Strongest Race by Upper-body strength

to asians, but I've never been impressed with the natural build of asians with respect to upper body strength.

I work with tons of asians (I'm in software). If I was going to make a racially-charged statement about asians, I'd say they're SMARTER than white people, not stronger.

lol hahaha you are so lost dude

no offense wrote:

to asians, but I've never been impressed with the natural build of asians with respect to upper body strength.

I work with tons of asians (I'm in software). If I was going to make a racially-charged statement about asians, I'd say they're SMARTER than white people, not stronger.

im not talking about the dorky asians. dorks everywhere are gonna look thinner in general. go to an asian community, and u see what i mean by strength. especially koreans. they have massive calves too.

what are your research methods? what is your "analysis"?

it looks like a crappy hs project to me and you need help.

you do not list any basis for your assumption - so it is just opinion.

is it based on the top 1%?

you need help with your homework - very transparent, so you thought that you would come to a distance running site for information on upper body strength which is why you will fail miserably.

Magnus Manusen wrote:

what are your research methods? what is your "analysis"?

it looks like a crappy hs project to me and you need help.

you do not list any basis for your assumption - so it is just opinion.

is it based on the top 1%?

you need help with your homework - very transparent, so you thought that you would come to a distance running site for information on upper body strength which is why you will fail miserably.

i look at forearm size to determine strongest upper body strength.

maybe you should look at head size for determining iq?

strongman450BPmax wrote:

I've always been fascinated with upper body strength, and would like to know what the strongest race is, by upper body strength (which includes arms). I divided the world into 4 racial groups: blacks, caucasians (including russians), meso-americnas/indians, asians. Here are my rankings based on my analysis:

Upper-Body Strength Men

1. blacks

2. asians

3. mesoamericans/Indians

4. whites

Upper-Body Strength Women

1. asians

2. blacks

3. mesoamericans/Indians

4. whites

Blacks generally have bigger, stronger forearms than other races, so that could explain the advantage. asian women have very powerful bodies, there legs even moreso. If anyone disagrees with my rankings, explain why and put up a better system.

Actually, 1) there is no real difference between rankings for men than for women, and 2) in terms of upper body strength, whites consistently outperform everyone else in the real world (powerlifting, Oly weightlifting, field events, bodybuilding, related research, etc.), followed by West African blacks, followed by Asians, followed "mesoamericans/Indians" (as you so oddly put it), followed, presumably, by East African blacks. Other groups will find themselves somewhere in that spectrum as well---Pygmies, anyone?

Scandanavians are quite strong i would have thought

Here, I'll do your homework for you.

Do a search on world power lifting records

...

wait, I've already done the work for you ...

http://www.kraft.is/ymislegt/Records.htm

http://www.powerlifting-ipf.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Reza_Zadeh

http://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbweight/start.php

How do you define strongest? Max weight lifted? How about power to weight ratio? Etc.

I am interested in information on long distance running, I think that I will solicit opinions from a power lifting forum - seems like a good idea, right?

Pacific Islanders are stacked. You just have to look at the brutally of Tonga, Samoa and Fiji rugby union sides to see that they are huge men with a love of the "physical side" of the game. Im not saying all pacific islanders are like this but its obvious their upbringing/lifestyles lead to them being built like powerhouses. I work with a lot of Indian/Pakistani guys here in Britain and all have had very poor physicality i.e no strength/stamina and cant think of one guy that plays any sport among them.

[quote]strongmanBP450max wrote:

whites outperform in olympic strength events because they arent that good at stuff that matters, like basketball, the sprints, etc. they have a niche in weightlifting because other races excel supremely in other events. if blacks decided to takeover weightlifting, then they could.

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Not true. Read:

http://bodybuilding.com/fun/peak47.htm

In certain sports---football, or bodybuilding, for example, West African blacks DO dominate in terms of total numbers, but are consistently outperformed by whites in certain positions or in certain lifts. There are biological reasons for this, naturally.

Some of these are rather funny. For example, West African blacks have longer arms and legs, on average, than do whites (for a given height or weight). In some sports/events (bastketball, running, perhaps boxing) longer arms/legs are an advantage. In others (Olympic lifting, bench pressing, overhead pressing, barbell curls, squats) they are a distinct disadvantage.

One of the greatest Olympic weightlifters of all time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVH0H0Dbpro

Note how freakishly short his levers are.

You have lost your freakin' mind.You are simply tossing out crappy opinions with no evidence to support your opinions. You seem to be hung up on this black, white, thing - which shows your bias and your stupidity. Go back to HS.Interestingly though, the US biased WikiPedia shows "African American" as the PC race for Africa. How stupid is that?Back to my original point - you are an ignoramus.

strongmanBP450max wrote:

whites outperform in olympic strength events because they arent that good at stuff that matters, like basketball, the sprints, etc. they have a niche in weightlifting because other races excel supremely in other events. if blacks decided to takeover weightlifting, then they could.

as far as scandinavians go, scandinavian women have been consistently busted for using performance enhancing drugs. black women are far stronger without drugs.

it should be intuitive that blacks would be stronger, since they produce the most testosterone and have the most angular jawlines.