Calisthenics and weight lifting

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All the sources I've checked have Cutler at 175 cm and Poundstone at 185. As for weight, I don't know where you got your initial 30-40 kgs of difference from.

Weil's best bench is 31 lbs. more than Columbu's best, while weighing 13 lbs. less. But it doesn't matter; it just proves that Columbu is another lifter with relatively little muscle mass who's stronger than people who are more muscular than him. That was my point all along. Surely you do not dispute that Weil and Columbu have smaller delts, triceps and pecs than Ronnie Coleman and Jay Cutler?

As for the hardest part in benching, anecdotal evidence would suggest that the lockout being the biggest sticking point is only true for shirted lifters. Raw lifters tend to fail at the bottom much more frequently.

There are many sources (let's say the difference is 8 cm), but this is splitting hairs. The weight of IFBB pros is frequently exaggerated, and one magazine who decided to weigh a few pros reported Jay Cutler's weight as a "mere" 117 kgs completely water depleted and stage ready.



Derek Poundstone is 155 kgs.



4 lbs less, to be precise, which hints that Weil has fairly massive upper body muscles, even if he has smaller bones than a typical bodybuilder and does not have the dry Winstrol look.



Yes, a little smaller, but the proportions are completely different, and pecs, tris, and front delts haven't grown much since the 1970s. Most of the weight gain of bodybuilders since the 1980s has been in the gut and in the legs. Ronnie Coleman can dumbbell press 110 kgs in each hand for reps, and has unofficially bench pressed 300 kgs (30 kgs more than Pudzianowski did in his prime) and squatted 370 kgs, so pound-for-pound, he was still freakishly strong.

Like I said: The nervous system plays a small role as well, but this has nothing to do with whether you train for strength or hypertrophy.



This is of course wrong, based on own experiences, and by simply watching other people at the gym. This is also why most injuries happen when attempting to rack the bar again.

That was Muscle & Fitness right? The same magazine also said that Cutler only eat 170 grams of protein a day.





An off-season Jay Cutler is 140 kgs. An off-season Cutler probably still has a lower fat percentage than Poundstone, while also being shorter of course.





Wiki has Columbu at 194 lbs. Obviously he didn't bench his personal record of 525 at his competition weight.





Coleman benched 300 kgs? I'll believe it when I see it. He was undoubtedly one of the strongest bodybuilders, but I think that's a bit exaggerated. Also, Coleman's triceps and delts are massive compared to Weil's. The 160 lbs. difference between Coleman and Weil is hardly just in the legs and gut.





In all the gyms I've trained in, all the meets I've competed in, and all the people I've talked to, I've never once seen a shirted lifter fail at the bottom (except when the shirt was too stiff and the weight wouldn't compress it) and conversely I've hardly ever seen a raw lifter not get the lockout after he pushed his elbows past parallel. I googled 'sticking point bench' just to be sure, and nearly everything I've found corroborated with what I've seen in person.



This is just plain wrong. The most common injuries when benching are pec and rotator cuff injuries, which happen at the bottom when they're strained the most. At the top the triceps take over, and they are far less frequently injured.

Which might be entirely true. You can not force a muscle to grow quicker by simply adding more protein once you got your daily needs covered.



An off-season Jay Cutler is 140 kgs. An off-season Cutler probably still has a lower fat percentage than Poundstone, while also being shorter of course.
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Derek Poundstone is usually between 8 and 12% bodyfat. An off-season Jay Cutler (at 177 cm and 140 kg) looks like this:



While not fat per se, he's still above 15% bodyfat and holds A LOT of water.



And bodybuilding magazines have him at 185 lbs. He entered professional powerlifting events looking like this:



Being on-cycle for years meant that he gained very little fat off-season.



He can't have done that on-season, but rumour has it that he managed it with good form off-season. The difference is also in the back, the glutes, the side delts, and many other muscles. His proportions are different from those of a lightweight powerlifter or golden age bodybuilder, though.



Makes sense, since it's supposed to create a slingshot effect.



I rarely see someone fail at the bottom; that's the easy part, which is why you can do so much more with a wide grip than with a narrow grip.



Rotator cuff injuries happen when you have your arms in the wrong position, and whether or not you're at the bottom of the lift is irrelevant. Pec injuries almost exclusively happen when a person is lifting heavy for too many reps.

Every time I train to failure with a spotter, it's the last few inches I need help with.

Thanks. I break them up into sets. I've never tried to do that many pushups (not even regular ones)straight.

For the OP, my shoulders are getting a nice round look from the pushups, if that helps. I train for strength as well as aesthetics. My traps also look better.

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