Natural Muscle Standards Now & Throughout History

Calculating your muscle number is great for:

#1 The ultimate NATTY OR NOT muscle mass test.

#2 A great way to assess your progress and your genetic potential

#3 A great tool to identify optimal and acceptable muscle range for your athletes.

Are you too fat or too small to look the way you want to look?

Calculate your muscle number and also what change you will need to make in FAT-LOSS and or MUSCLE-GAIN to achieve your optimal physique. A problem quantified is a problem half solved. What’s good?

The FATTER you are the more INFLATED your muscle number will be. The standards below are for Men under 10% Bodyfat.

Over 15% the numbers start to be less valuable.

Over 20% I don't value your muscle number reading because it doesn't reflect what it will be when you approach 10%. 80 Muscle Number = Untrained In Muscle Building

Untrained level of muscle mass or an athlete focused on endurance sport or being very light eg. weight class boxer or jockey. 90 Muscle Number = Healthy Athletic

Healthy athletic weight trained individuals are probably significantly below their muscular potential.

100 Muscle Number = Great Development (world class)

Great muscular development for a natural lifer. Most strength athletes will approach this number. 98 was the average muscle number in an NRL team.

110 Muscle Number = Uncommonly Great (unlikely)

Uncommonly great level of muscular development for a natural male. 120 Muscle Number = Freakishly Great (highly questionable)

All but impossible to reach naturally and will almost definitely require excess body fat and forced feeding together with good genetics.

130 Muscle Number = World Record (no way you’re getting here lean and natural)

This is around the highest number ever recorded in an athlete presumed natural. The athlete was very fat.

GENETICS

We know from farming that when bulls are progressively selected for those with more mass bulls become more muscular.

Some of us have genetics to be bigger bulls than others.

There is a bell curve and very few people are at the extremes of the bell curve.

Since people refuse the call to develop their athletic potential they will never know their muscular potential.

For this reason anyone can build a good and probably great physique compared to the common man.

Most with great genetics for strength and mass won’t use those genetics well.

Most with poor genetics won’t either.

Like success in business.

If you’re willing to work harder and pursue being smarter than most then you’ll become exceptional regardless of natural talent.

Where to look for Muscle Inspiration

Who’s natural and who’s not?

Countless hours on YouTube and forums are dedicated to debating “Natty or Not”.

Since men have always wanted to be strong throughout history looking at the muscular development of old-time professional strongmen is.a good place to look.

Many of these men travelled the world performing shows to demonstrate their abilities.

Some strong men like Eugene Sandow were treated with the esteem of a modern day medical specialist. He taught Royalty how to be healthy and avoid the health challenges of the common man.

Since hard labour with stone and metal was more common in this time it makes sense that only those with good genetics and good training would emerge to perform strength shows because men could challenge from the crowd.

You could imagine black smiths and labourers with impressive strength emerging from the crowd to embarrass a performer who wasn’t as strong as he looked.

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Ancient Cultures

Stone Lifting - Scotland, Iceland, Basque country

Ancient Greece -

JFK Schools Program

Compulsory Military Service (most countries)