1,000 pound Bench Press failure at Mr. Olympia

[mm107]

300lbs out of a shirt damn.....

what make is it?

i get about 100lbs out of my shirt now....not even 75.....lol i need to learn the groove better


and for all you fucktards saying letme strap on a shirt and bench 200lbs over my max, has never used a shirt....

it takes training in the shirt to really be able to use it....this is why i only get 75-100lbs out of mine right now

 

[mm107]

oh yea and he hit 1010, last week at a competition

 

[Matt_M.]

Can anyone explain to me how a shirt can add so many pounds to your bench press?

 

[Scotsman]

Can anyone explain to me how a shirt can add so many pounds to your bench press?

It really doesn't it's not like if you're a 200lb bencher and put a shirt on you are suddenly a 500lb bencher. These guys setting the records train only to press in the shirt. This also means that the raw bench isn't being focused on and won't go up in kind. The training regiment for shirted is vastly different from raw. You still have to be able to stabilize the weight, lock it out, and not have it crush your joints.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[Tweakle]

Mike I don't know the make, I saw a vid of the guy on youtube last month and read his training log and was amazed at how much he was getting after a short while training shirted (he was stuck at 400 raw I believe, then trained in the shirt for a few months).

I know the belly-bencher's mantra is ''the shirt only helps a little'' and ''they could bench that much raw if they trained for it'' but that's not always the case.

 

[mm107]

Mike I don't know the make, I saw a vid of the guy on youtube last month and read his training log and was amazed at how much he was getting after a short while training shirted (he was stuck at 400 raw I believe, then trained in the shirt for a few months).

I know the belly-bencher's mantra is ''the shirt only helps a little'' and ''they could bench that much raw if they trained for it'' but that's not always the case.

looks like i need to get THAT shirt lol

i believe some equpiment is better, in fact i had a pdf where the equipment was tested for sttrenght/stretch/etc

but crap 300lbs out out a shirt is insane.....

 

[silver_shadow]

i'm not a PL and never will be but i can't understand why the shirt (and to some extent squat suits) get dissed so much when almost every sport is undergoing changes with respect to gear used.

take tennis for example, racquets used to be made of wood and heavy, they are now larger but lighter, made of alloys, bigger heads with a larger sweet spot. players now can hit the ball harder and with more spin, which in the old days would have led to wrist injuries. soccer balls and boots have changed so that the ball travels faster and swings more... the list goes on and on. and yet i see powerlifting gear is the most hated on... again NOTE: i'm not even talking from the inside.

 

[silver_shadow]

oh yea, not to forget, motor sports - will someone argue that F1 cars are getting too light and more powerful while getting stronger and safer for the drivers? or motogp bikes - just the switch from 2 stroke to 4 stroke a few yrs ago (i think 4?) resulted in huge power increases... does anybody shake their heads and say, but it's become too easy! i think, it is inevitable with every sport, people have to move on.

 

[redsamurai]

I agree that all sports undergo changes.....but lifting is something primal. I don't want to see equipment take it over. If shirts were that "functionally" good for you......football players would use them, strongmen like Pud would use them. But they're so lift specific......they don't translate into anything else. I'm appalled at learning that training in a shirt doesn't even elevate your raw bench.......there's no point then. I would use a shirt if it helped me get over a raw plateau. And they do stabilize the weight.....a TON!! That's why you can press more.......Rychlak get's out of the suit groove and misses the lift badly. Now supposedly Rychlak can't bench more than 600 raw.....the New England PL federation called him on it.....he didn't even acknowledge the charge....so there's probably some truth to it. So big gene get's 400 pounds out of his shirt. Now Mendelson......he bench's 730 raw, I'm more impressed with that boy than I am with Rychlak. 730 raw, 1000 with a shirt......so he works both. And he actually looks athletic....unlike Rychlak.

 

[Devastation]

it always amazes me the ignorance of the masses, and not just in regards to bench shirts. training in a shirt DOES increase your raw max. my own personal raw max went up 40 lbs in 5 months without me EVER doing one RAW 1RM during that entire time. people i train have also seen their raw bench go from shirt work, and world record holders i've spoken with have confirmed the same in their experiences

and layoff bashing gene. the man has accomplished what NO ONE else has in competition, benching 1010. you should give the man respect for what he's done instead of trying to tear him down, considering less then .5% of anyone on this site will ever be able to say they've benched half that much in whatever is available at the moment

also the apf recently announced the addition of raw lifting in our federation so now EVERYONE who CHOOSES to, really what all of this is about, can compete on the playing field they choose, and hopefully start to put an end to all the BULLSHIT talked in this sport, from mostly outsiders, ie gymrats, as to why equipment is allowed, how it's not fair, or that it's fake lifting(????), blah blah blah