What are some compound barbell lift numbers for olympians?

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or top swimmers? How much do lets sasy phelps, adrian or lochte squat/deadlift compared to their body weight (ie 1.5x squat 2x deadlift)?
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  • Jeff, Would you say those are good benchmarks as a “maxing our” lift (like being able to to a few reps only at those weights), or should you be able to do a certain number of normal reps at that weight. Just wondered your opinion. Personally I don’t squat or DL anywhere near my BW (in fact I do 105# right now for both), but I do different events from, for instance, you, and so don’t need to lift as heavy to go with my larger yardage base.
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  • Jeff, Would you say those are good benchmarks as a “maxing our” lift (like being able to to a few reps only at those weights), or should you be able to do a certain number of normal reps at that weight. Just wondered your opinion. Personally I don’t squat or DL anywhere near my BW (in fact I do 105# right now for both), but I do different events from, for instance, you, and so don’t need to lift as heavy to go with my larger yardage base.
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