#178 Ryan "BENCHMONSTER" Kennelly | 1ST 800 POUND BENCH, 4X ARNOLD CLASSIC WINNER
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🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 153 minutes
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Ryan "Benchmonster" Kennelly takes a seat in this 178th podcast episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk.
Ryan "Benchmonster" Kennelly, 6'2" and weighing 325 pounds, was the first man to bench 800 pounds. He held the all-time world bench record of 1075 for over 12 years. He took the gold or first place at the Arnold Classic in 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007. Ryan is the author of The Kennelly Method (2002) and producer of The Road to the Arnold (2004).
Ryan contributes his success to Louie Simmons for his help back in 2001 which would forever change his training and allow him to achieve all-time world records overnight.
Ryan's IG: https://www.instagram.com/realryankennelly/
Benchmonster TV: https://www.youtube.com/@RyanBenchmonsterKennelly/streams
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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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| 0:15.9 | If you can put it in a gym bag or load weights on it, Elite FTS has it. |
| 0:20.1 | What's going on? I'm Dave Tate. We are broadcasting |
| 0:22.5 | from the middle of the Elite FTS wait room where the underground still thrives and you're part of the |
| 0:27.1 | crew. It's time to sit down, keep it hormone optimization and preventative medicine. Are you looking to optimize your health in and out of the gym, improve recovery, sex drive, and quality of life. Have you tried speaking to your health |
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| 1:51.8 | We are back with another episode of Table Talk. Today, my guest is Ryan Canelli. The Bench Monster |
| 1:57.4 | has official lifts if open powerlifting is correct, which I think it is. |
| 2:02.6 | A raw bench of 650, single-ply 771, and the multi-ply at 1075. |
| 2:07.9 | The first person to bench press 800 pounds and that 1175 lasted for 12 years. |
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