#166 Jimmy Kolb | 1120 LBS BENCHPRESS, 6X ALL-TIME RECORD HOLDER

Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate

Health & Fitness, Fitness

5.0 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 223 minutes

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Jimmy Kolb takes a seat in this 166th podcast episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk.

Jimmy Kolb is a drug-free, equipped bench specialist—the first and only person to bench 1200 and 1300 pounds and hold 11 competitive 1000+ pound benches in the last two years. A marine corps veteran, Jimmy benched his first 1000-pound poly bench while still on active duty.

He was awarded the Baddest Bencher and WPO Bench Bash Winner in 2022.

Jimmy is the owner of Kolbstrong Power, where he offers online and in-house custom bench programming. He cofounded Kolbstrong Scholarship—a 501c3 non-profit that financially helps teenage and junior athletes.

Here are his impressive feats of strength to date:

-Last person to bench 1000lbs+ in a poly shirt

-First ( and currently only) person to bench 1100lbs in a single ply poly shirt

-Benched 740lbs as a teenager (at that time that was the second heaviest teenage bench in history)

-2410 Multiply in 220 at 20 years old (still stands as the heaviest multiply total for 220 JR)

-Currently hold six ACTIVE All Time World Records for equipped bench across 4 weight classes:

242 : Singly Ply : 903lbs

242 : Multiply : 950lbs

275 : Multiply : 1035lbs

308 : Single Ply: 1120lbs

SHW : Single Ply 1060lbs

SHW : Unlimited : 1320

Jimmy's IG: https://www.instagram.com/kolbstrong/?hl=en

ABOUT THE HOST

Dave Tate is the founder and co-owner of elitefts.com. He is the author of twenty books and has logged more than 40,000 hours of training and consulting. Dave is married to elitefts co-owner Traci Arnold-Tate, and they reside in London, Ohio, with their two sons. Personal Credo: Live, Learn, Pass on™.

Dave's IG: https://www.instagram.com/underthebar/?hl=en

Transcript

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought you by EliteFTS.com, founded in 1998 with the primary aim to live, learn, and pass on.
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0:16.6	If you can put it in a gym bag or load weights on it, Elite FTS has it.
0:20.8	What's going on? I'm Dave Tate. We are broadcasting from the middle of the Elite FTS wait room,
0:25.3	where the underground still thrives and you're part of the crew. It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.
0:31.8	Welcome to Table Talk.
0:44.3	What's going on, guys? We are back with another episode of Table Talk. Today's guest is Jimmy Colb. The, when I look at open powerlifting, right? There's, I got to like scroll twice.
0:55.0	So there's a history there.
0:56.0	So there's over a decade of accomplishments.
0:59.0	I'm trying to limit the introductions because we can go through all these different accolades.
1:05.0	You have six, is that right, all-time bench records?
1:08.0	Current standing, yes.
1:09.0	Yes, and currently have the biggest lift of any lift done in power lifting. Also correct. Which is 13. I don't want to look. I'm going to test myself. 1320. Yes, that's right. But why do I want to say 1360? That's a good question. It's a cooler number. I'm already bored of 1320. It's time to move on. What did you try in the last meet? I tried 1400 twice. Okay. Yeah. All right. You want to know a backstory about that? Please. Did you ever tell you anything? No, no. Interesting. Okay. We're going to have some fun. Oh, shit. All right. So it was a Saturday, I believe, right? Was that Saturday? It was a Saturday. So it's a squat day, which take forever out here.
1:47.0	And we start talking about it.
1:49.0	So we load the meat up, right, on the live stream.
1:52.0	So we're watching the live stream and live streams for that Federation are always just spectacular, right?
1:58.0	And so we realize real quick why power lifting is not a giant spectator sport.
2:05.1	Because we're bored. And the only reason we're really watching it to see what you do. Sure.
2:09.6	Right. So she's already telling us from the jump. She's going to cry either way. If it happens or
2:14.6	doesn't happen. So we're just waiting, you know, for this lift to happen and bored because it's power lifting.
2:22.5	So we start using element packets to bet on if people were going to make the lift or miss the lift.
2:30.1	And it just so happened to be the bench where you know most people are going to miss the lift, right?
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