A comparison of absolute, ratio standard and allometric approaches for bench press performance assessment in men over 60

Body mass is known to affect muscle strength and the outcome of some functional tests, so that heavier taller people will be stronger than lighter smaller ones. Ratio standard (RS) has been widely used remove body effect, despite long date criticism due its inadequacy. Allometry (ALLO), in turn, applied as an efficient method for normalizing muscular strength. As bench press (BP) a well-recognized conditioning exercise older adults, aim present study was verify influence on performance assessment group men BP, by comparing absolute, RS ALLO approaches. Sixteen healthy old (65.5±5.13 years old; 75.42±9.78Kg; 1.73±5.98m; 25.11±2.71 kg/m2; 24.76±4.10 %fat) volunteered participate study. Maximum dynamic load verified individual one-repetition maximum (1-RM) tests. Comparisons means revealed significant 1-RM difference between (54.9±8.85Kg) (66.2±8.86Kg) participants identified only absolute approach (p<0.05; ES=0.57). failed completely allowing correlation normalized BM (r=0.23), contraire (r=0.03 0.06). Kendall's concordance coefficient lack agreement approaches when compared their respective ordinal classifications (kw=0.003; p>0.05). In line with previous research, shown suitable adequately effect provide appropriated scores evaluated this