At what age does muscle strength peak?

[sundry]

Let's just use bench press as the marker.
Obviously if you never work out in your life, and then start religiously at age 40, you'll be stronger at 45 than ever in your life

So, let's say the guy starts working out regularly at age 20 and maintains the routine for a few decades.

At what age will his max press generally peak?
20? 25? 30? 35? 40? 45?

[BrotherWolf]

Let's just use bench press as the marker.
Obviously if you never work out in your life, and then start religiously at age 40, you'll be stronger at 45 than ever in your life

So, let's say the guy starts working out regularly at age 20 and maintains the routine for a few decades.

At what age will his max press generally peak?
20? 25? 30? 35? 40? 45?

there's no answer to this question it's not strictly age related but hormonal so if you look into the age of the average male when hormones are potentially peaking that would be a good guess but still not a good indicator
there are too many variables including the amount of time you've been training

[FNG37]

You could look at the records. Here's bench records for 100kg lifters.

Teen 15-19 200
Junior 20-23 232.5
Open 255
Master 40-44 210
45-49 250
50-54 245
55-59 200
60-64 172.5
65-69 140
70-74 145

http://wpfpowerlifting.com/records.htm

Some anomalies in a few catergories, like the 40-44 and 55-59.

[GnomusMaximus]

I just spent 4 days with this guy, he just keeps getting stronger.
http://www.history.com/shows/stan-le...rhumans/videos

[sundry]

You could look at the records. Here's bench records for 100kg lifters.

Teen 15-19 200
Junior 20-23 232.5
Open 255
Master 40-44 210
45-49 250
50-54 245
55-59 200
60-64 172.5
65-69 140
70-74 145

http://wpfpowerlifting.com/records.htm

Some anomalies in a few catergories, like the 40-44 and 55-59.

Ok, so men are their strongest from age 45-55.

[Flounderbout]

Ok, so men are their strongest from age 45-55.

So you are not only a troll but also innumerate and/or illiterate too?

[Phattso]

So you are not only a troll but also innumerate and/or illiterate too?

Yes. sundry is a long-time troll. His post history of exceedingly dumb posts proves it.

[DuracellBunny]

So you are not only a troll but also innumerate and/or illiterate too?

Every Sundry thread feels like asking if you have 2 apples and 4 bananas, what is the capital of Denmark?

[Flounderbout]

Every Sundry thread feels like asking if you have 2 apples and 4 bananas, what is the capital of Denmark?

But with thrustees or whatever tf they were called....

[mntbikedude]

Let's just use bench press as the marker.
Obviously if you never work out in your life, and then start religiously at age 40, you'll be stronger at 45 than ever in your life

So, let's say the guy starts working out regularly at age 20 and maintains the routine for a few decades.

At what age will his max press generally peak?
20? 25? 30? 35? 40? 45?

I starting lifting at 18 and maxed out on bench at 48. Only reason I peaked then was because of an injury not related to lifting.

[thesecondrei]

Many powerlifters I spoke to say that maximal strength peaks at around mid forties.

[sundry]

So you are not only a troll but also innumerate and/or illiterate too?

I can read just fine.
Not sure what you're talking about.
Pick out the highest number in this list.

Teen 15-19 200
Junior 20-23 232.5
**Open 255
Master 40-44 210
**45-49 250
**50-54 245
55-59 200
60-64 172.5
65-69 140
70-74 145

Open has no age range, so it was ignored.
The ranges with highest number is 45-49 and 50-54
So, I said 45-55.

Now, care to clarify your statement?

[Flounderbout]

Open has no age range, so it was ignored.

Facepalm.jpg

[sundry]

Explain yourself,

[sundry]

But with thrustees or whatever tf they were called....

You're too fat and out of shape to do Burpees.
Keep making fun and reveal your inner admission you're nothing but "all show, and no go"


You can squat 1000lbs, but can't run up a flight of stairs. LOL

[Flounderbout]

Explain yourself,

Is it really necessary? If the person who got 255 in the Open class was between 45 and 55, guess what the record for one of those age categories would have been..?

Maybe you aren't a troll, but a slightly slow 6 year old.

[Flounderbout]

You can squat 1000lbs...

Oh, my mistake, you really can't read.

[5ftkid6ftmouth]

Every Sundry thread feels like asking if you have 2 apples and 4 bananas, what is the capital of Denmark?

Funny

[sundry]

I didn't notice that the entire range of 24-39 was missing.
Well, that doesn't really narrow it down them.
Especially since 40-44 is way lower than 45-54....

How does no one on this forum know the answer to such a simple question.
You people have read 20 PDF books about lifting and this topic hasn't come up once?

[BryBB]

It peaks when you stop believing!

[scullin]

Mid 20's for me but I probably could have gone further if I hadn't torn a pec back then. I still do pretty good but not as much as then. But I've improved in a lot of other areas of health and fitness and basically still look the same body-wise.