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Strength Standards for the general population
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I like how Bret Contreras has a range in his chart. If you read his explanation with the chart, he does say that your environment can skew your perspective of strength. I also agree with him that it is likely that an untrained woman, which I'm equating with your 5%, could even bench an empty bar. This is just based on what I have seen at my gym.
The average completely untrained woman most definitely cannot bench press an olympic bar.
eh- it's only 45 pounds. I know a number of women who can't- but I know a number of newbs who can. I feel remiss and writing off the average untrained woman not being able to bench press the bar- but that's completely out of my own shock that someone couldn't- not out of any sort of real educational/scientific basis.0 -
No clue about men, but for the general population, the women chart is completely nonsense OP, sorry. Just a collection of random numbers. From my personal experience.
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The figures in this chart are for intermediates from what I understand, not for the untrained.0
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