# finally benched 700lbs... **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [July 21, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/finally-benched-700lbs/203241 "2009-07-21T16:43:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![06se-r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/c5a1d2/32.png) [@06se-r](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/06se-r)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/finally-benched-700lbs/203241/30 "2009-07-24T19:55:48Z")
> [@Who got out in the warm weather and cleaned up their rides?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-got-out-in-the-warm-weather-and-cleaned-up-their-rides/40660/32): > > I think the shirts should be outlawed and you should have to just bench raw! I get that it helps you bench more and “everyone wears them” so if you don’t your only at a disadvantage, but I think theyre retarded and noone should be allowed to wear them. 700 lbs is great and shirt or not ill never be able to hit that number, but wheres the sport in wearing a shirt that helps you bench and extra 200+ lbs. i also compete in a.d.a.u.(anti-drug ahtletes united). they are a raw powerlifting sanction. drug test every lifter, every meet. i was top 3 in Pa for 2005/2006, and top top 5 in 2007 in bench deadlift. that is with a 450 bench, and 625 deadlift. i understand the shirts not being liked by some people, but everyone wears them at the meet, and they are legal. they have assisted(bench shirts), and raw contests. i do both. i actually have a better raw bench then shirted bench, most guys i go against are in the low-mid 800lbs. for bench. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/finally-benched-700lbs/203241)._