This is pretty ridiculous. Just to put it in perspective Hokiesports.com lists Jake Grove as the Bench Press record holder at Tech with a 500 lb max. The video is in the link.
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I thought Acree recently broke the bench press record. Or am I thinking of a different lift or was that perhaps a position-specific record when he was on the d-line?
I thought so too, but hokiesports.com lists Grove. I don't really trust them but that's the best I could find in my 5 seconds of Google research.
When the bar starts to bend from the weights on the outside its ridiculous....kid had to have three spotters for the lift.
The spotter had his hands on the bar the whole time. Although this is a lot of weight, not a legit lift.
As a spotter, you're supposed to have your fingers just touching the bar. Especially with 515 lbs on the bar.
Hands on the bar is unacceptable during max testing in the gym where I come from. I spot often and left heavy often, still not a legit lift IMO. Maybe since it was 515 and he is a kid I understand (who knows, maybe they do this at tech, but Acree nailed this with no hands on bar from spotter), but even that little bit of assistance with the fingers on the bar make a huge difference.
Once again, safety. HUGE concern. That guy spotting him wasn't exactly carrying 20+ pounds.
My experience is that most college teams use rep maxes, which is to do a lower weight multiple times and then use a formula to calculate the max for safety reasons. God help this poor kid's rotator cuff when he gets older.
I agree. I don't know what it is, but even the slightest touch by someone else's fingers makes it feel so much easier. It might be a mental thing, but that's how it's always seemed to me.
Yeah, with that much weight, safety is a much more legitimate concern than having a "legit" lift. Point is, the kid can lift a heck of a lot of weight, even if it's off by a pound or 2 that the spotter is taking off.
Right - Agree completely! Even though in my below post I am anti- arched back method, the kid can still throw iron up.
Very true. I'm rather anti-arched back method myself, but it's still rather impressive.
Not a fan of the arched back method either - Not sure how VT teaches it, but the strength and conditioning coaches I know force you to have your back on the bench the whole time to make it legit. Otherwise it turns into a decline bench, in which you have more muscles working together to lift more weight. Most, if not all, bench pressers can lift more on decline bench than regular bench. The slope of the chest when the back is arched like his is very similar to the slope of the chest on a decline bench.
Yeah geez, ya'll are talking like this kid was doing something impressive...
Bottom line, the kid is strong as hell, regardless of technique.
wow...thats pretty impressive regardless of flawless technique. his highlights look great too.
We teach our kids that are spotting to stay right with but not touch the bar. We will not count reps that spotters have their hands on it. But the difference with this is we are talking major major weight that 99.9% of people will never be able to do, and the kid was able to do it multiple times. I give him his props.
Am I the only one thinking that probably isn't good for an 18 year old kid's body?
Pretty sure most humans just aren't designed to put that kind of strain on their bodies...