@Desaint When I was in high school ages ago, there would be a few guys at decent size schools who could bench 315 or more, typically football players or wrestlers. I did 330 (150 kilos) in a USPF regional meet when I was 16. That was only the third highest bench in my weight class, so that number didn't exactly turn heads, but I was happy with it. To make progress beyond a certain point, and this point varies depending on the individual, it's important to train smart. The typical gym bro routine of pyramiding up to a max every bench workout or doing 5x5 won't yield progress forever. Read up on Westside training, Sheiko volume training, and other methods used by competitive lifters. The most common reason I see people stall out is that their egos won't let them learn from better lifters and they stick with the same dead end routine forever.

I go to a commercial gym now, and I'll sometimes see a guy there who has potential and who asks me to spot him. At one time, he was pyramiding up to 385 or so, with his form getting worse as the weight got heavier. He was probably at a 400 max using his sloppy form. I mentioned that if he changed up his training, he'd likely blow through that 400 barrier and with good form. He looked at me like he was offended; the suggestion that there was anything wrong with his training was too much of a hit to his ego, and dropping the weight to 270 or so for reps with good form was unthinkable. About a year later (last weekend), he was struggling to do 4 reps with 315. His body was rebelling against the routine he was doing and his progress was going backward, but he'll keep doing the same thing.