Claimed 685lb bench at 258lb in the gym

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What do you all think?

This guy claims to be 258lb and admits to using steroids.

From what limited info I know, guys benching this weight are typically at least 100lb heavier. Maddox is listed at 430-470lb.

He bounces the weight but to me that's secondary.

 
DEVILsSON said:
What do you all think?

This guy claims to be 258lb and admits to using steroids.

From what limited info I know, guys benching this weight are typically at least 100lb heavier. Maddox is listed at 430-470lb.

He bounces the weight but to me that's secondary.

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I mean he bounced it but he got it all the way up, still impressive tbh sir.
 
I am thinking at least 2 plates per side are foam.

The fact that he is an admitted steroid user and bounced the weight are not particularly big red flags to me...everyone hitting these weights is on major gear...

He's 258lb....and he doesn't look particularly yoked...I believe he also mentioned being 6'1 which is even worse ...if he was maybe 5'5 then maybe leverages would work in his favor but here it's the opposite...


I am hoping some stronger people here who competed can weigh in....

I imagine he's probably a strong bencher but my gut feeling tells me this was 500-550lb bench...bouncing or not...
 
DEVILsSON said:
I am thinking at least 2 plates per side are foam.

The fact that he is an admitted steroid user and bounced the weight are not particularly big red flags to me...everyone hitting these weights is on major gear...

He's 258lb....and he doesn't look particularly yoked...I believe he also mentioned being 6'1 which is even worse ...if he was maybe 5'5 then maybe leverages would work in his favor but here it's the opposite...


I am hoping some stronger people here who competed can weigh in....

I imagine he's probably a strong bencher but my gut feeling tells me this was 500-550lb bench...bouncing or not...
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He is legit. He is just a bench specialist. He competed maybe 5-6 years ago at powerlifting meets where he benched 545 weighing in at 220lbs. He threw his other lifts. I think he got 200lbs for squat and 255lbs for deadlift. He totaled 1000. I think his most recent competition was at 262lb bodyweight. All that juice aged him though. He is only 27 or something.

It might be some fuckery since his last bench was 540 at 260lbs. It was in 2022. It's about a 100+lb jump for this PR but then there is a lot of bouncing involved instead of pause rep.
 
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NoSmilez said:
He is legit. He is just a bench specialist. He competed maybe 5-6 years ago at powerlifting meets where he benched 545 weighing in at 220lbs. He threw his other lifts. I think he got 200lbs for squat and 255lbs for deadlift. He totaled 1000. I think his most recent competition was at 262lb bodyweight. All that juice aged him though. He is only 27 or something.

It might be some fuckery since his last bench was 540 at 260lbs. It was in 2022. It's about a 100+lb jump for this PR but then there is a lot of bouncing involved instead of pause rep.
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The 540lb bench is about what I think he can do.

I have a hard time believing a 258lb guy gained 100+lbs on his bench at this weight. If he was 350-375lb I'd have an easier time digesting these numbers.

He claims on his IG to have paused 675lb when he was running more gear....

Anyways I am a bit skeptical.
 
DEVILsSON said:
The 540lb bench is about what I think he can do.

I have a hard time believing a 258lb guy gained 100+lbs on his bench at this weight. If he was 350-375lb I'd have an easier time digesting these numbers.

He claims on his IG to have paused 675lb when he was running more gear....

Anyways I am a bit skeptical.
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He is probably legit. He did this at Ironwars. 620 pause rep. There are also pics of him next to Maddox. His upper body is comparable. He is probably closer to 300 lbs at the event.

 
NoSmilez said:
He is legit. He is just a bench specialist. He competed maybe 5-6 years ago at powerlifting meets where he benched 545 weighing in at 220lbs. He threw his other lifts. I think he got 200lbs for squat and 255lbs for deadlift. He totaled 1000. I think his most recent competition was at 262lb bodyweight. All that juice aged him though. He is only 27 or something.

It might be some fuckery since his last bench was 540 at 260lbs. It was in 2022. It's about a 100+lb jump for this PR but then there is a lot of bouncing involved instead of pause rep.
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DEVILsSON said:
The 540lb bench is about what I think he can do.

I have a hard time believing a 258lb guy gained 100+lbs on his bench at this weight. If he was 350-375lb I'd have an easier time digesting these numbers.

He claims on his IG to have paused 675lb when he was running more gear....

Anyways I am a bit skeptical.
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I don't know if dude is legit but I can believe it if he's a bench specialist. Every time I hear "bench specialist," I think of this dude:

https://www.openpowerlifting.org/u/daikikodama

508 lbs raw bench PR (662 equipped) competing at 74 kg. But his comp squat and DL numbers are hilarious. I lift 2 x week and literally suck at powerlifting but those are the kinds of numbers I could put up weighing about the same as him.
 
deadshot138 said:
He's got the Brad Castlebury plates on. That's definitely fake. Moved way too fast.
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Is having only 1 spotter and nonchalant way he did it a red flag to you?

Maybe he thinks if he can do it for real he can use fake plates for a IG video...
 
I'd be scared to die with that weight.

Gear and specialization into BP.

Looks real.

Also doesn't look 350, I believe the 258
 
After looking through his IG and seeing past lifts, I am actually leaning towards it being real. I am also thinking that those plates prob weigh a pound or two less than 45 based on my experience with shit plates like that in the past. So maybe it's closer to like 665-670 or so? It was bounced too, and in the past he hit 600x4 for paused reps. Fake plates are worse than fake natty's in PL, only to be outdone by the very rare, fake raw lifts.
 
NoSmilez said:
He is legit. He is just a bench specialist. He competed maybe 5-6 years ago at powerlifting meets where he benched 545 weighing in at 220lbs. He threw his other lifts. I think he got 200lbs for squat and 255lbs for deadlift. He totaled 1000. I think his most recent competition was at 262lb bodyweight. All that juice aged him though. He is only 27 or something.

It might be some fuckery since his last bench was 540 at 260lbs. It was in 2022. It's about a 100+lb jump for this PR but then there is a lot of bouncing involved instead of pause rep.
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That 600+ bench of his would be 315 when he gets off the juice. It is so common for athletes and lifters nowadays to drastically, and I mean drastically, get much weaker and smaller than the juiced version of themselves. Overeem, Coleman, Kali Muscle, Kevin Levrone, non-TRT Belfort...

It's a big reason why I stay natural. And will be for life. Lots of the very old school Olympic lifters who never juiced stayed strong until they started truly aging beyond fifty.
 
ChickenBrother said:
I don't know if dude is legit but I can believe it if he's a bench specialist. Every time I hear "bench specialist," I think of this dude:

https://www.openpowerlifting.org/u/daikikodama

508 lbs raw bench PR (662 equipped) competing at 74 kg. But his comp squat and DL numbers are hilarious. I lift 2 x week and literally suck at powerlifting but those are the kinds of numbers I could put up weighing about the same as him.
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lol there was a weightlifter in the sixties named Chuck Ahrens and he was famous for specializing in his shoulders. People claimed he was military pressing weights that were heavier than Olympic champions, but he needed people to lift the weight up for him. If no one was around, he'd do one-arm presses, managing to swing the weights up on his own and then using his free hand to hold something for support because the rest of his body just wasn't trained to the same level as his shoulders. (Which was crazy because the rest of his body was pretty jacked, but his shoulders were something else.)

He's the dude on the left:

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