"I can comfortably say I can bench press her weight and she can't bench press mine," Roberts quipped.
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The sub-benefit here as well is saving time: You could learn like seven different movements to work all the same muscles as a bench press, or you could just… learn to bench press.
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He wears gold chains I'm not certain I could bench press.
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"I can bench press young Howard," Crowe wrote on Twitter Tuesday.
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He wants to deadlift 250, squat 215 and bench press 155.
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A bench press that the athlete in question seemed pretty confident about.
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Here's how ... Ask 'em -- seriously -- if they can bench press 315 lbs.
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On the other, it was a heroic, 13-minute bench-press grunt.
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They bench press, bang out bicep curls and lay off the sauce.
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He was basically trying to bench press him to get him off him.
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For instance, a kettlebell floor press can substitute for a barbell bench press.
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We do stronglift work out A (squats, bench press, and bent over rows).
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Place an empty barbell onto the highest hooks of a bench-press rack.
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In fact, he says his 2-rep max on the bench press is 365!!!
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Then I went to the gym and broke my PB on the bench press.
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Here's an easy method of progression you can use to strengthen your bench press:
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What has two seven-foot arms and can bench press 1,000 lbs of radioactive waste?
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But this is like saying the more someone can bench-press, the healthier they are.
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The Decathlon includes 10 events: 400m run, football throw, 40yd dash, bench press, and more.
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Space is a rare commodity, and any scrap contains a treadmill or a bench press.
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The vigorous workout included some agility drills, short sprints, jumps, and hit some bench press.
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Today was strength day, and I hit my record with my bench press — 38 kg!
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Editor's note: If possible, have someone act as a spotter while performing the bench press.
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The essential gear you need to build your own bench press setupThe Rogue Bar 2.0
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To progress your bench press, you'll want to have a variety of weights on hand.
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She can bench-press two-fifty but has the lean muscles of a Zumba instructor.
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The Hobbs in The Fate of the Furious could bench-press three of those Hobbses.
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After winning the state title, Garmon went on to compete in the National Bench Press Championships.
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This would be like a hardcore competitive weightlifter not knowing his one-rep bench press max.
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On this day, one of them was hulking over him as he did the bench-press.
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Inside the gym, he moves quickly between the bench press, bicep curls and a chest fly machine.
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The shoulder throbbed and he was playing against fellow 300-pound men who bench-press 500 pounds.
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The failure group did three sets of six to ten reps on the bench press and squat.
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Not sure if this helps gain traction on the bench press but it's definitely amusing to watch.
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When you're on the beach, nobody gives a damn what you squat, or dead lift, or bench press.
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Many of the players were nervous or anxious, fretting about their bench-press repetitions or their sprint times.
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To the bench-press crowd at the gym, he was simply Joe; to schoolchildren, he was Padre José.
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Those workouts supplement hefty weight sessions in which they bench press more than 500 pounds and squat 700.
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One of the studies in the series even made sure the men even had similar bench press records.
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This is like a bench press but instead you raise your smartphone from resting position up to your face.
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She won for her age group, and qualified to compete in the IPF World Bench Press Championships in Prague.
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After that he throws himself into a mix of back squats, bench press and barbell work, and chin-ups.
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"When you serve like he does, it's not like you need to go and bench press," the Swede smiled.
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Arizona State punter Michael Turk did 25 repetitions of 225 lb on the bench press at the NFL combine.
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Arizona State's Michael Turk, the only punter who participated, recorded 25 repetitions of 225 pounds on the bench press.
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In the footage, AP knocks out 23 reps on the bench press -- it looks like he's pushing 225 lbs.
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"It was hard for me to do bench press, it was hard for me to do push-ups," Carter says.
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Some people might prefer doing a bench press, TRX push-up, or medicine ball chest pass instead, for example, she says.
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In the commercial, Drake hypes himself up by queuing up Swift's "Bad Blood" before getting into it with a bench press.
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Is he the type of guy who stacks the bench press, drops the bar an inch, and then re-racks it?
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Elliott didn't participate in the bench press but was worse in the 40 (4.47 seconds) and in the leap (32.5 inches).
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His chick, Blac Chyna, documented his bench press reps -- although she conveniently kept the bar and the weights out of frame.
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Coaches, scouts, coordinators and fans watched young men in spandex shorts run the 40-yard dash and jump and bench-press.
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That's why Viada likes Harrison's use of the barbell floor press and the incline barbell one-and-one-quarter bench press.
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Now we just need to clock this guy's 40, get his bench press and we'll have a bonafide 60-year-old halfback.
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Today's workout is tons of bench press variations (my least favorite lift), but I'm proud of myself for getting it all done.
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Either way, stock up on hair gel for those devilocks, start hitting the bench press, and get you some Riot Fest tickets.
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Did fans and coaches really believe that athletes like him could weigh 295 pounds and bench-press 600 pounds without chemical help?
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Five feet 10 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds, she could bench-press 350 pounds, and she occasionally took on male competitors.
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In the original submission, the wording of each theme clue was "Spot's spot" and BENCH PRESS appeared in place of TEA SERVICE.
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A set is a given number of repetitions of an individual exercise, whether that move is a bench press or biceps curl.
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You could purchase a bench press specific rack but the problem with those is that they limit you to only that move.
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Melzer sits on a bench press staring straight at the camera, his body a wall of power yet his eyes somehow beseeching.
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"To me, the game was much more about physicality and things that were quantifiable, like how much one could bench press," he says.
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They run a few miles on a treadmill, maybe knock out a few sets on the bench press, and call it a night.
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The footage speaks for itself ... he can run, catch, cut on a dime and looked strong putting up 275 on the bench press.
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At the scouting combine, he topped all linebackers with 30 repetitions in the bench press and posted the fourth-fastest three-cone drill.
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Diaz "timed-out" in protest of the ban during her squat and bench-press attempts at a district meet in D.C. in April.
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The bench press is a tried-and-true exercise that helps improve upper-body strength, while also benefitting your shoulders, back, and biceps.
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His numbers at the predraft combine were sensational, including a sterling broad jump and bench press and a 4.64-second 40-yard dash.
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Barkley runs a 4.4 40-yard dash, has a 40-inch vertical leap and did 29 reps on the bench press at the combine.
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The power he occasionally showed on the field was on display at the scouting combine when he managed 36 reps on the bench press.
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The general program was simple and familiar, consisting of seven common exercises, including the bench press, lateral pull-down, machine leg press and others.
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A rack is an essential piece of any bench press setup as you need it to support the barbell and any weight you're using.
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At a state competition two weeks ago, Tate broke the records for squat, bench press, deadlift and total weight lifted all in one day.
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These events are: 400m run, Football throw, Pull-ups, 40yd dash, Dips, 500m row, Vertical jump, 20yd shuttle sprint, Bench Press, and 800m run.
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At the NFL combine, he ran a 4.5 in the 40-yard dash (SPEEED) and put up 20 reps on the bench press (STRONG!).
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Here's Odell Beckham pushing 315 lbs on the bench press -- impressive -- but the question is -- how much did that shirtless trainer dude help him out?
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At his size you expect him to be strong enough to bench-press offensive tackles, but you don't expect his feet to be so quick.
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"The way you figure it out: You just go underneath and you bench press the whole thing," Schwarzenegger responds, before performing a pectoral-muscle dance.
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Price was limited in mandatory minicamp last week after suffering a torn pectoral muscle during the bench press drill at the scouting combine on March 1.
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"Even more relevant with respect to sports performance, significantly more pronounced increases in one-repetition bench press performance were observed," the authors wrote in their abstract.
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" By the way, Carlos says while he's already gearing up for 2020 ... he ain't quite hitting the bench press or the squat rack just yet. "Nah.
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Richard Ojeda, whom Politico characterized as "JFK with tattoos and a bench press," appears to be the favorite over state legislator Shirley Love for the Democrats.
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" Asked by Leno how he knows this, Schwarzenegger said, "The way you figure it out is, you just go underneath and bench press the whole thing.
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If you want to setup your own bench press station, we've also included a round-up of the essential equipment you need to build your own.
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The exercise can be done without a spotter, though this is only recommended for anyone completely comfortable with the bench press or those lifting lighter weight.
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The test entails completing four movements (seated lat pulldown, seated overhead press, bench press and neutral grip dead lift) as fast and as powerful as you can.
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In the bench press, for example, failure is the point when, after lowering the bar to your chest, you can't get it back to the starting position.
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My brother and I committed to our Rocky-esque workouts: nubby cotton sweats, bench press in the basement, jump rope and speed bag in the back shed.
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I got my first bench press when I was probably 11 or 12 and just tried to correct the problem that way, which actually made it worse.
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Michigan 2131-foot-216, 212 pounds Gary is enormous, fast (21228 212018), strong (2114.9 bench press reps) and able to jump (38-inch vertical, 120-inch broad).
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The groups likewise showed equivalent improvements in muscular endurance, which was measured by how many times they could repeat a bench press exercise, using a low weight.
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They are: flat barbell bench press; barbell military press; wide-grip lateral pulldown; seated cable row; barbell back squat; machine leg press and unilateral machine leg extension.
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Arizona State punter Michael Turk made a name for himself at the NFL combine in a way few players of his position usually do — the bench press.
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It features handles for a "perfect" push up and can simulate other exercise moves like the bench press, dumbbell press, dumbbell fly, cable crossovers, and chest flies.
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Even at a lower weight, he has proven adept against the run and the pass as a strong player (30 bench-press repetitions) who is deceptively fast.
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With a deadlift of 230 pounds, bench press of 92 pounds and squat of 190 pounds, the boy from Minden, Louisiana, is crushing records left and right.
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The all-female powerlifting competition, now in its third year, brings together amateur lady lifters to test their strength in three classic lifts: bench press, squat, and deadlift.
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His data showed that participants improved their 40-yard dash on average by 0.2-0.3 seconds, and doubled the number of reps in the 225-pound bench press.
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In Will and team's reply, they suggested "It has spots" would be a better clue and asked for a replacement for BENCH PRESS since that wouldn't quite fit.
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On Thursday, Turk, who is listed 6-foot, 226 lb, did 25 repetitions of 225 lb on the bench press, a modern record for punters, according to NFL.
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To say Turk set a bench press record for a punter, however, would understate the feat, because punters rarely participate in the weight lifting portion of the combine.
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A former aspiring World's Strongest Man whose muscled physique once earned him the nickname White Rhino, Mr. Benderoth could reportedly bench press 625 pounds and squat 800 pounds.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Kadyrov took to Instagram to mock the sanctions in a video in which he appeared poised to bench press an extremely large amount of weight.
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Unless you bench press live African elephants, New Orleans Saints star Alvin Kamara is about to make your workout look like trash with his RIDICULOUS, new training session!
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Then, it makes its way into the weight room where it leaps right over a bench press and into another room where it gracefully hops over several more machines.
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For example, the "Hot People of Franklin County" chatroom contains some gems like "PhuckMaStick330" and "Buttchug69," and FlyMiamiBro22's buddy icon is an AIM avatar on a bench press.
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At CrossFit Uncontested in Houston, Texas, it isn't unusual to see a woman doing a bench press in a wheelchair, or an amputee doing box jumps with his hands.
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In one study, people with lower stress scores saw greater gains in the bench press and squat after 12 weeks of training compared to people with higher stress scores.
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It's true ... he hadn't joined the 500-pound bench press club -- but he changed all that with one hulk-like lift Tuesday ... and yeah, it was impressive as hell.
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Check out this footage of Dwyane Wade's wife killin' it on the court -- showing off a pretty impressive crossover ... a nice jumpshot ... and some STRENGTH on the bench press.
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When asked to help spot a bench press, I could do so without sliding these headphones on and off my already messy hair and resting them on my sweaty neck.
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After almost three months of training, both the failure and not-to-failure groups increased the maximum amount of weight they could bench press and squat by around 20 percent.
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Todd Gurley was maybe the only human on the planet unimpressed by Aaron Donald's 495-pound bench press this week ... 'cause the running back says that's LIGHT WEIGHT for him.
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During Kentucky's pro day in October, Hawkins was first on the team with a 44 ½ inch vertical leap and 16 repetitions on the 185-pound bench press, according to DraftExpress.
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In other news, CASH MONEY and OH COOL make debuts, and I also really liked BENCH PRESS, ROTTEN EGG, "I am WOMAN, hear me roar," FANDANGO and OP-ED PIECE.
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Between the bros grunting every time they make a bench press rep, the speakers pumping out ear-splitting EDM, and the endless clanking of metal, it can be difficult to focus.
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We never get to know if he could do the bench press, though, because as soon as the bar hits his chest he lets out an impressive, and very loud, fart.
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A mammoth tackle at 6-foot-4 and 347 pounds, Vea was already known for otherworldly strength and he proved it at the combine with 41 reps on the bench press.
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According to a 1991 Entertainment Weekly story, Hamilton worked out three hours a day for six days a week while filming the second "Terminator" film, and could bench press 85 pounds.
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Or should the title go to Jason Momoa, the man who looks like he could bench press his body weight and still be able to whisper sweet Dothraki nothings in your ear?
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Even if you're not working up to your bench press PR (or know what that means — no shame), it's still a great idea to do some strengthening and stretching of your chest.
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" A different kind of candidate in West Virginia - AP: " Richard Ojeda is a retired Army paratrooper with combat medals, 26 tattoos and a 300-pound bench press — no ordinary candidate for Congress.
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After all, if the harmless Chiron can bench press and deal drugs too, is it ever fair to look at any member of a community and assume that you know everything about them?
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"I may not be able to bench-press the same amount of weight as a big muscle-bound guy," study author Sandra Hunter, PhD, associate professor of exercise science at Marquette University, explains.
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What's even funnier ... we asked if Odell Beckham's 315-pound bench press should count (because of the 2-finger spot from his trainer) ... and Dunlap hit us with the real talk -- HELL NO!
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As if to prove this point, two shirtless bench-press bros groove, hoisted on shoulders, high-fiving as though Daft Punk had just shown up to their two bedroom condo in Studio City.
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When you look at someone like Roger Federer or Steph Curry, what enables their greatness much more than their speed or how much they can bench press is the quality of their movement.
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They rounded up a group of guys who'd been training for at least three years, could squat at least 22 percent of their bodyweight, and bench press at least 23 percent of their bodyweight.
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Mixon reportedly posted a 4.43 second 40-yard dash time (which would've been the 4th fastest time among running backs at the combine) and completed 21 reps of 225 pounds in the bench press.
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Starting with a 65-pound bench press maximum, Breckynn surged to being able to lift 150 pounds after a year, putting her in the top three of all female athletes Ingram has worked with.
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"We also have the classic machines that you would see in any big box gym and another space with a big squat rack where you can bench press and squat and dead lift," Ryan says.
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The video documentation, called "Blind Perineum," is shown on a monitor in the present show in a room also containing a bench-press apparatus mostly made of petroleum jelly (it has an invisible interior armature).
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If you want an undersea adventure that's narrated by a person who might also be able to bench press an anchor, look no further than this nature documentary, which has voice-overs from Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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The pace lulls in the afternoon, when out-of-work wanderers toil away on the squat rack, then lurches back to life in the evening, as the masses take out their frustrations on the bench press.
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That's the event where the top draft prospects gather, compete in a bunch of physical tests, and then get made fun of for not doing enough bench press reps by out-of-shape sportswriters like me.
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Arnold got a tip about the trophy during a visit to a local gym in Budapest -- when the owner put him in touch with a bench press champion named Lorand Berke ... the fan who visited Arnold's mom!
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Her circuit includes a warmup and stretches, then bench press, hamstring curls, leg presses, chest flies, lat pulldowns, seated rows, single-leg squats, pushups, standard and side planks, wall squats with a stability ball, and box step-ups.
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Smart Tools Smart Cuffs (starting at $350 — available now)There's more to fitness training than just rep after rep on the bench press or running five miles a day — rehabbing away from the gym is also critically important.
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" Beckham, at 5'11" and 230 pounds, claims via social media that he can bench press 225 pounds 42 times (which beats out previous combine record of 32 reps for running backs), and has a 45-inch vertical jump.
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He only played 26 games in college, but James has the perfect size (6-foot-2, 215 pounds), strength (11 reps on the bench press) and speed (4.47 in the 40-yard dash) to be a game-changing safety.
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She then moves on to the machines: For most exercises, she does three sets of 10 to 13 reps, starting with a bench press (she puts up 70 pounds!), followed by leg curls, leg presses, chest flies, and lat pull-downs.
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All the men did was three sets of 10-12 reps of the bench press, lat pulldown, shoulder press and biceps curl for the upper body, along with the squat, leg press, leg extension, and leg curl for the lower body.
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There, one group began a standard, supervised weight-training routine, consisting of various upper-body and lower-body exercises, such as the bench press, dead lift and leg extension, performed on alternate days, for a total of four workouts a week.
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The out-of-work NFL star appeared to be working out at his 84/7 training facility in Florida -- pushing big weight on the bench press -- when another piece of gym equipment got loose and crashed down on his head.
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It's also nice to be able to bench press one and half times your bodyweight, run a mile in less than eight minutes, and pass any number of other ridiculous tests that health magazines often proffer as benchmarks of being fit.
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Sure enough, I went in and tried to bench press 55 pounds, and was just barely able to do it five times and rack it before my wobbly arms nearly gave out and catapulted the bar into the girls next to me.
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Price sustained a partially torn pectoral during bench press drills at the NFL Scouting Combine on March 1, but following surgery, Price's surgeon sent a letter to all 32 NFL teams with a projection for a full recovery in no more than two months.
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"Those close to him will understand when we say, he was the one-of-a-kind combination of Stone Cold Stunner and animal lover, bench press crusher and most loving brother, Army vet with no time for complainers and a real-life game changer."
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It's a tense event to watch, and it's even more interesting if you fancy yourself as a bit of a gym buff; although not that many casual gym-goers will have tried a clean and jerk, plenty will have given the bench press a go.
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I personally got a lot out of this post about hypertrophy work to get an overall better bench press; real ones know a great bench comes from a holistically strong and balanced upper body, including shoulders and back, and not just chest and arms.
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The couple each went through intense workouts — Rodriguez did arm curls, hit the bench press and raced a coworker while pushing a weighted sled, while Lopez did weighted rows, lat pulls and crunches with a weighted plate — but the mom of two was still focused on food.
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"The deadlift is one of the three powerlifting exercises—the others are the squat and the bench press—and, for that reason, probably not thought of as being particularly feminine," says Tsvietkov when I ask him why many women avoid this effective back, glute, and hamstring working movement.
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As Michael Turk, a 213-year-old punter out of Arizona State, approached the bench press at the N.F.L. draft scouting combine in Indianapolis on Thursday, he was cheered on by a crowd of prospects undoubtedly baffled by the sight of the only punter participating in the test.
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Perhaps of more interest to N.F.L. teams than his bench-press performance: Turk, who played one season for the Sun Devils after having begun his career at Lafayette, averaged 46.0 yards a punt last season, with a long of 75 in a season-opening win over Kent State.
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This "length-dependent component" is one of the reasons why the bench press (high levels of muscle activation at a long muscle length) leaves your chest feeling sore the next day, while the lateral raise (high levels of muscle activation at a short muscle length) doesn't do the same thing for your delts.
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Jamal Adams, Safety, Louisiana State He is not the fastest safety (4.56 seconds in the 40-yard dash) or the strongest (18 bench-press repetitions) but his instincts in pass coverage and his stellar run support make him a potential franchise cornerstone for a team willing to bet big on a position often ignored early.
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Graphic: Bench press: Copper TC/RC benchmark heads for 5th straight decline, here In July, China's top two smelters surprised the market by signing a supply deal for the first half of 2020 with Chilean miner Antofagasta much earlier than expected, suggesting some key industry participants may be looking to break from the annual TC/RC benchmark model.
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Slice's earliest professional fights in the Elite Xtreme Combat organization pitted him against the fading stars of a bygone age: he submitted out-of-shape boxer Ray Mercer, who was famed for his granite chin, and then kayoed a past-his-prime Tank Abbott, a bruiser perhaps best known for his 600-pound bench press and willingness to fight women.
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Fake weights, which can be purchased online at various outlets, have figured prominently in movies (recall Bruce Willis easily bench-pressing 495 pounds in Unbreakable), muscle magazines (publications such as Flex and Men's Fitness have used fake weights in their photoshoots for decades), and even professional wrestling (Dino Bravo's attempt to set a bench press "world record" at the 1988 Royal Rumble was one such stunt).
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English bowls player nails incredible shot after everybody laughed at his ideaThe 42-year-old Zamboni driver who became a hero as the Hurricanes' emergency goalie earned $500 for the win after assuming a kidney transplant had ended his career on the iceA punter from Arizona State became the breakout star of the NFL combine after out-benching his peers in the bench press
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Darts crowd goes berserk after Michael Smith hits the first Premier League 'nine-darter' since 2017Garth Brooks wore a Barry Sanders Lions jersey to a Detroit concert and Trump fans thought he was supporting Bernie SandersA wild catch from one of the top prospects at the NFL combine shows the immense talent in this year's wide receiver classA punter from Arizona State became the breakout star of the NFL combine after out-benching his peers in the bench press
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