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The definitions are based on people who lift...which I will assume is people who regularly train those exercises. The elite figures are for the top 5%. The truth is that if you chose 1000 80kg men between 18 and 45 at random I reckon you'd have less than 50% chance one of them could perform one of those lifts at elite level. Maybe much less than 50%.
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What is everyone's goal atm? My goal is to do 1 strict pull up. Doesn't sound like a lot but at 102KG it takes a lot to pull me up.
My long term goal is just to feel strong but I can't see myself continuing 5x5 beyond 120KG squat. Not sure what the alternative is though.
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That's a useful site - never really looked at the age demographic before, but yeah it's unlikely they have any non-lifters in there! I don't ever do 1 rep max stuff but the estimates look realistic (the Strong app gives you estimates for 1RM too which look similar to these numbers).
Went to the gym this morning & switched to 3x5 too see how it went - got bench / squat / row AND ohp done without issue, not ideal doing ohp a the same time as bench but maybe the reduced volume will let me get away with it? I'll try doing this Mondays / Thursdays & chuck in some swimming / cycling (wtf)/ kettlebells into the Tuesday / Wednesday slots to keep it varied - still hoping to creep the weights up gradually so eventually it might need some 3x10 lighter sets thrown in but we'll see how it goes.
Not training for anything in particular - just general strength / conditioning as i'm now officially closer to 50 than 40, delaying the inevitable as long as possible, haha!
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Here's a list of exercises and the % vs bodyweight / age
I also think this may be biased towards those that lift weight as it would only account for those that take part in the 'study' which would only be those that would do weights really.