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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m 39 and squat around 110 for reps (and I weigh 120). My DH weighs 165 and squats at least 185.

Squatting your body weight is an ambitious but attainable goal at any age, even for young people. Especially women.

I used to work with a power lifting coach and the goal was always to bench and squat your body weight and deadlift 1.5 your weight. Once you’re doing that you can reasonably compete, and in older age brackets people compete before they reach that goal.[/quote]

I havent checked scores in a while.  But I think you gotta get a total up over 1000 before you can really "compete".

mine is just a smidge over 1,000 and I'm not sure how competitive I would be.[/quote]

I assume PP is a female. With a total of 1000 she would be VERY competitive.  Though I agree that the numbers PP presented as competitive are rather low. Also hitting a body weight squat should be pretty easy while a bodyweight bench is a major accomplishment for a woman. I would say the minimum to be somewhat competitive for a female would be 2xBW deadlift; 1.5BW squat and 1xBW bench.[/quote]

Yes.  Thats absolutely correct.

Cause in the example below, a woman weighing 140lbs, hitting a 210 deadlift isn't really impressive for a compettive weightlifter.  Hitting something like 350 (2.5x BW) would probably make that lift more competitive.

Same with the comment about a squat.  For an athlete who is a power-lifter, a 140lb or 150lb woman their bodyweight wouldn't be competitive.  That should be done for reps, tbh

Disclaimer: this is all in the context of power-lifting; all those numbers are VERY impressive for a typical woman exercising for health & fitness[/quote]

Competitive qualifiers for national and world level competitions in powerlifting, USAPL drug tested, "raw" record for 125lbs weight class class is close to 350-400. I competed 15 years ago before it was more popular for girls to lift weight and at 148lbs with a 330lb squat 350lb deadlift and 176lb bench I barely placed top 3 nationally in my age group but it was equipped. A raw qualifying total of 902 is required for the closest new weight class of 151.8lbs. That means those women are sq/dl 350 plus at 200lbs bench. The 40-49 masters qualifying total drops to 355kg or 781 lbs so still raw lifts would be 300/300/181. [/quote]

With competitions, between equipment, the shorter ROM, and the assistance it's not really comparable to what people are doing when they're lifting in the gym, though. [/quote]

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