This is an amazing feat of strength and was accomplished by an american powerlifter by the name of scot mendelson.
Heavy weight bench press record.
That is scary heavy for either male or female athletes.
A man who has been pumping iron for just seven years now holds the world record in the raw bench press after hoisting a staggering 739 6 pounds at an event on saturday in california the owensboro.
This was during the arnold sports festival 2.
Made at a metal militia powerlifting federation meet that bench press is not only three pounds over tiny meeker s six year old record of 1 102 pounds and it s not only 335 pounds over julius.
Younger men are typically able to bench press more than older men and men in general.
I couldn t imagine bench pressing 715 pounds.
Maddox was the current world record holder for raw bench press which he first set in august 2019.
Hack s record stood for seventeen years until joe nordquest broke it by a kilogram in 1916 and a hundred years later the exercise had evolved into the bench press and the world s heaviest.
Maddox beat the previous record holder kirill sarychev s 738 5 pound press by hitting 739 6.
Female bodybuilders are starting to gain a ton more respect in the fitness world.
The reason swanson tops this list is for her heaviest recorded bench press.
Benchpress benchpressrecord worldrecord blaine sumner sets the new bench press world record at 454kg 1003lbs.
The raw bench press record without equipment the biggest raw bench press in the world at the time of this writing is 715 pounds.
The current world equipped record with shirt is held by will barotti at 501 kg 1 105 lb.