McBride says he benches 460!!

i dont believe your first statement..because i said the same things before i started lifting and i see my results now. I had a build similar to screech from saved by the bell ...took about a year and a half to get where im at with about 20 pounds gained...consistantly lifting and monitoring my food intake making sure i ate atleast 4 full meals and the appropriate amount of protein.

 

I could do 460gram. Although being English I have little idea how much that is.

 

Thank you for being one of the few posting that has any knowledge on wieght lifting. Adding wieght to the bar takes time, you always have your freaks who can up add wieght 10 times faster than you but for 95 % of the rest of us it takes alot of time and hard work I think you would agree adding 200 pounds to your bench will take a couple years not a couple months with maybe the exception of juicing

 

I wonder how much Briggs can bench lol.

 

50 lb at most, but only first 3 pushes

 

I've seen a small guy around 5'7" bench 405 lbs(5 reps). He wasn't ridiculously big but looked strong as hell. The only thing i can think of is he was roiding. He looked compact and pretty normal. This happened around 7 years ago and I can vividly remember it till this day. I don't think I will ever forget that.

 

So is McBum scheduled to get laid out cold this weekend?

 

It's true, man, unless you don't mind adding lots of extra baggage (stomach) and ignore other aspects of physical health. Theoretically, males can add a great deal of strength over an indefinite period, but certain of us are going to be limited practically.

 

ok, this is one of the most ******ED post I have ever seen, I'm 162 pounds of NATURAL trained muscles, only use protein to get all I need to stay in shape, I bench around 315-330 depending on season time, just like nokstar said, if u have good genetics and stay in the gym all year long while training properly and putting more weight on your charges, u can get pretty high, of course over 350 pounds for a man my size is somewhat questionnable, i'm not trying to be an ass but some ppl have better genetics then other.

 

some ppl in here think being bigger neccesarly means stronger, thats not always the case, I've trained with a few football players in college, and I was smaller then and still benched more then them(even O-lines) this all depends on your genetics and white and red muscles tissues(not sure if its the name in english but in french its the case)

 

But just because you can bench more than someone doesnt mean your stronger, maybe in that type of movement you are. Most sports dont care how much you can bench or even lift, sports like baseball and boxing rely little on wieght training and more on usable strength exercises. Dont get me wrong I lift wieghts and achieved good benefits in both strength and in my physique. I will admit you easily out bench me Im 6 foot 1 195 with long arms, not excuse but Im not exactly the perfect size for being a bench pressing monster but I can do 25 chinups and 7 one handed chinups which I think is pretty good in itself and comparable to someone who bounces 350 of his chest.

 

totaly agree with you, thats y I do the boxing training too, and ur right when u have long arms it doesnt help you to bench

 

I don't think McBride is lying: he said:
"Before the Tyson fight I benched 260-pounds; now I can do 460, and I feel strong."
The Tyson fight was 11th June 2005. This press conference was 29th August 2007. So he's had two years and one and a half months of training in between, or 809 days. So he is benching roughly 1lb more every 4 days. Is that so impressive?
I'd say I've been adding maybe 2.5lb every 2-4 days, something like that, since I've been bench-pressing regularly, and I'm not a full-time athlete (I heard McBride was back on the buildings after Tyson; anyone know more?) but rather a guy who tends to spend 10-20 minutes per day exercising (I now do 182.5lb, and weigh 135lb; my target had been my bodyweight, then middleweight, then the Wright-Hopkins catch-weight, guess I'm now going for cruiser). People have been saying he'd need years to add the weight, but he's had years!

I agree that there's a lot more to boxing than strong triceps, and that he needs much better movement, speed, footwork and legwork, in order to be a top-tier fighter. I don't think he'll be the first Irish-born heavyweight champion of the world, unfortunately, but hey, it can't hurt, and this doesn't have to have been his whole training regime if he's done it over such a long period! Why question such a plausible claim?

Also, why is this thread the only discussion I've seen of the fight round here? (It might be because I avoid the Golota Express...)

 

weight training does nothing good for boxers. Most of the time. It has to be done very very carefully. Muscle bound bench pressures cant fight for **** mainly b/c there muscles restrict there movement. I seen scrawny guys knock out bigger guys countless times.

 

I thought he claimed he did it in months I didnt know it took him 2 plus years, I believe him now thanks for clearing that up. I still dont know what that has to do with boxing,still an impressive feat.