Naturaly strong girls?

[Akshayb]

Originally Posted by zebra

I noticed that there's a correlation between height and strength among the tested women. The taller women had stronger grips than the shorter women in all age groups. I was surprised that almost all of the older taller women had stronger grips than the younger shorter women. It's surprising since grip strength is related to overall strength.

It has more so to do with hand/palm length. Longer hands grip better than shorter ones (that and if you take 2 women of different heights and average builds then the taller one would likely have a greater muscle volume than the shorter one).

All of this really makes me wonder how powerfully average-build yet long handed women like Uma Thurman can grip. I would guess that she would grip around 50 kg per hand even without extra training.

[zebra]

Originally Posted by Akshayb

It has more so to do with hand/palm length. Longer hands grip better than shorter ones (that and if you take 2 women of different heights and average builds then the taller one would likely have a greater muscle volume than the shorter one).

All of this really makes me wonder how powerfully average-build yet long handed women like Uma Thurman can grip. I would guess that she would grip around 50 kg per hand even without extra training.

That could be. That theory may be true in certain circumstances, but I do think that taller women tend to be stronger than shorter women. I don't think that hand length or hand width accounts for all of the grip-strength differences. For instance, the taller older women are stronger than the shorter younger women, but this pattern stops after they reach a certain age.