I know there are weight classes for a good reason but my neighbor always writes it off that I’m stronger because I weigh more. I was wondering how much it actually matters. Maybe there’s a percentage I can tell him or something because I don’t think the only reason I’m stronger is because I weigh 40 lbs more I train hard. Thank you!
More weight on the bar=Stronger.
Pissing match about weight classes= waste of your time.
compare using the ‘wilks formula’
Compare Ben Rice and Richard Hawthorne to Ben Seath and StormTheBeach.
Yeah weight matters, but not as much as everyone thinks.
Attached is a plot that I made of body weight vs Wilkes.
Going up in weight from 60Kg to 80Kg makes a much bigger difference than going from 120Kg to 140Kg.
Haha @mdgrady true that.
Thanks guys that helped a lot!
There’s also the age difference. I’m a teenager and he’s 30 something.
If he is in his 30’s he should stronger than you, not the other way around. He should be peaking in his strength at that time, you are just starting out. It sounds like he is a bit of douche looking for excuses but for an honest comparison, as another poster said use the Wilk’s formula to compare lifts or use lifter classification standards to see where you are. Or just respond to everything he says by saying “Hater’s say what?”
I have actually just in the past week or so been thinking about this, and I came up with this as a mantra:
“Im not stronger because I weigh more, I weigh more because I got stronger.”
I remember chasing a bw push press a while back. It was extra difficult because as I kept lifting my bw kept ticking up. Same for every bw-based goal I have.
I do have some hobbies where relative strength matters, but I like absolute strength much more so fuck it.
Once I have my coefficient figured out, what am I supposed to do with it?
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
Once I have my coefficient figured out, what am I supposed to do with it?[/quote]
I THINK YOU MULTIPLY YOUR POUNDAGE OF THE LIFT BY THE FACTOR TO GET YOUR NUMBERS. sorry bout the caps lock and I suck at typing so no do overs ha.
Here is an easy reference that one of my teammates created:
https://sites.google.com/macros/exec?service=AKfycbwQpoT3X_S5re3W-Z0mYsdF_mptg1BdfO5ZxkmJ
Just put in your bodyweight and the total (or whatever the weight lifted was for one lift) and hit calculate for the right gender. Get that number and compare that the other person, the one with the higher Wilks number is the better lifter by that formula which is commonly accepted to be correct.
Thanks!
[quote]milktruck wrote:
I have actually just in the past week or so been thinking about this, and I came up with this as a mantra:
“Im not stronger because I weigh more, I weigh more because I got stronger.”
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Exactly. People don’t understand the causality or correlation here.