Lifter potential

Your snatch and clean & jerk against what your other lifts say they could be, the eRM of every other lift, and the typical ratios between them at your age and level. The same numbers as the Nosto app.

Your numbers

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Every record you add is one more lift your snatch and clean & jerk are read against. A record well under its range is shown but not counted. The hang and power records fill in Positions and catches.

How to read it

Competition lift ranges: each competition lift against the eRM your other lifts give it. Behind means that lift has room to catch up with the rest of you.

eRM for other lifts: the range every other lift usually sits in for your snatch and clean & jerk, with your record as the bar.

Lift ratios: each lift as a multiple of your snatch and your clean & jerk, and Typical multipliers, the usual ones at your age and level. Open them with the buttons under your numbers, or from the bottom of the screen.

Positions and catches: your hang and power snatch and clean against your full lift, and which one to test next.

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Lifter potential

How your records compare with each other

How the ranges are calculated

Every lift is read as a multiple of your clean & jerk: a front squat is usually about 1.2 times it, a snatch about 0.77. Each multiple has a spread, and both move with your strength and your age: a stronger lifter's squats sit closer to their clean & jerk, and with age the snatch drifts down against it.

eRM of a lift = your C&J level × the lift's multiple ± its spread your C&J level = the mean of (your C&J) and (your snatch ÷ the snatch multiple)

eRM for other lifts

Each lift's range comes from your snatch and clean & jerk together. When the two disagree, for example a strong snatch with a weaker clean & jerk, the range widens by how much they disagree.

Competition lift ranges

The reverse: every other record you enter is divided by its multiple to give one estimate of your clean & jerk (or your snatch), and your other competition lift gives one more. The eRM is their mean, each weighted by how tight its multiple is: a front squat counts for more toward the clean & jerk, an overhead squat toward the snatch. The range spans the middle 80 % of the estimates, and never less than their combined spread. A record under 85 % of the low end of its own range is shown but not counted: it is more likely a light day than a max.

Age

The multiples are set at 35 and adjusted between 35 and 65, held at either end outside that. Without an age the page reads them at 35. The Typical multipliers page shows the same multiples at your age and at 35 side by side.

Questions

What is a good snatch to clean & jerk ratio?

About 0.77 at 35 for a 78 kg clean & jerk. It rises with strength, to about 0.81 for the strongest lifters, and falls with age. The Lift ratios page shows your own ratio against the usual range for your age and level.

What does "behind your other lifts" mean?

That competition lift is below the range your other records put it in. It is the lift with the most room: your strength already says it could be higher.

Why is my record "not counted"?

It is under 85 % of the low end of its usual range for your snatch and clean & jerk. A record that light is more likely an old or untested number than a max, and counting it would drag both competition ranges down. It still shows, greyed.

Is anything I type sent anywhere?

No. Everything is calculated in your browser, and your numbers are kept only in this browser, shared with the calculator. The privacy page says what the site counts.

Sources

  1. The Nosto range model: lift multiples by strength and age. Coaching convention, not measurement.
  2. Huebner, Meltzer and Perperoglou, 2019: age-related performance in masters weightlifting (the C&J read as a 35-year-old's).
  3. Czaplicki and colleagues: measured hang and power ratios (the start and catch rows).

The model is exported from the Nosto app, so the page and the app give the same numbers.