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[quote:acb17]I'm a pretty small guy though, I need some meat on my bones. I'm about 130lbs and 5'7" or so. [/quote:acb17]

Your body size does have an effect on how high you can bench, but you don't have to be a huge monster man to be able to bench a lot. I'm 5'9" and 169 lbs, so you don't really need a whole lot of size. But don't worry about how much you can bench or whatever, your ability to run long distances and have good agility mean more to make it past BT.

[quote:acb17]My max is about 170 i believe but that was hydraulic which I find a lot easier than freeweight.[/quote:acb17]

Yeah, it is easier. I have not lifted a hydraulic weight in 2 years, I like the good 'ole freeweights the best.

[quote:acb17]I doubt i'll beable to bench 250, or even 200 for that matter any time soon.[/quote:acb17]

I dunno, if you really push it and dedicate yourself to do it every week, you could increase by at least 15 pounds within a month, that is if you don't regularly work out. When I first started working out in the 8th grade, I maxed 125 on bench. The end of my 8th grade year I maxed 175. Now I'm in the 11th, and my bench max slowed down, probably because I am short. There was this senior last year that was 5'5" and 150 lbs, and he benched 325 lbs. Everybody was so damn jealous of him, lol, because most people see the bench as your measurement of how big of a man you are, so everybody always tried to beat him. I think he won 1st place in a strength competition for high school athletics that year for highest bench pound-for-pound. BTW nice topic, I can talk all day about working out and getting in shape.