Sunday, April 01, 2007

What benching used to look like

here we go: Raw, drug free and using serious muscle to do the job.Dennis Cieri benches 525.


4 comments:

Royce said...

Damn! I could be wrong but his elbows didn't look all that tucked.
Freakin' amazing.

Mark Reifkind said...

no you're right, he's an elbows out, pec bencher. old school.

Geoff Neupert said...

IMHO, this is the direction powerlifting needs to be going, even if guys juice, there is no doubt whether a guy's strong or if he's got good gear.

Mark Reifkind said...

geoff, agreed. but the supergear aint going no where but raw is definitely making a comeback. people want to see real muscle strength,not fabric strengh.

205 x 1, 210 x X, 210 x 3/4, 205 x 1, 205 x X, 190 x 1

 Pretty good for gaping on the  technique. Unracked the bar uneven on 195 then overfocused on that, taking too much tension out of my legs, ...