2005 Big Daddy's
Bench Press Meet

The meet was in Muncie, BSU powerlifting mecca. The meet had many old school lifters in the area including many of whom I have trained with at one time or another in my career. Since Bales had no equipment, he went at the meet raw, and came out victorious with a massive 300lb bench press PR (that was not a grinder, holy shit!!!). Mike Lawrence put on his shirt for the meet and came out with a PR of 280, in a press that seemed to last about 10 minutes due to his arms being longer than stretch armstrong. His best before that was 265 and it was hard. He barely missed 290, and 300 will be in the near future.
Last up but definitely not least was Big Joe, big Joes best bench to date was a grinder 365, which hadn't moved a whole lot recently. Then we surprised all the lifters with only a week notice to the meet. Joe came on top with the biggest bench of the meet a massive 425 PR by 60lbs.