Eric Spoto WR Bench Press!!!

[PillarofBalance]

He succeeded where Scott Mendelson failed... 716lbs

 

[J-dub]

Holy shit! that was f-ucking awesome!

 

[Superman]

Epic bencher, eric is the strongest guy in the world on a bench... Period.

 

[Smithmachine]

That looked crazy easy!

 

[kyle grey]

Here's another look

 

[SAD]

Soft starts? No pause? Was it just the video, or was this really sick bench not exactly by the book?

 

[schultz1]

That is one large individual and, seriously impressive benching.

 

[Mini Forklift Ⓥ]

Saw that yesterday, awesome stuff. Nice to see him finally shut up all of the haters, was only a matter of time before he took the record.

 

[PillarofBalance]

Apparently it was actually 722lbs not 716 as first reported.

 

[PillarofBalance]

Soft starts? No pause? Was it just the video, or was this really sick bench not exactly by the book?

You're absolutely right. Compare his lockout at the start and finish. No pause at all. In fact half way up you hear someone yell press.

 

[Mini Forklift Ⓥ]

Apparently it was actually 722lbs not 716 as first reported.

Who said it was 716? All of the reports I saw were claiming 722 (admittedly most of them were from Facebook lol).

 

[Mini Forklift Ⓥ]

You're absolutely right. Compare his lockout at the start and finish. No pause at all. In fact half way up you hear someone yell press.

One of the things that has always somewhat pissed me off, just from my experience competing as a lighter lifter.

Most I have lifted in a meet is 237 raw @ 140 and they made me pause on my chest for what seemed like ages, the more weight went on the bar the less the pause became. No disrespect to the big guys, but at our meets the guys that are lifting over 500lb barely have to pause it and they still usually get given at least a couple of white lights.

IMO a paused bench should be just that, no matter who's lifting it or how much is on the bar. It's meant to be law FFS ?!