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Women should practice less explosive exercises

Top 5 in Top 9 reasons why women should practice other men.

by Nguyễn tiến thành 08-05-2020

Women's resistance to weight training disappears when weight training is close to 1RM. Although a woman's muscles have a lot of endurance, it doesn't have as much strength as men.
Men's muscles are more explosive, they can release faster. In fact, the motor cortex in men is larger. In intense explosive exercises such as powerlifting, men can perform more reps than women.
The more effective cortex motor is the reason men play better explosive sports. However, this difference becomes small when practicing professionally.
One study compared strength and explosive strength in 840 professional athletes, both male and female, in 31 different disciplines. The results showed that, compared to body weight, women are as strong as men and only a few percent less explosive.
Women have the same potential to build muscles and strength as men. Due to socio-cultural factors we do not see many women participating in professional sports.
Men are only stronger at explosive movements, not stronger than negative or isometric movements, even at high intensity.
So it is not right to say that women can never do heavy exercises. Which women should practice according to their strengths. If only the explosive exercise is done, women cannot do as many volumes as men.
Women also recover less after explosive exercises like athletics. Contrary to women's higher resilience, high-volume track and field work can take 72 hours to recover. This leads to less adaptability to explosive exercises in women.

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