Mickey Johnson benches 500?!?

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just saw the video where Mickey does a 500lb board bench press (Meaning the bar needs to touch the board before he can go back up with it). Very nice improvement over his current 405 max on rivals.

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I watched those too. The board press is for lock out purposes and generally one can bench maybe 10 percent more when they are doing this exercise. What is impressive to me is the video of him at the powerlifting meet squatting 600, I think. At 16 years old this is just plain nasty. And this was a legal, below parallel squat. Not one of those half squats you see the fruitcakes at the gym performing. A real squat.

I looked at his total and its pretty solid but I watched a teammate of mine at the Collegiate Nationals total more than Mickey at 165 lbs. But this guy trained year round.

That's Jesse Kellum spotting him...guy works out at my gym somemtimes. He holds a few world records for bench press. He's a beast and I'm not surprised he was somehow involved with this kid putting up 500

Very impressive, but the spotters hands were on the bar the whole time. I'm guessing at least 10 pounds of lift help.