.
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King_Rial
10/01/2025
06:14 PM
#19
EpicMickeyDrew posted...
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Dungeater
10/01/2025
06:15 PM
#20
no, i havent worked out my upper body in 5 years. still trying to shrink
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NightRender
10/01/2025
06:15 PM
#21
Even when I'm in good condition, I think I do 115.

That said, I've never done a one rep max for bench because I have seen too many clips of people getting injured or, y know, dying on failure.
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EpicMickeyDrew
10/01/2025
06:20 PM
#22
King_Rial posted...
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EpicMickeyDrew
10/01/2025
06:21 PM
#23
Why does everyone have fucked shoulders?
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Murphiroth
10/01/2025
06:23 PM
#24
EpicMickeyDrew posted...
Why does everyone have fucked shoulders?

IIRC they're one of the most common injury points on the body.
621
10/01/2025
06:24 PM
#25
I don't even weigh 220lbs
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EpicMickeyDrew
10/01/2025
06:25 PM
#26
621 posted...
I don't even weigh 220lbs
Thats a good point
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Vokrent
10/01/2025
06:25 PM
#27
thronedfire2 posted...
I can probably lift the bar
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Pow_Pow_Punishment
10/01/2025
06:31 PM
#28
My all time max was 380, and then I failed 385 on video lol.

https://youtu.be/8Cn0oD1AR6s

I estimate that I have a max of 340 now because I lost weight last year to focus on boxing and strongman training, which doesn't involve much bench pressing, but I'm working on bringing it back up. I decided that even if I want to do strongman, I don't want my bench or back squat to get weak.
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voldothegr8
10/01/2025
06:33 PM
#29
In my youth I could, not these days.
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Garioshi
10/01/2025
06:37 PM
#30
My absolute maximum was 165, but I'm also 5'3.
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crayola555
10/01/2025
06:38 PM
#31
I only do pushups, no idea what translates to bench
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rick_alverado
10/01/2025
06:39 PM
#32
I have no idea. I don't do any kind of weight lifting (as an exercise I mean, I do lift heavy things sometimes at work or whatever) so I have no idea what the difficulty of that weight would even be.
not_KDTProjekt
10/01/2025
06:48 PM
#33
No. At the rate I'm going it will probably be another year.
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Sephirothe
10/01/2025
06:53 PM
#34
Nope. I havent pushed to max in a long while, and mostly focus on high reps, but Im guessing my max is around 165-175.
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Sorozone
10/01/2025
07:02 PM
#37
Yeah. I'm 189.

My most recent PR for 225 was 16 reps, so I can probably do 17 to 19 reps of 220.
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Pow_Pow_Punishment
10/01/2025
07:07 PM
#38
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But damn, 400lb bench press. That's like a fraction of 1% that can lift that. It's basically elite level at that point.
Just wanna say it's extremely strong but when you bring up "elite", it's also the kind of "strong" that a strong NFL player or other athlete who doesn't focus on weightlifting would put up. An actual elite powerlifter wouldn't consider it strong, or if they do they'd be speaking about it for a different category and set of standards than themselves.
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archizzy
10/01/2025
07:10 PM
#39
totalnerdken posted...
Yeah lol, I'm 5'7 at 250lb. Right now I bench 265 for 8 reps.

I can maybe do 315 for barely 1 rep but I've never tried.

But damn, 400lb bench press. That's like a fraction of 1% that can lift that. It's basically elite level at that point.

It was seriously mind boggling. He was big into working out but at 16 that was just nuts. He was so disappointed back then though because he had a flat chest. No visible pecs at all and it bothered him that people who were so much weaker had nice developed chests. He had big ass biceps but no chest. He always covered his arms though. He honestly didnt do it for vanity, but it bothered him he couldnt see the results physically in his chest.

But we were dumb teenagers then and thought being big and buff was cool. These days hes slimmed way down, has no mass, and is very lean. He is still super strong and fit but hes 510 and like 170. Hell in high school our last two years he was wrestling 189 pounds so hes like 20 pounds lighter than when we were 17 and we are 49 now.

I know online everyone seems to know a guy but its 100% truth. He's the strongest person Ive ever personally known as a close friend. Dude was so strong. I remember when we watched the NFL combine and he was surprised at how low their reps were for 225 and he could do more. He could do like 33 reps of 225 as a teenager in high school. It didnt make sense to me. I couldnt hit 225 when I started and had to work up to that.
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dummy420
10/01/2025
07:10 PM
#40
Not anymore. But I could probably get back to it relatively quickly. My all time max though was like 245 so I was never that strong with it.
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imagine606
10/01/2025
07:14 PM
#42
Maybe once, my shoulders are in bad shape, but if they were in better shape I might be able to do sets of 5.
Pow_Pow_Punishment
10/01/2025
07:16 PM
#43
Captain_Qwark posted...
My high school coach never told us benching with your elbows flaring out to the sides real far was a bad thing.
Oof. This ties into why archizzy's friend had a small chest. Being a strong bench presser involves tucking your elbows into your sides and pinching your shoulder blades back so your triceps and upper-back are recruited more, but your chest doesn't get hit as hard as a result. When I first hit a 350 bench I wasn't happy with the size of my chest until I added in lighter sets targeting the pecs.
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VincentVega
10/01/2025
08:26 PM
#44
I lift 265 pounds every time I stand up.
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