"Are You Strong?"

[anon71262119]

@The_Mighty_Stu

Yes, but it was a hibderance as a bodybuilder.

True. On something like a row, I can’t activate lats well unless the weight is a lot less. If it’s heavy, it’s all traps and bis. That happens a lot where if you’re lifting for aesthetics, you are better off working at lower weights where you have better MMC for a specific muscle.

Since I do not train primarily for strength, am not a PLer, it’s a little bit fun for me to see that I’m not completely pathetic even though I’ve never done 5/3/1. Lol.

@Frank_C

20 pull ups is only “good”? I call BS! At my weight doing 20 pull ups is very close to doing 20 strict reps of lat pull downs with the entire stack.

Some of these strength standards by BW do really favor smaller people. I really like to train pull-ups, but of course I weigh half of what some of you guys weigh, so it’s probably not as impressive as it seems to see a chick built like a little gymnast rocking a lot of pull-ups. We often see small men who are good at rock climbing. Same deal. Lots of upper body strength relative to their size.

@ChickenLittle

Truthfully better than I expected.

WHOOT! If you really want to feel awesome, go look at the Kilgore Academy strength standards by age.

http://www.kilgoreacademy.com/freebies.html

Those will really inflate your ego. For someone into competitive PLing, I’m just barely respectable, OK, in my DL and my Squat is pretty sad compared to what really talented PLers can do, but the age standards make me sound like I’m Marisa Inda. Lol.

@anon71262119

Also, I’m not sure what these arbitrary labels like “Elite” mean. According to the age-adjusted charts, I’m Elite in DL, Squat, Bench, Press, and Pullups. BUT there are female PLers my age who are just in a whole different class in terms of strength. @kpsnap and I were talking about this one time. These are good for the ego, but most of the competitive people here would say these standards are pretty low.

Looking at strength standards that aren’t age-adjusted, I’m still Elite in Bench, Press, and Pullups and just missing it by a hair with my Squat. Both my DL and Squat are in between Advanced and Elite. BUT wow. There are women in my weight class who have WAY bigger lifts. I’m not sure what to think about the usefulness of any of these. I think our perception is skewed because people here at TN tend to be aware of what the top lifters can do.