The average Clean and Press weight for a male lifter is 80 kg (1RM). This makes you Intermediate on Strength Level and is a very impressive lift.
- The guidelines for males are between 0.8-1.2x your body weight. So an 80kg man should aim for 65-95kg. - Women should aim for between 0.5-0.8x bodyweight.
For a beginner it would be an extremely unusual achievement, unreachable by most (the average deadlift max for a novice male is around 80kg). For most beginners then, it would be “too much”. For an intermediate lifter it might be a good work set.
The average deadlift is 150 kg for men and 89 kg for women. This makes you an intermediate lifter and stronger than 50% of StrengthLog's users.
The next goal for the average weightlifter in the gym is to be able to deadlift between 1 and 1.5 times your bodyweight - that's 100-150%. For example, if you weigh 80kg, the intermediate deadlift target will be between 80-120kg.
For example, a 70-kilogram person lifting 100-kilograms on a bench can lift 1.42 times their body weight.
There are suggested recommendations for manual handling lifting limits which set out guidelines for safe maximum lifting weights for employees. The legal manual handling guidelines suggest that the maximum safe lifting weight for a woman is 16kg, and the maximum safe lifting weight for men is 25kg.
The guidelines suggest that the maximum weight men should lift at work is 25kg. This relates to loads held close to the body at around waist height. The recommended maximum weight is reduced to 5kg for loads being held at arms length or above shoulder height. Maximum weight guidelines recommend lower weights for women.
The maximum 18-inch deadlift, belongs to Oleksii Novikov of the Ukraine, who set a new world record by lifting 537.5 kg (1,185 lb) at the 2020 World's Strongest Man. Novikov has lifted more though, and in 2022 set a record in the Hummer Tyre Deadlift with 549kg (1,210lb) at the Shaw Classic strongman contest.
For a beginner it would be an extremely unusual achievement, unreachable by most (the average deadlift max for a novice male is around 80kg). For most beginners then, it would be “too much”. For an intermediate lifter it might be a good work set. For me it's an easy first warmup set.
The average deadlift for male 14 year olds is 1.8 times bodyweight. The average deadlift strength of 14 year old females is 1.6 times bodyweight. Depending on the weight class, deadlifts will range from 105kg to 174kg for men and 77kg to 121kg for women.
Weight is the force of gravity, F = ma, where a = 9.8 m/s2 on the Earth. Thus, 80 kg weighs 80 kg x 9.8 m/s2 = 784 kg m/s2, or 784 Newtons.
Summary of The Barbell Weightlifting Standards
To optimize the health of your body, you should be able to squat and deadlift ~1.5x your bodyweight, bench press ~1.25x your bodyweight, and overhead press ~0.75x your bodyweight.
You can lift weights if you are having a moderate bodyweight or even light weight but lifting 100-200 kgs takes lot of practice, time and patience. You need to build the body strength from scratch and start working out. Join a gym and take help from trainer or any powerlifter.
When lifting more than 16 kg, be aware that the risk of injury (MSD) increases. No one should manually lift more than 55 kg.
The Guinness Book of World Records (1985 edition) lists his feat of lifting 6,270 lb (2,840 kg) in a back lift as "the greatest weight ever raised by a human being".
As this shows, a 25 kg load being manually handled is considered to be a safe upper limit for the average man and 16 kg for the average woman.
Heavy weights.
Lifting weights is a great way to build muscle strength, but when you're over 50 there is no reason to push yourself too hard. Try a slightly lighter weight that you can safely do 10 to 12 reps with.
No, you're going to need good genetics or drugs to squat that much. I think even 200kg will be optimistic for an average person, no matter how much they eat or how long they train—bearing in mind that the average person is not very athletic and won't have favorable genetics for strength training.
About 2.5% of world population. Let's say 3% for the 4 years of increase, I'm being generous. 40% of these use fitness and weights. We'll take this 40% as the ones able to squat 100 kgs.
Josh Lancaster is officially the lightest man to ever lift 100kg.