Why are Guys Stronger Than Girls?

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you say that if a girl works out and a guy sits on the couch yea she is going to be stronger.. but it is scientifically proven that if the girl and the guy had the same eating habits and worked out the same amount of time… the guy would be naturally stronger that is just the way it is. girls are born with more fat and less muscle mass than guys it is a fact because they need the fat to give birth. i think you need to know all the facts.
-a very opinionated girl

Yeah, I think that you’re right to some extent. True, most girls don’t exercize because the society is really dumb and expect girls to be weak. But naturally, guys bodies are stronger in general. You know, if a guy and a girl have the same amount of work out, the guy still will be stronger. Oh…and I hope you’re only refering to the general girls, because I am a girl, I take Martial Arts, I want to be powerful, I’ll exercize to lose weight (but mostly to get stronger), and I would never stop eating for anything. So I guess this is adressing to the ‘regular’ girl? Remember…where there’s a society, a generalization, and ‘normal’ group…there’s always an outcast. Not all girls are like that. Girls that want to be skinny and fast, never exercize, and want to be weak don’t deserve any recognition.

…Okay. that’s it.

Obviously a girl who exercises more than a lazy guy who sits around all day will be in better physical form, but most likely not stronger. I’m sorry but there are biological facts that cannot be changed, girls and women have the technology and sometimes can beat up guys totally on their own, but guys are still stronger because that’s how it is, it does not have to with society, like guys aren’t stronger than girls because society encourages them to be stronger (every society in the world guys are stronger) it’s a biological fact that we’re physically stronger. Like all humans have permanent biological attributes like eyes and ears and hands not because society gave us those physical features but because it’s a biological permanency that we have those features, it has nothing to do with society just like the fact that guys have more muscles as a biological feature. We have no advantage and women and girls have no disadvantage, girls and women have biological features that guys do not and will never have, it’s as simple as that.

It’s funny how hard-coded our society is in all of us. I fully agree that a large part of the strength and muscular differences are societal, and no there are no scientific studies that prove that this isn’t true, simply because they have all been done in societies where girls are treated far differently from boys from the onset.

If we treated all girls and boys the EXACT same way in all regards for their entire lives then only the hormonal differences would cause a difference in strength, and I think this difference would be less than anyone thinks because of the picture societies have painted for the entirety of their lives.

The real fact of the matter is that we don’t know how much different they would be in a society where there are no gender roles and everyone is treated equally without any notice of their sex, and this type of society may never exist.

I do think most of the comments on this are sexist viewpoints, but they are also extremely understandible based on how biased everything in most human societies is.

yah i feel safe when a guy is strong especially a boyfriend then im protected. since guys are strong they can pick us up and carry us and its fun and its fun to play fight because they laugh at us and joke around and let us win to feel good girls will never be as strong or even close to being as strong as guys just because we dont have certain hormones and were not born like that so we should just have fun with being a girl. although some guys are scary the ones that actually mean to abuse girls with their strength but a lot of guys arent like that

Up to about age 12, the average strength of boys and girls is about equal. By age 13, the boys start pulling ahead, on average.

Equally important is that there is a tremendous strength range for both boys and girls. Up to 12, a strong girl is as strong as a strong boy, and stronger than most boys. By age 16, even the strongest girls struggle to match the weaker than average boys.

Girls can bridge this strength gap. A teenage girl who does strength training can more than double her strength, and that can make her stronger than those couch potato boys.

Well, in generaly the guys are stronger, But not always .
actually i work as personal trainer at fitness clup and i have tained guys who are being so fat they cant pick the wehght up as
fit girl or eather skinny.
ithink dependes how has got museles and power .

2 words HORMONES and chromasomes. I know my spelling is off, but you get the point. come on people this is pretty basic knowledge dudes got more testosterone

Iv been on steroids many times. TRUST me its hormones. you go inject some testosterone and lets see if you dont get alot stronger!!! they do make a BIG diffrence

Your totally right. It only depends on society, motivation and interest that results in a girl’s strength. I’m so sick of all this discrimination and prejudice when your strength clearly depends on will power. So whenever people say something that discriminates us girls, I prove them wrong and knock some sense into their head by beating them at a game(along with my friends) like soccer, basketball etc.Since obviously a guy loosing to a girl(as most prejudiced people see it)is shameful to them, the only excuse to hide their shame is to agree.I wish more chicks will start believing in themselves rather than listening to what other people say.I strongly believe that both genders are equally gifted it’s in you to bring it out.

you’re a sexist bastard and everything ur saying doesn’t make any sense.

Joseph, you make a good point. There is a recent study that compared strength of athlete and non-athlete girls and boys. It found that boy athletes were the strongest and girl non-athletes were the weakest, just like most people expect. It also found that girl athletes were, on average, as strong as boy non-athletes. So conditioning is as important as hormones in determining who is stronger. Girls who get into good shape are not the weaker sex compared to couch potato boys. Its what a lot of us non-sexists knew all along.

So you think girls don’t exersize as much as boys?
That’s just plain sexist. Girls aren’t weak, dumb or anything like that. Those are just stereotypes that some people just keep believing.

Its mostly about size. Men get a lot bigger than women. I’m about as strong as the guys my size, but most men are a lot bigger than me. So, I’m quite strong strong for my size, but I’m not so strong compared to some athletic guy who outweighs me by 50 pounds — duh! But I could own some of those couch potatoes who outweigh me by 50 pounds — LOL!

This is absolute crap.
Males are stronger than females
a) because they have much higher levels of testosterone, which improves their muscle mass and strength
b) because they are, in general, bigger

Yes, a girl can become stronger than a guy through phsyical training, and I think you’ll find that many girls do actively participate in sports and exercise, it’s just generally not things like weighlifting which limits their ability to overtake males in strength.

Who ever wrote this article on google is clearly sexist. Guys are just as, if not more, lazy than girls. It may be true that guys are built with a heavier muscular and skeletal structure, but girls have, on average, a higher I.Q. and E.Q. Both were built with strengths and weaknesses it just so happens God built guys stronger and girls smarter. It’s just a fact. Also You people are all idiots. We are talking about one component here. PHYSICAL STRENGTH . In all out POWER girls have it mentally. Sure PHYSICAL STRENGTH was important, IN
3000 B.C.! Now people don’t settle things with fists. We use technology and intellect. Now there are female doctors, female generals , female police officers, just as many as guys. So any guy who has the GALL to say guys are more successful,
Check up on your history, You may be a few THOUSAND years behind. Or maybe your just too scared to see reality for what it is. WOMEN AND MEN ARE EQUAL. Fact is fact.

Girls are as strong as guys per pound of lean bodyweight. Guys are generally stronger overall only because they are bigger and leaner. Find a big, strong, lean girl athlete, and she will be as strong as a boy her size.

To “expert”.

What your saying is not making any sense at all, i have seen guys smaller than girls overpowering them when it comes to physical sports.

It is simply because a guy of the same size as girl A has thicker and fuller muscle bellies hence he is stronger l along with the fact that his bone structure is larger.

So no, girls are not stronger than guys per pound of lean body weight. You don’t even know the defination of “lean” and yet you call yourself an “expert”, lean simply means having low body fat i don’t see how that makes you stronger at all.

Guys are generally stronger than girls due to several factors and not because they are “overall larger”, hell there are women on this earth heavier and larger than people like ronnie coleman, arnold schwarzenegger and several body building champions but they could never dream of lifting even half the weight these guys bench and squat despite them being larger and heavier than them.

Your case holds absolutely no water at all.

women and men in general have different strong points.
so what? we aren’t living in caves anymore. does it really matter who is the physically stronger of the two. let me point out that SOME women are stronger than SOME men but in general men are built to do physical work more than women. that doesn’t mean women can’t do work, and it doesn’t mean that women are inferior. like i said, are we killing saber tooth tigers anymore? so being strong doesn’t really matter that much in today’s day to day life.

Dorian, don’t criticize others when you don’t know what you’re talking about. The concept of lean bodyweight is not about being lean. It means that if you look at anyone and subtract the weight of their bodyfat. Suppose someone weighs 100 pounds and 20 pounds of that is fat. Their lean bodyweight is 80 pounds.

If a girl has 100 pounds of lean bodyweight and a boy has 150 pounds of lean bodyweight, then for their strength per pound of lean bodyweight to be equal, the boy would be 1.5 times as strong as the girl. If the boy is less than that, the girl might be weaker over all, but still stronger per pound of lean bodyweight. If the boy is more than that he is stronger per pound of lean bodyweight.

Naturally guys are stronger than girls, its genetic. There are two main types of muscle fiber, slow and fast twitch. Fast twitch are for short bursts of energy and are associated with strength whereas slow twitch are for performing longer activities and are associated with endurance. Males are generally born with more fast twitch fibers making them, to a certain extent, more powerful, but more easily fatigued than females. However, there are always exceptions, and I’m sure there are a lot of girls who are very strong.

First of all, I am a girl, and I play volleyball, basketball, and soccer. I don\’t quit when I feel pain; that is one of the stereotypes I hate the most about girls. Second of all, you need to find real statistics, real studies to back up your claims. Girls hate to exercise? I love it. I find it extremely exhilarating to go on a good hard run in the morning. Thirdly, guys are stronger by genetics and testosterone. And yes, females are stronger and bigger in other species, but we\’re talking about humans and evolution. Girls don\’t just become bigger and stronger in the space of a lifetime; it take thousands of years and the need for females to become bigger and stronger for it to actually happen, even then. But the biggest problem is society\’s \’limitation\’ of what girls \’can\’ and \’cannot\’ do. It is not deemed good for women to go to war, yet they do it anyway. In the 1800\’s, women were not allowed to vote because it was thought that their opinion was not educationally based. Me, I am of the mind frame that anything a guy can do, I can do better. I am disgusted at this gender stereotype.

Jeffery Hailo, along with most of the commenters here, are uneducated idiots who probably never paid attention during biology class. The only thing wrong with society is that it’s producing people like you. gtfo morons

I am sorry to say that overall, men have much greater strength potential than women. Testosterone plays a huge part in this. Yes, there are women that lift weights and can get very strong, but for most women their hormones are going to severely limit their strength gains. Here is a fact for you: most women don’t want to lift like they need to to get strong. Even then, given a man and women of the same weight, similar proportions, if they lift hard and eat a ton of food the man will be stronger.

Too many women think that if they lift weights they will get big bulky muscles, and this is frankly ridiculous, because 99% or more of women (or some high percentage) do not have the genetics and hormones for that to happen. They can get strong and ‘toned’ (you actually get more toned by lifting heavier weights by the way) but they aren’t going to look like a female bodybuilder unless they are really dedicated to a specific diet, and perhaps drugs.

I am also sorry to say this, but all this crap about gender roles being reversed is nonsense. In our species, the male is the physically dominant gender. That is why men were out hunting, etc. and women were nurturing, etc. That is not to say that women aren’t capable of hunting but they, as a whole, aren’t as capable. I am also not saying that men are superior in intellect, just putting that out there in case anyone brings that up.

I hope people are still reading this blog. People are srong to assume it is scientifcally proven that men are physically stronger than women. This is very outdated. IN FACT, many recent studies have scientifically proven the OPPOSITE, you folks that are held in old beliefs need to check RECENT STUDIES b4 going off on “Men are stronger than women”. The original writer of this blog was correct that much of the false myth is associated with society expectations. The FACT is that with all the growth hormones and GMO’s put into todays food sources (google Monsanto, environmental estrogens from plastic bottles, water sources, hormones in beef etc) BOYS TODAY HAVE A LESS PHYSICALLY STRONG SKELETAL SYSTEM than many girls. They are breaking their bones at an alarming rate. Doctors are oblivious, thinking “they are more active, climb trees etc) which is untrue. With our food sources tainted with for profits with GENTETIC ENGINEERING there are significant “endocrine distruptors” (substances that mimic the actions of hormones, specifically female hormones) This effects girls too, (boobs earlier, periods earlier, may become obese or just bigger stronger) But for boys, it is lowering their testosterone levels, throwing their endocrine systems out of whack, making their bones (and hence muscles since everything connected) more brittle and likey to break or tear. I have ssen this hjappening firsthand as I work with children. This is not a devaluation of masculinity. IT IS A HAPPENING THING. If you want to learn more, research the subject at the library, or goggle. One ggod book addressing this issue is “Boys Adrift” by Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D. This sceintifically proven phenonomen needs to be addressed in every facet of life, including the outdated (and gender discrimination) of todays Selective Service, based on old outdated beliefs. Yes, some men are still streonger than some women…..but the same in vise versa is becoming more and more apparent. It is not a “manly thing” to be so big and strong anyhow….one of leading reasons for higher rates of male sucide (expecations of society to be physically and emotionally stronger, hence inhumane) You see men taking steroids, pumping iron, killing themselves over this unfair notion

I can’t even believe what I’m reading. Obviously, you’re some ridiculous uneducated sexist piece of crap. Ever heard of hormones? Seems like whoever wrote this apparently is probably some retarded 10 year old.

Im getting damn tired of every one saying boys are stronger than girls!!!!! U boys are sssooo wrapped up in yourselves to realize girls are just as strong as u if not stronger. Besides, men are like trainalbe little puppies. I have yet to meet a couple where the woman doesn’t have the man wrapped around her finger. With a little work, we could have all of you ” strong ” men in our control.

if girls are just as strong as boys…y cant men hit woman…i know its wrong but y is it??? all im saying is once boys hit middle school they are generall y strongerthan girls…there might be one or two exeptions but boys are stonger than girls

well allequals, women are not allowed in the front line in the army so while men are getting action women are on the sidelines, cheering for us

OK I TOTALLY agree with Sally you guys REALLY need to STOP treating girls like we aren’t as good or as strong as you guys are!

Okay, boys are stronger than girls, and that is a scientific fact that is this wonderful thing called “hormones”. As children, boys and girls are of about equal strength, but as they hit puberty, boys get progressively stronger than girls. I am a girl, and I can accept this fact. Back then, men were supposed to be the protecters, while women were the ones to care for children. Men will never give birth and women will not be stronger than women, and that’s just how it is. As for the pain thing? Well, it’s also a fact that women have a stronger pain tolerance than men do. This does not mean they are stronger than men. I think women and men are pretty equal as of I.Q. Women like to think they are smarter than men, which may to be true on certain levels but it is not a fact, and men can be smarter than women also, it really just depends on the person and how smart they want people to think they are and how much they apply themselves. Society and stereotypes are sad, as to how men and women are “supposed to be”, when we all have our differences. Nowadays, in America, people allow themselves to have different lifestyles and bad habits, simply because they can, and is why there are couch potatoes and morbidly obese people, which definetly affects people on a level of strength, which is why a woman can beat up a guy, although women typically don’t “fistfight” anyway. All of this is my opinion, and some of them are known facts, and I’m not trying to change anyone’s views; I am only stating my own. *End rant.

You’re wrong. These differences are due to differences at the chromosomal level. To put it quite bluntly, this has nothing to do with society per say. Although it may involve society to an extent, the differences are biological for the greatest part.

A lot of women think they are stronger then men. But these things are just stories for defense they say they’re better at sports which isn’t true. If you take all the world record. Men are winning at almost all of them: running, swimming, skying, jumping distances, arm wrestling, fighting, lifting weights, climbing and all the other staff. They may not beat girls at volleyball thought. Anyway you get the idea. I’m a boy and if I was a girl I would be really mad at some boys because they are acting very sexist.

“Equally important is that there is a tremendous strength range for both boys and girls. Up to 12, a strong girl is as strong as a strong boy, and stronger than most boys.”
- Wrong, girls and boys are equal at 12 and under.

“Usually females hit puberty before males. Ever notice that alot of the time 12 year old girls are stronger than 12 year old boys? It’s because during puberty, the petuitary gland excretes certain hormones that make our bodies grow, adapt, etc (you know what i mean). One of those hormones is testosterone (yes even in females), which causes muscle development. So for a brief period of time, the average girl may become stronger than the average male. ”
- At the age of 12 girls aren’t stronger than boy idiot, boys and girls are pretty much equal in strength by then. Also, girls have a very tiny amount of testosterone, just as ,male have a tiny amount of estrogen(yes even in males). So no, there is no period where the average girl is stronger.

@peeznluv, that only affects a small amount of boys you idiot. Guys still generally have a much stronger skeletal system than girls, it’s just biology.

“This effects girls too, (boobs earlier, periods earlier, may become obese or just bigger stronger)”
- Are you a retard? Estrogen doesn’t make girls obese, bigger or stronger. If anything it would make them smaller, maybe fatter, and MUCH weaker.
But for boys, it is lowering their testosterone levels, throwing their endocrine systems out of whack, making their bones (and hence muscles since everything connected) more brittle and likey to break or tear.”
- Like I said, only affects a small amount of boys. And I’m pretty sure it would do the same thing to girls.

“Yes, some men are still streonger than some women…..but the same in vise versa is becoming more and more apparent. It is not a “manly thing” to be so big and strong anyhow”
- Wrong, men are GENERALLY stronger than women still. And you think the vice versa is becoming more prevalent? Not even close! Open your eyes and look at some real studies, women are still so much weaker than men(in general). Also, it is manly to be big and strong, it’s the biological nature of male you idiot.

“one of leading reasons for higher rates of male sucide (expecations of society to be physically and emotionally stronger, hence inhumane)”
- If you actually think that that’s the reason for male suicide you’re just blind. It’s not an expectation of society, it’s the biological system of human beings. Read a book(and one that’s not only good for making a fire.

Mingtian and others, look up the term Ecological Fallacy. It is wrong to assume that just because something is true in general, that it applies to every individual. In general, girls and boys are about equal in strength until age 12, but some girls are stronger than most girls and boys their age, as are some boys. From age 12, boys generally start pulling ahead in strength. Does this mean that all boys instantly become stronger than all girls? Of course not. It does mean that with each passing year, fewer girls are as strong as the average boy. At any age you like, some females are stronger than some males, regardless of what the average statistics are.