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Whats the difference - average and above?

chopsuey

chopsuey

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So whats the go with (as an example) benching - is it normal to bench your body weight? Or is it a pretty impressive thing to bench your body weight - or does it depend what your body weight is?

And what about other moves like squats, deadlifts etc?

I've been strength training now for only 6 or so weeks but I've seen a massive difference in a short period of time in what I can lift and I'm really keen to continue :)
 
Depending on how long you've been training, it doesn't take long to bench your bw IMO. Maybe a bit longer for females?

1.5x or above is a bit trickier
 
I think weight has a bit to do with it as well.
for me 1.5 x BW is 160kg and I bust my pooper-valve pushing that, not easy at all.
 
i would think benching your BW, squats 1.5 BW and deadlifting 2x BW would be a great starting point to aim at if you aiming purely for stremgth
 
Benching is a tough one... much more reliant on height IMO. I'm short and can easily bench my BW. I consider 1.5BW bench good... Squats 2xBW, Deadlift 2.5-3BW is great
 
Neddysmith said:
i would think benching your BW, squats 1.5 BW and deadlifting 2x BW would be a great starting point to aim at if you aiming purely for stremgth
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Alrighty, cool - gives me something to work towards - these numbers seem to be rather consensus :)
 
Grunta said:
I think weight has a bit to do with it as well.
for me 1.5 x BW is 160kg and I bust my pooper-valve pushing that, not easy at all.
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Same here.

Can squat that easy-ish for reps.

Benched 130kgs for 3 x 6 this morning and that was as high as I was going.
 
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