The testosterone thing is just so unfair. I want free muscles that come automatically no matter what I do, too!
I wonder why girls run differently. Do female kids run differently, or is it puberty-related? (Either biological, or the need to "run like a girl", which is an affectation I definitely remember some people initiating in late middle school.)
An attempt to elaborate on your speculation — girls' weight distribution and muscle capabilities (possibly just relative to weight distribution?) change a lot during puberty, and this requires a lot of relearning. It's probably aggravated by the fact that most girls are done with puberty in high school, while plenty of guys are still having major puberty-related bone and muscle growth in early college. And by the fact that puberty gives men athletic advantages and women disadvantages, at least in categories like "ability to do a push-up".
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Date: 2011-07-30 01:29 am (UTC)I wonder why girls run differently. Do female kids run differently, or is it puberty-related? (Either biological, or the need to "run like a girl", which is an affectation I definitely remember some people initiating in late middle school.)
An attempt to elaborate on your speculation — girls' weight distribution and muscle capabilities (possibly just relative to weight distribution?) change a lot during puberty, and this requires a lot of relearning. It's probably aggravated by the fact that most girls are done with puberty in high school, while plenty of guys are still having major puberty-related bone and muscle growth in early college. And by the fact that puberty gives men athletic advantages and women disadvantages, at least in categories like "ability to do a push-up".