The rule of thumb is that you should never max out your weight, for fear of doing serious damage to a muscle (such as tearing it, or separating it from its connecting tissue).
Ideally, you should bench press at a maximum a weight that you can lift 8-10 times, but that you need a spotter's help on the last lift. When you can press it 12 or more times without the spotter's help, then you can safely add a bit more weight.
I bench on a Smith machine, which allows me to move more weight but not have to balance the weight. I am 50, and my best is 330 lbs. This is an increase of 100 lbs in the last year. I got back into weight training January, 2007, after doing cardio training to drop 30 lbs. I am 6 foot tall, and currently weigh 215 lbs.
50 cent can Bench Press 385 pounds of weights
He benches 170kg, 5x10
The lightweight bench press record for new york state is 225 pounds at a weight of 128 pounds.
There is not much information here, but I am 50 and I have done a ton of searches simply asking what the indiana state bench press records are for old men like me.
Chuck Liddell can bench press 50 billion infinty......infinity times quatrillion pounds. Give or take a few pounds.
it will depend on what kind of bench it is :P
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Many experienced lifters are capable of adding 25-50 percent on their bench due to wearing a bench press shirt and using proper technique. Watch countless youtube videos and many 400lb raw lifters are capable of lifting 600lb shirted, an increase of 50 percent.
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