Re: Benching your own weight once
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The truly elite feat is a 2X bodyweight bench but that is usually only seen from competitive lifters and may be what you are thinking of.
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I have a hard time believing this is really that elite. My senior year in high school, after having only trained in the gym six months, I benched over twice my weight. (I weighed 180 and benched 2 reps of 375.) I was on a hardcore lifting routine for wrestling season, but if I was able to do it with less than 6 mos training, I can't imagine it's all that elite.
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If you were a wrestler, your standards for "elite" are going to be a little higher than the average human's.
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