Scot Mendelson a well known bench press specialist had a crazy thing happen to him when attempting to bench press 1121 pounds on March 20th.
He drops the bar on to his body and it looks like he injured himself signficantly from that drop.
Good news!
Scot has given an update on the situation and he didn’t injure himself to bad with this drop, he has recovered and is ready to continue bench pressing.
Here’s what Scot had to say about the situation;
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Bad day on March 20th. No injuries. Thank God. Now im going to take the all time record.
What’s the record Scot Mendelson is going for?
Current world record holders in the heaviest bench press is held by Julian Maddox who lifted 770 lbs in the bench press (raw) in March.
However, Wearing a special bench shirt the world record is held by Will Barotti at 1105 lbs
Keep in mind that Scot Mendelson was attempting the lift wearing a bench shirt which is different than lifting raw.
There is a big difference in world records from raw lifts to shirt lifts because the shirt makes the lift a bit easier.
Scot was going for the world record in the video below and he is going to continue to try to beat the world record in bench press.
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