Resolutions for '08

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200lbs x 10 reps bench/squat/deadlift by 2009

If you're performing the reps correctly then bench will most likely be the hardest and deadlift the easiest. There are some people for whom that's not the case due to having unusual torso and extremity relations.

200lbs on each of the power lifts is ridic easy though. Even if you're naturally a skinny weak ass nancy girl with a fast metabolism. You just gotta put in the the time and effort.

wtf when i was wrestling in high school at like 130 and 135 lbs i could do more than this for 10 reps on squat and deadlift the first time i stepped in the weight room

someone kill me now!!!!

It's very much a matter of leverages. Evaluating strength by how much you can lift in the powerlifts is far from exact. Somebody with short legs tends to squat more than longer legged individuals even if the longer legged person has more muscle and is actually stronger. A better method of evaluating strength is through strongman events and olympic lifts.

Somebody with short legs, short torso, and long arms will naturally squat and deadlift substantially more than other body types, but will suck at bench. Longer torso and shorter arms the more difficult it is to deadlift. Longer legs and torso the more difficult it is to squat.

In the sport Powerlifting, where competition is in squat deadlift and bench, the body types that gravitate towards elite status are simply just fat guys with short torsos and legs. This makes them able to squat and dead more, and teh fatness reduces bench range of motion and more squat stability but nothing for deadlift. Fatness also means more anabolic and thus more or at least higher likelyhoods of muscle. Olympic lifters who compete in snatch and clean n jerk tend to be slightly more well rounded in leverages, but I dunno exactly. There's so much technique in the o lifts.

For physique purposes, having poor leverages is often optimal, seemingly ironically. This is because limbs are longer, and thus there's more muscle even though it doesn't show up under the bar, and weaker individuals often have longer muscle bellies. They have more muscle which is better for physique, but the longer bellies mean shorter tendon and thus lower elastic capacity. 'Elastic strength' (not a true scientific def so not an exact description) is very important for strength.

I'm a short naturally strong person, my friend is tall naturally skinny. Back when we lifted together, I basically pwned him when it came to lifting, but he won the sled drag. My leverages helped me in the more isolated movement like ass to grass back squat, but his helped him when dragging a sled for speed.