You might try emailing Clarence Bass at cbass.com. Great site, nice guy,
knowledgeable about a lot things, esp. lifting. Might have leads for you.
You might use pubmed, or some equivalent fitness index, like what our
resident igneranuses Blare/Garrison use to sound intelligent.
Unfortunately, you only get half-assed abstracts, and it isn't clear how
comprehensive these services are. Index Medicus *is* pretty comprehensive,
but don't know about it's online availability.
Lest the articles you seek not be available (and it *is* a very interesting
topic), you might try boot-strapping some stuff for yourself, extrapolating
from perhaps calisthenic data, 1-RM formulas, and other basic data.
Calisthenic data might be more popular.
For example, a pushup is roughly equiv to a bp of 2/3 your BW (do one on a
bathroom scale). If a population cross-section can do on avg, say, 5, and
you use one of the 5-RM-to-1 RM formulas around, you can "deduce" a 1-RM
lift for that population.
Ditto kneebends, and perhaps chinups visavis curls (to some extent), etc.
Along w/ this, you might factor in BMI to get an idea of average
cross-section areas of a given muscle (incl. fat/lean cross sections), using
that to extrapolate data, as well as other "trends", such as the maximum
lifts of competitive powerlifters, eg, 3x BW for 150# lifters, and 2xBW for
the heavywt lifters, a trend (not the lifts themselves, of course) that
should be followed in the general population.
There are proly other "tricks" you could use as well.
I seem to recall general articles on how the avg American performs vs. the
avg European, etc. Might find some interesting stuff in epidemiology
journals, or sumpn.
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"Whistleboy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Thanks Wade and others for the quick response! However, unfortunately,
I need to find published research where these "average" values were
determined. Finding the original research behind a fitness testing
standard has proven more challenging than I thought. Any studies?
Thanks!
