25 August, 2017
But a new study shows that women are far more superior when it comes to muscle endurance during workouts.
Quite simply, the study found that the overwhelming bragging rights went to the females - but Dalton says his research isn't simply a cheap shot fired in the battle of the sexes. Apparently they exhausted out faster than the ladies, which makes sense, since women tend to feel less exhausted than men after endurance activities.
According to the study's author Brian Dalton, who is an assistant professor at University of British Columbia Okanagan's School of Health and Exercise Sciences, the findings suggest "women can outlast men by a wide margin".
Look at any competitive endurance event - be it marathon running, swimming the English Channel or cycling the Tour de France - and you'll see that the blokes are nearly always faster than women.
Women were once thought to be too weak to be allowed to compete in marathons. Her name was Kathrine Switzer and she was disguised as a man.
Australian Jess Trengrove leads the Women's Marathon at the Commonwealth Games in 2014.
Previous year the American cyclist Lael Wilcox became the first woman to win the Trans Am, a 4300- mile race from OR to Virginia, which took her just over 18 days.
He tested the theory out by asking study participants to do calf raises and discovered a dramatic gender advantage - for the women.
Sure, men can pull more weight than their female counterparts. It really doesn't matter if we're talking about hours, days, weeks or months because women actually have an incredible inner power that somehow transfers to the rest of the body, a thing that is not that common at men around the world.
The subjects were asked to flex one foot against sensors as quickly as they could 200 times while researchers recorded their muscle activity and speed, power and torque of their movements.
The researchers also said that women muscle endurance deserves further exploration and that all of this isn't a race.
'So even though they can't hit the same maximum capacity for strength or power, they are able to perform a task much longer'.
