'18 UT QB Cammon Cooper

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nicksjuzunk said:
Not calling you a liar, but the discrepancy between your bench and squat defies anything logical under the sun.

How was this?
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No clue why to be honest. Not like I had the greatest weight training coach. Small town and everyone went to the same high school.

I always have had better leg strength. 400 deadlift, 440 squat, power clean sucked too though. Like 145
 
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nicksjuzunk said:
Not calling you a liar, but the discrepancy between your bench and squat defies anything logical under the sun.

How was this?
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I was 5' 10" 145 lbs with 24" thighs and negligible upper body as a freshman in high school. That was also 35 years ago when my weight lifting was 99% farm work.
 
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dyllisvol42 said:
That is a big discrepancy but not impossible. I have long arms and in school the most I ever bench pressed was 215, but could squat 405. I focused a little more on my legs being a basketball player and always trying to work on explosion. Never felt comfortable bench pressing still don't to this day.
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His number differential is 67% higher than yours.

Again... I just find it to be a very odd, outlier type of scenario. I'm going to drop it, but found it interesting and wondered if there was a reason beyond what he later offered

Carry on gents
 
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dbarker said:
No clue why to be honest. Not like I had the greatest weight training coach. Small town and everyone went to the same high school.

I always have had better leg strength. 400 deadlift, 440 squat, power clean sucked too though. Like 145
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What was your general body weight?
 
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nicksjuzunk said:
His number differential is 67% higher than yours.

Again... I just find it to be a very odd, outlier type of scenario. I'm going to drop it, but found it interesting and wondered if there was a reason beyond what he later offered

Carry on gents
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I think in general most kids starting out are substantially stronger in there legs than with bench press. Of course legs are out stronger body part in general, but most kids don't start lifting weights until they hit high school or maybe 8th grade. Every single one of us though who has played football has hit the tackling sled though. Basketball players it was all about jump squats and wall sits at a young age. Even though we are all stronger in our legs usually I would imagine that's why there is such a large discrepancy in most kids bench press/squat numbers. Food for thought.
 
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also arm length and technique. good technique can put 40-50 lbs on your bench.
 
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Coleslaw said:
I was 5' 10" 145 lbs with 24" thighs and negligible upper body as a freshman in high school. That was also 35 years ago when my weight lifting was 99% farm work.
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When you grow up on a farm you weight room was a hay field throwing 1,500 square bails of hay on a wagon then unloading at the barn you didn't have time to work on the bench press you spent all of your time on the clean and jerk.:) But in a way i miss those day's the 70's:thud:
 
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terrypedigo said:
When you grow up on a farm you weight room was a hay field throwing 1,500 square bails of hay on a wagon then unloading at the barn you didn't have time to work on the bench press you spent all of your time on the clean and jerk.:) But in a way i miss those day's the 70's:thud:
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I miss commas, periods, capitalization, complete sentences, and rational thoughts.
 
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terrypedigo said:
When you grow up on a farm you weight room was a hay field throwing 1,500 square bails of hay on a wagon then unloading at the barn you didn't have time to work on the bench press you spent all of your time on the clean and jerk.:) But in a way i miss those day's the 70's:thud:
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The year after I moved off the farm my grandfather bought a round baler and a wood splitter.When ask about it he smiled and said didn't need them I had you.It is a different kind of strong no doubt.I benched 275 as a high school freshman but I weighed 235 and had never been in a weight room.
 
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tn4elvis said:
The year after I moved off the farm my grandfather bought a round baler and a wood splitter.When ask about it he smiled and said didn't need them I had you.It is a different kind of strong no doubt.I benched 275 as a high school freshman but I weighed 235 and had never been in a weight room.
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If you had never been in a weight room, how did you bench the 275?
 
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