Whats a good bench press weight kg

FOR AS LONG as men have clanked platters of iron onto barbells, the bench press has been a strength benchmark.

Some guys swear that you're nothing unless you can push two plates, minimum. Others insist you should be able to press your bodyweight—or even double that.

The reality? “There’s nothing magic about the bench.

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We use it as a marker of upper body strength, but your back can be pretty damn strong, too,” says Shawn Arent, Ph.D., C.S.C.S., chair of the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina. “In some ways, we might be able to make a better case for how many pushups you should be able to do [as a gauge of strength].”

That’s because, unlike the bench press, pushups express relative strength since you're working with your own bodyweight.

There are factors that make barbell bench pressing less easy to gauge across different bodies, which we'll cover momentarily.

But even if this classic exercise isn't the most logical to use as a universal measuring stick, it’s still got a hold on ma

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