"Bench Monster"
Ryan Kennelly

No one enjoys a Muscle Sandwich more than powerlifting champion Ryan Kennelly. We just saw him recently at the Arnold Expo in Columbus, OH and The Fit Expo in Pasadena, CA. Before he lifted, we stocked him and the other power lifters with plenty of Muscle Sandwiches.

Ryan "BenchMonster" Kennelly returned to the FitExpo this February to reclaim his title of Mendelson Classic Hwt. Champion. The title was lost to Paul Meeker last year by way of a controversial judging decision and an overturned lift (giving the winning bench back to Meeker.) This year Kennelly wasn't having any of the foolishness and, amongst a bomb fest (all but 2 of the benchers failed to post successful lifts, partly because they were almost all wearing the credibility damaging, artificially enhanced, new generation of "benchpress shirts" which stopped the bar from touching their chest, forced them to use weights that they could not lock out and/or to lose control of a weight that they would have had no business trying to lift without the shirt's boost in the first place.) Kennelly was victorious with an astounding 909 pound bench for the win!

The following month, the BenchMonster showed up at the Arnold Classic, weighing in at the largest I've ever seen him which, for a giant like Kennelly, is quite a statement! He tipped the scales at 331 solid pound and again took the gold medal at the Arnold Classic WPO Benchpress Championships with a bench of 902 pounds! This was Kennelly's 4th win at the Arnold Classic. A feat made all the more impressive by the fact that no one else has even won even twice at that prestigious event.

Reported by Sean Katterle of BodyTalk Magazine

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