I think strongwomen is a fantastic sport.
When I first started out there were only a handful of females.
People said that I look masculine, I looked like a man.
But now there is a lot of females.
Some competitions have more women than men now.
LIke we just love it.
Throwing weights around.
And showing the world that we can do it too.
It’s not just about being skinny anymore, it’s all body shapes, all types of women
older and younger doing things… that we’ve never been able to see before.
I may not look strong but I am.
You guys are looking professional, a lot more than the gym.
Hi, I’m Kerryn.
Dr Justin Keogh Moving a heavy weight on your back trying
to run 20 meters, move quickly, walk fast is more dangerous than lifting a bar off the
ground or doing some curls.
In the sport of strongman, because the events are so technically demanding, the more efficient
you are, the better you'll compete and reduce your risk of injuries.
This sort of 3D level motion capture strongman has only been done in one study, because it's
just so difficult to do.
Markers can fall off because of the nature of the activity.
And the other big thing with Ben's PhD is that his will be the first series of studies
that will involve female strongmen athletes.
That's amazing.
You can see it once she starts moving, you see it's a human.
And then you see the movement she's doing.
I'm going to be looking at the biomechanics.
So how the athlete moves.
And compare that between higher and lower performing athletes.
Whether I’m actually any good.
So the thing of biomechanics, we can get a whole host of numbers.
And then the challenges to then go from that sort of physics level analysis to a coaching
level interpretation so that athletes and coaches can then use that information to help
improve performance, and also perhaps reduce the risk of injury.
All right, good to go.
So what we're looking at here is your left hand dumbbell press.
So what we can see is the three distinct peaks here, there's a little bit of time there,
we've left the ground, which is a little bit more apparent in your left hand dumbbell press,
as opposed to your right.
And the other kind of things that we want to pick up when we're looking at something
like a forced trace, just those kind of differences between the left and right hand.
With my left side, I'm thinking about it a lot more.
And like I stopped and I pause, and I brace because I'm aware that it's my weaker side.
So I put more emphasis into setting myself up correctly, whereas I probably am a bit
complacent in my right side, this just shows that I should be focusing a little bit more
like this.
So putting the same amount of effort into my right side as into my left side.
Part of Ben's research will be to include both males and females.
No experimental study has included a female strongwoman at this point.
So we really don't know from a scientific perspective.
If male and female athletes move differently in these events.
Wait for it.
It blows my mind how women are not included in some studies.
Especially when it comes to a sport were actively involved in.