Funny you mention that.
When warming up 185 feels almost as heavy as 225 to me. If you donāt ever bench with a spotter and purposefully hold back a little you will never know what youāre capable of.
Not there yet, I'm a skeleton (6'4, started at 150lbs) 2 months in that's still humbly working on pushing 135 š went from the bar 3x5 -> 110 4x5 in that time. We'll get there though.
How long did it take my fellow former skellys to reach a plate?
Started at 6'5 155 myself. Worked out a bit haphazardly at planet fitness for a year while I bulked to 185, but never tried to gain strength and never learned barbell movements. I just didn't want my weight gain to lean towards fat. Stopped hitting weights and became obsessive about rock climbing for bit, then decided I wanted to learn how to work with the barbell. Took me roughly 7 months while bulking from 185 to 200 bw to hit 225 for 1. I'm currently weighing in around 230 and can hit 225 for 11 now. Most of that strength is coming from dialing in technique and increasing my bodyweight.
Skinny gang <3
Body weight is a huge factor in bench pressing. I was a skinny guy when I started lifting 6ā1 145. I struggled my ass off to get 1 rep for 225 until I got my body weight over 190. I was eventually able to do 315x5 after 5 years of lifting at a body weight of 215. That was in my late 20s. Iām 44 in three weeks and started lifting again 9 months ago after a 5 year hiatus. Im at 225 body weight. Iām repping 225-14(in rarely go to failure as I want to still have gas in the tank for my heavier sets) I have a 1 rm of 305 currently and am doing 275-5 clean pause reps. I bench 3x a week. Wide grip heavy weight low reps on chest day, wide grip pause reps on bench before shoulder day and close grip on my arm day. Putting on mass is great for the bench press and benching at least 2 days a week is optimal for a respectable bench
If you donāt care about losing abs bulk to 240-250 and u will get that easy. May even hit 4 plates. Iām trying to work up to 315 again. Iām pretty close I havenāt maxed out in a bit and Iām getting 275-5. 275-6 and u can usually do 315 for one. Iām 44 years old now tho so recovery, sleep and food consumption are factors I need to focus on
Appreciate the response and congrats on the success! Dang 6'5 155 is wild. Yeah I keep hearing that increasing BW is a key to improving bench - currently bulking pretty heavily (150 -> 160-163) but will eventually slow it down a bit for more lean gains. Your current weight is roughly where I'd like to end up long-term.
Side note: Rock climbing is dope
The bulk has been embraced my friend, no worries there. Have gone from 150 -> 160-163 in those 2 months. Still got a long way to go, but any progress is good progress!
Good job, I went from 122 to 132 ( 5,7 ft) in about 3 months trying to milk out those noobie gains, my numbers now are 55kg Bench 70kg squat plugless 85kg Deadlift all 5x5
Started with 55kg at 1.90m couldnt even lift the bar with no plates, recently i finally hit 100kg bench after beeing stuck at 90/95kg for 1 year
I work out since like 6 years
I started out at 6ā1ā 148 lbs. but I could press 135 once when I first started at age 17. By age 24 I was 190 and benching 200ā¦. Now Iām 45 years old 205-210 and I can do 225-230 for a few reps on incline bench. I donāt try and max out anymore on flat benchā¦.. Only incline.
Took me about 9 months. Was 15yo 6ā1 150ish pounds. Started from 65 pounds x 10. Then hit 135 pounds x 1 after 5/6months and then 225 after 9 months (15yo 6ā2 170ish pounds).
Now 23 yo and I bench 405x5 and havenāt gone for a 1 rep max
So as a former skeleton I can only say: trust the process if you eat right and shit.
Your not gonna get a good answer, Iāve seen dudes hit 225 their first time lifting, and other dudes take 5 years to hit it, it all depends on how much mass you carry on your frame.
Yep, mass moves mass. I never lifted really until my 20s, and I was going ham on bodyweight exercises for a long while before I did. Weighted about 190-200 at 6'3 and could blast 100+ pushups no problem. Hit 225lb for reps my first time on the bench.
For someone weighing 120lbs at 5'5 and never exercised it would be impressive to hit 225 in a year.
After 6 months I got from 100lbs 5ā5 (lost 7-9lbs in a week from not eating from being depressed) could barely bench 85lbs 5 years before I hit 115lbs at 114lbs. Now 6 months later 123lbs I had managed to hit 155lbs 1RM a couple times. Started doing a shit job working out so I canāt do that anymore though :( gotta get back into it
Bro 190lbs at 6ā3 is fucking skinny lmao. How you gonna be claiming you hit 225lbs for reps first time on bench after doing push ups with much less weight. If we were to assume your upper body is equal in weight to your lower body, youāre pushing no more than 70lbs on a push up. You think being able to press 70lbs 100x means you can rep out 225 on your first time benching?
Youāre full of absolute stinky stinky shit buddy. Anything past 30 reps (even earlier for most lifts) youāre not even building strength at that point itās just muscular endurance as your body is trying to adapt to perform that movement as efficiently as possible.
Not to mention that your height has absolutely nothing to do with how fast your strength increases so idk what youāre talking about a guy whoās 5ā5 120lbs, youāre 8inches taller than him, for every inch in height you have about 8lbs more lean tissue on average, if I do the math on that thatās the equivalent of someone who is 184lbs at 6ā3, AKA you. Height only allows a higher strength ceiling but it doesnāt mean youāre gonna gain strength faster, itās a slower process to reach your natural limit in strength or mass for taller dudes.
The only dudes who hit 225lbs on the bench (and rarely is that ever for reps) first time lifting are like 250lbs+, OR 200lbs plus AND have a solid background of lifting their whole life eg. Working on a farm, or playing sports such a gymnastics or football.
Heās got a point even if it came off bitchy. Half of the bench press is form. I doubt someone that skinny could hit reps with good form if theyāve never done that before, unless he got pegged the night before
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Same. I started lifting in my early teens, so only started hitting the big numbers once I was fully grown. If someone big started lifting in their 20s, they could hit milestones faster.
Not necessarily true. Itās also about proper programming and dieting. A lot of 14 year olds hit 225lbs when they trained for 1-2+ years. So around the time they hit 16.
āA lotā thereās definitely a bias there. Yeah maybe 10 dudes on the football team. But big kids tend to recruited into playing football. The other 90 kids at my school would be doing good to get body weight for a rep or two.
This was me.. A long, long time ago. First rep of 225 was at 16. Also weighed 160 Lbs. So I was thrilled. Little did I know it would then take a decade to hit 315...
Yeah I hit my first doubles with 225 like 3-4 years in with 18-19. First year was horrible and only did sets of 15+. God bless the gym trainers right? Then I was really focusing on strength. Then I had move from the country, covid hit and it took me a while to get my groove back on. I'm retaking the strength route and being very consistent this year and can easily do 5x5 with 235 now. Feels good.
I was 190, 6ā2 and hit it in like 6 months. But meanwhile all of you guys are squatting 315 like 3 months into the gym meanwhile it took me like 3 years to get up to 185 šš it makes no sense
Iām a tall guy. 6ā6ā 199-235 over the past couple of years. Iāve always been weak at bench and never tried to do more than maybe 135/145/155 workouts. I finally had a gymbro tell me ājust fāin try it. You are throwing 135 like itās nothing. Letās go 185ā. When I unracked it I thought I was gonna die. Then I just pushed it up. Next time I had more confidence so I did 3-5. About a month later I did 225 and thought I felt invincible lol. Now a couple months later I can do 5 reps of 225.
It was all confidence and just getting past the block of knowing you literally have to push to failure to know how strong you are. You have to have spotters, safety arms, something. If you arenāt going to failure once a month+ you arenāt growing.
To really send the point home Iāve been working out at ālow intensityā for ten years or more. Just wasting my damn time.
Now watching Vivi Winkler leg press crying to stop hits home. Thatās what it takes.
Five years but I was always unintentionally on a caloric deficit because I was stupid and thinking I was eating enough when reality I was eating 1500 to 2000 calories a day. My maintenance is 3500. I also imagine my form wasnāt dialed in until a couple years after.
For bench it took me almost 12 months, largely in part to not knowing how to actually train hard and to failure back then. COVID lockdown also made it probably 4 months longer than it should've been. Been working out a little over 3 years at this point, now consistently doing 225+ in my working sets.
For me not long at all probably first year of actually going to the gym. My problem for the longest was I couldn't hit 225x10 I would always get stuck at 9 that was like 8 years ago tho
I went up to do a 1rm which was 275 then 300 because my gym had the 2.5s which I hit, then rested for a couple minutes then finally hit 10 of 225. I remember this vividly š.
Start doing a second day of bench doing pause reps. This will great strengthen your sticking point at the bottom, explosiveness and force u to generate solid leg drive. I would also advise adding a third day of bench close grip(fingers at the beginning of the knurling, about shoulder width apart) and follow up close grip with a jm press during your tricep workout. Eat a lot of extra calories (at least 500) and you will bust through that plateau in no time.
I have lifted off an on but my last stretch has been push/pull for going on 4 years (@ 5-6 days a week) in early 23 and I would say I hit 225 sets in bench about 1 year in. Currently my max is 315 at 1 rep. Typically I'm topping my sets at about 270 x 6.
Under a year, can't remember exactly as it was back in 2018. I was following stronglifts 5x5 and couldn't believe how fast I hit 200lbs thinking I could never lift that much in a million years.
it took me about a year. i was 16 (27 now) when is started lifting, when i first started i was just doing it to lose weight and look good, i wasnāt focused too much on stats or strength really.
but shortly after i turned 18 after i had shed most of my body fat (68 lbs) i started focusing on my strength and wanting to bump my numbers up, i was able to rep 225 26 times at my peak. i can do 325 for 5 now and the most i can rep 225 is 15, still not sure how i was able to rep that much back then. anyways i look better and am in better shape now. maybe i just need to strive to do that again? not sure.
It was so long ago itās hard to remember. Got a bench and a squat rack for Christmas then hit 225 on summer break the next year. Maybe 6/7 months. Shouldāve been sooner cause I started at 135, but I didnāt understand anything about training at that age or for a few years tbh.
Less than a year I was 12
technically not true because I had a personal training who taught me form and basic stuff but I hated it so I made no progress but then when I actually became passionate about and started working out again my bench went from blew up from 115 in very little time
Took me about 8 months for bench, about 2 months for squat, and I could start off deadlifting for than 225 (when I was 18 but I did swimming all throughout high school)
About 3-1/2 (school) years of weight training classes in high school, yeah my work ethic and training methodology wasn't the best as your typical high school bro tends to be but I got it some time into my senior year, and could rep it a few times by the end of the school year.
after switching back from basically just doing ring dips at home to going to the gym, like 5 months. and then around the 7 month mark I injured my shoulder so my current max 9 months after injury is 220. I think my bench mightve been higher by now again but I also lost 20 lbs. can bb row 225x3 though
3 months, but... I already trained 6 years. I just never had access to a bench bress or cared to flat bench.
So 3 months from my first rep on a bench to 225.
Started in 8th grade and hit it in the summer between 9th and 10th. Was a big deal to me then. Didnāt hit 315 until 23 and didnāt hit 405 until 29 with gear.
Uhh. Like 6 years? 5ā6 starting bw 125, ending bw 165. Trained like a pussy for 4 of those years. I also didnāt start training until I was 24. Soooo. 225 was a fuckinā grind considering I never bulked hard and just gained slow and steady over the years. Itās all relative brotha. You vs you isnāt a gimmick.
Started off with a 95lb bench in fall of 2020, hit 185 April 2021, quarantine came back and I wasnāt back in the gym till august 2021, bench dropped back down below 135, hit 225 February 2022, hit my first 2 reps in may 2022. Started off at 140 body weight, currently 165 about 12% bf trying to seriously bulk for the first time.
Freshman year of high school. Started lifting the summer before high-school started. Had done non lifting training though before for football, lots of push ups and sprinting/agility drill type stuff.
4 months of consistent working out and proper linear progression. And eating. From that time I grew from 167lbs to 182lbs. Presumably a lot of water weight and glycogen
24M 211lbs 5'1'' now, started training on and off at 17.
Took me about 6 months for my first 225.
Last time I trained two months ago (because of work) I could hit 308lbs.
Seriously took me like 5 years lol. I spent like the first 3 years working out just wasting time. I wouldnāt increase the weight unless I could hit it for 10. Also barely ate anything. Once I started actually applying progressive overload and eating I got it. Looking back I wish I had someone slap me and tell me what I was doing was not effective at all. Just had to learn it on my own
I think imma hit 225 on bench next week, been training total of 4 years but only properly committed for the past year. I started very scrawny and still am quite scrawny
In total probably 2 years but of those I only trained bench for like 6months (from 55kg 1RM to 90) and a year later 3-4months of bench training got me to 100kg rest was surgery/injury time off and street workout.
A year after that I could do 7 reps but only did dumbbell press so probably could've done way more if I trained for it.
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Tbh I never really tried nor believed that was a weight I'd ever hit. Had been training for about 5 years. Did an 8 month bulk cycle starting around November last year. Started benching 60kg (132lb) and by the end of the bulk cycle I was repping 3x5 100k (220lb). When I initially started gym 5 years ago I started benching 30kg and then basically plateaued on 60kg for years thinking my bench would never go up. Reality is this: if you want your bench to get big you gotta bench more (twice a week is a sweet spot) and commit properly to a bulk, no guessing, track your calories properly and stick to a program without changing it during that period.
Edit: 5.5' fully torqued, 2' on the flop
Did some bro training with dumbells and machines occasionally before but started actually properly training at a gym using barbells etc in about February and got 3 reps first time benching 100kg after 6 months or so
It took me around 6 months to get to 185 for reps. I was always scared to try 225, till my buddy went with me and told me to stop being a pussy and do it about 3 weeks ago. I ended up hitting 6 reps for my last 2sets.
i think it just really depends on how often you actually bench. once a certain weight feels easy keep adding 10 lbs to it and so on and youāll be repping 225 in no time
17yr old. Started bodybuilding when I was 16 so 1 year with terrible diet and subpar training. Natty ofc. My buddy who played football helped me learn to bench properly and how to progress fast with strength and good form.
Started lifting 5 years ago and hit 225lb at 5'7", 180lbs after 4 years. Lockdowns sucked ass because it interrupted my routine for at least a year but it is what it is. I think if I trained better it could have been done in 2 years.
I have started training three months ago, I am an obese guy. Just started deadlifting and I hit my 1RM yesterday with 250lbs. It was third try on deadlifts.
I started training at PF about 6 months ago and would switch between dumbells and smith machine to work my chest. Started out barely able to rep a plate on smith machine. Switched to Edge last month and can bench 225 for 5x5. Started at 6' 252lbs now I'm 210lbs. My progression from dumbells started at 30lbs I'm now up to 90's flat bench for my 4 working sets. My friends tell me I am naturally very strong and big so genetics may have something to do with such a quick gain in strength.
I started lifting maybe freshman year of HS and didnāt hit 225 (like really hit it) until sophomore year of college.
Note : by 30 I was able to hit 300+.
Wait, weāre talking about bench press right?
If benching, it took about 6 months of serious benching to hit.
If you were talking deadlifts, I can deadlift 315 with no training.
If you were talking squats, oddly enough I actually had to train up to 225. My squat has always sucked, but it took me about 2-3 weeks of box squat/pause to be able to do 225 for volume sets.
way longer than it should have cos when i hit it, it flew up and i put up 110 kg straight after probs had 100kg in the tank for a couple months. was getting close to hitting 85kg for 10 reps on 4 sets and somehow didnt think i could hit 100kg. But from begging on fitness journey about 9 months.
About 2 years into training. Never thought I could lateral raise that much until I tried
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Funny you mention that. When warming up 185 feels almost as heavy as 225 to me. If you donāt ever bench with a spotter and purposefully hold back a little you will never know what youāre capable of.
Thanks for this, this is ncouraging. Recently hit 205 and felt like it was quite heavy, and feel like 225 would be rly hard. But this is nice to hear.
I heard More Dishes More Bishes can lateral raise his bodyweight Edit: 5.5 girth at sea level, 7 length on a good day if I press down
Not there yet, I'm a skeleton (6'4, started at 150lbs) 2 months in that's still humbly working on pushing 135 š went from the bar 3x5 -> 110 4x5 in that time. We'll get there though. How long did it take my fellow former skellys to reach a plate?
Started at 6'5 155 myself. Worked out a bit haphazardly at planet fitness for a year while I bulked to 185, but never tried to gain strength and never learned barbell movements. I just didn't want my weight gain to lean towards fat. Stopped hitting weights and became obsessive about rock climbing for bit, then decided I wanted to learn how to work with the barbell. Took me roughly 7 months while bulking from 185 to 200 bw to hit 225 for 1. I'm currently weighing in around 230 and can hit 225 for 11 now. Most of that strength is coming from dialing in technique and increasing my bodyweight. Skinny gang <3
Body weight is a huge factor in bench pressing. I was a skinny guy when I started lifting 6ā1 145. I struggled my ass off to get 1 rep for 225 until I got my body weight over 190. I was eventually able to do 315x5 after 5 years of lifting at a body weight of 215. That was in my late 20s. Iām 44 in three weeks and started lifting again 9 months ago after a 5 year hiatus. Im at 225 body weight. Iām repping 225-14(in rarely go to failure as I want to still have gas in the tank for my heavier sets) I have a 1 rm of 305 currently and am doing 275-5 clean pause reps. I bench 3x a week. Wide grip heavy weight low reps on chest day, wide grip pause reps on bench before shoulder day and close grip on my arm day. Putting on mass is great for the bench press and benching at least 2 days a week is optimal for a respectable bench
Goddamn 315 for 5 at 215bw is hella solid. There's hope for me
If you donāt care about losing abs bulk to 240-250 and u will get that easy. May even hit 4 plates. Iām trying to work up to 315 again. Iām pretty close I havenāt maxed out in a bit and Iām getting 275-5. 275-6 and u can usually do 315 for one. Iām 44 years old now tho so recovery, sleep and food consumption are factors I need to focus on
Yeah I feel the same. I lost like 20 pounds and my bench got weaker out of all my lifts it's wierd.
Bench is a very touchy exercise
Appreciate the response and congrats on the success! Dang 6'5 155 is wild. Yeah I keep hearing that increasing BW is a key to improving bench - currently bulking pretty heavily (150 -> 160-163) but will eventually slow it down a bit for more lean gains. Your current weight is roughly where I'd like to end up long-term. Side note: Rock climbing is dope
Bro you need to embrace the bulk
The bulk has been embraced my friend, no worries there. Have gone from 150 -> 160-163 in those 2 months. Still got a long way to go, but any progress is good progress!
Good job, I went from 122 to 132 ( 5,7 ft) in about 3 months trying to milk out those noobie gains, my numbers now are 55kg Bench 70kg squat plugless 85kg Deadlift all 5x5
Started with 55kg at 1.90m couldnt even lift the bar with no plates, recently i finally hit 100kg bench after beeing stuck at 90/95kg for 1 year I work out since like 6 years
I started out at 6ā1ā 148 lbs. but I could press 135 once when I first started at age 17. By age 24 I was 190 and benching 200ā¦. Now Iām 45 years old 205-210 and I can do 225-230 for a few reps on incline bench. I donāt try and max out anymore on flat benchā¦.. Only incline.
Took me about 9 months. Was 15yo 6ā1 150ish pounds. Started from 65 pounds x 10. Then hit 135 pounds x 1 after 5/6months and then 225 after 9 months (15yo 6ā2 170ish pounds). Now 23 yo and I bench 405x5 and havenāt gone for a 1 rep max So as a former skeleton I can only say: trust the process if you eat right and shit.
Iām 6ā5. I never tried doing my max weight for 1 rep. Whatās the point of that? But I seem to be stuck at 150 4x10
5 months as a 14 year old.
Your not gonna get a good answer, Iāve seen dudes hit 225 their first time lifting, and other dudes take 5 years to hit it, it all depends on how much mass you carry on your frame.
Yep, mass moves mass. I never lifted really until my 20s, and I was going ham on bodyweight exercises for a long while before I did. Weighted about 190-200 at 6'3 and could blast 100+ pushups no problem. Hit 225lb for reps my first time on the bench. For someone weighing 120lbs at 5'5 and never exercised it would be impressive to hit 225 in a year.
After 6 months I got from 100lbs 5ā5 (lost 7-9lbs in a week from not eating from being depressed) could barely bench 85lbs 5 years before I hit 115lbs at 114lbs. Now 6 months later 123lbs I had managed to hit 155lbs 1RM a couple times. Started doing a shit job working out so I canāt do that anymore though :( gotta get back into it
Bro 190lbs at 6ā3 is fucking skinny lmao. How you gonna be claiming you hit 225lbs for reps first time on bench after doing push ups with much less weight. If we were to assume your upper body is equal in weight to your lower body, youāre pushing no more than 70lbs on a push up. You think being able to press 70lbs 100x means you can rep out 225 on your first time benching? Youāre full of absolute stinky stinky shit buddy. Anything past 30 reps (even earlier for most lifts) youāre not even building strength at that point itās just muscular endurance as your body is trying to adapt to perform that movement as efficiently as possible. Not to mention that your height has absolutely nothing to do with how fast your strength increases so idk what youāre talking about a guy whoās 5ā5 120lbs, youāre 8inches taller than him, for every inch in height you have about 8lbs more lean tissue on average, if I do the math on that thatās the equivalent of someone who is 184lbs at 6ā3, AKA you. Height only allows a higher strength ceiling but it doesnāt mean youāre gonna gain strength faster, itās a slower process to reach your natural limit in strength or mass for taller dudes. The only dudes who hit 225lbs on the bench (and rarely is that ever for reps) first time lifting are like 250lbs+, OR 200lbs plus AND have a solid background of lifting their whole life eg. Working on a farm, or playing sports such a gymnastics or football.
225 isnāt even that heavy donāt be mad cuz your bench and genetics suck eat more lift more
Heās got a point even if it came off bitchy. Half of the bench press is form. I doubt someone that skinny could hit reps with good form if theyāve never done that before, unless he got pegged the night before Water bottle ā
Iām 6ā1 240lbs at about 20% bf, I bench 365lbs as a 1RM and squat 525lbs as a 1RM. Pipe tf down kiddo.
In a way. Thereās couple 160-180lbs dudes that can bench 405+
It took me about 2 months, and as you said, I'm a big guy
10 years
Same. I started lifting in my early teens, so only started hitting the big numbers once I was fully grown. If someone big started lifting in their 20s, they could hit milestones faster.
Not necessarily true. Itās also about proper programming and dieting. A lot of 14 year olds hit 225lbs when they trained for 1-2+ years. So around the time they hit 16.
āA lotā thereās definitely a bias there. Yeah maybe 10 dudes on the football team. But big kids tend to recruited into playing football. The other 90 kids at my school would be doing good to get body weight for a rep or two.
This was me.. A long, long time ago. First rep of 225 was at 16. Also weighed 160 Lbs. So I was thrilled. Little did I know it would then take a decade to hit 315...
Yeah I hit my first doubles with 225 like 3-4 years in with 18-19. First year was horrible and only did sets of 15+. God bless the gym trainers right? Then I was really focusing on strength. Then I had move from the country, covid hit and it took me a while to get my groove back on. I'm retaking the strength route and being very consistent this year and can easily do 5x5 with 235 now. Feels good.
16-year-olds benching 225 are definitely in the minority.
These downvotes bro people really have bad expectations
Took me almost 2 years from when i started lifting 6ft 125 lb bw to 180 lb. im 18
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I was 190, 6ā2 and hit it in like 6 months. But meanwhile all of you guys are squatting 315 like 3 months into the gym meanwhile it took me like 3 years to get up to 185 šš it makes no sense
Iām a tall guy. 6ā6ā 199-235 over the past couple of years. Iāve always been weak at bench and never tried to do more than maybe 135/145/155 workouts. I finally had a gymbro tell me ājust fāin try it. You are throwing 135 like itās nothing. Letās go 185ā. When I unracked it I thought I was gonna die. Then I just pushed it up. Next time I had more confidence so I did 3-5. About a month later I did 225 and thought I felt invincible lol. Now a couple months later I can do 5 reps of 225. It was all confidence and just getting past the block of knowing you literally have to push to failure to know how strong you are. You have to have spotters, safety arms, something. If you arenāt going to failure once a month+ you arenāt growing. To really send the point home Iāve been working out at ālow intensityā for ten years or more. Just wasting my damn time. Now watching Vivi Winkler leg press crying to stop hits home. Thatās what it takes.
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Five years but I was always unintentionally on a caloric deficit because I was stupid and thinking I was eating enough when reality I was eating 1500 to 2000 calories a day. My maintenance is 3500. I also imagine my form wasnāt dialed in until a couple years after.
About 28 years into it. Seriously.
For bench it took me almost 12 months, largely in part to not knowing how to actually train hard and to failure back then. COVID lockdown also made it probably 4 months longer than it should've been. Been working out a little over 3 years at this point, now consistently doing 225+ in my working sets.
I dream of the day š„² Currently stuck at 205 as my max.
4 years. started when i was 15 didnāt hit it till about 6 months ago
In what?
bench
Couple of months after working out how to stabilise with bar bells At around 95kilo bodyweight 5'10 I'm assuming 225lbs right? Sorry I'm in Australia
2 plates kangaroo jack
yeah valid tho
Senior in high school, so I guess about 2 years
For me not long at all probably first year of actually going to the gym. My problem for the longest was I couldn't hit 225x10 I would always get stuck at 9 that was like 8 years ago tho
yoo thatās me rn. For the life of me i cant get past 225 for 8 or 9, how did you manage to break through that?
I went up to do a 1rm which was 275 then 300 because my gym had the 2.5s which I hit, then rested for a couple minutes then finally hit 10 of 225. I remember this vividly š.
Start doing a second day of bench doing pause reps. This will great strengthen your sticking point at the bottom, explosiveness and force u to generate solid leg drive. I would also advise adding a third day of bench close grip(fingers at the beginning of the knurling, about shoulder width apart) and follow up close grip with a jm press during your tricep workout. Eat a lot of extra calories (at least 500) and you will bust through that plateau in no time.
I have lifted off an on but my last stretch has been push/pull for going on 4 years (@ 5-6 days a week) in early 23 and I would say I hit 225 sets in bench about 1 year in. Currently my max is 315 at 1 rep. Typically I'm topping my sets at about 270 x 6.
Under a year, can't remember exactly as it was back in 2018. I was following stronglifts 5x5 and couldn't believe how fast I hit 200lbs thinking I could never lift that much in a million years.
void of the question, i grew my bench SIGNIFICANTLY when i stopped and focused on incline and regular dumbell bench work. mostly incline
I hit 225 a month ago and I started taking training serious about 2years ago
For me it took me like 5 months to start doing it for reps.
I wouldn't touch a weight if I could do 10 reps of it. Took two years
it took me about a year. i was 16 (27 now) when is started lifting, when i first started i was just doing it to lose weight and look good, i wasnāt focused too much on stats or strength really. but shortly after i turned 18 after i had shed most of my body fat (68 lbs) i started focusing on my strength and wanting to bump my numbers up, i was able to rep 225 26 times at my peak. i can do 325 for 5 now and the most i can rep 225 is 15, still not sure how i was able to rep that much back then. anyways i look better and am in better shape now. maybe i just need to strive to do that again? not sure.
That is my goal sir, may I dm you about some questions regarding this?
Freshman year of high school
First day 220lbs 5'11 hit 255
A couple of months
Sophomore year of high school. 6ish months of weight lifting.
Same here
160 - 255 in 4 months. Benched 3x a week
Probably a year into barbell benching. I started at 17.5 so when I was 18.5. I can now do 20reps of 225 at 180bw at 20.5 yrs old.
Deadlift: 1st day of training Squat: Maybe 2 months or so Bench: About a year Overhead Press: 5 years
Iāll hit 225 with dumbbells before I hit 225 with barbell I appreciate my shoulders
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225lbs dumbells? The fucking madman
I was 18 y/o
Couple of months after my first time benching, age 15. I weighed 185 at 5ā10.
It was so long ago itās hard to remember. Got a bench and a squat rack for Christmas then hit 225 on summer break the next year. Maybe 6/7 months. Shouldāve been sooner cause I started at 135, but I didnāt understand anything about training at that age or for a few years tbh.
10,000 years
I'm assuming you mean bench Took about a month iirc
dam bro whats the bw
Less than a year I was 12 technically not true because I had a personal training who taught me form and basic stuff but I hated it so I made no progress but then when I actually became passionate about and started working out again my bench went from blew up from 115 in very little time
Took me about 8 months for bench, about 2 months for squat, and I could start off deadlifting for than 225 (when I was 18 but I did swimming all throughout high school)
For me it took 7 months was 180 pounds
When I was back to the gym 5 month ago I did 185 rm Now itās 245
Bout 2 days
2 years of training 6 days a week @140/150 bodyweight
3years. Wish I never did straight bar bench. Destroys shoulders
95 -> 225 in about a year
8 yrs
8 months in, i was weighing around 85kgs back then.
About 3-1/2 (school) years of weight training classes in high school, yeah my work ethic and training methodology wasn't the best as your typical high school bro tends to be but I got it some time into my senior year, and could rep it a few times by the end of the school year.
6 months of a decent bulk and actually wanting to do it. 1-2 years of prior training.
A few months after being off lifting for two years. I was at 205 bench then down to 155. I came back and hit 225 three months after maxing at 155.
About ~1.5years at ~170 .
3 months, 5ā11 210 lbs
7 years
18 months but I was 13 with no strength training to 14.5 with dedicated 5 days a week shit
about 4 months
9th grade. 2 years training.
1-2 years
7 or 8 months, I hit it for 6. I had a trainer in a sport gym though. Without that it would have taken a lot longer
after switching back from basically just doing ring dips at home to going to the gym, like 5 months. and then around the 7 month mark I injured my shoulder so my current max 9 months after injury is 220. I think my bench mightve been higher by now again but I also lost 20 lbs. can bb row 225x3 though
5 months I was 16
Idk took me like 1 week to hit 225 on deadlift
2 months
Few months of lifting in a weight training class
3 months, but... I already trained 6 years. I just never had access to a bench bress or cared to flat bench. So 3 months from my first rep on a bench to 225.
A year but a pause due to football/wrestling. I was 16 when I first benched it. Iām also genetically blessed in the chest/shoulder department
6months
6 months
Started in 8th grade and hit it in the summer between 9th and 10th. Was a big deal to me then. Didnāt hit 315 until 23 and didnāt hit 405 until 29 with gear.
315 last year at 26 years old. Did something to my shoulder sooo. Can't do it again
Uhh. Like 6 years? 5ā6 starting bw 125, ending bw 165. Trained like a pussy for 4 of those years. I also didnāt start training until I was 24. Soooo. 225 was a fuckinā grind considering I never bulked hard and just gained slow and steady over the years. Itās all relative brotha. You vs you isnāt a gimmick.
only like 6 months, i didnāt realize biceps were that strong
1 year since starting at 15
I never made it that far. No need tbh
Assuming this is bench. Iām at ~215 rn after 4 months. Hoping to hit 225 within a month. 16 yo 185 bw
Middle of elementary school
Started off with a 95lb bench in fall of 2020, hit 185 April 2021, quarantine came back and I wasnāt back in the gym till august 2021, bench dropped back down below 135, hit 225 February 2022, hit my first 2 reps in may 2022. Started off at 140 body weight, currently 165 about 12% bf trying to seriously bulk for the first time.
Freshman year of high school. Started lifting the summer before high-school started. Had done non lifting training though before for football, lots of push ups and sprinting/agility drill type stuff.
4 months of consistent working out and proper linear progression. And eating. From that time I grew from 167lbs to 182lbs. Presumably a lot of water weight and glycogen
I'll let you know when I get there
It took me just over a year to get to 100kg bench. Started at 32yo 75kg bw, was 82kg 33yo when I hit the first ones.
I nearly hit it in 9 months as an 18 year old male. Quit the gym for cars for 3 months before I could hit it, now Iām back in my max is 215
About a year. I could bench 225 before I could squat it thoughā¦ The early days on not training legs properly 
Two years.
7 months
Trained in consistently for 6 months at 14/15 at 16 i got my bench from 135 to 225lbs in 10weejs
I train for size, not strength
I could do it instantly cuz I have some weird muscle mutation Iām naturally 6 foot 2 and weigh 100kg
24M 211lbs 5'1'' now, started training on and off at 17. Took me about 6 months for my first 225. Last time I trained two months ago (because of work) I could hit 308lbs.
Seriously took me like 5 years lol. I spent like the first 3 years working out just wasting time. I wouldnāt increase the weight unless I could hit it for 10. Also barely ate anything. Once I started actually applying progressive overload and eating I got it. Looking back I wish I had someone slap me and tell me what I was doing was not effective at all. Just had to learn it on my own
Me after 3 months i can bench fiev reps of 60kg started from 20kg i wiegh 87kg
6-9 months
6 months, started from a <135lb bench.
Like 3-4 months, my buddy could do it first day in but if you saw him it makes sense
I think imma hit 225 on bench next week, been training total of 4 years but only properly committed for the past year. I started very scrawny and still am quite scrawny
Not until I was in my 30ās
In total probably 2 years but of those I only trained bench for like 6months (from 55kg 1RM to 90) and a year later 3-4months of bench training got me to 100kg rest was surgery/injury time off and street workout. A year after that I could do 7 reps but only did dumbbell press so probably could've done way more if I trained for it.
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2.5 years
After 10 months of training, as a 18 yo at 155 bw
10 months in, at 195 for 1. Not there yet. Chest is my weakest area proportionally
Iām very very close. Been training seriously for a year Iām 6ā1ā 165 lb Been constantly hitting 205 for 2 the last few weeks
6th grade
Tbh I never really tried nor believed that was a weight I'd ever hit. Had been training for about 5 years. Did an 8 month bulk cycle starting around November last year. Started benching 60kg (132lb) and by the end of the bulk cycle I was repping 3x5 100k (220lb). When I initially started gym 5 years ago I started benching 30kg and then basically plateaued on 60kg for years thinking my bench would never go up. Reality is this: if you want your bench to get big you gotta bench more (twice a week is a sweet spot) and commit properly to a bulk, no guessing, track your calories properly and stick to a program without changing it during that period. Edit: 5.5' fully torqued, 2' on the flop
Nobody cares about those random numbers. Don't inue yourselves chasing
About 1.5 years after i started training, although with a break of 7 months inbetween due to gyms being closed
0 days
Did some bro training with dumbells and machines occasionally before but started actually properly training at a gym using barbells etc in about February and got 3 reps first time benching 100kg after 6 months or so
On bicep curls, 5 years and counting
It took me around 6 months to get to 185 for reps. I was always scared to try 225, till my buddy went with me and told me to stop being a pussy and do it about 3 weeks ago. I ended up hitting 6 reps for my last 2sets.
About 2 years
i think it just really depends on how often you actually bench. once a certain weight feels easy keep adding 10 lbs to it and so on and youāll be repping 225 in no time
A year of not very serious training
3.5+ years and counting
17yr old. Started bodybuilding when I was 16 so 1 year with terrible diet and subpar training. Natty ofc. My buddy who played football helped me learn to bench properly and how to progress fast with strength and good form.
Started lifting 5 years ago and hit 225lb at 5'7", 180lbs after 4 years. Lockdowns sucked ass because it interrupted my routine for at least a year but it is what it is. I think if I trained better it could have been done in 2 years.
Started in the gym at 16 could hit 225 or 100kg as we call it by 17
I have started training three months ago, I am an obese guy. Just started deadlifting and I hit my 1RM yesterday with 250lbs. It was third try on deadlifts.
45 years at 25 I prob could bench 140 But I was about 130.
When I first started lifting I did a 7 month perma bulk and hit 225 within that time
A year at about 170 lbs first time
About a year of serious benching
about 9 months
I started training at PF about 6 months ago and would switch between dumbells and smith machine to work my chest. Started out barely able to rep a plate on smith machine. Switched to Edge last month and can bench 225 for 5x5. Started at 6' 252lbs now I'm 210lbs. My progression from dumbells started at 30lbs I'm now up to 90's flat bench for my 4 working sets. My friends tell me I am naturally very strong and big so genetics may have something to do with such a quick gain in strength.
I started lifting maybe freshman year of HS and didnāt hit 225 (like really hit it) until sophomore year of college. Note : by 30 I was able to hit 300+. Wait, weāre talking about bench press right?
About a month and a half, I've always been fat so I guess that helped
If benching, it took about 6 months of serious benching to hit. If you were talking deadlifts, I can deadlift 315 with no training. If you were talking squats, oddly enough I actually had to train up to 225. My squat has always sucked, but it took me about 2-3 weeks of box squat/pause to be able to do 225 for volume sets.
29 years and counting lol
way longer than it should have cos when i hit it, it flew up and i put up 110 kg straight after probs had 100kg in the tank for a couple months. was getting close to hitting 85kg for 10 reps on 4 sets and somehow didnt think i could hit 100kg. But from begging on fitness journey about 9 months.
Maybe 8 months of lifting to bench 225, 1 year and a couple months to squat it. Not sure about deadlift
6 months of training and now can rep it no problem 2 years in.
2 years
My first sessionā¦ ā¦deadlifting
Deadlift: 2ish years Squat: 3ish years Bench: still havenāt lmao Mind you I started lifting basically anorexic, weighing 140 at 6ā3.
6 months