If you had a 30-pound barbell at home and you wanted to compare your muscular endurance to your younger brother's, which method would be the BEST to use?

Use the absolute method: both of you lift the same 30-pound weight and compare how many repetitions you can complete. This directly compares endurance using a fixed load. A fixed percentage of each person’s one-repetition maximum would use different weights, not the same barbell load.

AI-written and checked against the verified answer.