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Men are superior to women!No matter how hard Woman tries, she probably never will equal Man when it comes tlt; reaching the finish line first or lifting the heaviest weightsHeresy? Old wives' tale’ Myth.’No, believes Dr Waneen Wyrick Spirduso, chairman ol the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at The University of TexasWe all are so concerned that women receive good athletic programs and equal treatment, that we would like to think women can compete equally with men, Dr. Spirduso said.But when you get into speed and power and strength types of activities, men on the average, are simply superior to women, the physical educator reported.Hold everything and read on, person- persons. There’s proof.For instance.Men, over all, are larger and taller and weigh more,” Dr. Spirduso pointed out. They have greater musculature and ..it’s stronger because of the male sex hormone, testosterone.Women can’t develop muscular size and hypertrophy (strength) that is equivalent to that of men because they don’t have comparable levels of the sex hormone that is responsible for that,’’ she said.Dr Spirduso explained that testosterone allows men to retain nitrogen, which is a building block for amino acids, which in turn become building blocks for muscle fiber.Men also have a greater oxygen content in their blood, since they have more hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying molecule in the blood.They have larger lungs, so they can take in more air and, therefore, take in more oxygen Men also have a greater maximum ventilation rate (breathing rate) and faster reaction times.They have larger hearts, greater stroke volume (blood expelled per stroke), greater-cardiac output (stroke volume times heart rate), faster return from exercise to resting levels, greater potential for endurance — that's not just larger because of larger body size, but larger in proportion to body size.And if that’s not enough, at submaximal work levels, females have to work much harder to produce work capacities equal to males. Still another factor to be considered is the cumulative effect of all those differences.Focusing on the theory that if our culture expected women to perform as well as men they could do so, some researchers have tried to prove that without her extra body fat a woman could be almost as strong as a man.But the point is that a woman can’t take off her fat and put it on the bench and then run, Dr. Spirduso said. She has to carry it around with her; it’s part of her. And women do have a greater per cent body fat than men.”Dr. Spirduso concluded that although some women can train hard and surpass average menMeyersviiie School MenuMilk and Butter DailyNovember 11Veteran’s DayIiaaI U A 1 I I bl IFwhodon’ttrain, we won’t eversee the time when women in largenumbers will beat men in power sports that depend on strength and endurance.”But take heart, women The 1war of the sexes might just moveto a younger battlefield.Before females attainbody fat and before males’ testosterone levels increase, both of which begin to happen at puberty, it’s a different storyA girl can compete equally with a boy, Dr Spirduso noted.It’s only at the time of puberty when webegintosee the drastic differences in size and development, she saidEven then, Dr. Spirduso stressed, it is not necessary to prove that women and men are identical to prove that they are equal:1 don’t think equality needs to be linked with synonymousness in order for women to develop exciting athletic programs.A thought for the day: Enlgish novelist Samuel Butler said, To live is like love .... all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.”SolTake stock iiBuy US. Savi
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Cuero Daily Record
Cuero, Texas, US
Fri, Nov 08, 1974
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