For an adult male the test is to:
- Bench press 80% of your weight
- Squat with 100% of your weight
- Dead lift 150% of your weight
Yes, this is muscle/power specific and not good at all for children and the elderly (and women...), but being a lower-bound and "auto-scaling" (because % of body mass) and not requiring any medical equipment...
Perhaps give it a try next time you're at the gym :-)
What is this supposed to be an approach for? Overall fitness level?
Although im going to add a disclaimer for anyone reading this that wants to give this a try.
According to StrengthLevel, which is community sourced stats, for an average male on their site which skews exclusively towards people who do strength training here are the bodyweight ratio's for beginners, who are usually classified as AT LEAST a month of training to 6 months
- Bench press .50x of weight - Squat .75x of weight - Deadlift 1.00x of weight
Moving up to novice which is 6 months to 2 years the numbers are in line with what you shared. So people who haven't lifted should definitely not try to test their strength by going straight to novice numbers on the bar. They WILL hurt themselves if they put anywhere close to that weight and have no spotter or spotter bars.
First lemme be explicit that I didn't imagine anyone sane who has not been to a gym ever - or even in a long time - to plop in ~100% of their weight for anything. Warm up and going there in increments was presumed by me as the standard procedure.
> - Bench press .50x of weight - Squat .75x of weight - Deadlift 1.00x of weight
Yeah, I wasn't sure about the percentages, just the general relation between them. My fault here most likely! I don't remember how many lives ago I heard about this "test". Your numbers sound reasonable too.
But it was clearly after I done my work (out, over 3 years) of getting from "nothing" to "something".
> What is this supposed to be an approach for? Overall fitness level?
I'd say more of the power (strength) level. There is a lot more to fitness.
Apologies for not putting in more details in my original post -> now I _bow_.