Bench press: 225lbs and a clean video

[CleverName]

Well I was at my friend's house and he has a weight set and a camera so I figured I would take a couple quick videos. Nothing special, but I figured you folks might be interested anyway. :hello:

135lb clean:

Very weird environment to be cleaning in, so my form was a bit off. X)

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Bench press - 225lb x 5:

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[Rhesus]

Both of those looked dead easy for you. Nice work! :D

[nhlfan]

clean looked fine to me

make sure to drive through your heels on the bench press. keep them planted!

[bjohnso]

Very strong benching. The clean looked great too, although I am by no means qualified to give a critique on that.

[CleverName]

make sure to drive through your heels on the bench press. keep them planted!

Ah, well, his bench is pretty high... and I'm pretty short, so that's the best I could get. X) I usually bench with my toes on the ground, it works better for me than heels; I can get my feet pretty far back this way. :thumbup:

[MPB]

I know how that feels lol, my friend has a bench that's way too high for me also.

225x5 seemed easy, you can definately bench more than 250. Give it a try!

[CleverName]

225x5 seemed easy, you can definately bench more than 250. Give it a try!

Yeah it's been feeling really easy lately. :D Gonna max out soon... hoping for 260!

Thanks all. ;)

[RedSpikeyThing]

very nice pressing! You have a huge arch and made that look easy.

[Kiaran]

Interesting setup on the bench form, but damn smooth on those 5 reps, man. We have pretty close numbers it looks like. 260 is exactly what I'm shootin for as well :D