What is the approx./standard weight they would be able to bench the first time they try.
Would putting up 185 be rare to do?
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06-09-2007, 06:56 PM #1
For people who've never lifted a weight in their life...
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius
"If you fall down 7 times, get up 8."
"Just bust your ass" -W8
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06-09-2007, 07:08 PM #2
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06-09-2007, 07:58 PM #3
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06-09-2007, 08:11 PM #4
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06-09-2007, 08:14 PM #5
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06-09-2007, 08:22 PM #7
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06-09-2007, 08:24 PM #8
Just to clarify, this all came about in a Basketball board, when Kevin Durant couldn't bench 185. Then a guy said that the first time he benched, he put up 185, without any prior experience. He did it when he was 16, and he weighed 180 pounds.
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius
"If you fall down 7 times, get up 8."
"Just bust your ass" -W8
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06-09-2007, 08:29 PM #9
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06-09-2007, 08:36 PM #10
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06-09-2007, 09:09 PM #11
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06-09-2007, 09:43 PM #12
The thing is that most people (especially males) have done pushups at some point in their life. Granted: it's different from the bench press, and very few people are pushing the equivalent of 185 when they do a pushup. But when they do things like this, they still use the same muscles. However, everybody is at a different level, even if untrained. I imagine there to be a lot of variance in different kinds of strength within the 'untrained' population. This is the reason why it's silly to assume that everybody starts off at the same point.
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06-09-2007, 09:47 PM #13
Most of my guy friends, who have never benched in there life, THINK they can bench a metric ****ton (of course - "a lot more than you"). They fail to realise how weak ones chest is if you have never benched before. I could do 30 pushups in a minute, and when I got to the bench press for the first time I could only do like 10 reps of 70 pounds
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06-09-2007, 09:57 PM #14
The first time I ever BARBELL bench, I maxed out at 205, but I had 2 years of working out on my total gym, and I had a set of 50lbs dumbells, and I worked my way up to 30 reps on that, and I've had alot of experiance in working out in my brother's apartment complex gym(which consisted of a bunch of machines) And I weighed 190, and I was 16.
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