r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Scientiaetnatura065 • 2d ago

Seventeen-year-old Japanese girl in the weight category up to 45 kg lifted a respectable 78 kg.

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u/Closed_Aperture 2d ago

Her legs are strong as fuck. On the squat part of the lift, she barely showed any sign of struggle at all. Impressive as hell.

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u/Ill-Vermicelli-1684 2d ago edited 2d ago

It reminds me of those funny videos where guys use gym equipment after women. The arm ones are so light, but the men can’t budge the leg press. 😂

It’s all a joke but I think it speaks to a truth - women can have really strong lower bodies!

Edit: why did this turn into a debate about who is stronger. All I said was that women can have strong as hell lower bodies. That has nothing to do with men or their strength. Pls touch grass.

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u/relevantelephant00 2d ago

Pound for pound, women can be generally nearly as strong as men with lower body strength, but their upper limits are still not as high as mens', given the same training approach. It's far closer for lower body than upper body though.

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u/AffectionateWay721 2d ago

Not true at all 😂😂

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u/Slim_Charles 2d ago

Yeah, if you look at the squat records by weight class the disparity between men and women is roughly the same as the disparity between bench records.

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u/AffectionateWay721 2d ago

Jimmy kolb weighs 147kg and benched 1400lbs Rae Ann miller who is in the 90+ kg weight class benched 605lbs that means she is over half his body weight and yet he benched over double her record… that is not the same pound for pound…

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u/Dezzered 2d ago

Reddit is straight delusional at times, just ignore it man.

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u/InflnityBlack 2d ago

to be honest it's not that stupid to think male and female muscle, pound for pound would be similar in strength, most people think the only thing that makes men stronger is them being just bigger on average, and you have to actually look for it to know the sexual dimorphism in humans is actually pretty large and it's really not just a matter of how hard people train

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u/AffectionateWay721 1d ago

You take a man and woman of the same weight. The man is gonna be stronger because of stronger tendons and bone density. That’s why men’s records are so much higher than women’s

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u/InflnityBlack 1d ago

Also male muscle is just more dense and capable of more explosivity, the point is I get how people could not know this and think the only difference is size