Strength Standards: "How Strong Should I Be?"

Summary by Krater

The presenter critiques strength standards such as strength sports, military and civilian occupations, and internet lifting standards, concluding that they are largely arbitrary and that training should be based on physical activity experience rather than bodyweight ratios or arbitrary numbers.

From the video

Answers: Are strength standards and bodyweight strength ratios useful?

• Strength standards in powerlifting and weightlifting
• Military and occupational physical standards
• Novice, intermediate, and advanced lifting classifications
• Bodyweight-to-strength ratios
• Squat-to-deadlift ratio comparisons

Exercises

• Trap bar deadlift · trap bar
• Box step up · plyo box
• Barbell overhead press · barbell
• Barbell squat · barbell
• Sit to stand · plyo box
• Barbell bench press · barbell
• Atlas stone lift · atlas stone

What it concludes

• Internet strength standards classifying novice, intermediate, and advanced lifters are arbitrary and unhelpful.
• Prescribing the same training program to a professional rugby player and an inactive 35-year-old is ineffective.
• Bodyweight-to-strength ratios are arbitrary and outside of powerlifting they function as internet strength standards rather than meaningful goals.