>200kg Bench Press = 20+ metres ?

@Florian van Dijck
The squat in that picture is only a partial squat to a high box. My deep squat best is about 243kg but if I go down to a high box then I can squat a lot more.

@Thomas Johnson
@Robin Claes
Thank you, and yes a friend of mine took a video and posted it to facebook but it seems to be restricted viewing. I'll try to get the video to post here, but even if I can't find it I'll most likely PR in deadlift in the next few weeks and I'll try to get someone to film it.

Quote from Bill Pendleton

How do you figure the watt output on a bench?

I think it's possible to calculate the output of your benchpress with knowledge of basic physics So you don't need some special software or some 'machine' to measure it.

W= mgh/t -> W= mass x gravity x height / time. So weight of the bar is mass, gravity is gravitational constant 9.81, height is how much the bar has moved during the lift and time is simply time used to do the lift.

Sorry my physics is kind of rusty but i have to check out my own bench press output next time i do speed bench

Thanks. I will use the formula. My questions are:
1. Do you time one rep or 5?
2. Do I time from the bar at the top down to the chest and back up or just from the chest up? It seems like it should be just chest up but I'd like to hear what others think.

i would do it just from chest up. i would first measure the distance which the bar travels during the lift and then take video of those lifts. Yeah 5 reps ok because you can afterwards watch the video and choose the fastest lift. It might get a bit complicated if you try to measure the overall output of those five reps. So i would go just with one rep In kinovea or some other software you can slow it down and measure the lift's duration correctly.

Thanks

Oh, and in that formula mass should be in kilograms and bar movement in metres (like 0,40m) etc.

I tried to calculate my bench press output today I did 9x160kg and the first lift of the set gave me 1255W output. Sounds reasonable?
Bar movement 0,48m
time from chest to straight arms 0,60s

So 160kg x 9,81 x 0,48m / 0,60s = 1255,68 W -> 1,7 HP. Interesting

I tried it also in squat. 215kg lift output was 918W

Sounds good to me but I have no frame of reference. I will get ours next week.

When I threw 20 meters last year, I only had a Bench Press of 135 kg.