Who could bench more - the average 13 year old boy or the average fully grown woman?

Let us assume 250 13 year old boys in a middle school. The median max bench press may be 75 to 90 pounds. The mean most likely will be over 100 pounds. There will be some 13 year old boys able to bench press near 200 pounds. Thirteen year old boys are stronger than women.

Tough call. If you had said 14 year old boys it would be easy, though.

I think I could have destroyed most woman when I was 13. I remember when I was 12 there was an incident where I was on a bus with my mom having an argument about flunking the 6th grade(not that the 6th grade indicates anything significant anyway). A middle aged woman sitting close to us turned and told me I should respect my parents and appreciate them giving me a home and supporting my education. I was young and stupid and just attacked her. I would have destroyed her quickly but was pulled away. Luckily she decided not to sue after my mom persuade her. When I was in school I was below average in terms of toughness(bullied by bigger guys), so I think most 13 year old's could out lift a fully grown woman.

Banana Bread wrote:

I think I could have destroyed most woman when I was 13. I remember when I was 12 there was an incident where I was on a bus with my mom having an argument about flunking the 6th grade(not that the 6th grade indicates anything significant anyway). A middle aged woman sitting close to us turned and told me I should respect my parents and appreciate them giving me a home and supporting my education. I was young and stupid and just attacked her. I would have destroyed her quickly but was pulled away. Luckily she decided not to sue after my mom persuade her. When I was in school I was below average in terms of toughness(bullied by bigger guys), so I think most 13 year old's could out lift a fully grown woman.

Hopefully, you have become adjusted better with time or you have gone to counseling.

I know I was far stronger than women when I was 12 or so based on playing Pop Warner football. There was no over 125 lbs./under 125 lbs. in my era. I was as small as 105lbs. lining up at either TE or DE and going man to man against opponents as much as 75 lbs. heavier. I started at TE and played second string DE, sometimes vice versa. Maybe Marita Koch or Silke Moller could have done the same. Not too many other women.

There are some very strong women. There are also many women older than 60, and some also older than 80. That brings their average down quite a bit.

Landan wrote:

I’m guessing benching over 70lbs would be hard for both parties

13 year olds are typically 8th graders. When I was in eighth grade, as a member of the football team, I had a max bench of 130 lbs. I am not a strong person; my lift was almost exactly the median. Our strongest player benched 220. We also had one with a 400 lb squat. Since I live in Texas, our football team had 120 members, so I consider it a fair representation of the "average" 13 year old boy.

The average fully grown woman does not bench close to 130. I promise you this - go to any gym and take a look around. 13 year boys are stronger, albeit smaller.

Average person? or average weight lifter. Neither average person could bench 70 lbs. To answer the original question I would say the boy. Average fully grown woman would have to encompass women of all adult ages.

datxrunner wrote:

Landan wrote:

I’m guessing benching over 70lbs would be hard for both parties

13 year olds are typically 8th graders. When I was in eighth grade, as a member of the football team, I had a max bench of 130 lbs. I am not a strong person; my lift was almost exactly the median. Our strongest player benched 220. We also had one with a 400 lb squat. Since I live in Texas, our football team had 120 members, so I consider it a fair representation of the "average" 13 year old boy.

The average fully grown woman does not bench close to 130. I promise you this - go to any gym and take a look around. 13 year boys are stronger, albeit smaller.

The average 13 yr old boy does not play football nor does he lift weights.

So I would but the avg somewhere between 65-95.

That would be equal to the average female gym goer.

So I would say they are about the same.

Alan

Nor is the average woman a gym goer...

Nor is the average female gym goer doing bench...

Nor is the average female gym goes who does occasionally bench, say once every 2 weeks, doing anywhere near 95lbs...

Sure the average 13 yo boy might not be on the football team but if he's participating in any other major sport, he finishing up a practice with his team doing some kind of drills/push ups/sit up 2-3 times per week. Stringing together 10-15 push ups is enough to put them in the top percentile of females.

Not to put down women (Krispy loves them all), but women are objectively physically weak, particularly in the upper body.

Landan wrote:

I’m guessing benching over 70lbs would be hard for both parties

Average 13 year old boy is 5'1 and weighs 100lbs. I dont expect most of the average kids to be benching 70lbs. Personally I would be on the adult females (assume we are talking like 20-35. Start adding in the 90 year olds and I would go with the boys). Bump it to 15 when the boys are 5'7, then they would win easily.

Depends on if they've hit puberty or not and obviously if they've ever lifted before. There isn't a 13 year old alive, who without prior lifting, could bench 200lbs like an earlier poster said. Same for women. I dunno tho that's a pretty tough one. I have seen a couple 13 year olds bench close to 300 but they had been lifting for a few years already.

I think I'm going with if they haven't hit puberty then the grown woman. If they have then the boys. Most 13s are weak af. 70lbs is a good guess op.

I’ll take the average 13 y.o. Kenyan boy

Why does this question even occur to you?

The average adult woman is going to bench under 100 lbs:

https://livehealthy.chron.com/much-can-average-female-bench-press-6110.html

Not sure whether this means free weights or universal.

Boys at 10-12 are pretty near parity with girls that age, so age 13 seems young for boys to already be on average stronger than adult women. I'd say that age 14 is more like it for the average, and remember that most are going to turn 14 toward the end of 8th grade.

zxcvzxcv wrote:

The average adult woman is going to bench under 100 lbs:

https://livehealthy.chron.com/much-can-average-female-bench-press-6110.html

Not sure whether this means free weights or universal.

Boys at 10-12 are pretty near parity with girls that age, so age 13 seems young for boys to already be on average stronger than adult women. I'd say that age 14 is more like it for the average, and remember that most are going to turn 14 toward the end of 8th grade.

Average 14 year old boy would be SIGNIFICANTLY stronger than an average woman, probably 30-50lbs+ on avg bench max. 13 is the right age for a comparison. 13 year old boy vs an average of ALL women, 13 year old boy wins. 13 year old boy vs women in only the 18-40 age group range would be closer to even in my book.

I'm a 12 year old that weighs 92 pounds and benched 110 pounds

Many female service members struggle with push ups and they're considered extremely fit. So I'm sure the average woman cannot bench press much.

asfasdfas wrote:

Landan wrote:

I’m guessing benching over 70lbs would be hard for both parties

Average 13 year old boy is 5'1 and weighs 100lbs. I dont expect most of the average kids to be benching 70lbs. Personally I would be on the adult females (assume we are talking like 20-35. Start adding in the 90 year olds and I would go with the boys). Bump it to 15 when the boys are 5'7, then they would win easily.

I'll also go with the average woman because the average woman probably weighs 50 pounds more than the average 13 year old boy. I've taught many boys who couldn't lift more the 45 pound bar. I've taught many 9th graders who could barely lift 90 pounds.

Many of us here might believe we're scrawny runners but the average kid is even weaker.

There were boys in my school who could lift 300+ at that age, having hit puberty in the womb. Most of the women however, probably couldn't bench much more than a sandwich.