 Next question is from Gretz123. Is there an ideal ratio of strength you should have between your bench, deadlifts and squats? I can bench my body weight, but I can't do that much more in deadlifts or squats. Okay, so normally what you'll find is that you can bench a certain amount of weight, you could squat more than that, and you could deadlift more than that. So typically what it looks like is your bench is the lowest, then it goes squat, then it goes deadlift. Is that true? Yeah, for most people. I thought it's interchangeable with the squat and the deadlift. No, some people, and this is not most, some people can squat more than they can deadlift, but it's much more common that someone can deadlift. More than they squat. That was definitely me for a while. I mean, that's just because I didn't deadlift. Right. I didn't have the skill of it yet. Right, right, and every once in a while you see someone who could bench a ton, and you can see the way that they're built. There's big rib cage short arms and, you know, kind of like the powerlifter, like the guys who could bench like crazy with their deadlifts and squats. Okay, so here's a good number for a guy. This is a good, I guess, strength goal that's probably attainable for most men if they train consistently. Being able to bench your own body weight, being able to squat about one and a quarter your body weight, and then being able to deadlift about one and a half times your body weight. That's a good goal that I think most men, if they train consistently, could be able to accomplish. Now, if you want to be like, you know, I want to be super strong, well, you know, if you bench like one and a half times your body weight, squat, you know, two times your body weight, deadlift two and a half times your body weight, now you're starting to get pretty damn strong. For a woman, this is a little bit more difficult for me to figure out. I'm trying to think what would be a good number. You're probably looking at something like half body weight to maybe, you know, three-quarter body weight bench, squat, probably body weight, and deadlift, probably body weight in the quarter or something like that. I remember T-Nation had a really good article that was like... They had a whole chart. They did. They had a whole chart of this, and maybe we can look it up and then hopefully attach it to the show notes. It was, and it had both men and women. It showed you like elite, good, bad, good, very good or whatever. There's like three or four categories of what Sal's referring to for both men and women, like where they should be on this. I thought that was a pretty good, accurate chart to whatever it is. As a trainer, I would say where you're at, Sal, is if I had a woman that could do almost her weight in bench, that's phenomenal. And as long as she was squatting and deadlifting her weight and above, we're doing pretty damn good. Is that it? So this is... Okay, so male... Okay, here's what they have for... See, they don't do this by body weight. Oh well, actually they did. So they said for a man decent for a squat is 315 pounds or one and a half times your body weight. Good was 405 pounds or two times your body weight. And great was... What is that? 465 or two and a half times body weight for squat. For female, it was 95 or 75% 0.75 your body weight. Good, 155 or one and a quarter your body weight. Great was what is that? 205 or two times your body weight. But they're talking to a fitness fanatic audience because those numbers are pretty high. Yeah, that's why I would... Even just decent is high on there, I would say. I mean, when you're talking about... Okay, the clients that we train, which were... Average person. Average person. The way I looked at it was, rarely ever in their life are they're going to have to pick something off the ground that's heavier than them or squat something down that's heavier than they are. So as long as they could do their body weight and squatting and deadlifting, I was really happy with the progress or where we are currently at. Of course, we are trying for more, but I would be very impressed or happy with the client that was doing that. And then as bench pressing, if I had a guy, if he was able to at least do his body weight and for a girl, if she was able to do 50% of her body weight to 75, I would be very happy. Yeah, totally. You know what's interesting too is that you typically will be good at really good at one in comparison to the other. Totally. Your body type tends to... Like if you've got long arms and you're kind of tall... It's all your levers that you have. Yeah, you're probably a deadlifter, right? You're probably going to be able to... If you have short arms, kind of stocky, bench press is probably going to be what you're better at. I know for me, my squat and my bench was good. My deadlift was always great. And they don't match. My deadlift was always through the roof in comparison to the other two. So that's the other thing. But look, here's the thing. At the end of the day, this is a question that's essentially saying, how do I compare myself to other people? That's a trap. Right. Just be honest with you. Totally. And that's another thing, too. Like if I had a client, it was about where we started and where we're at now. So even though we're all throwing out these random ass percentages and numbers, if you have been strength training for months or years and you're better at all those things than what you were before, you're heading down the right direction. This is a long journey, man. I threw away all these standards and these performance metrics as far as like, oh, here's what? Somebody, your age and your body weight. It just attracts you from, you know, making progress for you individually. Well, especially the numbers that we just looked at. Sal, you're right. That's definitely geared toward the fitness community because if you show that to a person who doesn't lift, they are so... They're not even close to... They're gonna get deflated instantly. Yeah. They're not gonna get close to any of those at all. They're gonna be way... It says decent. Oh, I'm not decent because I can't swap. I know. Yeah, no, I mean... I wasn't telling that to your client. What's the quote? Comparison is the thief of joy. Yeah. Yeah, right? The biggest traps in, just in life, but especially in fitness, is comparing yourself to other people. First off, it's not fair. It is not a fair comparison. Everybody is so different, so individual, different genetics, different diet, different lifestyle, different time that they can spend working out. Their limb, you know, length is different. Their muscles are very different. Their central nervous system reacts very different. Age, different hormone differences. It's so unfair to compare yourself to someone else. If you want to compare yourself, which there's nothing wrong with comparison, but if you're gonna do this, you know you've heard apples to apples, right? It'd be like me comparing my four-by-four truck to a Ferrari for zero to 60 and being sad that my four-by-four truck is not as fast as the Ferrari. It's not a fair comparison. If you want to compare, which is fine, at least make it a fair comparison. There's only one fair comparison in fitness. It's you to you yesterday. That's it. There is no other... There's nobody else. There's nothing. Because they don't even live exactly identical to you. The only fair comparison is you to yourself. So questions like this. Yeah, I know we gave out some numbers. Those are super general. But to be honest... This is arbitrary. It's been all... Like I had clients who... I had a woman that I trained who... She was hyper-mobile and very lax and she had beat cancer. And you know, her squatting the bar was a greater accomplishment than the, you know, 22-year-old, you know, ex-football player who I got to squat 405. That's great. But getting her to squat a bar from where she came from. Right. Oh, my God. But still, it's not fair. You compare yourself to yourself. Don't compare it to anyone else because you will crush your... Take your joy right out of your life.