肌力標準計算機
你的深蹲、臥推或硬舉,落在新手到菁英的哪一段?
Strength standards
Your level
Novice
1.25 × bodyweight
| Tier | Min ratio | Min weight |
|---|---|---|
| Untrained | — | — |
| Beginner | 0.75 | 60 kg |
| Novice | 1.25 | 100 kg |
| Intermediate | 1.50 | 120 kg |
| Advanced | 2.00 | 160 kg |
| Elite | 2.50 | 200 kg |
What strength standards mean
A “strength standard” is a bodyweight-relative ratio that classifies your one-rep max into a tier — Untrained, Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, or Elite. The point isn’t to win an argument on the internet about whether you’re “really” intermediate; it’s to give yourself an honest snapshot of where you sit, what’s realistic to chase next, and how the lifts compare to each other.
The five tiers, roughly:
| Tier | Description | Population fraction |
|---|---|---|
| Untrained | Has never trained the lift | ~50% |
| Novice | A few months to a year of regular training | ~30% |
| Intermediate | A year or more of focused programming | ~15% |
| Advanced | Multiple years; lifts the bar daily | ~3–4% |
| Elite | Competitive-level strength | ~< 1% |
These percentages are rough — the actual distribution depends on whether you’re sampling everyone (in which case “Untrained” is the vast majority) or active lifters (in which case “Novice” is the mode and “Elite” is a small minority).
How the table is constructed
We index every lift on bodyweight ratios for both sexes. The five thresholds we use:
| Lift | Untrained | Novice | Intermediate | Advanced | Elite |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Squat (men) | ≤ 0.75× BW | 1.25× | 1.50× | 2.00× | 2.50× |
| Squat (women) | ≤ 0.50× BW | 0.85× | 1.10× | 1.50× | 2.00× |
| Bench (men) | ≤ 0.50× BW | 1.00× | 1.25× | 1.65× | 2.00× |
| Bench (women) | ≤ 0.40× BW | 0.65× | 0.85× | 1.10× | 1.40× |
| Deadlift (men) | ≤ 1.00× BW | 1.50× | 1.85× | 2.50× | 3.00× |
| Deadlift (women) | ≤ 0.65× BW | 1.10× | 1.40× | 1.85× | 2.30× |
| Overhead press (men) | ≤ 0.30× BW | 0.65× | 0.85× | 1.15× | 1.40× |
| Overhead press (women) | ≤ 0.20× BW | 0.40× | 0.55× | 0.75× | 0.95× |
| Barbell row (men) | ≤ 0.50× BW | 0.95× | 1.20× | 1.55× | 1.90× |
| Barbell row (women) | ≤ 0.35× BW | 0.60× | 0.80× | 1.05× | 1.30× |
These are reasonable and widely-cited ratios in the strength community. If you cross from one tier to the next, you’ve made a meaningful jump.
A worked example
An 80 kg male lifter with a 140 kg squat:
- Ratio: 140 / 80 = 1.75× BW
- That’s between Intermediate (1.50×) and Advanced (2.00×).
- Tier: Intermediate (just barely).
- To reach Advanced: needs 80 × 2.0 = 160 kg squat — about 20 kg of progress, typically 6–18 months of focused work.
A 65 kg female lifter with an 80 kg deadlift:
- Ratio: 80 / 65 = 1.23× BW
- That’s between Novice (1.10×) and Intermediate (1.40×).
- Tier: Novice.
- To reach Intermediate: needs 65 × 1.40 = 91 kg deadlift — about 11 kg of progress.
How to use this calculator
- Pick a lift (squat, bench, deadlift, overhead press, or barbell row).
- Enter your sex and bodyweight.
- Enter your current 1RM (or run the 1RM calculator first if you’re working from a 5RM).
- The result shows your tier plus the bodyweight ratio you’ve achieved.
- The threshold table shows the absolute weights you’d need at your bodyweight to reach each tier.
Why bodyweight-relative ratios?
A 100 kg squat is “intermediate” for a 70 kg lifter and “novice” for a 110 kg lifter. Strength scales with body mass — bigger bodies hold bigger lifts — but not linearly. The ratios are an attempt to normalize across body sizes. The Wilks coefficient is a more sophisticated normalization that accounts for the diminishing-returns of strength as bodyweight grows; the strength-standards ratios are a simpler heuristic that’s adequate for most non-competition use.
If you want to compare yourself against absolute power-output benchmarks (rather than ratio benchmarks), use the Wilks calculator.
How fast you should expect to progress
For a typical intermediate male lifter (1–3 years of training):
- Squat / deadlift: 5–10 kg per training block (~12 weeks).
- Bench / overhead press: 2.5–5 kg per training block.
- Barbell row: 2.5–5 kg per training block.
For a typical intermediate female lifter, halve those increments roughly (the absolute strength gain per session is smaller, but the percent gain over a block is similar).
For an advanced lifter (5+ years), expect:
- Squat / deadlift: 5–10 kg per year.
- Bench / OHP: 2.5–5 kg per year.
Strength gains become geometric, not linear. Doubling your training volume doesn’t double your progress past intermediate — it mostly increases your injury risk.
What the standards don’t tell you
- They don’t measure technique. A 200 kg “squat” with a 30° forward lean and a high bar is not the same as a clean ATG squat at the same weight. The ratios assume sound technique.
- They don’t measure rep performance. A grinder one-rep PR with the bar barely moving is technically a 1RM, but the lifter behind it is not in the same training state as someone who finishes a clean rep with a half-second of bar speed left.
- They don’t measure sustainability. A 2.5× squat that took two years of training but cost an injury is a worse outcome than a 2.0× squat that took five years and never broke you down.
Use the standards as a directional check, not as the score on the test of your training.
常見問題
Where do these standards come from?
Strength standards have a long history in the lifting community — Lon Kilgore's *Practical Programming* tables, the *Strength Level* user database, and *Symmetric Strength* are the most-cited modern sources. Our table aggregates ratios that are commonly accepted across those sources, rounded to be readable. They are reasonable across-the-population benchmarks, not absolute truth.
Are these standards for one rep or for working sets?
They're for **a true 1RM** — a single rep with maximal effort. If you're using a working-set 5RM as your number, run it through the **1RM calculator** first to estimate the equivalent 1RM, then compare here.
I'm an intermediate on bench but a beginner on deadlift. Why?
Lift-by-lift variation is normal. The deadlift has the steepest learning curve of the four classic powerlifts because it's a single max-effort effort with no eccentric — it's mostly a competition between your nervous system and your back's structural capacity. Most intermediates eventually catch up.
Can I be "elite" without being a competitive powerlifter?
Technically yes — a solo lifter with great training history can hit the elite ratios. In practice, most people who reach elite numbers compete at some level, because the volume of focused training required to get there is hard to sustain without a goal.
How long does it take to go from beginner to advanced?
For a serious recreational lifter training 3–4 times per week with progressive overload: **Beginner → Novice in 6 months**, **Novice → Intermediate in 1–2 years**, **Intermediate → Advanced in 3–6 years**. Elite typically takes 8–15 years of focused training.
What about for women?
The female table is calibrated to the same percentile ranks as the male one. The absolute weights are different but the *meaning* of each tier (the population fraction that hits it) is comparable.