Simply because I’m an asshole and want to make you people wait for the powerlifter’s program like you’re Rwandan refugees in a Ugandan aid camp waiting for food, I’ll start with the program you’re definitely not going to try- that of Serge Nubret.
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This, in turn, should show you quite plainly that there is definitely more than one way to skin the powerlifting cat, and that anyone who tells you otherwise is a goddamned moron. Not only were their training routines completely unlike each others’, their chest days were so markedly dissimilar you’d find it almost impossible that Nubret was capable of a 500 lb bench press at 212 and Hennessey a 571 at 228. Two of the guys who immediately sprang to mind when I think of 500 lb bench presses are actually from two different sports, but hail from the same era of flat-backed, elbows-flared, ultra-strict bench pressing- Serge “The Black Guy From Pumping Iron” Nubret and powerlifting legend Mel Hennessey. Kim Jong-Un had more support for his attempt to get a worldwide ban on The Interview than Sammartino appears to have had from his sawhorse/bench or spotters in this attempt.
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Pro wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino bench pressing 565 in what appears to be a completely do-or-you’re-dead type of situation. As you’ll see, it’s not the assholes who enter the gym with a 90 lb bag filled with $1000 in trendy prehab and rehab equipment, foam rolling their way to glory as they brandish their Chuck Taylors in a futile attempt to at least look the part- it’s guys who enjoy lifting and do things their own way who eventually slam 500 lbs to arm’s length in ultra-strict form. 400 is, of course, an incredibly elusive number for a lot of lifters, but 500 is really the number where jaws start to drop- 5 wheels clanging against each other as they conspire in a quarter-ton attempt to crush the person fighting them and gravity into a paste.
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Notice, this is not an article about how a couple of choads cracked the 300 barrier, because frankly no one should really give a crap about that for more than a day or two. Thus, I thought it prudent to dig up a couple of lifting routines from lifters who managed to press 500 or more in ultra strict form, just to give everyone an idea of how disparate methods could be to achieve the same lofty goal. It’s not as rare as the internet insists.ĭogmatism about training methods and aversion to anecdotal evidence in training are about as sensible as booking a flight over the Ukraine. Roughly 10% of their team are 400lb benchers. Iowa State’s 2013 400lb Bench Press Club. They’re cripples, and someone needs to smack them in the face with a set of goddamned crutches.
They’re illiterate mongoloid children in search of the meaning of life inside the Library of Congress, and insisting that the meaning for which they were searching is contained inside the only book they were actually able to somewhat read. In short, most modern lifters are little more than robots with access to the modern internet but only outfitted with the hard drives and processors of Apple IIes, so their capabilities are limited to the first 256kb they could download.
Anecdotal evidence has become passe, and they’ll only do it if there exists a spate of peer-reviewed studies claiming that untrained lifters get some benefit out of whatever mysteries are contained within. Conscious thought among the average lift in powerlifting is completely dead, and it’s been replaced by dogmatism reinforced by scientific jargon that ultimately is as meaningless as the unused piece of flesh dangling between the knees of the male segment of those automatons. One of the most horrifying trends in powerlifting in the modern era is the tendency for most lifters to adopt the program du jour and then proceed to suck at lifting along with every other weaksauce candy ass blindly performing the reps and sets outlined therein.