Ideal Ratios

[Doss]

I know that every person adapts a little differently to different methods of training, but I was wondering if there have ever been studies done (or if there's just broknowledge) that outline strengths ratios that are best for health?

I've read various places that your bench weight should be a 1:1 ratio with your pull-up weight, or that your working sets for squats should be 2 x bodyweight for ideal quad development. Stuff like this.

What does the community think about this? Personally I'm just training for aesthetic purposes, but I'm curious as to whether there are ideal ratios for health.

 

[gaijininjapan]

strength is not necessarily proportionate to muscle size... and if you're only training for aesthetics, why worry about weight ratios?

 

[Doss]

"I'm curious as to whether there are ideal ratios for health." I'm aware that strength and size are necessarily proportional. This is really just to broaden my knowledge.

Also, I'm getting very close to where I want to be with my muscular development (10-15 lbs away). If I could establish what ratios are the healthiest all around, I could then work towards those while hopefully maintaining my physique. That is unless something is extremely far out of balance, in which case that would be the new challenge - maintain the physique whilst correcting the strength ratios.

 

[warsteiner]

Take a look at Invalid Link Removed. This has some strength standards for bench press, deadlift, etc. based on your training level and body weight.

 

[Doss]

Thanks a lot warsteiner, that's pretty close to what I was looking for!

 

[D2footballjrc]

Take a look at . This has some strength standards for bench press, deadlift, etc. based on your training level and body weight.

Cool site, thanks bro. repped.

 

[jumpshot903]

Good site, kinda gives me some perspective id agree im an intermediate/advanced lifter kind of floating inbetween and im right in line with that on those charts nice post.