@cpt_gearheart:
The simplest and truest answer is that you should just do what feels right.
In a bio, it's extremely common for people to give details the way you did there. It's the way they're done in the wiki and often elsewhere too, and it makes for easy classifications, especially depending on how specific you do or don't feel like getting. Some people might go for vagueness and just give - more or less - a range of capability, or some sort of example [such as "can lift __ tons with (little, moderate, or extreme) difficulty"] which gives a fairly closer idea of strength without boxing them in. So you could still push it in case someone takes issue with the fact "your bio says he can lift 10 tons and you just had him move a 12-ton slab off of him."
Mostly it tends to depend on just how far you branch outside that range and how you sell it. Probably most folks wouldn't take issue if your bio said you can push 10 tons and in RP you push a 12-ton slab of fallen building. But if your bio says 10 is your max and you go evenly match a 20-tonner without a solid explanation how that limit was pushed, you might get some funny looks.
And it happens a fair bit, people pushing their norms. Most people try to keep it sparing to avoid that whole "constant power creep" feeling, and people often go for first establishing the new limit in an RP with someone they're familiar and comfortable with. Sometimes you build a rapport with an RPer to the point that you have certain unspoken understandings, and they just don't mind creative licenses. In other cases, if you're concerned about "overstepping" and might edit, there's always the ol' "PM and check their mileage," or "go for it and gauge reactions."
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