I consider myself a genetic freak. The most ive ever weighed in my life was 171lbs. I consider myself an athlete first, and weightlifter second. So, taking athletics into consideration, bench pressing, and cheat curling are very low on my list when in training for competition. BTW, im an amateur boxer.

When you do exercised such as the bench press, cheater/true curls, triceps workouts, etc, you are really only working out small muscles, that have little to do with increased atheltic ability. Genreally, it is an ill concieved thought that lifting heavy weights makes you slow, and lifting light weights at high reps will increase speed. WRONG!!!!!!!!!! People have also been mislead to believe that lifting heavy weights for low reps will help you gain mass, while lifting low weight, higher reps will help you gain muscular definition. Again, WRONG!!!!!!!

My typical workout routine involves mostly olympic style power lifts, and the ultimate emphises on explosion. Remember, the way you train is the way you perform. Powercleans, cleanpresses, squats, snatches, dead lifts, weighted pullups, weighted dips, combined with my very own core strengthing workout are what i do in the gym. I do bench press, but only for max. I do dumbell press, and one arm dumbell press for chest workouts as well as 1arm, and behind the back clapping pushups. I work biceps, but only preacher curls, and wrestler curls. Also, ive aquired a personal preference for dumbells rather than bars.

The rest of my training will be running sand dunes, weighted sprints, bleachers, swimming, and of course actual boxing training.

Due to a really bad buldged disk , i was unable to workout for the last 7 monthes.

Im currently 155lbs. I have just been cleared to begin training. So Saturday i had to where my body is as of right now.

My max bench was 265, which was kinda depressing considering i was weighing 171 and benching 350. My Squat dropped from 530, to 360. My vertical reach took a monsterous hit form 41" to 31" . I powercleaned 200lbs 3 times, but couldnt hit 225 once, when i cleaned 290 8 monthes ago:wtf:. Last but not least, i could once dead lift 625, now i could only barely do 400.

On the positive side, I could still knock of 35 pullups; down from all time best of 51 but still not bad at all, and do 10 clapping pullueps. Oh yeah, was able to do 8 dips with 100lbs weight, formerly doing 135 in sets of 6.

Bottom line is benching and curling mean jack shit unless your an offensive lineman. If you think because you can bench 300 and cheater curl 100lbs, your gonna be unstopable, your wrong. If you have really big biceps, chest, and shoulders, and think you have one punch knockout power, again your wrong.

Power= Force x Acceleration. Seventy five % of your total human body power comes from you lower body and core. Remember the more muscle mass you have, the more slow twitch muscle fibre you posess. That makes you unathletic.

Sorry to ramble on, i just thought i would shed some light on the subject.

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GoldenBoy812 Reviewed by GoldenBoy812 on . For all the ppl who go to the gym its no contest or anything but i was just wondering for some of the men here how much can you, or how much do you benchpress rather and how long have you been training? im currently lifting 70kg but i cant normally do more than 14reps in one go Rating: 5