Originally Posted by
wphamilton
I have a hard time believing the "untrained" section of Coggan's table.
The lower anchor point (i.e, center of untrained range) of each column is based on literature values for average, untrained, young, lean men or women. If you or someone you know can't match those values, then you/they must not be young and/or lean, and/or you are simply below average. (Of course, given that physiological capabilities generally follow a normal distribution, the latter would apply to ~50% of all individuals.)