How Much Can Batman Lift?
Batman
Character » Batman appears in 23651 issues.
Bruce Wayne, who witnessed the murder of his billionaire parents as a child, swore to avenge their deaths. He trained extensively to achieve mental and physical perfection, mastering martial arts, detective skills, and criminal psychology. Costumed as a bat to prey on the fears of criminals, and utilizing a high-tech arsenal, he became the legendary Batman.
How Much Can Batman Lift?
Well, he can lift a roof...
In Batman #655, he is shown bench pressing an enormous weight. The main plate on the barbell states that it is 500 lbs. That would mean that, if you include the other smaller weights beside the 500 lbs plate, the barbell should weight well over 1000 lbs.
Detective Comics #484, he is shown supporting a ceiling that weight approximately 1,000 lbs. In an overhead press position. If you workout, you will know that overhead pressing is much more difficult than benchpressing.
He goes through an entire workout session in Batman Tenses #1 & #2 This was when he is still a rookie. He is shown bench pressing enormous weight, later on, he does and one-handed tricep cable extension with 300 lbs. Once, again, if you workout, you will know how impressive this is.
@ancient_0f_days: It took place in the "Batman Odyssey" arc. It was a non cannon story. Cool feat, he actually presses an entire train car forwards. Unfortunately, it is a non-canon feat.
Okay I know the first image has already been posted in this thread. But lets look at each one.
The first image we see Bruce benching four plates. The second largest plate states that it is 500 lbs. That means the largest plate is heavier. Lets say it is 550. The smaller plate, lets say 50 lbs. And the smallest, lets say 25. So that is 2250 lbs in total for the whole bar.
In the next image, we see what seems to be five plates on each side. These plates are massive and are either metal or stone, I am going with metal. Each plate looks nearly as long as a index finger, so lets say average is 4" wide. Then the plates outside diameter seems as Bruce's forearm to fist, so 14". Hole Diameter seems to be 3" or so. So using
http://www.portlandbolt.com/tools/plate-weight-calculator/
, and
http://www.chapelsteel.com/weight-steel-plate.html
it comes to 166.43 lbs per plate. Lets round down to lets say 150 lbs per plate. We are looking at 1500 lbs.
As those who lift weight's know, when someone is performing repetitions, they do not use their maximum weight. Additionally we see Bruce lifting alone, so he is obviously confident lifting what he is lifting. Therefore we know that both of these images are not in any way his maximum repetitions. Now usually one's true maximum is determined by lifting a weight one time unassisted, or three times assisted, it really depends on the lifter. In both examples Bruce is clearly performing repetitions.
Now taking 1500 and 2250 and adding them together and then dividing by two, we have 1875 lbs. Lets say this is Bruce's repetition lifting amount.
For many guys I know their repetition weight is normally 30-50 lbs less than their maximum. There of course is a big range. For me my repetition weight is comfortably and normally 45 lbs less than my maximum (one rep unassisted max).
So lets say Bruce's maximum is 50 lbs more than his repetition weight. That would set his max at 1925 lbs. That is close short ton, 75 lbs less to be exact.
Consider that his maximum leg press is said to be 2500 lbs. Now when we consider the maximum bench weight it seems to make sense, because it would make sense that Bruce would want his body to be relatively and equally strong in case a limb(s) was damaged or disabled he could use his other limb(s).
In my opinion Bruce is therefore would qualify as One Tonner in leg strength, and close to being a one tonner with upper body strength.
Here's a scan of Batman momentarily holding up a sarcophagus - which apparently weighs about a ton:
Interesting stuff here. I cant remember what comics this is from? Any one know?
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