I completely agree that gaining physical strength also helps psychological strength and mental toughness, whatever you call it. I can not even tell you how fun it was to all of a sudden hear you all talking about lifting weights. I was first exposed to Starting Strength (and thus, to powerlifting for health/fitness) in 2006 at age 42, through CrossFit here in Seattle. I've been teaching these lifts to middle-aged and older adults ever since. To anyone who listened to this podcast, I hope it is clear that "the slow lifts" - the deadlift, squat, bench press, and overhead press - are full-body skill and strength exercises that it is not necessary to use for competition nor to "break records" or "get jacked." The strength and muscle you can build, doing these lifts safely and gradually, can change your experience of your daily life (and your health), at any age. It's like putting money in your retirement fund. I could go on and on... bottom line, women should lift heavy weights. Thank you for talking about this.
Males are also much faster, and will be superior at table tennis over females.
Pre-pubescent males are much faster than females their age, and I know this from personal experience...
Back in 1970, before the school sports, my primary school lined up each girl champion with each boy champion against each other, giving the girls 10 yards head start. Each boy caught up that 10 yards and beat the girl, except for mine. He only caught up 7 yards, and I won. This was probably because I was a very muscled girl. But he was still much better.
Beyond speed, strength, muscle organisation, little males also have biomechanical advantages - relative lengths of limbs, relative angles etc - that make sporting performance superior. They also have brain advantages - less processing in performance, and less distraction.
Females should never compete against males, at any age, in any sport, if fairness of competition is an objective, if not safety.
I completely agree that gaining physical strength also helps psychological strength and mental toughness, whatever you call it. I can not even tell you how fun it was to all of a sudden hear you all talking about lifting weights. I was first exposed to Starting Strength (and thus, to powerlifting for health/fitness) in 2006 at age 42, through CrossFit here in Seattle. I've been teaching these lifts to middle-aged and older adults ever since. To anyone who listened to this podcast, I hope it is clear that "the slow lifts" - the deadlift, squat, bench press, and overhead press - are full-body skill and strength exercises that it is not necessary to use for competition nor to "break records" or "get jacked." The strength and muscle you can build, doing these lifts safely and gradually, can change your experience of your daily life (and your health), at any age. It's like putting money in your retirement fund. I could go on and on... bottom line, women should lift heavy weights. Thank you for talking about this.
Males are also much faster, and will be superior at table tennis over females.
Pre-pubescent males are much faster than females their age, and I know this from personal experience...
Back in 1970, before the school sports, my primary school lined up each girl champion with each boy champion against each other, giving the girls 10 yards head start. Each boy caught up that 10 yards and beat the girl, except for mine. He only caught up 7 yards, and I won. This was probably because I was a very muscled girl. But he was still much better.
Beyond speed, strength, muscle organisation, little males also have biomechanical advantages - relative lengths of limbs, relative angles etc - that make sporting performance superior. They also have brain advantages - less processing in performance, and less distraction.
Females should never compete against males, at any age, in any sport, if fairness of competition is an objective, if not safety.
Strong, powerful, beautiful Women!! So inspiring.
And I wrote that before Sasha tied it back to identity and self image for women, which made it all even more profound...