A word about the bench-press shirt and records in general:
Athletic records are made to be broken. Strength, speed, whatever, keeps going up with improved training methods and improved drugs, unfortunately. (The time for a White man in the 100 meters is a disgusting anomaly-That the 10 second record for a White man has not been broken in years shows you just how entrenched the caste system is.)
The first man to bench 400 was a White man. Most of the bench-press records in history have been set by White men. Our "guest" cherry-picked an excellent bench-press by a black man out of context, a record which has of course been broken by yet another White man. But he arbitrarily cuts off the contest right there, because bench-press competitors started using bench-shirts, with the idea to keep body parts from snapping under stresses no human was meant to endure. There is an arguement, a good arguement, that the shirts help you lift. But that doesn't help the black-supremacist arguement, since all of the new much heavier records, even if you believe the shirts provide assistance, have been set by White men.
Which is why I asked if blacks cannot figure out this complicated piece of technology called a bench-press shirt. Apparently either they cannot, or else, very few of them are competitive with Whites in strength events...hmmmmmm, I wonder which is more likely.
Understand, the shirts, at most, add 150 lbs to what a guy could bench raw. And that's a generous guesstimate. So take Rychlak's 965 lbs. record and do the math.
Mendelson, btw, the raw record holder, has done 800 lbs raw in practice. Which is alot more than 2% greater than Henderson's 711.
The science about muscle fiber differences and biometrics stands. You guys choose who you believe-some nabob with an agenda on a sports discussion forum or actual scientists and actual results.
The bit about blacks being more muscular is laughable. With training, Nordic types are the most mesomorphic people in the world. (They won't look as "cut" though, because of higher body fat percentages and lighter skins, this fools morons.) I admit though, that most young black men spend alot of time on the weight-pile and on the 'roids and most young White men don't, embarrasing as it is. (In regards to the weights, not the 'roids) The only reason American blacks are so much more mesomorphic than their lean African cousins is because they benefit from hybridization with Whites and crude eugenics programs from the slave-holding era. That's why American blacks out-compete their African cousins in every sport except sprinting and are slightly competitive with Whites in tests of strength.Edited by: White_Savage