How to know what your max is?

[W1ld Bill]

Does anyone know how to effectively measure what your max is in terms of weight lifting? My boy told me your max is whatever you can only do 2 reps of? I don't actually know how true that is

I'm asking cuz I got a lil weight set at home and I be lifting weights every know and then and I used to curl 50lbs on each arm and i could squeeze off a few sets with 8-10 reps but I didn't really feel like I was gettin any mass. It felt like I was working hard for no reason. So then I dropped down to 40lbs and still I wasn't feeling any different or stronger. I don't know if I should just go straight to curling my max (whatever that is) cuz I know your suppose to gradually increase the amount you lift but I dunno.

I'm just curious as to how you determine your max

[G-unitworldorder]

You normally do maxes on like bench,squat,clean and deadlift. Your max is considerd the most amount of weight that you can do for 1 rep.

[W1ld Bill]

I hear you. Good looks

[G-unitworldorder]

no problem homie

[Mike T]

Have a spotter with you, and add weight to the benchpress until you reach the maximum amount in lifting.

[PÂßlØ €§©ØßÀ®]

to work out the max you can do i one rep you gotta find your 1 rep max..

say you lift 50lbs, multiply 50 by the number next to the reps you can do on the following chart.

1 1
2 1.047
3 1.091
4 1.130
5 1.167
6 1.202
7 1.236
8 1.269
9 1.300
10 1.330
11 1.359
12 1.387
13 1.416
14 1.445
15 1.475
16 1.504
17 1.531
18 1.560
19 1.587
20 1.616

if you do 12 reps. you times 50 by 1.330. thats how much you can lift in one rep.

if you wanna find out what you lift normally it depends how many reps your doin. but just lift as much as you possibly can to complete the full reps.

[W1ld Bill]

Good shit thanks

[ROBBYM]

bish0p_don_juan where u get that chart from? I never seen nuthin like that before

[PÂßlØ €§©ØßÀ®]

bish0p_don_juan where u get that chart from? I never seen nuthin like that before


got it out of a magazine.. they do one in terms of percentages aswel. i find that one easier though.

[burntrat]

so its 50x1.330? im sure if you rep 12x50lb you can max more than 66.5lbs in 1 rep. should be atleast 80lb+. do you add 12 somewhere?

[PÂßlØ €§©ØßÀ®]

so its 50x1.330? im sure if you rep 12x50lb you can max more than 66.5lbs in 1 rep. should be atleast 80lb+. do you add 12 somewhere?

your meant to do the reps to failure. so in theory you should be able to lift more or do more reps with 50lb. heres another way of working it out -

1 - 100 %
2 - 95 %
3 - 90 %
4 - 88 %
5 - 86 %
6 - 83 %
7 - 80 %
8 - 78 %
9 - 76 %
10 - 75 %
11 - 72 %
12 - 70 %

Find the number of reps to concentric failure that you can perform with a certain weight. In other words, if you can only do eight reps with a certain weight and could not possible do another full rep, that is your point of failure. Find the percentage associated with that number of repetitions from the table above.

Now, divide the weight that you can do by that percentage using decimals (83 percent equals .83) and that will give you an approximation of your one repetition maximum. For example, if you can perform 10 reps with 175 lbs. in the bench press, that means that 175 lbs. is 75% (0.75) of your one repetition maximum. So you would take 175 divided by .75 and that would equal 233 lbs

[JaDaMwUaHKiSs]

good shyt

[G-unitworldorder]

to work out the max you can do i one rep you gotta find your 1 rep max..

say you lift 50lbs, multiply 50 by the number next to the reps you can do on the following chart.

1 1
2 1.047
3 1.091
4 1.130
5 1.167
6 1.202
7 1.236
8 1.269
9 1.300
10 1.330
11 1.359
12 1.387
13 1.416
14 1.445
15 1.475
16 1.504
17 1.531
18 1.560
19 1.587
20 1.616

if you do 12 reps. you times 50 by 1.330. thats how much you can lift in one rep.

if you wanna find out what you lift normally it depends how many reps your doin. but just lift as much as you possibly can to complete the full reps.

That shit works but its not as accurate as a one rep. What i reccomend is do a straight up one rep for Power clean and Bench and then use the chart for squat. Because its not good for your body to be under so much pressure during squats. Also if ur gunna use the chart try to keep the reps under 5 so itll be more accurate