female legstrength

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  • tomcornhole
    tomcornhole Posts: 1,084 Member
    Those girls didn't look that strong to me anyway, more ordinary-looking, but I think one of them is involved in gymnastics.

    Leg extensions is also a machine that I'm often surprised at the amount of weights many of these girls are lifiting.

    What were they supposed to look like? There is a common misconception that women who strength train are huge.

    This chick deadlifts 315lbs. I'm guessing in a tshirt you would think she didn't look that strong either.
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    I have serious doubts that "this chick" deadlifts 315lbs. Is she an olympic athelete? The world record in the 133lb weight class is 344lbs (data from WPF).

    She's 142 lbs in the pic on the right. And if 315 lbs is her 1RP, then she may be deadlifting 255 lbs x 8 or 270x5 and then tracking her 1RM data (which is not a bad way to track strength if you change reps between workouts). Can't deny she looks good at 131 and GREAT at 142. Me like.
  • holothuroidea
    holothuroidea Posts: 772 Member
    I don't doubt that small women are capable of lifting heavy weights (I plan on being one of them some day), but if you're talking about a woman of that size deadlifting 300+lbs, you're now talking about elite and competitive athletes, not the average person walking into the average gym. And to make a claim that this random woman who has selfies on the internet can preform at that level, yeah it's kind of hard to believe.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    no one claimed she was average, and she's only random to you.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    I don't doubt that small women are capable of lifting heavy weights (I plan on being one of them some day), but if you're talking about a woman of that size deadlifting 300+lbs, you're now talking about elite and competitive athletes, not the average person walking into the average gym. And to make a claim that this random woman who has selfies on the internet can preform at that level, yeah it's kind of hard to believe.

    She also is active on those forums, twitter and does meet ups, but yeah, I get your point. Honestly my point was based on the fact that the OP said the girls didn't look strong. I could have used a dozen other examples, like Dav has done. I chose her because it was quick and easy, she was quite talked about on these forums for awhile, not her actual number.
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
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  • mmddwechanged
    mmddwechanged Posts: 1,687 Member
    Women typically have very strong quads. It has something to do with how our pelvis is tilted and weight is distributed. I think I read that somewhere. I could just be making it up.

    It's great though. It's fun to get on the leg extension or press after some big burly guy has been on there and have to pile on more weight.
    Yeah I just read in NROLFW that women tend to have an imbalance , quads are stronger than their hamstrings and that quad dominance gets worse as they get older whereas men build more hamstring strength so they were more in proportion as they got older. I may have skimmed a bit but I think that that was the extent of the detail. (WTF!) The author was trying to state how important it is to exercise hamstrings, back muscles etc.

    But on a different note, maybe there are so many women squatting heavy weights because this is not so uncommon as everyone seems to think!!! Maybe it not so "new" either! Maybe there will always be people out there with different opinions about what they want to do with their bodies!! I've gad women friends with amazing muscles for decades.


    Ok, I'm a bit off topic and don't mean to rant, I just get a little sick of always taking about women and men separately. I'd like to hear about just weight lifting some of the time and not weightlifting as it applies to a particular gender.
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    If a girl at my gym was lifting more than me, I would be highly impressed, not emasculated. I would likely watch her lifts, compliment her, and try to strike up a conversation afterwards to get her story and training method.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    If a girl at my gym was lifting more than me, I would be highly impressed, not emasculated. I would likely watch her lifts, compliment her, and try to strike up a conversation afterwards to get her story and training method.

    I've never run into a woman that had stronger legs than me, but I've known some legit strong women. There was this one girl that could press quite a bit of weight and *thought* she had me beat. She finished her last set while I was waiting for the machine and she was like "don't worry, I'll take these plates off for you". Plates off?!?!? Back back. That's my warm up weight. Admittedly, for most of the guys at that gym she would have had to to help them take plates off.

    But for me? How dare you
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    If a girl at my gym was lifting more than me, I would be highly impressed, not emasculated. I would likely watch her lifts, compliment her, and try to strike up a conversation afterwards to get her story and training method.

    I've never run into a woman that had stronger legs than me, but I've known some legit strong women. There was this one girl that could press quite a bit of weight and *thought* she had me beat. She finished her last set while I was waiting for the machine and she was like "don't worry, I'll take these plates off for you". Plates off?!?!? Back back. That's my warm up weight. Admittedly, for most of the guys at that gym should have had to to help them take plates off.

    But for me? How dare you

    And then he woke up.



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  • It's not really a big thing to me. I love girls and I love the fact that more girls today are working out with heavy weights. I accept the fact the strength gap between the sexes probably is less than before. I was just a bit surprised that the legstrength of most girls I know SURPASS my own. But maybe this is not so strange, and just a result of my stereotypical thinking?

    I thinka lot of this probably has to do with my girlfriend, who is a bit of a tease about the difference in leg-strength when we work out togheter, She often challenges me to try to lift as much as her in the legpress or leg extensions machine, but she knows I can't. I think she really enjoys that fact. I love her and I'm impressed by her strength, but to tell you the truth, it's also a little bit of a turn-on :)

    So yes, Fithealthyfore, it's possible to simultaneously entertain dissonant thoughts ;)
  • Seekerman
    Seekerman Posts: 58 Member
    There are many men in the gym who just work on upper body and do very little for legs. They got huge arms and chests and are very strong from the rib cage and up. Everything below is not necessarily weak but just weak in proportion or not well balance. I am guilty of this but I don't worry about it too much. On the other hand there are many woman that focus on legs so they have strong legs but tiny weak upper bodies. I have seen a fair number of woman like this but they look great. Great legs and butt and feminine arms and shoulders. They can't bench a quarter of what I can but many can squat, leg press, lunge a significant amount more then I can. It comes down to training habits.
  • I'm glad that collegedude shared his experiences. They confirm my own belief that women's legs are much stronger than the average man's. For example it's not uncommon for me to double the weight after a guy on a legpress. I think it is only fair that we aknowledge women's superiority in the lower body, just as we do with upper body for men.
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  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    I don't doubt that small women are capable of lifting heavy weights (I plan on being one of them some day), but if you're talking about a woman of that size deadlifting 300+lbs, you're now talking about elite and competitive athletes, not the average person walking into the average gym. And to make a claim that this random woman who has selfies on the internet can preform at that level, yeah it's kind of hard to believe.

    Girl smaller than me pulled 315 at her meet- I know her in real life.
    shorter lifters have great leverage and have to do less work- Stacy absolutely CAN lift that much. You have no idea what the body is capable of outside of prefixed imagines.

    I rarely see any women even try to use "heavy" weights for anything so you must train in a great gym. I once saw a tall, muscular, Amazonian looking woman Squat 225 lbs deeeeeep for about 5 reps and she was definitely on steroids and weighed about 180 at least. Leg press is a bit different. If you use a limited range of motion you can pile on a lot of weight and that will impress some naive people but those of us who know what's going on, aren't impressed. I'd like to see those girls leg pressing the weight and bringing their knees way back to their shoulders. I guarantee they'd have to drop the weight. Reality's one tough customer.

    I'm 5'8" and 170- I just dropped 10 lbs from the peak of my bulk.

    I can squat a solid 215 at the end of my workout for reps... and DL 285 haven' t 1rmp in awhile- and I'm unquestionably NOT on steroids.

    225 is a joke for any woman who trains seriously.
    This whole story is non-sense. Women that can lift a lot of weight don't go around 'taunting' men about it, even their boyfriends
    are you kidding me?

    I would absolutely rib on my bf if I could get him to set foot in the gym. I unquestionably currently can out lift him.
  • Hazelnut79
    Hazelnut79 Posts: 27 Member
    I have serious doubts that "this chick" deadlifts 315lbs. Is she an olympic athelete? The world record in the 133lb weight class is 344lbs (data from WPF).

    Here's a video of her deadlifting 380 lbs at 150 lb bodyweight:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZdsRlH2bxQ
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  • holothuroidea
    holothuroidea Posts: 772 Member
    Hey, blast from the past. I still stand by the point I tried to make a year ago.

    Listen, if you are going to put up a picture of a girl's selfies and call her "this chick," and then tell me she's 135lbs lifting 315lbs.. yes I am going to have serious doubts. Extraordinary claims require at least SOME evidence.

    There are people in that weight class who lift that much, and she is one of them. But at that point you are talking about elite athletes, not "this chick" in some internet selfies. Give her a name and tell me where she competes, yeah, that's believable, but it defies logic to talk about that level of athleticism without some modicum of recognition of their outstanding achievement.

    This is a thread talking about average women working out at local gyms, not elite athletes, and that post was really out of place. STILL out of place a year later. lol
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Hey, blast from the past. I still stand by the point I tried to make a year ago.

    Listen, if you are going to put up a picture of a girl's selfies and call her "this chick," and then tell me she's 135lbs lifting 315lbs.. yes I am going to have serious doubts. Extraordinary claims require at least SOME evidence.

    There are people in that weight class who lift that much, and she is one of them. But at that point you are talking about elite athletes, not "this chick" in some internet selfies. Give her a name and tell me where she competes, yeah, that's believable, but it defies logic to talk about that level of athleticism without some modicum of recognition of their outstanding achievement.

    This is a thread talking about average women working out at local gyms, not elite athletes, and that post was really out of place. STILL out of place a year later. lol

    "this chick" was said tongue in cheek. I did come back (when this post was new) and post the link to the post about her, that includes her name, stats and other info. As I said, she is quite well known around this board, but I agree I should have included it in my original post with the pic (as noted, I was loopy on cold medication at that time).
    How is she elite? She started out as an average woman, just like the rest of us. She may be pulling big numbers now but she started out totally average. She was the average woman at the gym. My point was that she may not look powerful, but she is, which is pretty much what the OP was about.

    ETA -
    My bad, looks like she is close to "elite" in the followup article (that wasn't posted when this topic originally was). Her PR's have also gone up as well.
    "Right now my immediate goal is to get an elite total at my next powerlifting meet, which depending on the federation I’m either there already or close enough that I’m confident I can do it. I’m also studying to get my CSCS and learning basic swimming strokes. "


    http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2013/09/26/an-update-with-staci-our-powerlifting-superhero-plus-academy-scholarships/

    She still started out as an average woman. An even as elite (technically not yet, but I'll give her that), she still wouldn't look that powerful in regular clothes which makes my point of posting her even more relevant.

    OP said "Those girls didn't look that strong to me anyway, more ordinary-looking, but I think one of them is involved in gymnastics. "
  • 12by311
    12by311 Posts: 1,716 Member
    That was cool, but somehow I just don't find deadlifts to be very impressive.

    Do you?
  • corgarian
    corgarian Posts: 366 Member
    This makes me proud of the ladies. I mean shoot I can easily press 50lbs more than my 6'1 boyfriend (and i always rub it in lol), but yeah he can bench more than me. OP shouldnt be too embarassed.
  • PJPrimrose
    PJPrimrose Posts: 916 Member
    My legs are stronger than most guys. My upper body is weaker than most guys.

    These girls are really strong! I'm so glad they got that way naturally. There are 3 women at my gym that are older like I am. They spray tan (meh), bleach the hair (fried it's awful), and look like they use roids. Women that don't "juice" skip the man face (roiding changes your facial structure), the deep,weird voice and don't get the "lumpy" muscle look. The power lifting girls pictured here look almost smooth, like gymnasts, if that makes any sense. I wish all women had the confidence and discipline to train hard and lift heavy without turning to steroids.
  • JTick
    JTick Posts: 2,131 Member
    What about Sara on here? She's tiny, and lifts a ridiculous amount of weight. She's amazing. :love:
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    What about Sara on here? She's tiny, and lifts a ridiculous amount of weight. She's amazing. :love:

    I was just thinking the same thing. I originally responded to this post last year and didn't know Sara then. She is a perfect example for this.
  • jwdieter
    jwdieter Posts: 2,582 Member
    A lot of men don't train legs. Males have massively higher upside across the board.

    Squat (without wraps)
    Class Lift Lifter Country Year Fed
    123 639 Andrzej Stanaszek Poland 05/09/02 EPF
    132 551 Mike Booker USA 2002 AAU
    148 556 Mike Kuhns USA 2006 ADAU
    165 606 Vashon Perryman USA 02/24/13 RUPC
    181 672 Vladislav Lukanin Russia 10/21/12 WPC
    198 700 Jesse Norris USA 01/05/13 USAPL

    Squat (no wraps)
    Class Lift Name Year Fed Country
    97 231 Naomi Kutin 11/10/13 %100 USA
    105 319 Wei-Ling Chen 06/12/12 IPF TPE
    114 325 Jenn Rotsinger 02/08/14 RUPC USA
    123 308 Suzie Hartwig-Gary 03/04/11 IPF USA
    132 391 Inna Filimonova 06/04/13 IPF Russia
    148 450 Rheta West 10/06/12 IPA USA
    165 440 Taylar Stallings 11/12/11 PRPA USA
    181 473 Jill Brown- Mills 1998 APF USA
    198 468 Tatyana Merezhko 06/15/13 BWPC Russia
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    I rarely see any women even try to use "heavy" weights for anything so you must train in a great gym. I once saw a tall, muscular, Amazonian looking woman Squat 225 lbs deeeeeep for about 5 reps and she was definitely on steroids and weighed about 180 at least. Leg press is a bit different. If you use a limited range of motion you can pile on a lot of weight and that will impress some naive people but those of us who know what's going on, aren't impressed. I'd like to see those girls leg pressing the weight and bringing their knees way back to their shoulders. I guarantee they'd have to drop the weight. Reality's one tough customer.
    Lol. 114lb lady checkin 2plate x10. My PR is 265lbs for 2 (and a half) reps.

    REally now...I squat 200 5x5 and I am 156lbs...and I am not on steroids...I doubt she was either...and lots of women here can squat 200+ and some 300+

    Not sure what gym you go to but you need to broaden horizans and widen your mind...

    But to the OP...sorry couldn't resist

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  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Those girls didn't look that strong to me anyway, more ordinary-looking, but I think one of them is involved in gymnastics.

    Leg extensions is also a machine that I'm often surprised at the amount of weights many of these girls are lifiting.

    What were they supposed to look like? There is a common misconception that women who strength train are huge.

    This chick deadlifts 315lbs. I'm guessing in a tshirt you would think she didn't look that strong either.
    6a452cbe-e936-4b72-8755-b025dfba706d_zps9880fddc.jpg

    EDIT - resizing

    I have serious doubts that "this chick" deadlifts 315lbs. Is she an olympic athelete? The world record in the 133lb weight class is 344lbs (data from WPF).

    Really now..there are women here who DL more than that and they are about her size...Sarauk2sf being one of them...
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Hey, blast from the past. I still stand by the point I tried to make a year ago.

    Listen, if you are going to put up a picture of a girl's selfies and call her "this chick," and then tell me she's 135lbs lifting 315lbs.. yes I am going to have serious doubts. Extraordinary claims require at least SOME evidence.

    There are people in that weight class who lift that much, and she is one of them. But at that point you are talking about elite athletes, not "this chick" in some internet selfies. Give her a name and tell me where she competes, yeah, that's believable, but it defies logic to talk about that level of athleticism without some modicum of recognition of their outstanding achievement.

    This is a thread talking about average women working out at local gyms, not elite athletes, and that post was really out of place. STILL out of place a year later. lol

    I am an average woman working out and I can currently squat 5x5 @ 200lbs and Deadlift 225lbs...average woman can lift heavy weights and I have friends on here squatting 300+....average women...
  • msbeeblebrox
    msbeeblebrox Posts: 133 Member
    Seriously??? I really hope your sarcasm font is busted, because I'm 5'6" and weight 195# and I could squat 175# *kitten* to grass maybe the second time I ever put a bar on my back.

    I just wanted to say that's pretty impressive.
  • Strokingdiction
    Strokingdiction Posts: 1,164 Member
    Those girls didn't look that strong to me anyway, more ordinary-looking, but I think one of them is involved in gymnastics.

    Leg extensions is also a machine that I'm often surprised at the amount of weights many of these girls are lifiting.

    What were they supposed to look like? There is a common misconception that women who strength train are huge.

    This chick deadlifts 315lbs. I'm guessing in a tshirt you would think she didn't look that strong either.
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    EDIT - resizing

    She has the pelvic V. That's impressive.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Those girls didn't look that strong to me anyway, more ordinary-looking, but I think one of them is involved in gymnastics.

    Leg extensions is also a machine that I'm often surprised at the amount of weights many of these girls are lifiting.

    What were they supposed to look like? There is a common misconception that women who strength train are huge.

    This chick deadlifts 315lbs. I'm guessing in a tshirt you would think she didn't look that strong either.
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    EDIT - resizing

    She has the pelvic V. That's impressive.

    kind of.

    some people it pops more easily than others- I can get a high 2-4 pack- and still have substantial "low" belly and have the sex muscles.

    But Staci is fab. and her abs are fab.

    she's just ... fantastic- really a sweet heart too.

    And she's is a regular person- the only reason she competes at a high level is because she trains for it- nothing is stopping anybody from doing the same thing if the drive is there.

    Being an "elite athlete" isn't some magic pill that makes you lift more or be in better shape or have a lower body fat- she still works her *kitten* for for those numbers.

    Don't belittle HER accomplishments because you aren't willing to work hard for yours.
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