re: Can you bench your weight?

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I don't expect you to tell the truth, but do professional tennis players even bench? I don't know about tennis specific training programs, but I can't see them doing a barbell bench press for sure. Maybe dumbbells if anything. The frame of elite tennis players isn't conducive to putting up 300+ bench presses, that's for sure

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They shouldn’t be. Our weight trainer was an ex linebacker from Texas so we lifted like he wanted

In 2007 college programs just gave tennis teams assistants from the football staff to be the weight coaches. The good programs have moved on from that though now and actually lift how they should .

Circuit like lifting and flexibly training is much more suited for training in tennis and the pros would absolutely do that instead. But make no mistake they are still strong as hell, but They aren’t going to be doing compound lifting

Nadal used to lift compound lifts and cut that back though

Many times. I’m not fat though.

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I don't expect you to tell the truth, but do professional tennis players even bench? I don't know about tennis specific training programs, but I can't see them doing a barbell bench press for sure. Maybe dumbbells if anything. The frame of elite tennis players isn't conducive to putting up 300+ bench presses, that's for sure

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They shouldn’t be. Our weight trainer was an ex linebacker from Texas so we lifted like he wanted

In 2007 college programs just gave tennis teams assistants from the football staff to be the weight coaches. The good programs have moved on from that though now and actually lift how they should .

Circuit like lifting and flexibly training is much more suited for training in tennis and the pros would absolutely do that instead. But make no mistake they are still strong as hell, but They aren’t going to be doing compound lifting

Nadal used to lift compound lifts and cut that back though

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like pride said...back in the 90s everyone just lifted the same kind of. the lsu baseball team lifted alot like bodybuilders which was fine for back then especially with how many were on steroids.


as far as the question about how tennis players lift...they usually do some form of bench pretty regularly but they are rotational atheletes and at that level are going to be focusing on the velocity curve...determining where they are weak and attacking the weakness. so if they are strong from a force production standpoint, but weak at the top of the speed curve...they would be focusing in the faster ranges of all lifts and be workign with lighter med ball to learn to rotate faster.....hopefully that makes sense. Go read Bill Millers swing fast book for better description if interested.

I have the strength of 10 Morgan Freemans. So to answer your questions, yes.

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Sorry, there's so much bullshite in everything you've said it's difficult to follow. You're acting like your tennis team wasn't a tennis team, but rather practicing for some weight lifting event. i assume you were about 5'11" give or take an inch, and at that height and weight you'd be pretty skinny. Only way you're getting close to 230 is if you were working out religiously, and even then, it would be difficult to achieve. You're 6'1" 180lbs buddy did not bench 305 while playing tennis at LSU.

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Ok

He is a PT now in Nola and still can likely throw up that same weight. Just made the Rummel hall of fame for Football too among a few other sports….

100% I admit that I am short, 5’8”

But it feels good that this is one of the few areas in my life that I am better than most.

I have hit more than 2x my body weight quite a few times over an array of different body weights.

Between 162 lbs—> 193 lbs

While not my heaviest press, the most impressive in my opinion was when I hit 385 at 176 lbs

I’ve been consistently working out since 7th grade

36 years old now.
Old man strength is real. I am way stronger in my 30’s than I was in my 20’s

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You're 6'1" 180lbs buddy did not bench 305 while playing tennis at LSU.

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Almost impossible if you aren't trying to. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that they doing traditional lifts based on what he said.... But I still don't believe him, because that dude would have to put in some serious work to get a 305 bench.

Which, even if true, still doesn't make his original premise that a 6'1 200 lb dude could do 300 "for reps"

The Czech guy was the more impressive lifter overall to be honest though. He was truly elite in Olympic lifts. Was a gymnast when he was younger

5'9 220, haven't maxed since early college days. Heaviest I do is work up to 100 lb dumbbells on incline, 2x 10 reps.

If you're shooting for max weight any time past your 30s, you're asking to get hurt.

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If you're shooting for max weight any time past your 30s, you're asking to get hurt

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No you aren't