"gleichman" <fox1_217@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Jul 30, 9:51 am, "Nicole Massey" <ny...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> What is the average amount a normal average human being is expected to
>> lift?
>> I'm looking for expectations for lifting to the chest, lifting over
head,
>> and bench pressing, and possibly a leg lift total. I'd also like to
know
>> the
>> levels of these things required for admission into the Olympics, the
>> standard I've set for the 100th percentile in the system. (Yes, I know
>> people perform better than that, but scores over 100 are possible in
the
>> system)
>>
>> I could also use thoughts on the average and superlative agility
markers.
>
> It would be interesting to get a hold of such information, but in the
> past I've found it difficult to find and of questionable value due to
> differences by nation (even region), age group, ***, use of
> 'enchancement', and date (later two are heavy influences on Olympic
> information).
>
> Agility is even worse than strength as it much harder to measure.
>
> Even so, such things attempts to measure values like this are made, a
> trip to one of the better college libraries should turn something up.
> I would think a health club would have strength information available
> to allow them to bench mark training results.
>
> Is this information for a rpg design or something else? If the former,
> I'd suggest that it would be a very rare case indeed that much in the
> way of specific information would be required.
Yes, it's for a RPG environment, and in this case, that information is
useful for lots of things, including weapon weights, bow pull weight
requirements, etc.
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