Ryan Kennelly Bench Presses World Record 1,050 LBS

Published: December 4, 2007, 9:43 am

This should wake you up quickly. Ryan Kennelly on December 1st apparently put up 1,050 pounds. That's a comma, not a period. That's like a Gilbert Brown hanging onto both ends of the bar. That's like 1,000 more than me. In case this inspires you to be a tremendous bench presser, Ryan has his own book called "The Kennelly Method." "I had one final attempt at the benchpress that day and the crowd knew what I was going for. The loaders piled on iron plate after iron plate, the stage was set, and the roar of the crowd built like a tidal wave careening onto the shoreline. I walked out onto the stage, almost in a trance, my eyes dilated and my pulse pounding in my ears. I set up on the bench and looked at the bar on the rack above me. The spotters handed the weight off to me, my hands squeezed the knurling, and I began the descent downwards, feeling the insane load dropping to my chest. The bar paused and I fully came to realize just how heavy this burden was. I

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