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
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?