>freedom units >old british imperial units
America should've led the way with the metric system but they decided they like thier people moronic and confused.
It's not even average for lifters.
almost all studies done on lifters are self reported.
if you actually did a study on the average man that walks into a gym for any reason his bench would be way lower.
that being said 2pl8 is a completely reasonable bench and there is no reason to ever go above it.
This is true only the people who love those lifts actually get more than two plates, my gym is full of strong people but the normalBlack folk there will never lift 2pl8.
There are four kinds of people at my gym. >dude who doesn't look like he workouts, but actually does a lot of lifting all around >dude who looks good because teenager and brosplit >dude who can't lift anything >dude who looks like he lifts a mountain, but is doing lmao 80lb pulley tricep pressdowns all day
and i mean i'm at the gym every day, for 2 hours. I see all kinds of people. it's insane.
I see a decent amount of people go over 2pl8, but in comparison to the 80+ people in the gym at any given moment the 2pl8 lifters are very rare.
>no reason to ever go above it
there is if you want more strength. i play hockey and the more i can lift the more powerful my checks are. for the average office drone maybe not really necessary; i'd just increase the volume instead if i didn't need strength.
This is highly untrue. An average male (XY) above the age of 15 (hormones bro) will easily be able to hit 295 lbs bench for 1rm after a year of lifting.
This is highly untrue. An average male (XY) above the age of 15 (hormones bro) will easily be able to hit 295 lbs bench for 1rm after a year of lifting.
>less than 2pl8 yuro >8 lbs less than real2pl8
Yeah it's fake, average lifter is gonna have a 1rm of at least 255 (2pl8x5)
Fricking kek. I'm dying mate, please don't ever change. None of you go changing on me.
I would say that 2pl8 is average amongst guys that consistently lift and go to the gym. 2pl8 is definitely way above average for the entire male population though.
Learn to read it says lifters. If you don’t bench 2pl8 after a year you are fricking up hard somewhere
Most guys should by default be able to bench their body weight +- 10lbs or there’s something seriously wrong with you. So if you weigh 150 lbs you should be able bench 150lbs day one. You need 75 more lbs to hit 2pl8, if you can add 2,5lbs per week that’s 30 weeks, just over half a year. If you weigh 135 lbs you need 90 more, that’s still just 36 weeks. And if you weigh less than 135 you’re a girl so then yeah maybe it’ll take way longer/never to get 2pl8
And in both these scenarios you just have to be able to add 2 lbs a week to hit that goal, that’s not difficult.
>Most guys should by default be able to bench their body weight +- 10lbs or there’s something seriously wrong with you
good b8, 7/10, this part ruined it though
I started lifting 4 weeks ago after living basically my entire life in front of a computer.
I managed to bench 100kg in the third week. I know this is good but how good is it?
Either way it makes me happy 🙂
If this is a farce designed to frick with my ego you failed I rep 3pl8's. If this is true I find it hard to believe as I seen plenty of dyels thinking a plate and a 25 is a worth a lemon scented frick.
I started at 100kgs and I must have done it out of sheer ignorance because I've never been able to repeat the amount of reps I did. It's seriously frustrating. I showed up on my first day and thought "well, I'm 130 kilos, and I can do push-ups, so, I dunno, 100kgs?" And I knocked out 10 then 8 then 5 reps. Years later and struggle with 4 sets of 5 reps with 90kgs.
Every other lift has gotten better, but I've never been able to repeat that first day on the bench.
If that isn't bullshit and actually is the "average" in their database, it's probably because of sampling bias. You aren't going to see all of the 1pl8 Johnnys and 0.5pl8 zoomers entering their bench into a tracking site.
Every novice lifters goal is to bench 2pl8, so it doesn't surprise me that they work towards that, the better question is how many actually lift more than that for reps?
can we get this converted to freedom units please? im not a bugman sorry not sorry
Its 220lbs mr raul quantitavious, you dirty fricking Black person
h8'ed cuz they got b8'ed
literally just google "98 kg lbs"
moron
no
multiple by 2.2 you mongoloid ape
If you've lifted for more than a week your mind should automatically convert 100kg to 2pl8 to 225lbs
kys mutt
Quartile the average american female weight
>freedom units
>old british imperial units
America should've led the way with the metric system but they decided they like thier people moronic and confused.
864 quarter pounders
864.21 actually
About 200 feet
It surprises you that most of the world doesn't play high school football and don't graduate benching 3pl8?
Operative word here is lifter, however they define it
Wtf, 2pl8 is the norm now ?!
One rep max, Black person. Now repping it is a different story.
Well is it the average or is it impressive? It’s not both.
It's average for lifters, impressive for dyels.
It's not even average for lifters.
almost all studies done on lifters are self reported.
if you actually did a study on the average man that walks into a gym for any reason his bench would be way lower.
that being said 2pl8 is a completely reasonable bench and there is no reason to ever go above it.
This is true only the people who love those lifts actually get more than two plates, my gym is full of strong people but the normalBlack folk there will never lift 2pl8.
There are four kinds of people at my gym.
>dude who doesn't look like he workouts, but actually does a lot of lifting all around
>dude who looks good because teenager and brosplit
>dude who can't lift anything
>dude who looks like he lifts a mountain, but is doing lmao 80lb pulley tricep pressdowns all day
and i mean i'm at the gym every day, for 2 hours. I see all kinds of people. it's insane.
I see a decent amount of people go over 2pl8, but in comparison to the 80+ people in the gym at any given moment the 2pl8 lifters are very rare.
>no reason to ever go above it
there is if you want more strength. i play hockey and the more i can lift the more powerful my checks are. for the average office drone maybe not really necessary; i'd just increase the volume instead if i didn't need strength.
It's definitely not the average, i very rarely see anyone benching 2pl8
>It's definitely not the average, i very rarely see anyone benching 2pl8
Yeah, if you're American that makes sense.
>shorter
>fatter
>weaker
I'd say this is pretty achievable for a 1RM. Anyone who's trained a few months and has form really nailed down can probably do 2pl8
I could bench this at a time I wouldn't consider myself a lifter. I can't now and I do consider myself one, but there was a time
Of course it's bullshit. It can't be both average and impressive
It’s average because there’s one guy that benches 52,000 lbs, we need to know the median bench press
I assume they mean impressive with respect to what a non-lifter could manage on their first attempt
this anon gets it
>less than 2pl8 yuro
>8 lbs less than real2pl8
Yeah it's fake, average lifter is gonna have a 1rm of at least 255 (2pl8x5)
This is highly untrue. An average male (XY) above the age of 15 (hormones bro) will easily be able to hit 295 lbs bench for 1rm after a year of lifting.
The average male over 16 with a non athletic background and no genetic diseases should be able to hit 320lbs within a year of training
The average male over 18 with a non athletic background and no genetic diseases should be able to hit 375lbs within a year of training
Fricking kek. I'm dying mate, please don't ever change. None of you go changing on me.
this is currently my 1RM (should hit 260 next week). will anyone be impressed by this?
You will be 51st percentile so no
Average man doesn't know how to lift and is fat so obviously that is a half rep of half their bodyweight with shit form.
I got this after less than a year of lifting but hasn't made any more progress since I have been cutting but it isn't that hard to achieve
>can't even bench 170 lbs
🙁
I do 170 4x4. Haven't tried higher yet
I would say that 2pl8 is average amongst guys that consistently lift and go to the gym. 2pl8 is definitely way above average for the entire male population though.
This. ~100kg is not hard to do even with subpar diet and routines.
Learn to read it says lifters. If you don’t bench 2pl8 after a year you are fricking up hard somewhere
Most guys should by default be able to bench their body weight +- 10lbs or there’s something seriously wrong with you. So if you weigh 150 lbs you should be able bench 150lbs day one. You need 75 more lbs to hit 2pl8, if you can add 2,5lbs per week that’s 30 weeks, just over half a year. If you weigh 135 lbs you need 90 more, that’s still just 36 weeks. And if you weigh less than 135 you’re a girl so then yeah maybe it’ll take way longer/never to get 2pl8
And in both these scenarios you just have to be able to add 2 lbs a week to hit that goal, that’s not difficult.
>Just add 2lbs per week onto your bench
>Its that easy
do you even lift?
>add 2 lbs a week to hit that goal, that’s not difficult.
Based beginner
Cool let me find several 1lb weights to add
>Most guys should by default be able to bench their body weight +- 10lbs or there’s something seriously wrong with you
good b8, 7/10, this part ruined it though
The sad part is, that there are actually people stupid enough to believe this.
Only actually decent answer. Rest of you are weaklings lol.
>T. Getting close to 2× bw bench after 3 years
>for a male lifter
yeah that sounds about right. this isn't a number for the AVERAGE untrained male, OP.
Whats this in dumbells? Yesterday I floor pressed 75lbers for 6 and I'm still riding that high
There is zero actual data for stuff like this because no organization is going to fund stupid bullshit like this.
its most likely an online poll. Literally everyone who says they used to workout back in highschool all had a 225 bench with noodle arms
Dunno about OPs site but colourman works on ratios of competition lifts for most common exercises.
Stronglifts is such a joke. Full of liars. It’s like when they allow self reported pp size
>The average man can bench press 215lbs
Most frickin guys at the gym can't even squat that. Who the frick wrote this "statistic"?
Average male LIFTER, not average male
I dont do 1rm, sorry
Average male lifter is maybe 5% of the total male population in strength
>collects all their >data via completely unverified, self-reported submissions from insecure online gymcels
well we can take this right to the bank
>"lifter"
>1RM
What a useless fricking metric
I started lifting 4 weeks ago after living basically my entire life in front of a computer.
I managed to bench 100kg in the third week. I know this is good but how good is it?
Either way it makes me happy 🙂
hate to break it to you but benching 100kg as a fat frick is not impressive
>avarage
>very impressive lift
No, that's moronic, that's not how avarage works
I weigh 154 pounds and I bench 2pl8 for reps easily. This is not impressive. I'm probably the weakest dude in my gym due to weight.
When the average male weighs more than 200lbs, is that actually impressive?
The most I benched for 5x5 was 80, so yeah. I almost never bench, though.
I should do it more often, I guess.
If this is a farce designed to frick with my ego you failed I rep 3pl8's. If this is true I find it hard to believe as I seen plenty of dyels thinking a plate and a 25 is a worth a lemon scented frick.
I started at 100kgs and I must have done it out of sheer ignorance because I've never been able to repeat the amount of reps I did. It's seriously frustrating. I showed up on my first day and thought "well, I'm 130 kilos, and I can do push-ups, so, I dunno, 100kgs?" And I knocked out 10 then 8 then 5 reps. Years later and struggle with 4 sets of 5 reps with 90kgs.
Every other lift has gotten better, but I've never been able to repeat that first day on the bench.
ignorance strength is real, they should remove the numbers from the plates
it's for a LIFTER
not for any random moron off the street
and yes, that is average for anyone who can reasonably say he lifts
literally did that after 3 months of lifting when I had low T from cancer
If that isn't bullshit and actually is the "average" in their database, it's probably because of sampling bias. You aren't going to see all of the 1pl8 Johnnys and 0.5pl8 zoomers entering their bench into a tracking site.
Every novice lifters goal is to bench 2pl8, so it doesn't surprise me that they work towards that, the better question is how many actually lift more than that for reps?
yes, but that's on day 1 at the gym, if you have been lifting longer it should be higher