Originally Posted by
Elessar
I never could bench all that much -250 at best.
But one single rep of astonishing weight is not a measure of muscular endurance.
Why do people think that the NFL combines use 225 lbs as a measure? To see
how many times you can do it non-stop - muscular endurance.
I could curl 135 3 sets of 8 reps, power row the same amount the same number of times,
Lat pull 200 3 sets of 8 times. There was the thrusting strength needed for blocking
or shivering a block.
One of the things we used on the bench press as a measure was bench pressing your own bodyweight 20 times. I could at one time do 225 for 10 reps.
I've just never considered it a practical exercise. The NFL is a good point though. I can SEE football players using the bench press, especially linemen because a lot of their job is basically a vertical bench press.
The other thing that got me to cackling about these competition bench pressers is there were a LOT of toothpick legs in the crowd 
That's like having 440 under the hood and a Yugo transmission. Where the rubber meets the road the transfer of power is not there.
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