Weightlifting ratio calculator
Your lifts sit in rough proportion to each other. Type the one you know — a deadlift, a clean & jerk, a back squat — and this page shows where each of the others would sit for a lifter in proportion, so a drill written off one of them can be loaded. It runs in this tab — nothing is sent anywhere.
The rest, in proportion to your
| Lift | % of yours | In proportion |
|---|
Each is where that lift would sit if every ratio were in the middle of its band, rounded down to the nearest 2.5 kg (5 lb) and never below the empty bar. It is not your max. A lift that comes out well below what you actually do is a ratio worth reading; one well above it is a lift worth testing before anything is loaded off it.
Find out what is capping your snatch →
The planner opens with the lift you typed — never the estimates, because it reads the gaps between lifts you have actually tested. Loads for each drill: your snatch percentages →
Every lift against every other
Read across: each cell is the lift on the left as a percentage of the lift at the top. A snatch is about 55% of a deadlift; a deadlift is about 183% of a snatch. Over 100% means the lift on the left is the heavier one.
| Lift ÷ | Power snatch | Squat snatch | Overhead squat | Clean & jerk | Clean | Front squat | Back squat | Deadlift |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power snatch | 100% | 83% | 69% | 66% | 65% | 60% | 52% | 46% |
| Squat snatch | 121% | 100% | 83% | 80% | 78% | 72% | 63% | 55% |
| Overhead squat | 145% | 120% | 100% | 96% | 94% | 86% | 76% | 66% |
| Clean & jerk | 151% | 125% | 104% | 100% | 98% | 90% | 79% | 69% |
| Clean | 154% | 128% | 107% | 103% | 100% | 92% | 81% | 70% |
| Front squat | 167% | 139% | 116% | 111% | 108% | 100% | 88% | 76% |
| Back squat | 191% | 159% | 132% | 127% | 124% | 114% | 100% | 87% |
| Deadlift | 220% | 183% | 152% | 146% | 143% | 131% | 115% | 100% |
Where the numbers come from
Every lift is held to one other by a conventional band, and sits at its middle. These are conventional coaching bands rather than anything measured here. A lifter can sit anywhere inside a band and be fine; the middle is a place to start a drill from, not a target.
| Lift | Against | Band | % of snatch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Power snatch | Squat snatch | 0.78–0.88× | 83% |
| Overhead squat | Squat snatch | 1.05–1.35× | 120% |
| Clean & jerk | Squat snatch | 1.19–1.316× | 125% |
| Clean | Clean & jerk | 1–1.05× | 128% |
| Front squat | Back squat | 0.85–0.9× | 139% |
| Back squat | Squat snatch | 1.471–1.724× | 159% |
| Deadlift | Back squat | 1.1–1.2× | 183% |
The power snatch, overhead squat, clean & jerk and back squat use the bands the planner reads your numbers by — each opens its own ratio page — so a lifter whose numbers match this table is read as balanced. The clean is at least the clean & jerk, because the jerk comes after it; the front squat and the deadlift are held to the back squat. The empty bar (20 kg,45 lb) is the floor for every estimate.