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One-rep max calculator

Five published formulas, shown together. They disagree, and the size of that disagreement is the most useful thing on this page.

How the formulas work

Every rep-max formula is a curve fitted to a group of people, then applied to you. They agree closely at three to five reps, which is what they were built on, and drift apart fast above ten — by twelve reps the spread between the highest and lowest estimate is routinely 10%.

So the honest output is a range. If four formulas say 110 to 118 kg, your max is somewhere in there, and the way to find out precisely is to work up to it under a spotter, not to trust a page.

FormulaPublished
EpleyEpley, 1985
BrzyckiBrzycki, 1993
LombardiLombardi, 1989
O'ConnerO'Conner et al., 1989
MayhewMayhew et al., 1992

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Amit Sharma

Auckland real-estate agent and marketer. Builds free, sourced data tools.