Need Strength Stats for Men and Women

Hello,

I am trying to locate weightlifting statistics for the general
population. What I'm looking for is something like this:

"Among 20 year old men, ____% can bench press ____ pounds, ____% can
bench press ____ pounds, etc."

In other words, has some researcher gathered a cross section of the
general population (ranging from couch potatoes to athletes and
everything in between) and gathered data on how much they can lift.

I want to see what is average strength, below average, and above
average--along with the percent of the group in each category.

I'd like the same kind of statistics for women too.

And I'd like it for different age groups (20, 30, 40, etc.).

I'm sure SOMEONE has gathered this information (it wouldn't be hard to
gather), but I cannot find it on the Internet.

PLEASE guide me to a site that has this data.

Thanks for your help.

Keith

"hk" <hk1066@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I am trying to locate weightlifting statistics for the general
> population. What I'm looking for is something like this:
>
> "Among 20 year old men, ____% can bench press ____ pounds, ____% can
> bench press ____ pounds, etc."
>
> In other words, has some researcher gathered a cross section of the
> general population (ranging from couch potatoes to athletes and
> everything in between) and gathered data on how much they can lift.
>
> I want to see what is average strength, below average, and above
> average--along with the percent of the group in each category.
>
> I'd like the same kind of statistics for women too.
>
> And I'd like it for different age groups (20, 30, 40, etc.).
>
> I'm sure SOMEONE has gathered this information (it wouldn't be hard to
> gather), but I cannot find it on the Internet.
>
> PLEASE guide me to a site that has this data.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>


Used to be a feller that posted here awhile back, went by the name of Bryce.
He put together a nice little page with
some info you might find interesting. I don't think it's too scientific, but
in my observation he seems pretty accurate.

http://www.ironsports.tv/hwgdami.htm