Standards & averages
The tables behind the calculator, laid out for browsing: what each lift, jump, run and squeeze is worth at every age and bodyweight — and what the famous gym benchmarks are actually worth.
Every table here is generated from the site's reference distributions at build time, so it matches what the calculator would tell you. Each page states how much real data sits behind its numbers; the methodology has the full accounting.
How much should I lift for my bodyweight?
Percentile tables by bodyweight and by age, for men and women, from the 25th to the 95th.
- How much should I bench for my bodyweight?
- How much should I squat for my bodyweight?
- How much should I deadlift for my bodyweight?
- How much should I overhead press for my bodyweight?
Averages by age
What the median adult actually does, decade by decade, with the 25th, 75th and 90th percentiles beside it.
Is that number any good?
The benchmarks people actually argue about, each one priced against the general population and against NCAA Division I athletes.
- Is a 135 lb bench press good?
- Is a 185 lb bench press good?
- Is a 225 lb bench press good?
- Is a 315 lb bench press good?
- Is a 225 lb squat good?
- Is a 315 lb squat good?
- Is a 405 lb squat good?
- Is a 315 lb deadlift good?
- Is a 405 lb deadlift good?
- Is a 495 lb deadlift good?
- Is a 6-minute mile good?
- Is a 7-minute mile good?
- Is an 8-minute mile good?
- Is a 30-inch vertical jump good?
Every test
One page per test, with protocols, sources and comparisons where the evidence supports them. Running estimates use related-distance studies and documented population proxies.
- Deadlift percentile
- Back squat percentile
- Bench press percentile
- Overhead press percentile
- Weighted pull-up percentile
- Barbell row (Pendlay) percentile
- Grip strength percentile
- Vertical jump percentile
- Standing broad jump percentile
- Single-leg triple hop percentile
- 5-10-5 shuttle percentile
- Agility T-test percentile
- One-mile run percentile
- 1.5-mile run percentile
- 30 m sprint percentile
- 400 m run percentile
Or skip the tables and get your overall athleticism rank across strength, power, agility and endurance.