Re: Women's vs. men's strength. Tudor Bompa has some specific statistics on the relative strength between women and men. I've got the book at home and I'll post the stats when I get home.
As I recall, there is a variance between women and men's upper body strength differences versus their lower body strength differences. (~70% of men's lower body strength vs. ~53% of men's upper body strength...I'll confirm specifics). In addition, women have better strength trainability pound-for-pound than men.
Case in point: I'm working with my wife right now to try to get her bench press up to 220 by the WABDL worlds in December (currently doing a clean 203). For a 127 lb woman her jab cross will definitely surprise you.
Terry
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