225 lbs. x 50 times in 10 minutes

[AtlBrvs4Life]

Best troll ever.

[Stew]

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I was watching the episode with Ted Forrest's bet about the 225 bench press 50 times in one day with some friends and we got to talking about it and I said that I bet I could do it 50 times in 10 minutes. They all roundly agreed that I could not, and so, for a wager of 100 dollars from each of them I will attempt to bench press 225 50 times in ten minutes this afternoon. I will keep you updated. I am not REALLY confident about, but I think I will be able to do it. I am 6'1", 220 pounds, 22 years old. I can rep 225 probably 12 or 13 times in one set, but obviously the second set I am not going to get that many and so on. We'll see.

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You can't do it. In order to do it, you're max press would have to be around 450 - 500, which I doubt that it is.

Good luck though.

[SossMan]

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I think your best choice is to not go to failute on your first set and just do sets of 8 with recovery time in between.

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I agree that this is a better plan, but I still don't think it's very realistic to do 50 in 10m when your peak set reps is around 13.

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What about doing 5/min. Do 5 then rest for like 35 seconds or whatever....do another 5?
May be his best shot...i still hate the bet.

[doubledown998]

There was someone a couple weeks ago stating that he was going to attempt to duplicate Ted Forrest's drinking accomplishment, but never reported back... I'm guessing this one will end up the same way.

[italianstang]

So the plan was to do seven sets of seven with a minute or so rest in between each set. I had a timer and a spotter, but if the spotter touched the bar or needed to help at all then that rep wouldn't count, I wanted them all to be completely legitimate.

Set 1: The first set of 7 flew by easily, it only took about ten seconds and wasn't hard at all. I decided to wait until 1 minute total had elapsed and start the second set.

Set 2: Also easy, took a couple of seconds longer, but got all seven out easily.

Set 3: Got out all seven but was definitely struggling by the last rep.

Set 4: Got to 7 reps barely, definitely had a hard time getting the last one up.

Set 5: Got to six reps and stopped, I felt I would have made it too hard on myself for the next few sets and I at this point decided to drop down to sets of smaller reps, just a little more often. Total reps: 34, Time elapsed: 6:45.

Set 6: Despite being very sore at this point I was still confident, only 16 more reps in over three minutes. I aimed for six on the next one and BARELY squeaked out 5.

Set 7: At eight minutes elapsed I started the seventh set and managed 3, not very easily.

Set 8: Here I only needed eight more but I had only about 90 seconds left. I was able to get two.

Set 9: With six more required and a minute to go I got 2 more up.

Set 10: I decided to wait until the absolute last minute to try and start my last 4 reps to give myself the longest possible time to recover. Although that really isn't that much time considering I ended the last set right after 9 minutes. I started my last 4 reps with about ten seconds to go, managed to squeeze out 2 and crossed the ten minute mark with 48 total reps.

This wager cost me $200, and no I could not have pushed as hard as I could to get two more reps for the money, believe me I was pushing as hard as I could already. It was definitely one of the more interesting gambles I have taken and I am actually surprised at how close I got considering I just threw the ten minute number out there, obviously if I had said 15 minutes I probably could have gotten the same action from my friends and definitely been able to complete the task. Oh well. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[eagletmr]

I also think this is the best way to go

[eagletmr]

Read Amarillo Slim's book, and next time you'll burn em with the proposition wagers (that is if you believe every story in there)

[Stew]

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So the plan was to do seven sets of seven with a minute or so rest in between each set. I had a timer and a spotter, but if the spotter touched the bar or needed to help at all then that rep wouldn't count, I wanted them all to be completely legitimate.

Set 1: The first set of 7 flew by easily, it only took about ten seconds and wasn't hard at all. I decided to wait until 1 minute total had elapsed and start the second set.

Set 2: Also easy, took a couple of seconds longer, but got all seven out easily.

Set 3: Got out all seven but was definitely struggling by the last rep.

Set 4: Got to 7 reps barely, definitely had a hard time getting the last one up.

Set 5: Got to six reps and stopped, I felt I would have made it too hard on myself for the next few sets and I at this point decided to drop down to sets of smaller reps, just a little more often. Total reps: 34, Time elapsed: 6:45.

Set 6: Despite being very sore at this point I was still confident, only 16 more reps in over three minutes. I aimed for six on the next one and BARELY squeaked out 5.

Set 7: At eight minutes elapsed I started the seventh set and managed 3, not very easily.

Set 8: Here I only needed eight more but I had only about 90 seconds left. I was able to get two.

Set 9: With six more required and a minute to go I got 2 more up.

Set 10: I decided to wait until the absolute last minute to try and start my last 4 reps to give myself the longest possible time to recover. Although that really isn't that much time considering I ended the last set right after 9 minutes. I started my last 4 reps with about ten seconds to go, managed to squeeze out 2 and crossed the ten minute mark with 48 total reps.

This wager cost me $200, and no I could not have pushed as hard as I could to get two more reps for the money, believe me I was pushing as hard as I could already. It was definitely one of the more interesting gambles I have taken and I am actually surprised at how close I got considering I just threw the ten minute number out there, obviously if I had said 15 minutes I probably could have gotten the same action from my friends and definitely been able to complete the task. Oh well. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Just curious, what's your bench press max?

[BeerMoney]

I thought Ted Forrest said 15 times in one day.

Someone of your size should have been able to breeze through this.

[playerfl]

this is what I would do but I wouldn't have taken the bet in the first place.

Just not enough time. I estimate he would need about 5 hours to do it and even that is pushing the limit.