Average Deadlift: Real Lifter Data

Average vs. Strength Standards

The average tells you where the middle is: half of real lifters sit above it, half below. Strength standards answer a different question, what good looks like at your bodyweight, from Beginner to Elite. If you want targets instead of a midpoint, the deadlift strength standards break the same real data into five levels, and the strength calculator places you on them from any recent set.

How These Averages Are Measured

Every number on this page is the measured median of estimated one-rep maxes from real logged workouts: one all-time best deadlift per lifter, from publicly shared workouts only, converted with the Brzycki formula and trimmed for outliers. Nothing here is interpolated or formula-extended. Read how the standards are computed for the full method, including the sample-size floors and the known limits of the data.

Average Deadlift by Age

Strength on the deadlift typically climbs fast through your first training years, peaks somewhere in the late 20s to 30s, and declines only gradually after 40. Training history matters far more than the calendar: a well-trained 50-year-old beats most untrained 25-year-olds, and lifters who keep training into their 60s hold on to most of their strength.

Until then, treat the medians and by-bodyweight averages above as your benchmark at any age, and judge progress against your own logged history rather than an age chart someone extrapolated.