Less than 11.4% are in the 225 bench club

[YolkedBrah]

Repped 225 for 28 reps.. did I make it?

[Nicklol]

never tried to lift 225.

but im pretty sure if i did it fresh , I could do a few reps atleast

[Jaqen]

185 for 2 reps.

some day brahs

[fitguy23]

Repped 225 for 28 reps.. did I make it?

too weak brah. Do ya even lift i mean i mean seriously do ya even lol jk. strong

[FunkymonkAW]

Joined this club recently. Feels good man.

[prime853]

Repped 225 for 28 reps.. did I make it?

mirin

hit it for 16 close grip on Thursday night

[stealth_swimmer]

Pretty sure when I walk outside I see fat asses not muscular people - but go - keep thinking Americans are super fit and muscular.

Strong lack of comprehension on your part....


you can have muscle and still be fat. In fact there are some pretty fat people at my gym who also have a chit-ton of muscle and are strong. They're not fit by any means, but they do have muscle. According to a BMI, they'd be morbidly obese, but according to bodyfat percentage they're probably just "fat" if that makes any sense.

[boy1da]

yay

[tk217]

Strong lack of comprehension on your part....


you can have muscle and still be fat. In fact there are some pretty fat people at my gym who also have a ****-ton of muscle and are strong. They're not fit by any means, but they do have muscle. According to a BMI, they'd be morbidly obese, but according to bodyfat percentage they're probably just "fat" if that makes any sense.

I want you to spend a day walking around video taping your community and don't go to the gym. And count the number of fat people.

[DasPhilosopher]

It is actually quite rare to see someone repping 225, also show that 99% of people that go to the gym just go to the gym.


The don't train.

brb talk for 20
brb one set
brb talk for anothe 20

... watch some tv

fuk It's dinner time, I gotta get home.

Would Rep you irl with a gift card.

[DasPhilosopher]

it's funny cause the guy i see benching 225+ most often at my gym is actually a scrawny 50+ year old man who comes to the gym at like 9pm in cargo shorts with a tucked in t-shirt

first time i saw him get on the decline bench with 225 i pretty much dropped everything and stared, fully expecting to have to save his life.. nope.

Pics?

[Jimsport]

you guys talking bout 1 rep max or repping 225?

[stealth_swimmer]

I want you to spend a day walking around video taping your community and don't go to the gym. And count the number of fat people.

Wrong way of looking at it. Look at all the fat people who DO go to the gym...

[Str4life89]

Poverty Bench Crew

checking in

[NZninja101]

Average weight of a guy in NC would be highish as its one of the fattest states. Which would grant a little assistance to the bench. In somewhere like Maine it would be a little lower, and somewhere like Japan, it would be way lower.


Odd how they tried to find out the strength of the average man by testing in gyms though, where most people don't go. Also, they only tested people that agreed to attempt to bench 225. Also, many people that couldn't do it, wouldn't, meaning the NC male gym goer who can bench 225 would be even less than 11%.

[21infantry]

You don't get to be the most obese country in the world by going to the gym.

Until they stop using BMI as the calculator for obesity, I will take those figures with a grain of salt. With power of observations from traveling around the world, I would the United States has the largest amount of Fit people in the world, and also the fattest as well. Seems to be a very small majority are in the middle.

[tk217]

Wrong way of looking at it. Look at all the fat people who DO go to the gym...

I barely see any - because they don't care. Meanwhile if I go anywhere near a walmart, a mcdonalds, a burger king, kfc, or a pizzahut - fat ass central.

[GravityLee]

This blows my mind

I tore my rotator cuff and let it heal and don't touch barbell bench now (only dumbbells) but I know I could come in cold and rep out 225

I have to question if these people actually lift or if they are those people you see on the stairmaster whos bodies never change followed by a full body workout at weights a small child could move.

[NoneShallPass]

Fuark yeah feelsgoodman I can barely rep 225 but still in the 11.4%.

[TonyTriangles]

11.4% of gymgoers, you mean.

the percentage of non-gym-goers who can bench 225 is gonna be much lower, so the real percentage is probably tiny

% is actually smaller. their sampled population is from 2453 volunteers from 18 regional gyms. your average gym goer would scoff at a challenge like that, especially the women.







still proud to be in that 11% though

[Str4life89]

Until they stop using BMI as the calculator for obesity

You realize for like 98% of the population it is an accurate measurement, right?

[SuperBlack350z]

first time i benched in my life in 9th grade weight lifting class, i got 135lbls at 120 lbs. People are amazed when they see me bench 225 for reps at my gym. there is always that one guy wanting to see me fail. im still shocked when i see heavy people who cant get 225 for one rep.

[Oceanbreezeez]

Odd how they tried to find out the strength of the average man by testing in gyms though, where most people don't go. Also, they only tested people that agreed to attempt to bench 225. Also, many people that couldn't do it, wouldn't, meaning the NC male gym goer who can bench 225 would be even less than 11%.

I hadn't considered this, but it's a really good point. There would have to be some significant upward bias in the number due to this. If you walk into a weight room with 13 dudes milling around and ask all 13 of them to try to bench 225, at least some of them are bound to decline the challenge because they know that they obviously can't do it.

So if only 9 out of the 13 even volunteered, and then only 1 of those 9 could actually do it, you'd get the 11% found in the study. But that would completely leave out the 4 other guys who didn't even have a hope of doing it, making the true percentage much lower, even while still only considering men who use the gym.

[fahdalsheheata]

only in the misc they will make you feel that 225 is nothing

[21infantry]

You realize for like 98% of the population it is an accurate measurement, right?

Where did you come up with that figure? Its not even close, well within the 30-40% out of range.

[TonyTriangles]

only in the misc they will make you feel that 225 is nothing

it's not that hard. try 5/3/1 and you can get there in less than a year

[MrAWatts]

225x14 checking in

[Bando]

People are amazed when they see me bench 225 for reps at my gym. there is always that one guy wanting to see me fail.

I know this feel. Last year I was 7 lbs heavier and getting 275 for some sloppy reps, strangers would comment to me on the lifts. I have a couple friends my weight who use 275 in their warmup routine, so I'm not terribly impressed with my own lifts.

[Ayz33]

such is poverty life

[Breen86]

225x16, 275x8, 315x6, 340x3 what ****ing percentile am I in?