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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
Women cannot beat men at golf....
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In Exercise Physiology, we were taught that the absence of testosterone in the blood makes female muscle tissue less durable (i.e. more prone to injury), slower, and less strong than male muscle tissue. It’s one of the reasons that the female athlete experiences sports injuries at four times the rate that their male counterparts do. This can be seen across the spectrum of athletic performance.
The U.S. Women’s National Soccer team plays to about the level of a good high school varsity boys team. In 1995 and 1996, the team was closer to its prime (easily in the top three women’s teams in the world) and played a California boys under-16 club team (Nomads of La Jolla; they were nationally ranked at the time), and lost both times narrowly 1-0. The Women players loved it, saying that they got a challenge in the physical dimension of the game that they could not get elsewhere (i.e. against other women’s teams; IIRC it was Jill Akers-Stahl that said that). Coach Tony DiCicco remarked at the time that people were constantly telling him that he should train the team against college men’s teams. He said that this wasn’t possible, and that people didn’t understand what would happen if they tried. This is one of the dirty little secrets of women’s soccer.
My Ex Phys prof also said that he caught hell for teaching the facts of the differences between the male and female athlete, but that we owe it to the athletes under our responsibility to tell the truth and suffer the consequences. Beyond differences in construction of the female knee (not made to support lateral movement) and arm/shoulder (we guys can’t pitch underhand quite the way women do), training regimens must be composed differently for the two sexes. The female athlete requires smaller increments of increase. This is a big deal, and is widely ignored.
OTOH, nothing can match the vicious, destructive qualities of some of the women where I work. But for them to be effective in combat, they would have to be fighting for the other side.
