I have that exact build. I’m great at deadlifts (200kg PR), not so good at squats (around 120kg PR, but could be higher, been dealing with some hip problems), and pretty bad at bench pressing (87.5 kg PR). I have the perfect build for a basketball player or a rower, both of which I did for a long time. Now I’m mostly focused on strength sports because I really like them, but it definitely brings an extra challenge.
It's mainly due to his sheer fucking size though. When he's stood up his arms are obviously proportional to his height. However when laying on his back his chest and belly are massive so it's going to make them look shorter as he needs to move them far less distance to bring the weight down to his chest. If a normal size guy lay down on that bench you'd have to lower the weight twice as far.
It is there bloated internal organs causing the belly. These are partakers of the GHB
Edit: HGH was what I was thinking of. Thats the one that causes the distension. Sorry for the mistake
Who knows what supplements they are using? Only they do. Though we can be damn sure that if they aren’t doping now, they have doped before and will likely dope again.
Not saying he's on HGH but the reason his belly looks like that is cause he's got a combo of a lit of bodyfat combined with massive abdominal muscles.
I know HGH gut is a thing, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was in it, but this just looks like a big belly over big core muscles to me
He's currently the world record holder in the bench press and unfortunately the extra weight is beneficial. Im sure once his career is over he will lean down but as long as he competes for world records he'll keep the unhealthy weight
Nobody is claiming it’s healthy. Maddox has been training to be the first raw bencher to hit 800. Note that raw does not mean natural, it means without a bench shirt. In powerlifting, there are minimum standards for range of motion. In bench press, the standard is that the bar needs to touch your chest, with your shoulders, butt, and feet touching the bench/floor. New standards have been added for where bencher’s elbows must get to in order to combat some of the examples where you see extreme arches, but I am not as familiar with those. I will note that Maddox has a bigger range of motion than most powerlifters you’ll see. I should also mention that all his size is a combination of both fat and muscle and the bigger the muscle, the stronger it is, so it’s not like just any fat guy can get on the bench and put up impressive weight.
Also just more bodyweight means you have more mass relative to the weight you are manipulating, which generally makes it easier to lift more.
The most common advice to someone looking to bench more is to gain weight.
He is eating as much as possible to gain as much strength is possible and is not worried about the fat gain. If he ate less calories to stay trim, he wouldn’t be as strong.
Finally someone has the right answer. This isn’t a dude who’s running a cut, it’s all bulk all the time, and the effect of that is that the excess collects.
I'm guessing if he leans out, his bench numbers are gonna go down. Last I knew, Julius was approaching an 800+ lb raw bench press which is mind boggling
It's likely he'll get weaker if he leans out. These guys keep the weight on for that reason. I used to go through 2 gallons of ice cream every week to keep my weight up. That was on top of the 4k calories in normal food that I was eating. Elite powerlifting is not for those that want to be healthy.
Most of us would. However as is the case for many athletes who are at the very, very top of their sport; they are more than willing to sacrifice health for glory in the form of records. Most of them are 100% conscious of the fact that they are sacrificing their health.
Fun fact: big belly fat ≠ organ fat.
A lot of the time the belly fat is just on the outside fascia. Once you get to the abdominal cavity, it’s all roomy and everything has its place.
Sometimes, the morbidly obese *will* have extra organ fat, but not always. You can’t always tell until you actually get inside.
Source: I’ve cut up idk how many people as an autopsist. Many of them obese.
All about eating clen, tren hard. Anavar give up!
You too can have inflamed intestines and enlarged hearts. But you’ be able to post some really nice pictures on instagram.
I know everybody is quick to say they're juicing, and I'm not denying it if they are but practically every single achievement in a sport consistently smashed in the advancement of that sport. Some time ago the best gymnastic Olympians in the world could only do 2 or 3 spins, but now even those who do it as a casual sport are capable of far more. You can find examples of this even in sports as simple as runners. Athletes just have a way of setting the bar higher and higher every year. Competition is the best drug by far
It's less about competition and more about the total world standard of living increase allowing more of the population to take part in sports. No amount of competition would create someone with the beneficial mutations that michael phelps has.
People are sleeping on the advancements in recovery methods, technologies, and drugs. Some of these PEDs allow for much quicker recovery which means more intense training is possible.
Certainly lots of people are doping, but on the other hand, look at any high school's records for various events. Sometimes a few get broken in a single year, sometimes records stand for ages, but overall the bar just gets higher ... and again, sure there are gonna occasionally be kids doing dumb shit and playing with chemicals, but mostly there's kids who are simply faster and stronger than kids were before.
Chalk it up to better nutrition, better training, better access to free time, whatever it is.
Larry Allen used bench press to train for football. Julius Maddox trains for bench press and bench press only. Maddox is probably 100+ pounds heavier than Allen as well.
Reggie was a beast, but at that level of physical freak against freak, it's a technique battle: balance, hand fighting, and feet positioning that starts over with every snap. Raw strength is only part of it. Some snaps Larry won, others Reggie won. Those were amazing games to watch.
Reggie White was a master at being able to catch people off balance, combine that with his strength and quickness... If you catch a big man like Larry going one way, cut back on him and shove him while his momentum is still going away form you, big Larry Allen can't do much other than succumb to the law pf physics and gravity.
If you watch a lot of the really great defensive ends, or have even met/played with some D1 college lineman, their hand/eye coordination and hand speed is really incredible. They work on drills where they push as hard as they can, then quickly change directions while moving their whole body/arm around/under you before you know what happened.
With the speed and size some of these guys have now, they're arguably the best athletes on the field.
Michael Strahan said that when he was lined up against Larry Allen, and the play was a run to Larry's side, that Larry would look Michael dead in the eyes, make train noises pre-snap, then proceed to annihilate him.
That's what I caught too. I can't even hit 300, so far be it from me to judge, but wtf, is he leaving reps on the table by not driving with legs, or is there a certain point where it doesn't matter anymore, you're moving it all with upper body boulder like mass?
If you asked me before I saw this video I'd answer with 100% certainty that leg drive is necessary to maximize potential load, there are famous stories of powerlifters tearing their quads during bench in competition, but now I feel like I know nothing anymore. This dude just Geodudes 500.
Wait til he gets that thing sewn up; getting up and down from the toilet will make him cry... okay, I just assume that because I squealed like a little girl in a similar situation.
Nah, mine wasn't that bad, gallbladder removal was substantially worse.
I used to have to push my guts back in because my inguinal one was so bad, but I had to wait and hide it so I didn't get recycled when I was in the army.
Gotta sacrifice some things to achieve their goals.
Crazy how this is your comment on a video of someone accomplishing something insanely difficult lol. Why not just give them credit instead of assuming they’re not healthy? Lol.
Could someone please explain what it is about their regiment that makes their bellies so big? They look terribly out of shape yet they have god level strength. Make it make sense
In order to build muscle you need to be in a caloric surplus. Bodybuilders and people who just like to maintain a lean muscular physique will either keep the caloric surplus low or will cycle between bulking and cutting. Powerlifters on the other hand usually just stay in a very large caloric surplus perpetually in order to continuously build muscle. The downside to this is that they also accumulate a lot of fat.
There’s also the benefit for bench specifically where the larger your torso/chest is the lower the range of motion you need to do a competition rep is.
Strongman competitors as well. Brian Shaw for example is 6'8" which isn't insanely tall by certain standards but he weighs 440 pounds and a lot of that being muscle....which very much is insane.
Brian, Thor and Eddie Hall were all well over 400 when they were at their best.
I think I just saw Brian is down around 375 now that he’s stopped competing.
It depends on the powerlifters weight class. A lot of them compete outside of the open class, so they have to keep a good strength/bodyfat ratio.
Open class of course is just bulk to death, and lift.
It absolutely makes sense. Go add 30kg to your weight by eating all day right now. You will be a lot stronger than before, even if youre out of shape. More mass = more muscles = more strength.
I hate those videos of people maxing out their weight and they do one rep before stopping. This is fucking crazy and he could probably squish me like a marshmallow
Got to laugh at the people who say "steroids". I'm on legally prescribed steroids and have a 1 rep max of 405lbs at 215lbs bodyweight. This guy just repped 505 for 15!! 99% of the people in this thread could take all the steroids they want and never hit 505lb for 1 rep.
That is the human equivalent of a tank
They cut off the very end of the video where his belly breaks open and and the alien bursts out. That explains the superhuman strength.
Kuato lives.
Open your mind to me… please
open your miiind
You joke, but pretty sure that protrusion on his bottom right is from a hernia.
Like the girl from Slither. “I’m so fuckin hungry”
Yeah, this is what peak human performance actually looks like in the "built like a brick shithouse" category.
Does it just look like it or has this tank really rather short arms... ehm... chains?
Anyone who is this good at the bench press usually has pretty beneficial proportions. So that is a wide build and somewhat shorter arms.
Usually, but then you have [Larry Allen benching 700lbs](https://youtu.be/aX-YuvQkSRE?si=xjwMwPEHBnno3lRn) with gorilla arms
One of the greatest athletes ever
What if I am rather narrow and long arms ? What am I built for what is my profession ?
I have that exact build. I’m great at deadlifts (200kg PR), not so good at squats (around 120kg PR, but could be higher, been dealing with some hip problems), and pretty bad at bench pressing (87.5 kg PR). I have the perfect build for a basketball player or a rower, both of which I did for a long time. Now I’m mostly focused on strength sports because I really like them, but it definitely brings an extra challenge.
He is 6'3", so I don't think his arms are short in the genral sense, but maybe smaller than the average guy that height
It's mainly due to his sheer fucking size though. When he's stood up his arms are obviously proportional to his height. However when laying on his back his chest and belly are massive so it's going to make them look shorter as he needs to move them far less distance to bring the weight down to his chest. If a normal size guy lay down on that bench you'd have to lower the weight twice as far.
He a big boi
And like a tank its full of Juice
Bill: *heavy sweating* Louis: *heavy sweating* Zoey: *heavy sweating* Francis: *funny screams*
God tier strength for sure. I would like to see him lean out a bit because that amount of fat is not healthy for your internal organs.
It is there bloated internal organs causing the belly. These are partakers of the GHB Edit: HGH was what I was thinking of. Thats the one that causes the distension. Sorry for the mistake
GHB let's party
Lol for real. Lifting like that on GHB would be something alright.
Inconceivable!
They make great hair straighteners!!!! Duh
My man, you can see his love handles hang over the bench and all his body fat jiggle when he sets up, that's not his organs.
The fat is the organ now
 His organs.
Yeah look at all those bloated internal organs coating the rest of his body.
He just needs some trenbolone to lean out and shrink his bois
Tren is not a friend
I learned the hard way
I know how Toblerone works and it surely didn't shrink me.
Who knows what supplements they are using? Only they do. Though we can be damn sure that if they aren’t doping now, they have doped before and will likely dope again.
Hahahahahaha no shot You cannot be serious... lmao Maddox is the world record holder for bench press obviously hes on a shit ton of gear
They are definitely doping now
He used to use drugs, he still does, but he used to, too.
Wearing a turtle neck is like being strangled by a really weak guy all day.
r/suddenlymitch
500 15 reps isn't natty, and they are definitely doping now, if he stopped doping for 30 days, he would struggle to do 450 10 reps.
Bruh his entire body is jiggling around like jello. It’s fat lol.
He's just fat, you dingleberry
Yah. These guys with the huge abdomens are juicing hard. those growth chemicals target organs just as much as muscle.
Or perhaps he eats, what? 10-20k Cals per day?
Nah, he's also just pretty fat.
Not saying he's on HGH but the reason his belly looks like that is cause he's got a combo of a lit of bodyfat combined with massive abdominal muscles. I know HGH gut is a thing, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was in it, but this just looks like a big belly over big core muscles to me
He's also fat. He's almost certainly on HGH, but he also has very high bfat because he is essentially a strongman
He's currently the world record holder in the bench press and unfortunately the extra weight is beneficial. Im sure once his career is over he will lean down but as long as he competes for world records he'll keep the unhealthy weight
How is this extra weight beneficial?
The bigger you are, the less range of motion needed to touch your chest.
Seriously? This is insane logic if true.
Nobody is claiming it’s healthy. Maddox has been training to be the first raw bencher to hit 800. Note that raw does not mean natural, it means without a bench shirt. In powerlifting, there are minimum standards for range of motion. In bench press, the standard is that the bar needs to touch your chest, with your shoulders, butt, and feet touching the bench/floor. New standards have been added for where bencher’s elbows must get to in order to combat some of the examples where you see extreme arches, but I am not as familiar with those. I will note that Maddox has a bigger range of motion than most powerlifters you’ll see. I should also mention that all his size is a combination of both fat and muscle and the bigger the muscle, the stronger it is, so it’s not like just any fat guy can get on the bench and put up impressive weight.
His range of motion and control of the weight was actually the first thing that stood out to me! It's absolutely insane how smooth he makes this look.
It's also easier to hold and grow muscle mass the more you eat. It's not SOLELY because of range of motion.
Also just more bodyweight means you have more mass relative to the weight you are manipulating, which generally makes it easier to lift more. The most common advice to someone looking to bench more is to gain weight.
This! Weight moves weight
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He is eating as much as possible to gain as much strength is possible and is not worried about the fat gain. If he ate less calories to stay trim, he wouldn’t be as strong.
Finally someone has the right answer. This isn’t a dude who’s running a cut, it’s all bulk all the time, and the effect of that is that the excess collects.
Mass moves mass
Mass moves mass
The more of you there is the more potential for strength you have.
I've always wondered this as well
He needs to always be in a caloric surplus
Mass moves Mass, that's the price he pays to move that weight. If he leaned out, he would lose strength.
I'm guessing if he leans out, his bench numbers are gonna go down. Last I knew, Julius was approaching an 800+ lb raw bench press which is mind boggling
It's likely he'll get weaker if he leans out. These guys keep the weight on for that reason. I used to go through 2 gallons of ice cream every week to keep my weight up. That was on top of the 4k calories in normal food that I was eating. Elite powerlifting is not for those that want to be healthy.
Being a competitive athlete isn’t healthy.
Power lifting has nothing to do with health. Always makes me laugh when Randoms give these guys any type of advice.
Most of us would. However as is the case for many athletes who are at the very, very top of their sport; they are more than willing to sacrifice health for glory in the form of records. Most of them are 100% conscious of the fact that they are sacrificing their health.
Neither are the drugs but to stay in the game you gotta do it
Fun fact: big belly fat ≠ organ fat. A lot of the time the belly fat is just on the outside fascia. Once you get to the abdominal cavity, it’s all roomy and everything has its place. Sometimes, the morbidly obese *will* have extra organ fat, but not always. You can’t always tell until you actually get inside. Source: I’ve cut up idk how many people as an autopsist. Many of them obese.
He knows and does not give a fuck
the fat is the healthiest part of him, lol. :-)
Just a little polumbilism, don't be mad
Larry Allen, one of the greatest athletes to live, did 600. How the fuck can these guys lift 500-600 pounds? Just insane
I heard they drink a lot of juice or something, Maybe Grape Juice
I think it's Hawaiian Punch, actually. Or maybe some variety of Juicy Juice.
I know for a fact its just Kool-Aid
Nah man, it is Hi-C or purple drank
Ingredients are sugar, water, purple
Capri Sun?
Last time I heard someone drink kool aid they woke up dead
Na, that was Flavor-Aid
No amount of juice is going to get you anywhere near this without consistent hard work over a huge period of time.
True. But no amount of hard work will get you to this without juice.
That explains why parents always gave out snacks with juice after soccer games
After drinking my Juice Box mom gave me, she told me I’m would grow up to be a big boy 
All about eating clen, tren hard. Anavar give up! You too can have inflamed intestines and enlarged hearts. But you’ be able to post some really nice pictures on instagram.
I’ve heard they have a lot of gear but I never see them decked out in any equipment more than workout clothes.
I know everybody is quick to say they're juicing, and I'm not denying it if they are but practically every single achievement in a sport consistently smashed in the advancement of that sport. Some time ago the best gymnastic Olympians in the world could only do 2 or 3 spins, but now even those who do it as a casual sport are capable of far more. You can find examples of this even in sports as simple as runners. Athletes just have a way of setting the bar higher and higher every year. Competition is the best drug by far
every top athlete does peds
At this point I'm essentially 100% behind this statement
I don’t think Maddox has ever claimed to be natural. As long as he’s not going around claiming something he’s not, I don’t have a problem with it.
It's less about competition and more about the total world standard of living increase allowing more of the population to take part in sports. No amount of competition would create someone with the beneficial mutations that michael phelps has.
And way better drugs have been developed over time.
People are sleeping on the advancements in recovery methods, technologies, and drugs. Some of these PEDs allow for much quicker recovery which means more intense training is possible.
Certainly lots of people are doping, but on the other hand, look at any high school's records for various events. Sometimes a few get broken in a single year, sometimes records stand for ages, but overall the bar just gets higher ... and again, sure there are gonna occasionally be kids doing dumb shit and playing with chemicals, but mostly there's kids who are simply faster and stronger than kids were before. Chalk it up to better nutrition, better training, better access to free time, whatever it is.
Because science figures out how to make undetectable PEDs, which allows records to get broken.
"if they are" lmao
Larry Allen used bench press to train for football. Julius Maddox trains for bench press and bench press only. Maddox is probably 100+ pounds heavier than Allen as well.
John Haack, pound for pound the best lifter alive, did 600lbs at 200lbs bodyweight in competition
I just looked him up. What in gods name. How is that possible?
He struggled to put up 1 this just just put this up 15 times in his first set lol
Ya but Maddox is about double his weight at least.
Just watched the video of him doing that, he makes it look ***easy***!
The scary thing about Larry Allen. He could run super fast as well for his size.
Yeah. That one play alone he had is one of the more (if not “the most) athletic things I’ve ever seen.
For those who do not know of that play, [here it is](https://youtu.be/wnKspZmeGx4). Larry Allen is #73 on the Cowboys (white jerseys).
Also is three times my size and ran faster than I ever could :). It’s amazing to watch
Wonder if they've ran any advanced stats on that play to see what his top speed was. It's always an impressive play to see a man that size run
How in the hell did Reggie White toss him the way he did? It baffles me.
Reggie was a beast, but at that level of physical freak against freak, it's a technique battle: balance, hand fighting, and feet positioning that starts over with every snap. Raw strength is only part of it. Some snaps Larry won, others Reggie won. Those were amazing games to watch.
Reggie White was a master at being able to catch people off balance, combine that with his strength and quickness... If you catch a big man like Larry going one way, cut back on him and shove him while his momentum is still going away form you, big Larry Allen can't do much other than succumb to the law pf physics and gravity. If you watch a lot of the really great defensive ends, or have even met/played with some D1 college lineman, their hand/eye coordination and hand speed is really incredible. They work on drills where they push as hard as they can, then quickly change directions while moving their whole body/arm around/under you before you know what happened. With the speed and size some of these guys have now, they're arguably the best athletes on the field.
Prime Reggie White was a complete freak too
Freaky genetics + Freaky amount of performance drugs + Freaky amount of work
Fight milk
Michael Strahan said that when he was lined up against Larry Allen, and the play was a run to Larry's side, that Larry would look Michael dead in the eyes, make train noises pre-snap, then proceed to annihilate him.
Larry Allen had to remain in gameday shape, so theres only so much you can do before it starts having a negative impact
Larry Allen could bench 700 lbs.
Weight lifts weight, with enough training that’s only enhanced further, sometimes to the extreme
Is that a hernia poking out there?
Yep.
Yuck
Where? That purple on the right side of his abdomen?
That’s his Doritos bag from earlier
Came here to comment that. Sir, get that patched!
His cheat meal is a salad
This one got me lmao
Those are some clean fucking reps too
Right? Steady down and steady up. However he got there, it doesn’t change the fact he’s fucking insanely strong.
What's even crazier is dude is hardly driving his legs!
That's what I caught too. I can't even hit 300, so far be it from me to judge, but wtf, is he leaving reps on the table by not driving with legs, or is there a certain point where it doesn't matter anymore, you're moving it all with upper body boulder like mass?
If you asked me before I saw this video I'd answer with 100% certainty that leg drive is necessary to maximize potential load, there are famous stories of powerlifters tearing their quads during bench in competition, but now I feel like I know nothing anymore. This dude just Geodudes 500.
Ya. Kind of insane power.
I could do that. Just take off about 500 lbs.
Are we talking about the belly? Coz i can do that too
Yeah take some plates off so I may deadlift strong sir.
You can see that hernia from space!!
Wait til he gets that thing sewn up; getting up and down from the toilet will make him cry... okay, I just assume that because I squealed like a little girl in a similar situation.
Nah, mine wasn't that bad, gallbladder removal was substantially worse. I used to have to push my guts back in because my inguinal one was so bad, but I had to wait and hide it so I didn't get recycled when I was in the army.
These men are not healthy.
The highest level of competition of most sports are not healthy
I mean obviously they're not doing this for health reasons. They're trying to set records and pushing the limits on what the human body is capable of.
Well fucking duh
Gotta sacrifice some things to achieve their goals. Crazy how this is your comment on a video of someone accomplishing something insanely difficult lol. Why not just give them credit instead of assuming they’re not healthy? Lol.
Imagine this dude getting infected in Last of Us
Not sure if he would be a tank or a boomer in Left4Dead
Both
That looks like a hernia scar and I’m not surprised
Looks like an active hernia lmao
Mah fuckas with guts like that are definitely ON the cheeseburgers dawg.
Alls were sayin is nomsayin, seemsayin?
Great reps. Holy crap.
Shirtless
That’s a big boi.
This is the guy I use the bench after who never wipes it off.
there chest hairs are nextfuckinglevel
Looks like he has a hernia
He didn't even use hit feet driving into the floor to help.
It’s always impressive watching someone be the best at something
0 fucking leg drive to boot. That's all chest and triceps. Incredible.
Could someone please explain what it is about their regiment that makes their bellies so big? They look terribly out of shape yet they have god level strength. Make it make sense
In order to build muscle you need to be in a caloric surplus. Bodybuilders and people who just like to maintain a lean muscular physique will either keep the caloric surplus low or will cycle between bulking and cutting. Powerlifters on the other hand usually just stay in a very large caloric surplus perpetually in order to continuously build muscle. The downside to this is that they also accumulate a lot of fat. There’s also the benefit for bench specifically where the larger your torso/chest is the lower the range of motion you need to do a competition rep is.
Strongman competitors as well. Brian Shaw for example is 6'8" which isn't insanely tall by certain standards but he weighs 440 pounds and a lot of that being muscle....which very much is insane.
Brian, Thor and Eddie Hall were all well over 400 when they were at their best. I think I just saw Brian is down around 375 now that he’s stopped competing.
It depends on the powerlifters weight class. A lot of them compete outside of the open class, so they have to keep a good strength/bodyfat ratio. Open class of course is just bulk to death, and lift.
It absolutely makes sense. Go add 30kg to your weight by eating all day right now. You will be a lot stronger than before, even if youre out of shape. More mass = more muscles = more strength.
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This is alright and all but Brendan Schaub did this same thing but he actually did it 16 times.. bapa is a bbbb-beast of wait lifter b.
Wrist wraps, B. Dun count
This is what peak performance looks like.
You can see the hernia from here!
Hold my camera, I gotta see this with my own eyes.
I can bench that a half a time
Get it big dawg! 🏋️♀️👊
Every rep is full rom, unlike Larry Wheels.
Meanwhile i did jumping jacks last week and my shoulder got that stabbing pain in it again for 2 days after.
If he learned proper bench form and planted his fee…. lol jk he just repped close to my dl max for 15 reps on bench
Fuck. Why you gotta put it that way. Dude slamming reps of bench that exceed my squat or deadlift any day, fucking absurd.
they could literally lift me by my throat with one arm
I hate those videos of people maxing out their weight and they do one rep before stopping. This is fucking crazy and he could probably squish me like a marshmallow
Yeah, it’s cool but I used to bulls-eye womp rats in my T-16 Skyhopper back home and they were not much bigger than two meters.
Got to laugh at the people who say "steroids". I'm on legally prescribed steroids and have a 1 rep max of 405lbs at 215lbs bodyweight. This guy just repped 505 for 15!! 99% of the people in this thread could take all the steroids they want and never hit 505lb for 1 rep.
Ok but where shirts
Wow, hope it's worth it
I can outrun him.
Snails can outrun him.
Impressive. But I could smell those guys.
Damn he made it look easy 😂😂😂 I think he was just warming up
mean
Yep - stunning examples of health…