Man. Levrone was strong for a body builder of his size/weight. Such a difference between bodybuilder strength and power lifter strength. Of course, entirely different goals but still neat to see. Good post!
Man your channel is like a treasure in bodybuilding. The best way to learn how to do an exercise is to watch an experienced athlete doing it, and through your videos one could see how many champions do different variations of the exercises and thus know what forms are, to a certain extent, acceptable for every one! Many thanks again!
He used to use big weights earlier, listen to his interviews. But he found what works for him. You don't have to go crazy heavy weight to get best shape. His 7 titles - good proof.
Making Waves yea that was bad form all the way! if he don't touch his chest at all, he'll end up doing half as much or less! huge difference bouncing off the chest and not touching at all with perfect form. 💪😠💪
Still impressive strength, but he even had elbow wraps on one arm atleast, his max would probably be about 405 for a single rep with decent form without the elbow wraps and bouncing of the chest
@@shlok-vp4xr : If he was concerned about making his chest muscles work, he should leave his ego behind and do a full stop at the bottom before pressing the weight up. It is much heavier, and it work really good at putting the right amount of stress on the muscles. Rest, food and drugs does the rest.
Kevin Levrone still benching heavy 50 plus! Lee Priest a complete beast so strong for his size. Ron ‘King’ Coleman suffering the most for his Sandows. But, it’s his life and he lived it up!
Best execution is by Dorian Yates: slowly lowering the weight, (eccentric rep) and acceleration the rep on the positive. Lifting 500 pounds the best Ronnie and Ramy. Best chest Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Just something I’ve noticed from watching this. The guys with the widest chest are using a very wide grip, Arnold, Markus Ruhl and Ronnie Coleman. And in my opinion Arnold’s and Ronnies are the best. The closer the grip the forearms and upper arms seem very well developed. Seems weird than two of the best ever with narrow chests ie Lee Priest and Phil Heath either have a problem with the wide grip movement or are oblivious that they have tight little chests and wide grip may help. It almost seems like a phenomenon that no one else is talking about this
The ideal is a balance, neither too wide nor too close, the bar has marks where to put your hands. For example, markus ruhl had small tricps, while phiel has huge tricps, so the ideal is to have a balance putting your hands on the bar marks
I dont think it was effortless. I could tell it was heavy, his daffy ass spotter was touching the bar by rep 3 or 4. I am sure if the guy would have not touched the bar, I doubt Kevin would have gotten more than 5.
Yoo everyone talking about ronnie coleman and Levrone. But ignoring Big ramy who benching 5 plates on incline smith machine for easy ass reps. Thats 470 lbs!!!! on incline for 6 reps!!! 💀
And also because locking the elbows creates high pressure on the shoulders and the elbows itself. If you want to prevent injuries you better be not locking them:D
You can see what a really bad form is when you watch Branch Warren bench press. That’s probably how he incurred injuries. Kevin Levrone, Doren Yates, Arnold Schwarzenegger...are all good examples of how to lift
All them guys have true super human strength like when Franco was benching 315 like it weighs 225 and when Levrone was benching 5 plates like nothing 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Dallas and Ramy lifted the most weight with pretty good form. Arnold, Rahul and Hany benched with wide wide grips _ Shawn with the norrow while both the genetically gifted BBers Phil and Flexed lifted pretty light! So go figure !
@@georgewashington7238 yeah i know but it wasn't from lifting weight, not saying it didn't have any carry over to his injury im sure the wear and tear was building up, but he never got hurt in the gym. Regardless.
12"days out olympia 2002 kevin benched 405lbs for 12 rep very very easyly he is greatest.and in 2017 he benched 236kg for 2 reps at 53 years old in his age he still is best bencher bodybuilder ever .
@@rjbinning7535 hey fuck face, larry actually competes in bodybuilding too. In fact he's weeks out from his second show. Guess what else, he's only 25 so he doesn't even have full muscle maturity yet and he's already benching 650lbs, deadlifting over 900lbs and squatting around the 800lb range. Remember, he's only FUCKIN 25! And he's doing these PRs weeks out from bodybuilding shows lean! So gtfoh!
@@dehash666 yeah it was a lower level pro show I think. If he keeps developing he could probably do musclemainia or something. Not ifbb body material but definitely a great physique!
So many half rep hero's here. Only Priest, Yates, Levrone and Dallas with correct full range of motion. Branch Warren's effort was comical. Half rep bounces off the chest.
branch form is actually the best, cuz instead of all this great guys trying to give chest some damage, so it would recover after and grow, branch simply throws a bar with weight around 400-500 lbs right at his chest, while not even trying to stop it and THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE!!!!
I like Levrone with the full range of motion. Yates rom and speed is flawless but his spotter constantly touching the bar is annoying at. Ronnie with the wider grip with 5 plates is king.
Can some one explain to me the purpose in not extending your arms on bench press. Ronnie looked like he was doing half reps. Like if I did half reps I'd do more bc im doing half the work. I dont get it
Dorian always had THE best form. Just clean, raw strength.
And the best training partner
Yates form on incline is perfection!!!
And then you have Warren.
IdA LV and he was the one that tore all sorts of shit up.
Lee's was good too
sted p his training sessions were very short, 45 minutes, but VERY intense. His body paid for it
IdA LV wow someone needs to lay off the steroids....
The spotter's hands constantly on the bar kills me.
True....if spotter touches bar then its not your true lift
Bodybuilding not powerlifting man
Still cuts me deep lol
The entire street is mine
@@NickWright aye what's up nick
Man. Levrone was strong for a body builder of his size/weight. Such a difference between bodybuilder strength and power lifter strength. Of course, entirely different goals but still neat to see. Good post!
kevin is god of bench and power his squat in erlyer 90,s was 800 pound
Jesus Christ that Dorian incline was graceful as fuck. He had some seriously impeccable control.
Keven benched heavy ...Kevin becnhed right..unlike branch warren who keeps bouncing weights like edi guereros dancing car.
iSpookyGaming definitely why
Kevin did 600pounds for 2 times and tore his peck , that is some super serious weight man
yes bro kevin is very very diference powerful in compairing this guys
Levrone still benched 495 in his 2016 Olympia prep at age 51
@@kryptonianstrength8461 yes i heard kevin bnched 600 more 1 time in his early career
We fogey how strong Kevin Levrone was dude did full range of motion slow and controlled reps with five plates amazing
Man your channel is like a treasure in bodybuilding.
The best way to learn how to do an exercise is to watch an experienced athlete doing it, and through your videos one could see how many champions do different variations of the exercises and thus know what forms are, to a certain extent, acceptable for every one!
Many thanks again!
Levrone is bench press king
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gk hunk I’m a huge levrone fan and I agree with u but fuck Dallas Mcarver is one strong boy...rip to that boy
Levrone is a monster
I never knew Kevin was that strong on the bench.
Um Ronnie Coleman himself has quoted he has done 500 pounds once with 8 reps.. sorry Ronnie is king
@@billmullinax9250 8 QUARTER REPS EQUATES TO 2
Imagine Kevin Levrone from the late 90s vs the modern crop of bodybuilders. He'd breeze through the Olympia.
Kevin to me was the most perfect in Mass combined with smitry and lines.
“Symmetry”
Samuel Benitez lee priest??
*lee priest king of perfection*
*LUCKY* *FITNESS*
Branch’s form is perfect!!!!😜
Phil Heath is proof that size doesn’t always equate to strength
Yep for people on juice lol dont work if u dont take steroids...
He used to use big weights earlier, listen to his interviews. But he found what works for him. You don't have to go crazy heavy weight to get best shape. His 7 titles - good proof.
@@dehash666 not to mention that Ronnie now has severe joint problems by all the heavy lifting...
Rich Piana said best in a video : If you're natty go with heavy weights , if you're enhanced go lighter , more for the pump.
Lucian N how would rich piana know what to do is your natural tho? I made my best gains w/ lighter weights
Branch Warren is using his chest like a trampoline. Not especially hardcore. Even with 4 plates.
Making Waves yea that was bad form all the way! if he don't touch his chest at all, he'll end up doing half as much or less! huge difference bouncing off the chest and not touching at all with perfect form. 💪😠💪
Funny how he still managed to build a thick dense chest huh?
Paul Kirk these guys don’t know what thier talking about they probably can’t bench 185
Still impressive strength, but he even had elbow wraps on one arm atleast, his max would probably be about 405 for a single rep with decent form without the elbow wraps and bouncing of the chest
@@shlok-vp4xr : If he was concerned about making his chest muscles work, he should leave his ego behind and do a full stop at the bottom before pressing the weight up. It is much heavier, and it work really good at putting the right amount of stress on the muscles. Rest, food and drugs does the rest.
Markus Ruhl with that crazy wide grip. Wow.
I can't understand a word that Dorian's trainer says. I just know that it's some inspirational shit!
That british accent tough
Ronnie always number one 💪🏽
Kevin is something else, check the weight vs load 💯👍🏼
He’s as strong on the bench as Ronnie....
Yates and leverone awesome benching guys
Dorian Yates had the best form
Yates training partner is the best
Kevin Levrone still benching heavy 50 plus! Lee Priest a complete beast so strong for his size. Ron ‘King’ Coleman suffering the most for his Sandows. But, it’s his life and he lived it up!
Great video!
Thanks brother
3:03 Ronnie Coleman looking like roelly winklaar
😂
Branch hits it perfect again. That bouncing really hits the inner chest.
Fucking unbelievable what you can accomplish with .05% genetics and a good pharmacist .
@@FreddyonAcid if you think a person that came in nr 2 in the mr Olympia has bad genetics you don’t know shit about the sport
Best execution is by Dorian Yates: slowly lowering the weight, (eccentric rep) and acceleration the rep on the positive. Lifting 500 pounds the best Ronnie and Ramy. Best chest Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Dorian the shadow stayed in his small gym and got huge. No one gives his training partner the respect he deserves. Best training partner ever
Just something I’ve noticed from watching this. The guys with the widest chest are using a very wide grip, Arnold, Markus Ruhl and Ronnie Coleman. And in my opinion Arnold’s and Ronnies are the best. The closer the grip the forearms and upper arms seem very well developed. Seems weird than two of the best ever with narrow chests ie Lee Priest and Phil Heath either have a problem with the wide grip movement or are oblivious that they have tight little chests and wide grip may help. It almost seems like a phenomenon that no one else is talking about this
The ideal is a balance, neither too wide nor too close, the bar has marks where to put your hands. For example, markus ruhl had small tricps, while phiel has huge tricps, so the ideal is to have a balance putting your hands on the bar marks
Markus Ruhls grip is crazy
Levrone probably the strongest. Just look at how effortlessly he reps 495.
Lmao!!!
I dont think it was effortless. I could tell it was heavy, his daffy ass spotter was touching the bar by rep 3 or 4. I am sure if the guy would have not touched the bar, I doubt Kevin would have gotten more than 5.
Yh thought they were fake weights at 1st but he for real
That was Rolley Winklaar not Ronnie Coleman
Yeah !! ^^
Black is black who cares
Winklaar is not black Racist Genius.
Kevin Levrone..still the best triceps in the business for me..
Roelly has the best ever tri
Yoo everyone talking about ronnie coleman and Levrone. But ignoring Big ramy who benching 5 plates on incline smith machine for easy ass reps. Thats 470 lbs!!!! on incline for 6 reps!!! 💀
Branch warrens form killed me
1000% coleman forever
Phil's form was satisfying
5:10 " ...and big shout-out to my boy Jerry Ward..."
Nasser's left bicep on tha 315 wow
Notice how most the pros don’t lock the elbows out until near the end of the set. Keeping that constant tension on the chest and getting that pump
And also because locking the elbows creates high pressure on the shoulders and the elbows itself. If you want to prevent injuries you better be not locking them:D
Dudes be benching over twice the amount that I squat and dead lift. God dam.
My chest started paining seeing warren branch doing this shit😂😂
I never realize how much I don’t like branch warren until I watch these I can’t name a video when he actually has decent form
Branch Warren is the biggest CLOWN bodybuilding has ever seen.
All screaming, worst form, never a proper rep.
Ye it doesn't look good but he did well to get where he got
@@bruceybrew Steroids doesnt know form
You can see what a really bad form is when you watch Branch Warren bench press. That’s probably how he incurred injuries. Kevin Levrone, Doren Yates, Arnold Schwarzenegger...are all good examples of how to lift
Branch doing heart squashers
10:13-10:54 please tell me the music. very nice. thanks a lot
Fantastic
Levrone wins!!! Best form no bounce he made it look light 5 hunnittt
Kevin Levrone... 495 for a clean 5 holy crap
What was branch Warren doing???? Lol😂
He's forcing his pecs to adapt to protect his organs.
Imagin if big ramy was a powerlifter and train and diet like one
All them guys have true super human strength like when Franco was benching 315 like it weighs 225 and when Levrone was benching 5 plates like nothing 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
My favorite Kevin levrone
Nice channel respect from England
Thank you very much for watching.
@@worldbodybuilderworkout2828 👍🏻
Paul Taylor Thanks
Dallas and Ramy lifted the most weight with pretty good form. Arnold, Rahul and Hany benched with wide wide grips _ Shawn with the norrow while both the genetically gifted BBers Phil and Flexed lifted pretty light! So go figure !
The best Form to me it's goes Kevin levrone, Shaw ray, Nasser El sonbaty ...
Pure old school form, free weight, full range of motion, plus control
This video is gold
Levrone, Yates and Priest all day. I’m all about that full ROM with strict form.
Awesome 💪
Branch Warren's style is the best
Hahahahahahaha
The best for getting an injury
@@georgewashington7238 but he never got injured in the gym
@@JeepTrailsandBarbells In case you didnt know, he's actually injured right now
@@georgewashington7238 yeah i know but it wasn't from lifting weight, not saying it didn't have any carry over to his injury im sure the wear and tear was building up, but he never got hurt in the gym. Regardless.
Well done Kevin!!!
Ruhl takes the widest grip on incline I have ever seen anyone take
i remember read arnold benched 240 kg in his prime record but never i didents seen that pics or that record videos . franco columbo too
kevine 2017 bench press 236 kg for 2 reps at 53 years old
12"days out olympia 2002 kevin benched 405lbs for 12 rep very very easyly he is greatest.and in 2017 he benched 236kg for 2 reps at 53 years old in his age he still is best bencher bodybuilder ever .
It's crazy that Larry Wheels is much stronger than all these guys despite being smaller than half of them
He is kinda unique. But he didn't get any really big titles yet in BB (I guess. He got first place, but I don't remember what it was for).
Tabyus Kelly r u dumb, he’s a strongman not a good bodybuilder. There’s way many people lift more than Larry. Check some Olympic level athletes.
@@rjbinning7535 hey fuck face, larry actually competes in bodybuilding too. In fact he's weeks out from his second show. Guess what else, he's only 25 so he doesn't even have full muscle maturity yet and he's already benching 650lbs, deadlifting over 900lbs and squatting around the 800lb range. Remember, he's only FUCKIN 25! And he's doing these PRs weeks out from bodybuilding shows lean! So gtfoh!
@@dehash666 yeah it was a lower level pro show I think. If he keeps developing he could probably do musclemainia or something. Not ifbb body material but definitely a great physique!
@iSpookyGaming shit you're right. And hell yeah he has the genetics!
Branch had the best form to work the chest muscle secondary to working the spine
Branch warren always looking like he's about to break off the tree wtf
The bench Dallas was on is bad ass
Shoutout to the 70's Champions lifting & rocking out to that porn music at: 8:22 LMAO!!!
11:26 gotta love Ruhl turning a bench press into basically a chest fly, can't really stretch that chest anymore
Would've gone wider if the bar let him
3:03 Roelly Winklaar, not Ronnie Coleman
Roelly and Grandma
So many half rep hero's here. Only Priest, Yates, Levrone and Dallas with correct full range of motion. Branch Warren's effort was comical. Half rep bounces off the chest.
Didn't know Phil played bball. For that reason alone I fuck with him.
Can someone tell me the name of the song starting from 14:20?
Wtf was that branch warren?
Yates is the fucking GOAT
where is kevin levrone,s bench press
The best thing branch ever did was fall off his horse
Umas das coisas mais impressionantes é um atleta de alto rendimento no supino..
Can someone please tell me the name of the song starting from 10.13 to 10.54 pls ?
Phil proved that u can win 7x Olympia's lifting light & training smart without ANYONE to load & unload your weights
Dexter’s grip is so dangerous
Great "older school" vid
Thanks brother
branch form is actually the best, cuz instead of all this great guys trying to give chest some damage, so it would recover after and grow, branch simply throws a bar with weight around 400-500 lbs right at his chest, while not even trying to stop it and THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE!!!!
The guys with the strictest form had the worst chests lol
so branch trained at the same gym ronnie did?? is that coleman in the background talking or did someone jus add his voice in
branch warrens form omg!!!
kevin is the best ever
I like Levrone with the full range of motion. Yates rom and speed is flawless but his spotter constantly touching the bar is annoying at. Ronnie with the wider grip with 5 plates is king.
Damn I got real sad when Dallas showed up :(
база в малом диапазоне повторений у всех топ качков, привет Папе Смиту)
6:55 holy fuck that scares me when he is not gripping the bar XD
kevin levrone 2002 hit a bench press 405pound for 12 reps very easyly . 12 days out of olympia what is this mean guys??
Lots of good scene at Milos' old gym in Fullerton.. Big Powerhouse banner... good old days 2.0... I guess..
All I have to say for this video is *lightweight babee*
Then you get Brad Canterbury🤣 who 😂 outbenches all these beasts🤣
song at 10:15
Can some one explain to me the purpose in not extending your arms on bench press. Ronnie looked like he was doing half reps. Like if I did half reps I'd do more bc im doing half the work. I dont get it
The best benchpress Bodybuilder is Kevin levrone for sure