Guo Lingling, a powerlifting champion at the Tokyo Paralympics, faced significant challenges in her youth due to polio, which left her dependent on a wheelchair and crutches.
Maybe just to clarify for people, powerlifting, Olympic lifting, just regular gym fitness, bodybuilding, doing curls in front of the mirror for hours like I do.
He told me that he used to play football in high school and that he was also very passionate about powerlifting at that time and he even had aspirations of becoming a professional powerlifter.
That has been changing over the last three to five years because we do see a trend in females going through resistance training, but it's not like females are out there powerlifting.
So I'm going to cite quite a bit of work from my powerlifting coach, Zach Robinson, because he is at FAU, just finished his PhD and did a lot of meta-regressions and meta-analyses on this exact topic.