When I was a kid and didn’t know anything about any celebrities other than what I saw on TV or heard on the radio, I used to enjoy some stand-up by Seinfeld.
Yeah pushing the stone is not an issue since you do it with your legs. Your hands don’t really do much apart from giving the stone a bit of spin if you need it.
Nah an average man would suck ass at curling. Believe me I have a girl friend who does curling semi professionally and invited us to come try a couple times. It’s way harder than it looks and if you never tried it before you will not get a single stone inside the circle. The amount of control needed for that is not something an average person has.
I think they mean relative to a woman, so basically anything where strength is a major factor. I think they specified decathlon athlete for women so they’d be on more equal footing.
Testosterone is a hell of a drug. For example, my wife is friends with a female powerlifter. While I do work out, it’s not really with any sort of consistency and I never focus on raw strength. Her second place winning squat max was my 12RM.
Lol I don’t think you can compare a local powerlifting comp with the Olympics. For reference, the current record for the women’s 49kg weight class clean and jerk is 117kg. The average American man is ~90kg, which would put them in the 87kg+ weight class, where the womens record for the snatch is 140kg. I think you’d be hard pressed to find an average Joe who could snatch his bodyweight, let alone ~1.5x .
I’d lean toward two people being featured. An average Joe male and a decathlete female or some such. There are some events that even an average man would crush
What events do you reckon an average Joe would crush? I’m struggling to think of one.
Mental gymnastics of course.
curling is the only thing i can think of. Maybe a luge but thats just because the extra weight gives him an advantage.
I think being a decathlete is a bigger advantage because they have a better intuitive feeling of physics.
When I was a kid and didn’t know anything about any celebrities other than what I saw on TV or heard on the radio, I used to enjoy some stand-up by Seinfeld.
One joke I once enjoyed from him is that the luge is the only Olympic sport one might engage in involuntarily.
Yeah pushing the stone is not an issue since you do it with your legs. Your hands don’t really do much apart from giving the stone a bit of spin if you need it.
Nah an average man would suck ass at curling. Believe me I have a girl friend who does curling semi professionally and invited us to come try a couple times. It’s way harder than it looks and if you never tried it before you will not get a single stone inside the circle. The amount of control needed for that is not something an average person has.
Inertia is a loooong process, you’re right that’s why dudes just fire 100 mph pucks at each other
Shout out to the US women’s hockey team though, they’re crushing it
Mental gymnastics of course.
I think they mean relative to a woman, so basically anything where strength is a major factor. I think they specified decathlon athlete for women so they’d be on more equal footing.
Testosterone is a hell of a drug. For example, my wife is friends with a female powerlifter. While I do work out, it’s not really with any sort of consistency and I never focus on raw strength. Her second place winning squat max was my 12RM.
Lol I don’t think you can compare a local powerlifting comp with the Olympics. For reference, the current record for the women’s 49kg weight class clean and jerk is 117kg. The average American man is ~90kg, which would put them in the 87kg+ weight class, where the womens record for the snatch is 140kg. I think you’d be hard pressed to find an average Joe who could snatch his bodyweight, let alone ~1.5x .
I’m not. I’m comparing local power lifting to the average man. We’re strictly talking about non-olympians.
This is what I was talking about?