Euro4Ever’s BodyBlog

Just came back from a real quick trip to the gym to check 2 of my one rep maxes:

Leg press (cause we don’t have enough weights for our leg press at home to do this)

Bench Press (because the bench press at home is way more narrow and awkward, and we suspected that it was hampering our numbers).

Anyway…

Bench press:  Last week my 1 rep max was 93 lbs. Today it was 106 lbs! Yay!  Ideal goal is to bench my body weight by the new year.

Leg press: OMFG. One rep max of 923 lbs!!!!  That’s over 3.5 times my body weight! WOO!!

So I found this page: http://www.lifestyleschanges.com/onerep.html  which compares 1 rep max strengths in percentiles. . which is interesting to me.

I’m way above 90th percentile for MEN my age in leg press.. but not even on the chart for upper body strength. I’m at .40, 10th percentile for women my age is .48. Holy shit.

So, I’m really, really disproportionate in my strength. But whatever, I can leg press 923 lbs!!!

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