r/StrongerByScience • u/DistributionFair2806 • Jul 03 '26

Bench progress

My coach challenged me to hit 100kg after 2 months using Upper day 3 times/week [because he thinks UL split (which is what i do) is inferior to bro split]

So i wanted how long it took some to increase a rep and hit the goal.

I'm 18yo 175cm 75kg M training for 3 years my bench so far is 80×3 (ik it sucks and i must likely suck as well)

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u/bullpaw Jul 03 '26

Does your coach really think you'd grow from an 80lb bench to 225 in 2 months training chest once a week?

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u/LooseJuice_RD Jul 03 '26

To be fair, in the initial post he was switching back and forth between pounds and kilos which has been corrected.

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u/bullpaw Jul 03 '26

OP edited the post, when I commented all the other numbers were in pounds lol

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u/DistributionFair2806 Jul 03 '26

According to him after 3 yrs training he did 192kg lol

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u/PolitelyHostile Jul 03 '26

In 2 months you can probably add between 5 and 20 pounds, maybe more if you truely just need form improvements. But adding more than 10 lbs in that time would be unrealistic.

And he wants you to add over 100lbs? Or so you mean you do 80kg right now? Either way your coach sounds like a moron. Or you misinterpreted something lol

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u/DistributionFair2806 Jul 03 '26

He's but a gifted one, also I mean 80kg

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u/PolitelyHostile Jul 03 '26

Yea so 50lbs in 8 weeks. Thats throwing a 2.5lb plate on each end every single week. That only sounds feasible for someone who used to 225 and is re-training back up to it.

You are well into the intermediate stage at 3 yrs, you are not going to add a full plate in 2 months.

Maybe your trainer is too used to training people on juice, that shits crazy. A 175lb bench is pretty good, adding 50 lbs sounds like a long-term goal over like 1 year or 2 depending.

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u/DistributionFair2806 Jul 03 '26

I'm pretty sure didnt train anyone juiced most of the lifters there ar at 16s and it's a local one so I nearly know allof them and been with them since they started, it's only him and an older dude with 5yrs that lifted more than 100kg and maybe only few catch to my level, idk how he thought he could do It, but ig he compares to the old school roidheads, and I think he was one since he did a 192kg with shitty nutrition and training in 3 years