If someone can bench press 225lb once they are in the upper 1% of Human Strength and Power in the world. A lot of that upper 1% has used Performance Enhancing Drugs to get to that mark. I have never taken Performance Enhancing Drugs and as light volume work I cranked out 10 reps tonight with no spotter and could have likely dug in and got that 11th rep. My PR is 13 and if I focused on getting that number up I could likely achieve 15 if it was my full focus.
Right now I'm weighing in right at 225lb so this is essentially doing my body weight 10X for reference. You have to go through this bulking process to then go through a cut to have the volume and strength in your muscles. Dropping to 205lb I look pretty insanely jacked and my abs and obliques chisel in a lot more. For a couple weeks in that 205lb window I would still be able to get 10X on 225lb on Bench but then after a couple of weeks it would no longer be able to get that kind of volume. Suddenly it will drop to 8 reps or so.
That is just the reality of things when you are natural. You can't walk around shredded year around and keep all your power. I'm way more athletic at 205lb. I start to really fly on the basketball court.
With Flat Bench if I can get 275lb X 3 that would be really solid volume. I have been very close to getting that last spring.
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