What is the Strength Score?

Strength by muscle is a rough read on how your strength compares to your own bodyweight, one muscle region at a time.

A quick example

You are a man in your thirties and you weigh 180 lb. Your best Leg Press set is 10 reps at 300 lb.

That set gives an estimated one-rep max of 400 lb.
400 divided by 180 is 2.22× bodyweight.
On the Leg Press bands, 2.22× lands in Developing.
Your Quads row reads Leg Press: 2.22× bodyweight — Developing.

A diagram: a 400 lb estimated max divided by 180 lb bodyweight gives 2.22 times bodyweight, which lands in Developing, the second of five bands

It is a rough guide to how strong each muscle is for your bodyweight.

How it's worked out

For each muscle region, BulkForged checks every benchmark lift you have trained for it.

It takes your best-ever estimated one-rep max on that lift.
It divides that by the bodyweight you logged closest to that session.
It places the result in one of five bands: Starting out, Developing, Solid, Strong, Very strong.
The bands are ones we set for your bodyweight, sex and age. They are not an outside standard.
With no sex set in your profile, a row can show a range, like Developing–Solid.

A region can have more than one benchmark lift.

The row shows whichever lift ranks you highest on its own bands, not whichever number is biggest.
A 2× bodyweight leg press and a 1.2× bodyweight leg extension are not on the same scale.

Your band never goes backwards

For any one lift, the figure is the best you have ever logged on it.
The bodyweight it divides by is the one you had at the time, not today's.
Gaining weight on a bulk can't lower an old achievement. A deload week can't dent it either.

The number beside the band can still step down. That happens on a week a different lift takes the region.

A 1.2× bodyweight leg extension can rank above a 2× bodyweight leg press without being the bigger number.
That is the yardstick changing, not you getting weaker.
The band itself still holds or rises.

It's a rough guide

It is your best estimated one-rep max, measured against bands we set. Your own trend is what matters most. Whether the number is climbing tells you more than which band you land in today.

When a muscle has no band

A row never shows a zero. A zero would read as "you're weak" when it only means we have not seen the lift.

No benchmark lift logged yet. The row names the lifts we score that muscle from.
You train it with a different lift. The row names your lift and says we don't score it yet.
No bodyweight logged near your sets. The row asks you to log your bodyweight.
We don't score that region. Neck, traps, forearms, inner thighs and outer hips have no benchmark lift. They are listed once in a Not scored yet line under the rows.

Good to know

Your estimated one-rep max is useful information, but it is never treated as a real record.
A band change never triggers a celebration. Only a weight you actually lifted does that.

See it on video: your strength score, muscle by muscle.