>be 5'5 me casually lifting dumbbells for two months
>started at 10kg ea., now at 16kg ea.
>girlfriend is 5'7 and wants to give it a try
>struggles at 2kg dumbbells
Seriously, what makes women that weak? It's not like you HAVE to be high test in order to lift weight.
And I was a completely sedentary guy, so if it was for lacking of using the muscles, I should be equally weak.
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The difference is literally the amount of testosterone in your body.
Have you graduated high school?
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desu i think its their mindset. I mean at my gym is this skinny cutie that sometimes bdrows two 20s, and i thought well whatever shes a girl. But then she deadlifts with only 45 pounds(25lbs curl bar and plates) and i just wonder why. They can physically lift higher weights but its not something they want to, but ill leave the autistic analysis why they dont want to go heavy to someone else
Test and mindset. I've seen women swear that they're working their hardest but are still talking during their sets. I think most women don't understand how far you can really push yourself.
idk i see women at my gym do low weight but high reps like 4 x 15, that sort of thing. I guess they just dont like the feeling of lifting heavy weights or pushing themselves
This seems correct. Most women don't have the mindset to push themselves.
Perhaps this lack of mindset comes from lack of testosterone as well.
A normal woman has a much lower ratio of muscle:fat than a man
>gf is 2" taller than you
she's too tired from taking non manlet cock all night to put 100% into her workout
Test changes a lot. If you've ever noticed that women are more sensitive to pain or cold, it's because of low test. So I imagine they move less weight because A: they're legitimately weaker, and B: the effort is actually more painful for them.
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this guy gets it
People have been telling me I'm good looking my whole life, but I'm 5'10 so I'll never know what its like to be a real person. I just lift because it feels good to actually have control over something in my life and in this cold empty meaningless existence.
>be 5'5
>Am grill
>Pressing 20lbs dumbbells makes my arms quiver
>Keep trying but can't OHP more than the bar.
>Deadlifting more than 2 plate feels impossible, made no progress in months
>Bar hurts my hands and rips at the skin, wear gloves instead but it makes my grip too weak and the bar starts slipping as I pull.
>Decide not to care and just be weak cardiobunny casual lifter.
>Gym time is now fun.
women's body composition is literally different than a man's. Their upper body just isnt as strong, and doesnt pack on muscle like a man does- sure they can do it, but nowhere near as fast as a dude
their lower body strength is stronger/more capable, though
Quit being such a pussy.
My friend is 5'10 and gets laid every weekend I'm 6'0 and don't cause I can't talk to girls. As long as you're not an autist you're fine.
About 2 scoops of C4 and actually giving a shit will do wonders for shitty girl lifts
>lower body is stronger
then why is the WR squat and diddly held by men?
Total bullshit. Take a man and woman with the same muscular bodyweight, and the man will ALWAYS be stronger.
>stop challenging myself
>now fun
This is why we achieved so much before the emancipation of women.
Just be a housewife and breed already.
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he clearly meant more capable than their upper bodies
Think their upper bodies being 1/3 of a mans strength whilst their legs are 1/2
trained women aren't that much weaker then men, at least if we go by olympic lifting records based on the same weight class. hell, here are two examples of small women benching and squatting pretty heavy weights.
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it mostly has to do with lifestyle. most men are active and always do shit and play sports which is what makes them stronger. i've seen tons of teenage kids who never did anything apart from sitting behind their computer playing games and they are just as weak as women are when they first go the gym.
Its worse than the absolute record. At ipf raw nationals last year for instance the top man in the lightest class beat the top woman in the heaviest on every lift.
uhhh oh i don't know maybe just a completely different hormone profile for the entirety of their developmental years
what makes you so weak compared to your average NFL running back?
Jen's just a freak, no one else comes even close to her bench in her class.
Men are marinated in testosterone before birth, then exposed to sustained high doses during puberty. Testosterone exposure from that early on doesn't just allow you to build muscle faster, it lets you make better use of it too.
Men are significantly more efficient than women when it comes to handling effort. A man is able to call a much higher percentage of motor units (bundles of muscle fibers innervated by a single motor neuron) into contraction for a single effort than a similarly sized woman at a similar level of training advancement.
That ability translates into pretty much every physical activity. Take an average man and an average woman with the same muscular weight, the man will be stronger, quicker, better coordinated, and generally more physically capable.
What's quite interesting about this is that a woman can recover more quickly than a man from 'intense' effort, because even though the effort is perceived to be intenst, she still has gas left in the tank.
So hold up, if a man has THE EXACT SAME amount of muscle mass than a woman, same height, etc, he will still lift more than the woman?
of course retard, men naturally have a more robust skeletal structure
pretty much, also its a bit of a mental thing, statisticaly men have a stronger sense of percived strenght but yeh we men have a stronger nervous system so even if women have as much muscle as we were still way stronger so basicaly women suck and are only helful to make babies with
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>women are weak
Bullshit broscience incoming.
Its been proven women have less dermal nerve endings, on average the female has a slightly higher natural pain threshold. Have you never seen the mythbuster episode where they have them dip their arms in ice water? Females did surprisingly better. Men need this since we are more porne to severe injury this prevents us from hurting ourselves further.
>trained women on steroids aren't that much weaker than men
Think of it this way: You've got a man and a woman, they have identical muscle mass. Both of them have 100 motor units (way oversimplified but whatever) to call into contraction at any given time.
Both attempt a 1 rep squat max.
The man can pretty much call all 100 of his units into contraction for the attempt or close to it. Nobody has a perfectly efficient neuromuscular system, so maybe in his 1RM he's actually using 95 of them.
He does his max, and he's done. He can still stand or whatever, but he won't be able to repeat the effort any time soon because the strain represents literally everything his body's capable of.
The woman, on the other hand, has a less efficient neuromuscular system because she has less testosterone in her body and had no real in-utero exposure. She can only call about 80 of her 100 motor units into contraction at any given time.
The effort is still 'max' for her in terms of perceived and applied effort. But in true physical terms, it isn't actually a max. 20% of her total available motor units are still fresh. She'll therefore recover to the point where she can attempt that max again much more quickly.
This is also where the broscience that women can handle more volume than men comes from. They can't handle more volume at an equivalent proportion of their max (the neuromuscular effort of a 5RM for a man is probably similar to a 3RM for a woman), it just looks like they can because the weight they CAN handle for reps represents a lower percentage of their max.
>mtf tranny
That's not an impressive total for equipped compared to men at 185.
This is important especially in relation to
Sterons will close the gap between male and female physiology, but not completely. Women still lack that in-utero exposure.
On the flipside, men who block their testosterone production will narrow the gap between their physioogly and a woman's, but it'll never completely close. They had in-utero testosterone exposure and are thus working with fundamentally different equipment.
Testosterone increases bone density, it increases muscle growth and muscle density, It increases our ability to heal and repair muscle tissues. During development it increases our hand sizes, muscles insertion size increase as well during development.
So if you have a 1:1 female and male, the male has the advantage because of his higher test levels. In anything from lifting or fighting like boxing or mma the male will always win due to his natural ability being born with higher test. But the test only can do so much, so if you had a 2:1 female to male stats, the female would just barely be able to out perform the male if both were untrained or both equal in training.
Pretty much this. As far as I remember (I could be wrong though) there upper body strength is on average around 60-70 % of that of a man, and there lower body around 80-90 %.
I called my mom today and she asked me why a gym should have dumbbells which weight more than 40 kg. She just didn't get why someone would try to challenge himself and lift more
I am a housewife already. I stopped trying to progress weights because it didn't feel good. Squatting 1 plate doesn't feel good at all even with good form. Somewhere along the way I forgot my intentions behind going to the gym (to look better) and got taken up with the whole strength training thing. When deadlifts are making your hands bloody and you're seeing no progress in something you didn't want to achieve in the first place... Why would you continue?
It's not like I would ever be noteworthy strength wise without going on a cycle anyway. I always have good workouts since I started lifting more casually and I look good which was my goal.
I think its just our society that tells them they shouldnt go hard or low rep, i mean whenever a girl starts seriously lifting for strength they arent that far behind average males.
They just dont have this view on weights we have, they dont think ok i wanna go light on rows ill use 20s then i should use 100lbs on dl, they just pick a light weight and only care about not exerting themselves. Makes me angry sonetimes
There's this ~40 y/o woman at my gym who always goes the same time I do. She does a full body "workout" on machines with the minimum weight and just slams every rep because it's literally nothing
>>be 5'5
>>girlfriend is 5'7
SCHOPP AHHAHAHAHAHA
>be 5'5
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
what this bro said is been proven women have more pain tolerance, i guess giving birth to little parasites and carring them for 9 month naturally over existence of humanity
>And I was a completely sedentary guy, so if it was for lacking of using the muscles, I should be equally weak.
Why are you this retarded?
Men literally develop extra muscles during puberty, which women do not. We're naturally stronger at a base level.
Have you lived in a hole your entire life?
Why is the guy in A leaning away form the girl? She too short?
great bait OP, really good shit man. I mean it.
>5'5
>gf is 5'7
fucking how
>the plight of the womanlet
Because not everything is about height you autist
>struggles at 2kg
What's wrong with her? Even when I was pathetic womanlet with no experience, I had no problem with anything up to 15 lbs.
I was at the bus station. She was at the bus station.
I noticed that whenever I turned my head to see if the bus was coming there was this blonde cute who looked at me and combed her hair or whatever is the expression in English.
So I looked at her, our eyes met, I smiled my best charming smile, she smiled back.
Bus arrives, we get in, she stands next to me in the bus.
We keep exchanging looks, so I asked her name, told her mine, then I looked at the window, checked my watch, said that I had a place to be and asked if she wanted to go out one of these days, she said yes, gave me her number, so I got out in the next tube station despite not being my stop.
We went out, had a good time and the rest is history.
W-what?
Do you call him a spoopy lanklet, or a shorty manlet?
Letlank?
you midget. you couldn't even punch high enough to get me. i do not work out at all and i know i could destroy you. how does that make you feel?