I can't believe brads fan boys defend him and say these plates are real. Pro powerlifters that bench anything over 500lbs have like 4 spotters total on all sides. You're telling me he's benching a legit 700lbs with one tiny teenager spotting him?
People are hyping his spotters "help" too. They say his spotter is helping him a ton but look at his spotter, hes not struggling at all. He's lightly pulling upward yeah, but this is almost 700lbs we're talking about. Bradley isn't struggling and neither is the spotter. Lightly guiding the bar isn't gonna help shit with a 700lb bench.
Nick's Strength and Power yah. I don't believe he can do anything above mid 500s. He could have the best genetics in the world and still not be able to do that because the powerlifters who do have the best genetics in the world can't do that shit weighing 255 let alone 220
Nick's Strength and Power Have you seen Riches legs? Have you seen how small they are compared to his upper body? No body builder should have small ass legs like that. You should do a video on how small Riches legs are comapred to his upper body. The shit looks goofy to me. This is a topic that needs to be discussed.
In my gym we have round plates at 55lbs each (red colour) and hex plates at 45lbs each (same as this video). Im from the UK and Im not sure if its just a thing here but most of the gyms have both plates. This guy is still bullshit though no doubt about that.
Cope Grizz far more convincing, but I still believe that spotter could be rowing 100+ and bouncing the weight rather than pausing it aids a whole lot too. Larry wheels hits 600 at 242, I wouldn't be surprised if this guy could hit ~500-550 on a clean paused rep
But that's it...the bar isn't bending like it's heavy weight. It's bending like it has half as much weight as is being claimed. In the video the 675 bench...the bar bends like there's maybe high 300s....maybe. Put 315 on a bar and squat it. Then 405. Etc... There's no way that he's benching 675 and the bar isn't flexing/bouncing more. Just watch videos of guys really doing that amount of weight and what it does to the bar and how the bar flexes during the movement.
He's been offered 10,000$ to come to their gym and show he can really lift this weight. If he's really doing this why not just go by that persons gym and lift the weights and get paid? Sounds like the easiest 10,000$ ever for a guy like this lifting that weight anyway.
Green N Gold 4 Life Fake 45lbs weights weighs about 3.5 lbs a piece. Do the math. To bench 675 lbs a you'll need 7 45 lbs plates on each side plus the bar that usually weighs 45 lbs itself. Assuming that the plates are fake and the bar is real, he's only lifting about 100 lbs. give or take a few pounds.
It's a reference to Elgintensity. He calls those plates "CrossFit plates" satirically because CrossFit videos often feature straight black rather than colour-coded bumper plates (the black ones are cheaper than the coloured ones because they have worse manufacturing tolerances), which also happens to make it difficult to tell exactly how much is on the bar. But anyway, it's Elgin that coined calling them "CrossFit plates", and it's a joke. Besides, the plates in the video aren't bumper plates, they're just rubber-coated.
Just based off of the type of bar that appears to be, and how little it bends, there is no way that is 675lbs. I've seen bars like the one he used bend more than that with about 400lbs on them.
Dorian Yates rocked the Nike golf hat and trucker hat for most of his workouts and his numbers where leight... deff no fake weights used in temple gym.
I'm not arguing 1 way or another, but that says nothing. Look up "world record bench press" and that dude easily rolls 738 lbs. Thus dude here rolls the entire bar back at the 53 sec mark, and that's not hard, even if the weight was real. The bar rolls with ease at it sits up in the holders, no matter how much weight is on there. Dude probably is padding his numbers a bit with lighter plates, but the roll there tells you nothing. There's still serious weight on there, even if it's not 675 lbs.
Nearly a 400lb Strict Barbell Curl..at 1:40. LOL. He's either trolling the Internet or has a desperate need to look stronger then he actually is? Clearly he is seeking attention and notariety.
but ronnie coleman also did like 24 sets of other exercises the day he filmed that video. and i read somewhere that video was his lifetime pr. not a routine thing.now if coleman just deadlifted on some days the number would've been higher.
He just broke Bill Kazmaier’s World Record bench that stood for years. Super heavyweight powerlifters in competition could not break Kaz’s record and Brad comes along and does it in a gym!!! Go figure.
John Lucas.....appreciated big Jon.... a fake and a poser like Brad Castlebunny here it's going to get a novice lifter hurt...f-in POSER n FAKE...seems he (in his delusional Castlebunny mind) can beat world class bench pressers like Glen Chabot or Eric spotto if he is allowed to bring in his special plates add a bench press contest. fucking Castlebunnies a jerk off
it's clearly bullshit!!!!!!!!!! fuck this fake guy. I was work out back in Sept 2006. I weighted 115 I bench real 205 and this guy never can do the same. June 2009, I weighed 147 I benched 315. I'm real. I will back in gym at anytime.
There's no way those plates are real. That bar would be bent so bad you couldn't keep the weights on it. The bar he is using has barely any bend to it at suppose 700lbs. I've seen guys 2 times his size that couldn't bench press that much weight. I seen personally with my own eyes a high school football coach squat 700lbs and and bench 500lbs and both times the weights kept falling off the bar, because the bar was flexing so bad. We had to lock the weights down bar clamps. I am not saying the castleberry isn't strong but he is not as strong as he claims to be and what people say he is. I bet he could do about half the weight of what he claims he does, which is still very impressive. Just be real bro. There ain't no shame in telling the truth and being real. Lying about how strong you are or what you can bench press ECT and it not be legit is only going to make people hate you and challenge you everyday.
From what i've heard, he's actually been offered money by some powerlifters to compete in a meet, but he never takes up on the challenge and blocks them
What i notice is how the bar easily flexes, instead of staying stiff while bent, before he actually lifts the bar. Aside from that, when he racks the bar, the weights on the left rotate, shift, and move. Anyone who has done multiple platea knows that plates stick together and don't move when stacked next to each other. They will slap around if loose and if you slam them on the rack, but they wont rotate a lot, and thats not what happened here.
He's not even doing it, the spotter is helping him, he's holding it the whole time. I hate it when guys try to spot me like this at the gym. I tell them don't touch it, and they still do. Ruins the whole workout.
Joseph Delledonne yea you really think that one single spotter is pulling 700lbs. Most people pressing that weight use multiple spotter this guy has one spotter who doesn't even seem to struggle. Maybe they both are the strongest guys in the world.
When you watch the lift you can see the bar has a bow in it that doesn't spring at all from start to finish. As well, when he's doing the lift there is white paint showing through spaces or gaps in the plates of a machine in the back ground. The round old school plates are 45lbs. More substantial than what he's using.
Nick: I saw the first 675 lb. bench press. I was a teenager and the meet was either the 1969 or 1970 World Powerlifting Championships which were held at the Zembo Mosque in my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (back when Bob Hoffman of the York Barbell Company of nearby York, Pennsylvania controlled AAU bodybuilding, Olympic lifting and powerlifting. Big Jim Williams from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who weighed something like 350 lbs. benched 675 lbs., and then missed a close 700 lbs. He didn't have Brad Castleberry"s bodybuilding physique. Jim Williams was HUGE and he didn't smile and wave at the camera five seconds after his lift like Brad Castleberry does.
*strongest competitor on the planet....who knows what lerks in the night lol...the question remains what are his motivations? if money can he make more doing insta vids or contests? does he desire record holdings or online videos? has anyone asked him?
+drew13600 Also, he would make a fortune from ad money if he posted videos of himself doing well against someone like Bell. Even if he didn't win or match his gym videos, just being close would be a massive win for him financially, his fans would eat that up like crazy "See? The haterz wuz wrong!!11!!!1".
I think he is fake it's clear his form is not well developed for powerlifting. also 700lbs would make a standard barbell bend way more. Most elite bench pressers have a spotting team that don't keep a hold of the bar
From a certified strength and conditioning specialist and a licensed certified athletic trainer that has been practicing for over a decade in the field of sports medicine and human performance. Nick you're crushing it. Dig the vids. Even sonics baths.
This guy is a beast!!! Quit hating on him! Just kidding. This guy is obviously full of shit. Hahaha. But I'm not hating on the guy for trolling. I think its funny.
His fans don't care or are too young/stupid to get it. So the ad money keeps rolling in, it's what happens when you are so greedy you don't mind selling your reputation.
Vegan Viking yea i have spotted for 500lb benches etc. trust me theres no way in shit they are legit spotting or even lifting that. you need at LEAST two strong spotters
Way back we used to do demonstrations to promote powerlifting in South Africa. Now anyone familiar with the sport knows that powerlifting weights don't look all that impressive on a bar (220kg being loaded with just 2 green plates per side). So to make a 300kg deadlift look insane we used fake plates to add to the quantity. They were identical to the Eleiko 20kg plates but were made from aluminium and weighed only 7.5kg a piece. So whilst it was a legit 300kg lift, it used a lot more than the usual 7 plates a side to load it. Now if we could get very realistic fake plates in South Africa way back when, I'm pretty sure it can be done today. Added to that: a 300kg bench press requires body weight to support the shoulders. He doesn't have what it takes to bench press that much. The strain alone is insane. Guys like Gerrit Badenhorst and Mark Robinson didn't get to 300kg and they were stupid strong (I stand to correction but I think Gerrit placed 4th in Mariuz Pudzianowski's first WSM win and was already in his 40's at the time. At his best he had a 460kg squat).
I do 375 3times and I'm on alot of gear lmfaooo with a spotter and I'm dizzy afterwards. I'm 195 this guys shitting Christmas trees and people are buying them
At 265lbs I do not have a best bench but; I have benched over 500lbs for reps. I strained my ass off and this guy does it way too easy. Notice how the weight moves around just from him touching the bar. That is bs. The plates are too fake.
Abim Iabim I weigh 275 and I only bench 365 lol. Then again I only started benching 8 months ago. I used to just do squats,deadlifts, military press, olympic lifts and rows. I didn't have a bench at my hone gym so I couldn't bench.
500 lol you sure about that ? I weigh 160lbs and bench 290lbs which sing much but then I took 5 years off no training and lost a crap ton of weight only been back a few months
I'm looking at the bar. This gym is (I'd wager substantial cash) a 24 Hour Fitness. I've deadlifted 405 at 24 Hour and the bars they were bowed out of shape by just that weight. I don't think a commercial gym is going to have a bar that could actually take that load. I'd bet he keeps the plates at the gym and I'd bet they're generally used for people that aren't strong enough to deadlift 135 but the need a plate that's as tall as a standard 45.
The1Andrew not only that im sure if he told the gym he was doing a vid that was gonna get a shit ton of views and hes gonna give them a shout out on instagram they wouldnt care if he brought his own stuff in
I don't think it'd be hard to convince most gym owners to let him use his own plates "Hey, we're doing this joke video for youtube, do you mind if we use our own plates for 10 minutes?" Lot's of gym owners would just say yes and not give a shit.
One of the gyms in the video is 24 hour fitness in vista, San Diego. I personally saw him load 405 on the incline bench and struggle for 2 reps. He then moved to flat bench and was able to bench 5 plates with a lot of assistance for a one rep max.
You can clearly see him spinning the weights before he lifts the bar off the rack. And they respond really fast, too, in a way that hundreds of pounds of weight could not respond. And that's in addition to the things Nick pointed out.
They don't need to be fake weights for him to hit that. So much stress is being taken off the bar when his spotter is helping him on the way down, and also so much momentum is being used especially with his spotters help. If u could hit 2 plates on bench, go to the gym and place 3 plates on there and tell ur spotter to help u on the way down, and as soon as u bounce it off ur chest to pull up with momentum. I guarantee ul be able to do it. Momentum, and extra help from a spotter. It's all u need
I'm an absolute beginner at lifting so please forgive me if I sound naive, but doesn't having a mate hanging on to the bar from above mean you're not lifting it by yourself? He's helping, no? I thought the whole point of have a spotter was to have someone ready to help you if you can't make the lift and need help to rack the bar safely. If he's actually assisting in the lift, then it's a team effort and you can't claim to have lifted the weight by yourself, surely?
When i was 32 i was training for a strong man comp , sadly i broke my elbow in an 18 ft fall head first to concrete. My lifts at the time weighing 295 lbs were- Bench 720 lbs Squat 800 lbs Deadlift 800 lbs And every lift was all i could do with a tremendous struggle, meaning very slow but steady lift. They way this guy lifts is bullshit. If he actually weighs 250 lbs 45 lbs less than i did yet doing these lifts with seeminly no effort i call bullshit !!! If he weighs 220 lbs which is 75 lbs less i call a miracle but its still bullshit. I weigh 270 lbs now and my bench is only 450 lbs squat 500 lbs havent dead lifted in awhile but id say between 500-600 lbs and its a struggle. And im 43 now. Love your videos hoss. Your pretty spot on with strength and physique.
Hello Nick! Nice channel, love the content. Jerry G made a video that really shows you visual proof that we are all getting spoofed. He shows a vid with Brad doing 405 on the incline bench. And when he does his set up he moves the entire bar back and forth about two inches on each side! This is impossible with real plates. Another point people are overlooking is the fake bar! Probably plastic so that it flexes. Keep up the good work.
Like you said, you're not jealous. People like us in the strength game love bragging about crazy lifts. I remember people coming up to me in the gym to brag about Ed Coan breaking another record...guys love hearing that. if it was real you would cover the hell out of those lifts, not go out of your way to discredit them.
There are some photo shopped weights on the BB. If you look at the left side of the bar with plates as it "blends" with the machine incline press after, you can see that the plates go fade out when they hit the black part of the machine incline bench press. Hit like if you see it or comment. I want to know if it's just me who see this...
hey Nick! nice videos. Seen many. When you look at his flat bench press, before the lift he twists the rod, which many of us do to adjust it, but at that point all the plates moves with the rod together like a light block.. of course you've already dished out all the numbers..
I can bench 355 for 1 rep without a spot but I can bench 495 for a few reps with someone spotting like that. It's insane how much more you can bench with someone taking off 50-100 pounds like that.
He's an amazing athlete- speed, vertical jump, etc. I think that there are a set of two 45's on each side that are fake- that removes 180lb from his totals, which would be more reasonable for a guy his size with natural strength. I had a good friend in Jr. High who weighed 120 at 5'2". He was doing 360 for reps. By the time we were in high school, he weighed about 180, at 5'6" & was benching 520 for reps. He never had an ounce of fat, and was always solid, defined muscle. He was a natural athlete in speed, pole vault and any other sport he tried. He never went further with it, but he was a non-myostatin guy. Never really watched his diet, took some supplements & never had a zit nor looked juiced. (His dad was an Olympic lifter and also a great athlete) Genetic, Natural freaks do exist. I think Brad is one, but he also plays the showman.
His muscles which are tiny by powerlifting standards aren't straining. His triceps aren't standing out on the lift. Look at the body of the late great Roger Estep. Carved in stone. And when we get to the claimed weights then were talking people like Dr Squat Fred Hatfield, Bill Kazmier and the late Jim Williams. We're talking much larger men with massive pecs and arms. Jim was 6 1 335lbs when he benched unofficial 675 lbs. The barbell was struggled into place by both lifter and spotter after the lift and fell into place with a decisive clunk.
I broke the APA Fl drug free record for 242lb class with a 505 bench back in the 90s. I bent every bar in my gym. This bar doesn't even flex. I trained with 600lb benchers, No one reps almost 700lbs like that. No one.
Nick - been lifting for 30+ years, legit 300# bench when I was 15, close to 500 in my 40's - never competed. And only 5'5. Dude there is NOT legit, Brad is very strong, no doubt. And very muscular, not unless he is 6'5-6'7, be is not 250#. 220 sounds more right. You right the nail on the head.
I agree not jealousy it's simply not true. When you watch him bench in the vids and he puts the bench back on the rack it doesn't even make much of a sound.
The question is is the barbell fake? Judging by the bend of the barbell plates seem real but a spotter might take easily 50kg up to80-100 depending on how strong are spotter's arms and his lower back.
I think the plates and the lift was real, and this is how he did it: As bradley was flexing and straining, preparing to bear this massive beast of a weight, a rogue gamma ray burst from a distant star was blasted into bradley's location. This caused little bradley to become shredded, his skin tone taking on a greenish color. This is what made him the face of the fitness industry, and allows him to complete these lifts. I am a scientist, trust me
lol, this is a prank. The weights in the background are round. What brand weights are these, lol! Those bars would be folding with each rep, they'd shake, and make a distinct rubbing sound. The lifter would turn purple-colored with veins popping out, chocking the weight while trying to catch their breath for another rep.
I'm 150 pounds 5'6 and can bench 350 for 2 reps... can also hammer curl strictly 8 to 10 reps 85 pounds, and I'm from Puerto Rico where there's no such thing as fake weights... not hating on the video just saying there're strong guys out there that do not make sence, I've met them, grew up with them and learned from them, drug free or not is posible to some extent
That last picture where Brads sitting at the end of the bench....there's F-ing 9 plates on each side in that pic. That's 860 lbs. Is he trying to say he benched that by sitting on that bench with all that weight stacked on ? LOL. This guy is full of it.
Two anomalies that need addressed: The shifting of that bar at :37 is ridiculous. It looked almost weightless. The second : Look at how the bar shakes and bends merely by touching the bar when squaring his grip. No way in fuck this is a legit lift. I'm not sure if I even believe that bar itself was even legit.
I personally have never thought that brad uses fake weights, because of the fact that his spotter is helping him out so much. I had a guy in the gym who did 3 reps with 170 kg( around 375) with a sporter helping him, but could barely get 6-8 reps with 100 kg or 220 lbs without a sporter
I can't believe brads fan boys defend him and say these plates are real. Pro powerlifters that bench anything over 500lbs have like 4 spotters total on all sides. You're telling me he's benching a legit 700lbs with one tiny teenager spotting him?
ViralGainz I second this
People are hyping his spotters "help" too. They say his spotter is helping him a ton but look at his spotter, hes not struggling at all. He's lightly pulling upward yeah, but this is almost 700lbs we're talking about. Bradley isn't struggling and neither is the spotter. Lightly guiding the bar isn't gonna help shit with a 700lb bench.
I agree that a spotter can make a huge difference but I honestly don't believe ONE small spotter can make a huge difference in a 700lb bench
Also he has been challenged by real power lifters to come to their gym and do what he claims he does and he has turned all of them down.
Nick's Strength and Power yah. I don't believe he can do anything above mid 500s. He could have the best genetics in the world and still not be able to do that because the powerlifters who do have the best genetics in the world can't do that shit weighing 255 let alone 220
Those plates are about as real as Piana's arms.
lmao
Nick's Strength and Power Have you seen Riches legs? Have you seen how small they are compared to his upper body? No body builder should have small ass legs like that.
You should do a video on how small Riches legs are comapred to his upper body. The shit looks goofy to me. This is a topic that needs to be discussed.
Hey man what happened to your video on Rich and his front double bicep?
What do you mean?
TheNaughtypiglet The front double bicep video is still up.
Those plates are faker than the girl from pornhub who is 1 mile away from me
Arvaa Kuka ha ha ha ha! Best comment yet!
Ahahahahaha
They're real, the gravity is just less powerful at the gyms he goes to, duhhhhhh
Plus, if you look in the background, it seems like the plates in that gym are round and the ones he uses are always octagonal.
In my gym we have round plates at 55lbs each (red colour) and hex plates at 45lbs each (same as this video). Im from the UK and Im not sure if its just a thing here but most of the gyms have both plates. This guy is still bullshit though no doubt about that.
WILD THINGS Oh..they are, and he WOULD use different plates SOMEWHERE!! But doesn't...hmmm...
"Im not jealous that he can bench 675, because he cant bench 675."
savage
I gotta admit this video is much more convincing than your first video about him. 675lbs? no way no how no sir.
thanks bro
Cope Grizz far more convincing, but I still believe that spotter could be rowing 100+ and bouncing the weight rather than pausing it aids a whole lot too. Larry wheels hits 600 at 242, I wouldn't be surprised if this guy could hit ~500-550 on a clean paused rep
But that's it...the bar isn't bending like it's heavy weight. It's bending like it has half as much weight as is being claimed. In the video the 675 bench...the bar bends like there's maybe high 300s....maybe. Put 315 on a bar and squat it. Then 405. Etc... There's no way that he's benching 675 and the bar isn't flexing/bouncing more. Just watch videos of guys really doing that amount of weight and what it does to the bar and how the bar flexes during the movement.
It's a commercial gym.
I dont know anyone over 220 lbs with a bench press over 2.6x bodyweight. Do you know man?
He's been offered 10,000$ to come to their gym and show he can really lift this weight. If he's really doing this why not just go by that persons gym and lift the weights and get paid? Sounds like the easiest 10,000$ ever for a guy like this lifting that weight anyway.
Brick top it's simple. It's All fake
Should be easy money 😂
Because its staged AF
it'd only be like 450... that's my best comp bench and I suck.
Green N Gold 4 Life Fake 45lbs weights weighs about 3.5 lbs a piece. Do the math. To bench 675 lbs a you'll need 7 45 lbs plates on each side plus the bar that usually weighs 45 lbs itself. Assuming that the plates are fake and the bar is real, he's only lifting about 100 lbs. give or take a few pounds.
It's crossfit plates. 5 kg each.
Валдис Пельш they are called bumper plates they have nothing to do with cross fit idiots now a days
Calling bumper plates crossfit plates. Nice lmao
Lichugunti Bantha
Some of them are
Crossfit plates, helium filled.
It's a reference to Elgintensity. He calls those plates "CrossFit plates" satirically because CrossFit videos often feature straight black rather than colour-coded bumper plates (the black ones are cheaper than the coloured ones because they have worse manufacturing tolerances), which also happens to make it difficult to tell exactly how much is on the bar. But anyway, it's Elgin that coined calling them "CrossFit plates", and it's a joke.
Besides, the plates in the video aren't bumper plates, they're just rubber-coated.
Just based off of the type of bar that appears to be, and how little it bends, there is no way that is 675lbs. I've seen bars like the one he used bend more than that with about 400lbs on them.
Reed019 my thoughts exactly. The bar would be flexing way more if it was 675
Yes indeed
C'mon Nick. He obviously did 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats as well as a 10km run everyday for that strength.
lol
plates are faker then the local teens in my area
If you wear a backwards hat at a gym I instantly think you lift half of what you say you can
Winterfell if you wear a hat at a gym I instantly think you lift half of what you say you can
Dorian Yates rocked the Nike golf hat and trucker hat for most of his workouts and his numbers where leight... deff no fake weights used in temple gym.
Bro, this is hilarious. I started choking when I read this 😂😂😂
what about Bradley?
LMAO
:53 mark the entire stack of plates rotates with ease
Good catch...if that doesnt prove theyre fake idk what will
I'm not arguing 1 way or another, but that says nothing. Look up "world record bench press" and that dude easily rolls 738 lbs. Thus dude here rolls the entire bar back at the 53 sec mark, and that's not hard, even if the weight was real. The bar rolls with ease at it sits up in the holders, no matter how much weight is on there. Dude probably is padding his numbers a bit with lighter plates, but the roll there tells you nothing. There's still serious weight on there, even if it's not 675 lbs.
Fake weights
not to mention, it seems very odd that they are always aligned with each-other. Not sure what's up with that.
Looks like he had about 315 lbs of actual weight on the bar from the effort I saw and looking at the spot.
Nearly a 400lb Strict Barbell Curl..at 1:40. LOL. He's either trolling the Internet or has a desperate need to look stronger then he actually is? Clearly he is seeking attention and notariety.
WesleyInman yeah there are guys his size in the gym that never curl that much. This is so bullshit how can you possibly curl 400 lbs.
Nancy M no human in the earth curls anywhere close to 400lbs with clean form
I believe the record is 113kg's held by denis cyplenkov?
which is only 250 pounds. I agree. this guy is full of shit. insult really to the guys who put in the real hard yards and do set records.
WesleyInman lol I had to laugh when I heard that
dom at broscience has taught me that this is possible. all you got to do is incline dumb press hunnids and boom... benchin like 675.
Sounds legit, brah.
Nick i love how you crush this egomaniac with such a professional demeanor. you have such grace when dealing with a dingle berry
I cant believe this guy hes a fake. Not even Ronny Coleman Squated 850 pound and Ronny Coleman is really a legend when it comes to bodybuilding
Jaco Viljoen And Coleman was after aesthetic. Power lifters and strongmen don't even do this shit.
yes I do realise this but not unrealistic goals or wheight.
+John Petersen Ronnie Coleman used to be a powerlifter. So yeah, it's still kind of relevant.
but ronnie coleman also did like 24 sets of other exercises the day he filmed that video. and i read somewhere that video was his lifetime pr. not a routine thing.now if coleman just deadlifted on some days the number would've been higher.
2:22 you don't just rotate the bar and plates like that. Neither of them really twisted the bar either. Id say 99.9% fake.
If it was real he'd need 3 spotters
Matthew Meyer You are 100% CORRECT.
Look no bar bounce. I'd say he has 2 real plates on each side
Matthew Meyer yep
He is using a 10 pound bar instead of a 45 to
Show that the bar “bends” at 540 but in reality those may only be like 2 plates
good point about probable weight of bar
Yeah fake! The damn bar isn't bending that much.
He just broke Bill Kazmaier’s World Record bench that stood for years. Super heavyweight powerlifters in competition could not break Kaz’s record and Brad comes along and does it in a gym!!! Go figure.
I can bench 675. OK, well 225 x 3. But that adds up to 675. Amiright????
The plates are real the bench is fake.
Real fake weights I mean.
Miguel Rodriguez the weights and bench r very real...its just brad thats fake
That was bullshit. He cant bench 675lb and I have seen him workout in person
John Lucas.....appreciated big Jon.... a fake and a poser like Brad Castlebunny here it's going to get a novice lifter hurt...f-in POSER n FAKE...seems he (in his delusional Castlebunny mind) can beat world class bench pressers like Glen Chabot or Eric spotto if he is allowed to bring in his special plates add a bench press contest. fucking Castlebunnies a jerk off
it's clearly bullshit!!!!!!!!!! fuck this fake guy. I was work out back in Sept 2006. I weighted 115 I bench real 205 and this guy never can do the same. June 2009, I weighed 147 I benched 315. I'm real. I will back in gym at anytime.
There's no way those plates are real. That bar would be bent so bad you couldn't keep the weights on it. The bar he is using has barely any bend to it at suppose 700lbs. I've seen guys 2 times his size that couldn't bench press that much weight. I seen personally with my own eyes a high school football coach squat 700lbs and and bench 500lbs and both times the weights kept falling off the bar, because the bar was flexing so bad. We had to lock the weights down bar clamps. I am not saying the castleberry isn't strong but he is not as strong as he claims to be and what people say he is. I bet he could do about half the weight of what he claims he does, which is still very impressive. Just be real bro. There ain't no shame in telling the truth and being real. Lying about how strong you are or what you can bench press ECT and it not be legit is only going to make people hate you and challenge you everyday.
How much does a fake 45 lb plate weigh even?
I think the fake ones weigh about 5lbs each instead of 45lbs
Nick's Strength and Power that's hilarious 😂😂😂
Axel Hansson the fake plates are 2.5lbs and you can order them off line go to fakeplates.com and there like $135 dollars a piece
Micheal Kox license plates lol
Axel Hansson he's still big so they might still weigh like 25 but idk
Not a real rep if your spotter doesn't let go.
From what i've heard, he's actually been offered money by some powerlifters to compete in a meet, but he never takes up on the challenge and blocks them
What i notice is how the bar easily flexes, instead of staying stiff while bent, before he actually lifts the bar. Aside from that, when he racks the bar, the weights on the left rotate, shift, and move. Anyone who has done multiple platea knows that plates stick together and don't move when stacked next to each other. They will slap around if loose and if you slam them on the rack, but they wont rotate a lot, and thats not what happened here.
good fucking morning goddammit, rich piana here with another episode of faker by the day
why are only his plates hex?
Joe Dayton booty
look at the lons in the background when squatting? round
There is no way the spotter isn't even really sweating it..real as Synthol.
He's not even doing it, the spotter is helping him, he's holding it the whole time. I hate it when guys try to spot me like this at the gym. I tell them don't touch it, and they still do. Ruins the whole workout.
Joseph Delledonne yea you really think that one single spotter is pulling 700lbs. Most people pressing that weight use multiple spotter this guy has one spotter who doesn't even seem to struggle. Maybe they both are the strongest guys in the world.
When you watch the lift you can see the bar has a bow in it that doesn't spring at all from start to finish. As well, when he's doing the lift there is white paint showing through spaces or gaps in the plates of a machine in the back ground. The round old school plates are 45lbs. More substantial than what he's using.
I am 61 and benched 585 last night at a body weight of 167-- hehehehehehe
lolsame
Nick's Strength and Power No belt???!!!
Didn't I see Brad in the Arnold Strongman lifting that big 430 pound log
that's impressive
Excellent, care to post a video of you doing it again?
Nick: I saw the first 675 lb. bench press. I was a teenager and the meet was either the 1969 or 1970 World Powerlifting Championships which were held at the Zembo Mosque in my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (back when Bob Hoffman of the York Barbell Company of nearby York, Pennsylvania controlled AAU bodybuilding, Olympic lifting and powerlifting. Big Jim Williams from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who weighed something like 350 lbs. benched 675 lbs., and then missed a close 700 lbs. He didn't have Brad Castleberry"s bodybuilding physique. Jim Williams was HUGE and he didn't smile and wave at the camera five seconds after his lift like Brad Castleberry does.
soo fake with those numbers he be strongest guy on the planet
*strongest competitor on the planet....who knows what lerks in the night lol...the question remains what are his motivations? if money can he make more doing insta vids or contests? does he desire record holdings or online videos? has anyone asked him?
+drew13600 Also, he would make a fortune from ad money if he posted videos of himself doing well against someone like Bell. Even if he didn't win or match his gym videos, just being close would be a massive win for him financially, his fans would eat that up like crazy "See? The haterz wuz wrong!!11!!!1".
Sam Wilkinson if he put on a little bit of fat with his apparent lifts he could be a strongman competitor 😂
Great bit of self marketing by Brad Castleberry. You're giving him exactly what he wants. Getting his name out there. Bravo!
I think he is fake it's clear his form is not well developed for powerlifting. also 700lbs would make a standard barbell bend way more. Most elite bench pressers have a spotting team that don't keep a hold of the bar
From a certified strength and conditioning specialist and a licensed certified athletic trainer that has been practicing for over a decade in the field of sports medicine and human performance. Nick you're crushing it. Dig the vids. Even sonics baths.
This guy is a beast!!! Quit hating on him!
Just kidding. This guy is obviously full of shit. Hahaha. But I'm not hating on the guy for trolling. I think its funny.
renragged fake bubba gump
renragged idiots need to be called out
renragged ...he is a fraud and a nutjob
Half the plates fake, plus the "bro row" assist. Check.
I really enjoy your work Nick....I Learned so much on bodybuilders, past and present....Thanks for all you do.... Keep on!
i really dont understand how he can even attempt to keep this charade up. its been proven several times that hes a liar and he hides from the facts
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Maybe he actually fucking convinced himself that the plates are real.
His fans don't care or are too young/stupid to get it. So the ad money keeps rolling in, it's what happens when you are so greedy you don't mind selling your reputation.
Easy. He still has a shit ton of Instagram followers who are blinded by fandom meaning the cash is still flowing in.
The spotter in the press video is holding on the entire time. I've heard this helps a lot. Not saying they're not fake plates though.
It helps a tremendous amount
Vegan Viking yea i have spotted for 500lb benches etc. trust me theres no way in shit they are legit spotting or even lifting that. you need at LEAST two strong spotters
Way back we used to do demonstrations to promote powerlifting in South Africa. Now anyone familiar with the sport knows that powerlifting weights don't look all that impressive on a bar (220kg being loaded with just 2 green plates per side). So to make a 300kg deadlift look insane we used fake plates to add to the quantity. They were identical to the Eleiko 20kg plates but were made from aluminium and weighed only 7.5kg a piece. So whilst it was a legit 300kg lift, it used a lot more than the usual 7 plates a side to load it.
Now if we could get very realistic fake plates in South Africa way back when, I'm pretty sure it can be done today.
Added to that: a 300kg bench press requires body weight to support the shoulders. He doesn't have what it takes to bench press that much. The strain alone is insane. Guys like Gerrit Badenhorst and Mark Robinson didn't get to 300kg and they were stupid strong (I stand to correction but I think Gerrit placed 4th in Mariuz Pudzianowski's first WSM win and was already in his 40's at the time. At his best he had a 460kg squat).
Actually if you take a closer look you will realize Brad Castleberry is only CGI
OMFG I never laughed so hard. If anyone has had 500 lbs or more on a bar would know how the bar behaves. This is priceless.
The Charlie Zelenoff of Bodybuilding...
-smh
the spotter is working on his deadlifts while he benches the same bar😂😂
It took me over 15 yrs at 217lbs to do 435lbs drug free!
Ross really? ?
Who gives a fuck
I do 375 3times and I'm on alot of gear lmfaooo with a spotter and I'm dizzy afterwards. I'm 195 this guys shitting Christmas trees and people are buying them
Ross you ain't Brad C homeboy.
435lbs what?
Squat?
When ronnie coleman squated 800lbs for 2 reps, it was a struggle!
At 265lbs I do not have a best bench but; I have benched over 500lbs for reps. I strained my ass off and this guy does it way too easy. Notice how the weight moves around just from him touching the bar. That is bs. The plates are too fake.
If you can bench over 500 lbs for reps your youtube channel would be filled with you lifting and you would have a career in powerlifting. I call bs.
Abim Iabim I weigh 275 and I only bench 365 lol. Then again I only started benching 8 months ago. I used to just do squats,deadlifts, military press, olympic lifts and rows. I didn't have a bench at my hone gym so I couldn't bench.
500 lol you sure about that ? I weigh 160lbs and bench 290lbs which sing much but then I took 5 years off no training and lost a crap ton of weight only been back a few months
I'm looking at the bar. This gym is (I'd wager substantial cash) a 24 Hour Fitness. I've deadlifted 405 at 24 Hour and the bars they were bowed out of shape by just that weight. I don't think a commercial gym is going to have a bar that could actually take that load.
I'd bet he keeps the plates at the gym and I'd bet they're generally used for people that aren't strong enough to deadlift 135 but the need a plate that's as tall as a standard 45.
so does he just walk into a commercial gym with all these fake plates? or how does this part work?
at 0:40 you can see his gym bag on the floor. That is a big round gym bag that can hold a good amount of them.
J. E. 3:45
The1Andrew not only that im sure if he told the gym he was doing a vid that was gonna get a shit ton of views and hes gonna give them a shout out on instagram they wouldnt care if he brought his own stuff in
I don't think it'd be hard to convince most gym owners to let him use his own plates "Hey, we're doing this joke video for youtube, do you mind if we use our own plates for 10 minutes?" Lot's of gym owners would just say yes and not give a shit.
I think you make the most compelling argument. Well done!
One of the gyms in the video is 24 hour fitness in vista, San Diego. I personally saw him load 405 on the incline bench and struggle for 2 reps. He then moved to flat bench and was able to bench 5 plates with a lot of assistance for a one rep max.
You can clearly see him spinning the weights before he lifts the bar off the rack. And they respond really fast, too, in a way that hundreds of pounds of weight could not respond. And that's in addition to the things Nick pointed out.
They don't need to be fake weights for him to hit that. So much stress is being taken off the bar when his spotter is helping him on the way down, and also so much momentum is being used especially with his spotters help. If u could hit 2 plates on bench, go to the gym and place 3 plates on there and tell ur spotter to help u on the way down, and as soon as u bounce it off ur chest to pull up with momentum. I guarantee ul be able to do it. Momentum, and extra help from a spotter. It's all u need
I'm an absolute beginner at lifting so please forgive me if I sound naive, but doesn't having a mate hanging on to the bar from above mean you're not lifting it by yourself? He's helping, no? I thought the whole point of have a spotter was to have someone ready to help you if you can't make the lift and need help to rack the bar safely. If he's actually assisting in the lift, then it's a team effort and you can't claim to have lifted the weight by yourself, surely?
0:40 That's the heaviest Upright Row i've ever seen someone do!!!
The big guy has a smirk on his face when he gets up.
I think I figured it out, those aren't fake plates, they are 35lbs not 45lbs plus the help with his spotter only makes it about 315lbs.
When i was 32 i was training for a strong man comp , sadly i broke my elbow in an 18 ft fall head first to concrete. My lifts at the time weighing 295 lbs were-
Bench 720 lbs
Squat 800 lbs
Deadlift 800 lbs
And every lift was all i could do with a tremendous struggle, meaning very slow but steady lift. They way this guy lifts is bullshit. If he actually weighs 250 lbs 45 lbs less than i did yet doing these lifts with seeminly no effort i call bullshit !!! If he weighs 220 lbs which is 75 lbs less i call a miracle but its still bullshit. I weigh 270 lbs now and my bench is only 450 lbs squat 500 lbs havent dead lifted in awhile but id say between 500-600 lbs and its a struggle. And im 43 now. Love your videos hoss. Your pretty spot on with strength and physique.
Dude love it. They aren't real its not even close. But the internet is about images. Keep it up bud.
Hello Nick! Nice channel, love the content. Jerry G made a video that really shows you visual proof that we are all getting spoofed. He shows a vid with Brad doing 405 on the incline bench. And when he does his set up he moves the entire bar back and forth about two inches on each side! This is impossible with real plates. Another point people are overlooking is the fake bar! Probably plastic so that it flexes. Keep up the good work.
Like you said, you're not jealous. People like us in the strength game love bragging about crazy lifts. I remember people coming up to me in the gym to brag about Ed Coan breaking another record...guys love hearing that. if it was real you would cover the hell out of those lifts, not go out of your way to discredit them.
There are some photo shopped weights on the BB. If you look at the left side of the bar with plates as it "blends" with the machine incline press after, you can see that the plates go fade out when they hit the black part of the machine incline bench press. Hit like if you see it or comment. I want to know if it's just me who see this...
hey Nick! nice videos. Seen many. When you look at his flat bench press, before the lift he twists the rod, which many of us do to adjust it, but at that point all the plates moves with the rod together like a light block.. of course you've already dished out all the numbers..
Fake plates are often made from aluminum and tend to be 1/3 the advertised weight. "150"lb dumb bells are 50lbs etc...
Assuming that is like a westside power bar (215k psi) it appears to flex like you would see at maybe 335. Maybe a bit more.
I can bench 355 for 1 rep without a spot but I can bench 495 for a few reps with someone spotting like that. It's insane how much more you can bench with someone taking off 50-100 pounds like that.
The bar is bending like crazy, so thats atleast 5 hundred on the bench & 6 on the squat. He is a strong dude regardless.
He's a personality promoting his supps and fitness, he's basically the Jawzr size guy with killer genes and fake plates
He's an amazing athlete- speed, vertical jump, etc. I think that there are a set of two 45's on each side that are fake- that removes 180lb from his totals, which would be more reasonable for a guy his size with natural strength. I had a good friend in Jr. High who weighed 120 at 5'2". He was doing 360 for reps. By the time we were in high school, he weighed about 180, at 5'6" & was benching 520 for reps. He never had an ounce of fat, and was always solid, defined muscle. He was a natural athlete in speed, pole vault and any other sport he tried. He never went further with it, but he was a non-myostatin guy. Never really watched his diet, took some supplements & never had a zit nor looked juiced. (His dad was an Olympic lifter and also a great athlete) Genetic, Natural freaks do exist. I think Brad is one, but he also plays the showman.
I want to see this guy selling refrigerators to eskimos.
The movement of the bar and weights actually looks real.
His muscles which are tiny by powerlifting standards aren't straining. His triceps aren't standing out on the lift. Look at the body of the late great Roger Estep. Carved in stone. And when we get to the claimed weights then were talking people like Dr Squat Fred Hatfield, Bill Kazmier and the late Jim Williams. We're talking much larger men with massive pecs and arms. Jim was 6 1 335lbs when he benched unofficial 675 lbs. The barbell was struggled into place by both lifter and spotter after the lift and fell into place with a decisive clunk.
I broke the APA Fl drug free record for 242lb class with a 505 bench back in the 90s. I bent every bar in my gym. This bar doesn't even flex.
I trained with 600lb benchers, No one reps almost 700lbs like that. No one.
Nick - been lifting for 30+ years, legit 300# bench when I was 15, close to 500 in my 40's - never competed. And only 5'5.
Dude there is NOT legit, Brad is very strong, no doubt. And very muscular, not unless he is 6'5-6'7, be is not 250#. 220 sounds more right. You right the nail on the head.
I know with steel weights anyting over 5 plates and the bar bends significantly, it doesn't matter what kind of bar you got either
Has to be fake however the bar quivers as it should with 6 plates. Notice the quiver at the centre before lift off and the counter quiver at the end.
I agree not jealousy it's simply not true. When you watch him bench in the vids and he puts the bench back on the rack it doesn't even make much of a sound.
All you have to do is look at the other plates in the gym, in this video. They are ROUND!
Nick laying it down. Lol
The question is is the barbell fake? Judging by the bend of the barbell plates seem real but a spotter might take easily 50kg up to80-100 depending on how strong are spotter's arms and his lower back.
I think the plates and the lift was real, and this is how he did it:
As bradley was flexing and straining, preparing to bear this massive beast of a weight, a rogue gamma ray burst from a distant star was blasted into bradley's location. This caused little bradley to become shredded, his skin tone taking on a greenish color. This is what made him the face of the fitness industry, and allows him to complete these lifts.
I am a scientist, trust me
lol, this is a prank. The weights in the background are round. What brand weights are these, lol! Those bars would be folding with each rep, they'd shake, and make a distinct rubbing sound. The lifter would turn purple-colored with veins popping out, chocking the weight while trying to catch their breath for another rep.
in the 3:10 you see like the weight bends the bar, but when he put the bar in the side, the bar is bended too so, he used a bended bar for showing
I think we can all agree he isn't really lifting near as much as he claims but the dude it still really visibly jacked.
I'm 150 pounds 5'6 and can bench 350 for 2 reps... can also hammer curl strictly 8 to 10 reps 85 pounds, and I'm from Puerto Rico where there's no such thing as fake weights... not hating on the video just saying there're strong guys out there that do not make sence, I've met them, grew up with them and learned from them, drug free or not is posible to some extent
That last picture where Brads sitting at the end of the bench....there's F-ing 9 plates on each side in that pic. That's 860 lbs. Is he trying to say he benched that by sitting on that bench with all that weight stacked on ? LOL. This guy is full of it.
People who say he's lifting this weight without a spotter do not understand the basic laws of physics.
The guy standing on the right forefront was to keep anyone from reading the plates by standing in front of them.
Fake ass plates Lucille is thirsty break that shit his head fake plates? I'm going to shut that shit down
Such strong responses here :) 9/10 agree with ya man
Two anomalies that need addressed: The shifting of that bar at :37 is ridiculous. It looked almost weightless. The second : Look at how the bar shakes and bends merely by touching the bar when squaring his grip. No way in fuck this is a legit lift. I'm not sure if I even believe that bar itself was even legit.
I personally have never thought that brad uses fake weights, because of the fact that his spotter is helping him out so much. I had a guy in the gym who did 3 reps with 170 kg( around 375) with a sporter helping him, but could barely get 6-8 reps with 100 kg or 220 lbs without a sporter