175 pound Bent Press

Anthony DiLuglio from Art of Strength demonstrates a 175 pound Bent Press

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• bent press
• strong man
• art of strength
• anthony diluglio

[haridarshana]

I love these old time exercises! Where can I find more?

[aosjeff]

@haridarshana subscribe our channel or visit the artofstrength website

[recovercast]

Gosh, I want to be able to do this. In life I'm beginning to see that often the old ways run true.

[fnoph]

That's an old time strongman barbell. That's what they used to look like back in the day. Anthony is all about bringing the old school back. Plate-loaded barbells are the modern versions. You can make one modern-day barbell all different weights by adding or taking plates away. Back in the day, the weight on the barbells wasn't adjustable. However, the barbells that Anthony uses in this video have an opening in them where you can add lead shot, water, or sand. This makes them adjustable.

[jrepnin]

awesome! I just hurt my back sustained a rotator cuff injury just watching that.

[resetpattern]

Great Video for the bent press Saxon only stood with 264lbs Victor Delamarre stood with 309lbs not to mention have carry a 35 foot long 900lb railroad tie and walk around with it. He carried 7000lbs worth of people on his back weighing in at 149lbs at 5'4 saxon was heavier and was 5'10. Victors spine was double the width of a normal strong man at 4 inches wide.

[Draykid]

@MrMontgomeryM

No, he never made claim to that lift. Other people variously saw fit to claim lifts for Arthur Saxon, but his top official bent press was one of the two. I haven't read on Arthur Saxon in a while, so I can't recall which was his highest official lift.

[MrMontgomeryM]

@fnoph They were adjustable back in the old days, Arthur Saxon used to fill his up so much so that the local strongmen could lift them and think they could challenge him on stage. Once on stage he would fill them up full so that the local strongmen failed to lift them but Arthur could.

[MrMontgomeryM]

Apparently there is claims of 400lbs bent press from Arthur. I think his record was 370lbs officially.

[MrMontgomeryM]

Very interesting I was reading about Arthur Saxon bent pressing 336lbs and 448lbs for 2 hands anyhow lift. Where the bent press with one hand and lift another weight with the other and add them together. He totally owned Eugene Sandow who sued him as Eugene Sandow was billed as the strongest man but Arthur beat him and put it on his posters.

[Rigotto90]

@ApprenticeOfAnubis It's a shame the people at the top can't just let humans live their lives as God wanted us to. Instead we've got to be sick and weak.

[Rigotto90]

@ApprenticeOfAnubis Why do you say that they had the ability to get stronger back then? I agree with you based on what I've heard of the old timers but if you know why I'd like to hear it. Was it that the air was more ionized, the food more nutritious, people more grounded (electrically grounded, as in away from harmful EMF waves all day and able to recuperate)?