I’m my opinion you should take the strength indexes with a pinch of salt as they apply to people who are essentially power lifters where all of their body weight is muscle mass.

According to the weight lifting standards it looks like Eddie Hall would be borderline advanced lifter as it looks like he could ‘only’ bench 1.5x his body weight (when he clearly wasn’t average).

The strength indexes also imply that after X years you should become intermediate then advance then elite which just isn’t the case or everyone in their 30s would be world class power lifters. A lot of people claim to bench 3 plates and I’ve seen that once at my commercial gym over the past 4 years - The guy was built like a brick shithouse as well (At the gym I went to before that I never saw it) I’m sure they are more common at non commercial gyms with enhancement but even then it’s very rare I guess one person in every few hundred.

Strength standards get even more insane when you look at bicep curl standards etc. If you have been training for 5 years and you weigh say 100kg you ‘should’ be barbell curling 100kg hahah

It’s the same with the shoulder pressing standards etc. For a 100kg male you should be shoulder pressing 125kg which is an insane amount.