re: Male powerlifter enters women’s event, breaks record

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You don’t think there are lots of guys who can do 270+? I couldn’t but I’m sure there many just normal guys who can.

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It’s an extremely reasonable goal for almost all normal guys who are willing to stick to a solid workout program and eat the requisite amount of food and especially protein. I’d say it’s probably pretty rare for a commercial gym not to have men who can bench 275.

I can’t do three plates but I’d also argue it’s rare to have a gym where there aren’t at least a few people with some good genetics working for them that can lift 315. My old workout partner threw up 310 at 195 lbs bodyweight and he works out in the guest bedroom of his house with a random assortment of home gym equipment. Again, these aren’t competition settings with a strict mandated pause on the rep and a pause before rerack, but anyone acting like 270 is not an extremely achievable goal for most normal men with the right amount of gym time and protein intake is acting kind of silly.

270 bench isn’t shite lol. A lot of dudes at my local gym do that for reps

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You don’t think there are lots of guys who can do 270+? I couldn’t but I’m sure there many just normal guys who can.

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Seriously. I’m very tall with long noodle arms and I could get up 215 back in college. 270 is not much for a man who trains hard.

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Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS)

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You know, since everyone here is 6'4", 260 with 8% body fat, makes over 200K per year, has a ten for a wife, and is on-par with Chuck Norris in Martial Arts.

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In 1983 we had 4 guys on a single A football team that benched 315 or better. There were 35 guys on the team. No one weighed more than 220 lbs. This in the days of one cup of water in a 3 hour practice, salt pills, and stretching was an excuse to be standing in one place so that you were easier to be dog cussed by a coach. Our weight room was an un-airconditioned metal prefab building with two benches. We measured our "max" one afternoon in the middle of August two-a-days.

A 270 lb bench press is not exactly the 4 minute mile.

That said, my 55 yr old arse would risk ripping my dick open trying to bench 135 right now.

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biological women need to take a freaking stand from crap like this

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Here's my take:

There will be no movement to end this, unless some men take charge of the movement and make the movement work. Women absolutely will not leave their comfortable existences in order to "take to the streets" and fight for an Anti-Leftist agenda item of any kind.

They might join a movement originated and carried forward by men. That could happen. But if the matter is left entirely up to women living in the USA to create and carry such a movement forward, IMHO, that will never happen. Never. Not for THIS cause. Not for ANY cause. American women won't do it.

I love this. Let’s get rid of gender specific teams and competitions and just let everyone enter.