“You’re 6’4”, 240-pound Marine, and you’re injured, and you need a Marine next to you to carry you back to safety, and the Marine next to you is a 5’4" woman who weighs 115 pounds,“
No problem.
in before “well most women can’t do that” because NEWS FLASH most men can’t either, that’s why it’s a highly specialized career that requires a lot of devoted training
One of my former coworkers was a very slim girl only a tad taller than me, and she was training to be a fireman, and she could lift the biggest dude on my crew like this who was around 6’5 and super bulky.One time she picked him up and ran around the crew room with him for about 5 minutes before letting him down.
Even though I haven’t exercised in over a year—if you count DDR—and I’m incredibly petite (5’0”, 100 lbs), I can carry most guys. If they’re under 200 lbs, I can run with them on my back for 5 blocks, but I can walk for a mile. Once they’re about 250, I can only walk about a block or two before my spine feels like it’s about to break. If I were in a survival situation and their life depended on it, I could go on much further, until my legs gave out.
It’s why I hate the bullshit that women are inherently weak. Nah, man. Nah.
More power to you all because I can barely lift my five year old nephew without hating myself ten minutes later….
People have done studies of the military that demonstrate that with the same training for the same length of time, both men and women can achieve the same fitness level. They can carry as much, run as far, shoot as well, you name it. The idea that women are weaker than men is a total myth, and one that that the patriarchy is desperate to make us believe. (I wish I could give you a source for this but it’s been a while since I read it)
Something else people don’t realize is that men have more UPPER BODY STRENGTH but lifting like this is dependent on LOWER BODY STRENGTH. Have you seen how women are built? We have leg strength galore, most women (even without training) can leg press well over their body weight. So don’t let men call you weak because your have a different build. You can lift as much as they can when you are using the right biomechanics.
Recently the military got their first female rangers too :DDDDD No separate PE test BS or anything, they passed with the same qualifications as their male counter parts. I remember my dad was super hyped about it haha
Allllll of this^
Women had better blood flow throughout the muscle and fatigued less quickly compared to men, according to Sandra K. Hunter and colleague in a 2001 article in the “Journal of Applied Physiology.” Men’s larger muscle mass and higher intensity muscle contraction may have constricted capillaries, and contributed to the decreased blood flow and reduced muscular endurance. However, David W. Russ and colleague in a 2003 article in the “Journal of Applied Physiology,” stated no difference in blood flow between men and women. Instead, men may have fatigued earlier because of a less efficient metabolism within the muscle when compared to women.
Genetics also play a huge part in this - some women build muscles faster, and will notice increased muscle growth faster than their peers, despite similar testosterone and workouts. Some people just naturally get ripped easier.
Women not only recover faster after a set. They also recover faster after a training session. Strong male trainees often instinctively do high intensity training and avoid sets with more than 12 reps. Women are naturally much more inclined to do steady-state cardio, lift with a more controlled tempo, perform higher reps, take shorter rest periods and do more total work
Sports scientist Renato Manno and his team have compared the strength and explosiveness (amount of strength exerted quickly) of 840 elite male and female athletes across 31 sports in research that hasn’t been published in English yet. They found that relative to bodyweight, women were just as strong as men and only a few percent less explosive. This makes sense given that women have the same relative natural muscular potential as men. Sociocultural differences probably explain why we don’t see more women in high level athletics.
CONCLUSION: Yes, men develop muscle mass faster, so they tend to be able to exert a huge amount of strength all at once, but women naturally fatigue slower, and recover faster. Also, once you’re in high-level training, those differences reduce a lot.
Totally Sally. Except, perhaps not bikini-clad, given she’d be doing it in a war zone. But you never know XD
