Bench press king Julius Maddox has set a new unofficial world record for raw bench press (without a bench press suit) at 765 pounds, nailing a smooth single rep at the weight over the weekend.
“The people who tried to bury me didn’t know I was a seed ‘Be Irregular’,” he captioned his post.
In the video, he presses the massive bar once, with three spotters in place to provide a liftoff and support. Maddox said that he “very rarely” lifts the weight off the bench himself—never at any lift over 315 pounds—during a training session with for World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall, so he can maintain tightness in his muscles.
“YEAH! Let’s go, let’s go,” he yells after completing his press.
The massive bar he pressed had eight plates on each side, as Maddox highlighted on another Instagram post.
Maddox is currently the official world record holder for raw bench press, which he first set in August 2019. Maddox beat the previous record holder Kirill Sarychev’s 738.5 pound press by hitting 739.6 pounds, then bested his own record in November 2019, when he benched 744.1 pounds at the Rob Hall Classic in Austin, Texas.
Since then, Maddox has been setting new PRs for himself. He also unofficially broke that record in January 2020 when he benched 755 pounds. These lifts don’t count officially for world record status, however, since he’s not doing them at officially sanctioned events.
Maddox isn’t just ramping up his lifts without a definite goal in sight—after all, every new weight for Maddox is a new record. He’s on a mission to ultimately press 800 pounds. During an interview in early February 2020 with BarBend, Maddox said he plans to beat the official world record in June 2020.
“The new all-time world record raw bench will be 800 pounds by the beginning of June,” he told the site.
With this new PR and unofficial record, Maddox is now under 50 pounds out from that mythic mark.
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