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Who is the strongest?(pound for pound)

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congrats U2fan.

I'm just getting back into working out but in my prime I benched 195 and weighed about 145-150. I also cleaned 195 and squated 295 (and that was parallel squats, nothing else counts)

Less than a year ago I did 19 pull-ups (and those were full Marine Corp pull-ups with a big, black Gunny Sergeant who you didn't want to mess with making sure) while I was in ROTC but I dropped that and haven't done them in a while.
At that time I also ran 3 miles in 17:56 for the PFT OohRah!

pmark I want to see that. Not saying you can't do it but if you can then you've got some talent.

 
And for you people wondering, I'm a guy and I'm 23 years old, 5'3". I just have a very low percent body (last time it was check it was around 4%) and a very fast mertabilisim(sp?).

I used to wrestle back in high school(about 5 years ago) and since then always keep the weight off.

Oh and I was taking about free weights too. Doing dips really helps out.
 
benching has no use in real life IMO. my arms feel times weaker after an entire year of slackage but i bench more than i used to! we would be better off using culrs and dips for comparing how strong people are. granted, 185/135 looks pretty good... i was 180/140 so thats pretty close i guess 🙂
 
Bench press does nothing except put exessive strain on your rotator cuff, and make you go for that "frog" look. Like others before me have said, the better mesurement is deadlift and squat.
 
i squat 405. i don't do deadlifts because i injured my back when i was in high school playing soccer in honduras (i grew up there).
 
Prodigy you're only saying that cause you can't bench much 🙂 j/k

I would like to get back into legs and I'm at a great gym - except for the fact that its yuppy overrun. There isn't even a free weight bench press at this place, no free weight squat, and NOT A SINGLE GODDAMN OLYMPIC BAR!! I tell no lies. Its got a lot of good equipment except for those facts. So deadlifts are impossible at my gym and for legs i'm stuck with smith squats and hack squats and leg press, and of course leg extensions but I find those quite useless for building size.
 
Guys,

I don't see what is so different when a 110lbs guy lifts 190 and a 160lbs guys lifts 250? Is it that hard to believe?

Just because I'm around 110lbs, doesn't mean that I'm just skin and bones and no muscle...
 
personally, i think free weights are the only way to go.
i can do about 10000 on a smith and extensions are also quite easy.

if they don't even have the basics--bench and squat-- i advise that you go to a new gym because it's not as good as you think 😉
 
there is a big difference between 100 and 160 pound person, btw i'm only 5'4. if you weigh 100 and are an adult, by default you're under 5'4 period. Secondly, if you're benching 190 (and you're only 100), you must be very very muscular- so you have to be short. so either you're 4' and weigh 100, or you're just lying.

that's the difference.
 
Well I already stated that I'm 5'3" and around 4% body fat.

Oh and I have a 27-28 waist so I have a small frame therefore, I don't weight that much.

But all of those factors doesn't mean that I can't spend time in the gym and lift weights and build up muscle.
 
Actually, I can believe it if he's only 5'3". I just couldn't imagine someone weighing only 110 pounds 😛
 
Good bench. You may have promise if you want to keep it up.

In my experience being five three and 135-140 lbs is about right especially if you say that you are around 4 percent bf. If you have done wrestling before then i'm sure that you have good muscle density and/or strong soft tissue ie ligaments and tendons.

When it comes to benching many factors come to play. I haven't been working out as much lately having a wife and new kid and school so my bench has dropped. That's the thing, if I don't keep up bench it drops like a brick. Being that i'm a bodybuilder and not a powerlifter I don't do much bench at the moment. More dumbbell presses, flat and incline. I can maybe do 315 max for one rep probably a lot less nowadays. However, I can roll out of bed and throw on a belt and squat four wheels for 8 reps (with medium effort).

For me, my performance is directly attributable to my training and to my genetics. I can squat like crazy because i'm only five seven but i weigh around 235 at the moment. And at five seven I have relatively short legs and I wear out the inside thigh area of my sweats real fast. Quite annoying with constant patching.


Anyways, my point is that benching performance depends on certain factors. So it's not hard to believe that you do the weight you do at the height and bodyfat you claim. I'd say keep going in the gym.
 
pmark, I believe you. I wrestled in HS (I wasn't that great) and I saw some pretty strong little guys.
But if you could bench 190 and wrestled 103 then unless you are from Iowa or something you should have been ripping guys' arms off. Your stronger than me and that's what I would have done to those 9th, 10th, and 11th graders who could stay that small.

Did you go to state? Place? Nationals?
The guy that wrestled 145 on my team wasn't all that strong but he won state twice, runner up one year, and almost placed in the nationals to become an All American. Man was he good. He made me feel helpless. Ah, HS.
 


<< Just because I'm around 110lbs, doesn't mean that I'm just skin and bones and no muscle... >>


i find it hard to believe...sure you aren't JUST skin and bones, but muscle is way way heavier than fat...if you were a muscular guy you'd be a lot heavier...or at least I would think. and 4% body fat doesn't sound too healthy. I thought anything under 7 or 8% was considered dangerous? you are short though, so you should get into some high intensity training. short guys can build muscles much quicker.

btw, I'm 5'11&quot;, 220lbs, 13.5% body fat (29.7 lbs fat)...I'd like to get to around 10%.
 
Well when I was in the 103 weight class for my freshman and sophmore year, but then my state changed to weight classes of 100 and 106 so i moved up to 106. I tried to cut down to 100, but couldn't do it.

I never went to state so nationals were out of the questions too. My weight classes were one of the most competitive ones, once you made it past all of the freshman fodder. Looking back on it now, strengths helps but it is really technique that wins at the end. I didn't have the technique that kids who were wrestling since they were 10, so I tried to out muscle them. It works, but not to the extent of getting pass regions and onto state.

I wanted to wrestle in college but the lowest weight class is 118 so I took that as a sign to hang up boots up.
 
I used to work with a man who weighed something like 240 and benched just over 400. He's out of weight lifting now and back into body building/sculpting.



Me? I just kick really hard. 🙂
 

In College (93), my best bench single press was 335. My roomate (who use steroids) could incline bench 375... more than once. He was a monster.

Hehe, my best squat was 315 for 5... I never did try to figure out how much I could do max there. Oh, I was 203 then, and 6'1&quot; tall. To give you and idea of proportion.

Today I'm 31, I can do 225 for 6, but I won't push it. I live alone and my cats are not very good spotters. I do however have only olympic weights.

Machines are suck... Don't post machine scores. Freeweights only.

Oh, and your height and arm length make a difference. I can't stand those 5'4&quot; - 5'8&quot; guys who boast because they lift more than the 6'+ guys. They have to move the weight less of a distance to complete a rep, so of course it is easier.

There, I said it, ya happy now!

 
When I was in high school there was a guy that could squat over 500. He was only 5'4&quot; but wrestled at 145. Of course his dad was the wrestling coach, so I think he was pretty much born with weights in his hands.
 
That's funny! A whole bunch of computer nerds discussing how much they can lift. 🙂

Personally, I never get any exercise and I don't really care that much. I have no idea how much I could lift. I weigh about 130 lbs though.
 
pmark is a freak if he's telling the truth. Every person I know who weighs around 100-110 has hardly ay muscle and usually can't even get their weight.
How old are you pmark, men are at their physical peak at 28-29
Free weights are the only way to go.
I have done 21 pull-ups before all the way down.
Probably only get 17 or 18 now.
4% body fat is heathly. Michael Jordan was supposedly 3-4% body fat during the basketball season.
But you are not suppose to go below 3%.
Bruce Lee was supposedly around 1% body fat and the doctor told him to slack up some. Lee just pushed himself harder and died because his mind and body couldn't handle it.
He died basically because he was so healthy that he was ill.
Hard to believe but true.

Dips are the best.
 
Not everybody is a computer nerd yet. I'm trying but I still have a long way to go before I'm like some of the guys here. And I don't ever plan on getting fat and not exercising.
 
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