Relationship Between Expected Strength and BodyWeight

RealistSpy

Hi,

Can someone explain to me about the relationship between your expected strength and body weight.

I was told by some random guy that a person is strong when they are able to lift or bench their body weight? I am the shortest and lightest out of all my mates but I can lift heavier than them. On the otherside I believe in "No pain no gain".

injured365

Its not really about expected strength, its got more to do with things like benching your BW, or squatting/DL twice your BW are considered goals to reach before a respectable strength has been achieved. As this table shows......

http://www.ironsports.tv/hwgdami.htm

holdfast

It leads me to think what would be a good guideline or test to establish if your are fir or not. Of course this is dependent on what sport you are into, but as benchmark what would be your test.

I would say the list below would be a basic
V0 2 max test such as run
Pull ups
sit ups

SamMcLoughlin

There are more factors than just your bodyweight, people with really long arms are going to have to do alot more work to bench the same weight as people who have short arms, but they will deadlift more usually because the bar has less distance to travel.

RealistSpy

Thanks for that link. So basically just like a bench mark

RealistSpy

am 5,5 so I think that pritty short, bloody disadvantage :S

Transform

SamMcLoughlin wrote: »

There are more factors than just your bodyweight, people with really long arms are going to have to do alot more work to bench the same weight as people who have short arms, but they will deadlift more usually because the bar has less distance to travel.

agreed

bigstar

holdfast wrote: »

It leads me to think what would be a good guideline or test to establish if your are fir or not. Of course this is dependent on what sport you are into, but as benchmark what would be your test.

I would say the list below would be a basic
V0 2 max test such as run
Pull ups
sit ups

what are sit ups going to tell you. actually if the point is to measure strength then whats a run going to tell you.

comparing strength and bodyweight depends on lots of things, but a good starting point is benching BW, squatting 1.5xBW and deadlifting 2xBW. thats very general and theres lots to take into consideration like limb length and things.

i read something about oly lifters and strength/BW ratios and at some point the heavier you get the less benefit youll get in terms of strength, as in theres a perfect weight for you size, shape etc. also lighter guys tend to be stronger relative to BW than heavier guys. i think with oly lifters the ones who have cleaned 3xBW are all in the lighter weights. i think powerlifters are similar, in terms of squatting anyway.

holdfast

Sorry big star it just lead me to start think big picture rather than just strenght. I will remove my two feet from where I stand now and know to engage my grey matter before I reply. It is a thread on it own maybe ????

bigstar

holdfast wrote: »

Sorry big star it just lead me to start think big picture rather than just strenght. I will remove my two feet from where I stand now and know to engage my grey matter before I reply. It is a thread on it own maybe ????

a run might be a good indicator of general fitness depending on distance. i forgot you mentioned that, but sit ups wont tell you anything about anything really except your good at sit ups. they certainly wouldnt be a good test for any kind of fitness level.