11-11-2014, 10:25 PM
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Re: Natural Strength Standards. How do you fare?
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Extremely Strong - You will be one of the top lifters at most local, natural powerlifting meets. Your strength levels land you in the top 1% of humanity.
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much higher than top 1%.
95th percentile bench for men under 30 starts at 205. 90th percentile is 191. the SD is 35.
http://www.sfu.ca/~leyland/Kin143%20...%20Testing.pdf
edit: posted this comment, hope it goes through:
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Hey Steve,
I'm guessing you eyeballed figures like "90% of men" and "1% of humanity", but absolute bench #s for men have been compiled into percentiles before: http://www.sfu.ca/~leyland/Kin143%20...%20Testing.pdf
top 10% starts at 191, and top 5% starts at 203. The top 1% isn't specified, but the SD is 35, so based on this I'd peg top 1% at 228. That doesn't seem like a lot to gym people, but that's because gyms select for such a biased sample. 280 bench press would probably be top 0.1%.
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Last edited by Arch0wl; 11-12-2014 at 01:38 AM..
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