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Strength standards calculator

Enter your best lifts and bodyweight. You get a strength level and an approximate percentile per lift, plus how your lifts compare with each other.

Your lifts

Units
Best 1RM per lift

A tested 1RM or an estimate. Don’t know it? Estimate it from a set. Leave out lifts you don’t do.

Not used in the score. See the note below.

Compare against

In Fysiqal your levels update from every logged session, and Performance Labs shows what it takes to reach the next one.

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How this is calculated

The score. Each lift is divided by your bodyweight and placed on five bands: Beginner, Novice, Intermediate, Advanced and Elite (for example, a men’s Intermediate squat is 1.5× bodyweight). The percentile is interpolated between the bands, which sit at roughly the 20th, 40th, 60th, 85th and 95th percentile. This is exactly what Fysiqal’s Performance Labs shows signed-in lifters.

Where the bands come from. They are bodyweight multiples compiled from widely used community lifting standards, not a clinical norm or a measured population survey, so treat percentiles as approximate.

Lift ratios. The reference range for each ratio comes from the same band table (for example men’s squat ÷ deadlift thresholds run from 0.75 to 0.83). It is a coaching rule of thumb for spotting a lagging lift, not an injury predictor. Leverages, training history and lift style move these ratios.

Age and sex. The standards are set separately for men and women but are not age-adjusted. Published norms such as ACSM’s bench-press ratios fall steadily with age, so masters lifters should read their level generously.

The lifts

Learn the why

Sources and limits

  1. Fysiqal strength standards (Performance Labs): e1RM ÷ bodyweight bands per lift and sex, compiled from community lifting standards; percentiles interpolated. — approximate, not a clinical norm
  2. American College of Sports Medicine. ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription. 11th ed. Wolters Kluwer; 2021. — age- and sex-specific strength norms as 1RM ÷ bodyweight; shows ratios decline with age
  3. Epley B. Poundage Chart. Boyd Epley Workout. Lincoln, NE: Body Enterprises; 1985. — how estimated 1RMs are calculated across Fysiqal

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