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[QUOTE=SiuiS;14846881But by dividing them into weight class, you solve this.[/QUOTE]
Usually...unless you're like me, I'm really heavy for my size. I haven't been able to go at all this semester due to timing, but I started taekwondo last semester. I look up weight classes after they paired me with two guys thirty and fifty pounds lighter (around fourteen and twenty-three kilos) during sparring (they were the next biggest guys in the beginner group). Turns out that I'm naturally in the top weight class, even with my out-of-shape muscle mass. Which means if I managed to get back into it and ended up competing eventually, I could end up going against guys my size, or 6'8" 300-pound giants.
Basically I just think they could use a few more weight classes added on top, 82kg isn't that big, plenty of people will be more than that.Jude P.
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2013-03-07, 08:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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The thing is, while a female Olympic weightlifter (not bodybuilder, they're two different things) is going to be stronger than a male office worker (and I don't know anyone who'd actually argue otherwise), she's not going to be as strong as a male Olympic weightlifter, even in the same weight class.
Were Fox not in the process of undergoing HRT, the difference would be pretty significant, probably in the range of 20-40%. As it is, the difference could be essentially entirely done away with, but it's vital that the organizations involved are kept in the loop.
Also, as a side note, MMA doesn't have strength classes, only weight.
"Evaporates" is an extremely imprecise term. The wording used in the paper is "When strength was expressed per kilogram of MM, these gender differences were smaller and/or not present." No exact figures are given (in the abstract, and I don't have access to the full text), but keep in mind we're talking a smaller difference than the absolute, which has the men literally twice as strong as the women. That's a very large margin to have reduced but still significant differences.
The problem with athletes is they are usually top-end, so the cream of te crop will have much more obvious differences. But by dividing them into weight class, you solve this. A female in a certain set of parameters sits in the same bracket as a male – in those parameters. If you've got 30kg muscle mass, you're going to be on even footing with someone else who has 30kg muscle mass, if you remove size.
Being in a specific weight class means Fox is competing against women with the same current hormone level and same muscle mass capacity as herself.
No, and in fact there haven't been any (openly) trans athletes that have made it into the Olympics proper, and only two that have attempted to qualify, that I know of. One, Keelin Godsey, didn't actually interact with the rules regarding trans athletes, as he competed as a female and hadn't medically transitioned.The following errors occurred with your search:
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2013-03-07, 10:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-03-07, 10:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Lix, you need a cat. Having a cat will teach you that their problems (e.g., food) are much more important than your own.
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2013-03-07, 10:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-03-07, 11:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Weight class, luv. Weight class. If you're four feet tall, four feet wide, your weight class is still... Based on weight. Most institutions work based on scale, and wrestlers and football players often gorge and purge as needed for the appropriate weight class. If you were paired base on height it may have been informal, or it may have been a different institution altogether.
Muscle is denser than fat, so at any given weight range you have an idea of what minimum and maximum amount of that weight is muscle. Of you're so tall, and weigh 140kg, then there's a ratio of fat and muscle and those who are maximum muscle are those who probably prepared the best, but it's weird that a man with 4% body fat is fine for his weight class along with a bigger chubbier fella, but a chick who needs hormones is cheating.
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That is neither relevant nor in dispute.
Look, I get the gist. Using 2e model, lowest strength male or female is 3. Highest is 17 female, 18/00 male. That doesn't change that 60-70% are at 12.
I am also fairly certain that men's weight class and women's weight class are different. I'm feather in one and welter in the other. We would use an arbitrary but identical scale across the board in this case. I was specifically comparing kilograms of muscle. Sure, we need to compare other things too, such as muscle type and use, but we aren't getting to that point of granularity. What we are really discussing is that there is no difference between chixxor muskles and dood muskles, and that anti androgens and estrogens(?) won't make your dood muskles if you have any into chixxor muskles.
Were Fox not in the process of undergoing HRT, the difference would be pretty significant, probably in the range of 20-40%. As it is, the difference could be essentially entirely done away with, but it's vital that the organizations involved are kept in the loop.
"Evaporates" is an extremely imprecise term.
Technicalities are for nerds.
The wording used in the paper is "When strength was expressed per kilogram of MM, these gender differences were smaller and/or not present." No exact figures are given (in the abstract, and I don't have access to the full text), but keep in mind we're talking a smaller difference than the absolute, which has the men literally twice as strong as the women. That's a very large margin to have reduced but still significant differences.
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Nah, not really. In all fairness, I am my household's alpha cat, though, so perhaps the household is still ruled by cat problems?
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I find that funny, considering I'm the person who constantly suggested lethal use of knitting needles as an universal problem-solving tool this week, up to the point of single-handedly turning it into a running joke, then into a beat-up dead horse. And it appears I'm not done beating it, too.
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I believe Tim Curry has something to say about that...
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2013-03-07, 04:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Some already have thumbs. Polydactyl cats. They just haven't figured out how to use them yet.
They're evolving.Last edited by Thajocoth; 2013-03-07 at 04:02 PM.
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2013-03-07, 04:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Given my calculations, the hidden knowledge of the Bast cults, the secret reasons behind the medieval fear of cats and the adorableness of meows, I would say the deities of this world are already cats. They have already won. We have already won.
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In all seriousness, sad to hear that. I would suggest another kind of pet or a hairless cat (depending on the type of allergy), but it is silly to assume that has not been considered. Do hope that someone or somebeing can be around to be a dose of cheer in your day soon, however. Otherwise, I shall have to swim and glomp you all the way across the strait!
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2013-03-07, 04:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-03-07, 04:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-03-07, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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No, I know all that. What I meant is, I'm short for my weight class. So most guys I'd end up against would likely have a big advantage in reach. Also, as I'm in the top weight class in several of the scales, there's no upper limit (besides human physiology) to what they might pair me with.
For reference, I'm 5'9"/175cm and 80 kilos/176 pounds (on average). (So 50th percentile for height, and 90th for weight for my age as of my last physical.) Used to be heavier, like 82-84 kilos, when I had access to a rock wall and was climbing regularly, but now I'm just biking ten to twelve miles a day.
Sorry, must have been subconsciously supporting that through the hivemind, as it usually sounds like the best plan to me.
Weird, I keep my milk in the freezer next to the vegetables and ice cream.Jude P.
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I once noticed that the fridge wasn't working right because the milk was about a degree warmer than it should have been. Unfortunately, no one listens to the kid who says "The milk is _definitely_ marginally warmer today!" so the impending fridge catastrophe was not averted. #CassandraLives
The thing is, I really like cold cold cold milk.
Although I recently discovered babyccinos, where instead of a coffee (which I don't drink) or a tea (which they _never_ put frothy milk or marshmallows in) or a hot chocolate (which I find far too rich), they make a little cup of warm milk with frothy milk on top and marshmallows and cocoa powder and it's nominally for kids but I LOVE THEM!! And in Costa they also do ones with some cocoa powder mixed in which is like a really light hot chocolate, and they're only 75c as opposed to like 4 euro for a hot chocolate. Score!
I recently switched to skim milk and it's great. I found that milk agitated my IBS symptoms, but like Thajocoth, I drink a _lot_ of milk. I cut down, but I was no way able to cut milk out; I usually drink it with dinner, I always drink it with chocolate, I love cereal, I have very milky tea. But I switched to skim because often it's the fat in milk that people find hard to digest, and it's been great! And less fat is generally good, since I tend towards a high-fat diet. So wins all around for Kender!
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I drink 1%.
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You do grappling though, right? Shorter limbs and denser muscle work better there.
But the point isn't to make things 100% even, because that's impossibly granular. It to minimize the really bad, obvious disparities.
For reference, I'm 5'9"/175cm and 80 kilos/176 pounds (on average). (So 50th percentile for height, and 90th for weight for my age as of my last physical.) Used to be heavier, like 82-84 kilos, when I had access to a rock wall and was climbing regularly, but now I'm just biking ten to twelve miles a day.
Yeah. I lived on milk for a while, but now I'm working overnight it's harder.
from recollection, milk fat is easier to digest, and has more useable nutritional value than just dumpy ol' fat. I think some of the vitamins are in it actually, but this is all like, 100% from vague memory.
Really though, it's a matter of satisfaction. A glass of milk is more physically satisfying than a meal's worth of stuff that my body doesn't want. That's why I still eat cheeseburgers and stuff, it's like buying a good book. a small jdulgence that keeps me sated for a while, a week or two.
Of course I also lived off of coffee and spite, and whole milk was the only thing vaguely resembled food in there. I'm probably going to develop an allergy in te next decade.