today we're bench pressing some pretty serious way starting at 135 pounds and working our way up to
405 pounds and we're doing it underwater can't believe they just have it we've seen different
creators like dude perfect and tyler olivier attempt 405 pounds underwater but as an athlete
i had to test this method of bench press myself to see how buoyancy affects benching underwater
today's goal bench 405 pounds using steel plates and because steel plates are less buoyant than
rubber plates i expect this to be a little heavier than you guys think to help out with this project
today i've recruited two of my strongest friends hunter and kristen everyone i'm kristen dunsmore
i am a 69 kilo usa pl power lifter i really have no idea how this is going to go
my name is hunter mcintyre professional athlete that currently competes in events such as
crossfit high rocks spartan racing marathoning being out of water gravity is the main thing
that's holding you down being underwater that there's a little bit of that buoyancy factor
it's going to make a big difference i guess we'll see how it goes it'll go a lot better today for us
if you guys subscribe to the channel so we're struggling a little bit with the flotation of
the bench right now we're going to rack up 135 and you'll see it underwater we're going to let
kristen go first let's see how it goes
yeah easy
how'd that feel does it feel how did it feel lighter
basically lighter just i mean like it's hard trying to like
not float i'm gonna go ahead and try this is 135 and we're gonna get my thoughts you guys ready
ready
definitely a little lighter it's really hard staying on the bench
i was like sideways but i did i got two reps with it felt good ready yeah
all right so one rep right one wrap and i was looking at you and i was like
go i thought you were going through yeah
okay it's a weird feeling because you have to wait on somebody else to breathe this is a brand
new plaster pool oh i had no idea this is what you were all up to up here okay okay we'll take
it out so we got kicked out of the first pool and we found a second pool but we lost hunter
he just had to work out he's not actually dead so he's okay why what do you mean what uh anytime you
call i know something's about to happen i just need to use your pool really quick for what uh
we're bench pressing underwater i don't even know what that means but okay yeah come use it okay
thank you all right bye so we're going back to the drawing board our problem is our legs are floating
upward and we have to wait on someone to grab the weight from us since we no longer have hunter
human to go work out we have invested in a bank so you'll see our corrections right here in the
green we're going to put a 45 pound weight plate on the lower body of the bencher and we are also
using the bench to hold the weight so in order to do this you have to be pretty coordinated and
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this video and supporting my youtube channel okay here we are we have eight 45-pound plates
still all still supposed to be negatively buoyant i mean obviously it's supposed to be 45 pounds
in the water out of the water that's the argument today but
i just want to show you guys that every single one of these are actually still plates kristen can
you fill it i can confirm these are steel blades okay i have a 45 pound plate in my lap let's do it
that was about 15 reps all right so kristen's gonna try a few reps for 135 now
see how it feels are you ready i'm ready all right let's do it
i'm gonna hand you this plate you're freezing out here aren't you i ain't it's so
i know well we don't normally go underwater when we're lifting so
you're right you right you're right all right let's do this
six seven eight eight reps we almost lost a second all right as you can
see underwater we have 225 pounds racked up i'm gonna go for a few of them okay
maybe five or six maybe one or two and when i come up i'll give you my thoughts
how do you think it's doing good i mean it looks easy so makes you feel better about my hitchhiker
that rack and unrack is so much anxiety it does so that was 10 reps underwater with 225 it felt
really good it felt a lot better than it does on land it really does and i think when you get
it too you're going to be like this is easy i'm ready for it so i mean i just banged out 10 reps
so felt pretty good my bench isn't that strong like i said previous max of about 300 pounds
so kristen this is near your max so getting close let's give it a shot let's see how it goes
don't don't worry i'll don't die i'm spotting you don't worry i'm the best spotter in the world
easy money huh that was a quick rep that was easy
well my hand started slipping on the bar i did it a little bit yeah i felt like like
trying to like but overall no it was i mean it was 100 percent easier it was not too easy
it definitely was not people think i'm crazy 405 is not actually four or five in the water yeah
she her previous max is like what two to like 43 or something 248 248 112.5 kilos so
48. so we're gonna keep working our way up we're gonna we're gonna push your max
today underwater maybe hit 405 who knows maybe i'll hit 405. all right now we have
245 pounds racked up this is getting close to kristen's max i'm going to rep it out one time
and then she's going to go for it all right kristen how do you feel
i mean i feel fine but i'm not the one who's about to go hold their breath under water and
try and lift weights so oh you're going to after this don't worry not yet one rep baby let's do it
245 feels good feels really good so walk in the park i don't know i'm telling y'all wait in the
water is not actual weight i mean it's lighter underwater like i said before kristen's previous
max is about a hundred and what 12 kilos 112.5 yeah so 248 to be exact okay well it's like 247.
okay so this is 245 pounds the goal is if she can rep this out maybe like two or three times
we will know for sure that weight is lighter in the water and weight is easier in the water
than on land okay kristen here's your plate put it on your leg let's do this
point for even 245 pounds twice you did it i did it how was that it felt great did it feel good i
mean as good as it's ever gonna feel underwater this is this is a real argument online like
people are saying weight is the same underwater no there's no way like i don't i don't think what
makes it hard is like trying not to float up yeah you know i mean you have a lot of factors against
you plus she doesn't have her you wear a belt when you bench i wear a belt in like wrist straps yeah
and she's completely raw right now two two i'm not you know floating above the bench everywhere
so this gives me hope to hit my pr underwater at 3 15. should we go ahead and go for it now
if i can hit three plates which has never been done before by me we will know weight is lighter
in the water let's test it out all right we got three plates racked up on the bar right now can
you see that braxton three plates you see him three plates my previous max is 300 pounds okay
never been a good venture but 300 pounds is okay this is 315. never been done before so
if i press this for sure the weight is not actual weight underwater who knows i make it
three reps christian just got two of her previous max so if i get two reps of this i'm celebrating
oh i'm nervous guys don't try this at home because if you're trying this at home especially
by yourself and drop that weight on you you could actually drown so i don't want any of you
found this at home please we're experts out here you think you can do it we're about to find out
can't believe that just happened five reps of 3 15.
that's crazy we're gonna push for four at five holiday are you yeah oh my god well for sure
whoa i feel good i'm super strong somebody asked me what am i my max is
four or five a [ __ ] i got proof but i just don't tell them that it's underwater
now we've bumped it up to 335 underwater we have three plates as well as two tins on each side
kristen's a little cold but it's okay she's gonna spot her kristen don't kill me you ready i got you
world class handling right there
okay so you got one we got a 335 by one one and a half that means previous max
was 300 pounds 335 today the water is giving me a 10 straight boost all right i'm practicing
the camera guys on my feet because we're limited with crew members today but here we go 405 pounds
okay maybe not having it today so we're here in my garage pardon the mess we have a cooler
full of water i have a five pound steel plate here but as we dip it into the water you can
see the weight on the scale is point seven so that means in the water this weight plate is
actually four point three pounds now if we go i'm making a video anyways we go to the board
that means every pound is 0.86 pounds in the water so that means a 45 pound weight plate turns
out to 38.7 pounds in the water we do the math calculated 405 pounds is actually 348.3 pounds
on land that's why i couldn't bench 405 pounds of water because my max on land is about 300
this is a good pounds
anyways guys hope you learned something today if you want a bench underwater
be safe about it i don't recommend it but i can't prevent all y'all from doing it
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