From “The Physics Factbook“:
The center of mass is the balance point of an object’s mass. If a pivot were placed at this point, the object would remain in place and be balanced. The center of mass of a system is not always at the geometric center of the system…. When a system is balanced around its center of mass, it is said to be in a state of equilibrium….
A person’s center of mass is slightly below his/her belly button, which is nearly the geometric center of a person. Males and females have different centers of mass — females’ centers of mass are lower than those of males.
Below are two videos on how men and women differ in their centers of mass (or gravity):
https://youtu.be/_YEmYqziusg
I took both tests — and, being a woman, I passed both.
I’m really interested in how our male readers do.
P.S. These tests should be administered to athletes who claim to be transgender!
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Not surprising though…that’s why men don’t carry the children! Women were designed for that by God. Plus lifting crawling kids in tight corners, etc.
Different, by His design.
I cannot do the first unless I move my backside backward a little and bend my legs to an angle of less than 90 degrees, but the second isn’t even that hard for me. Then again, the ratio of muscles in my lower body and upper legs to my upper torso muscles is higher than most men, moving my center of gravity about 1/2 to 1 inch lower and giving me the lower back and upper hamstring strength to still straighten while holding a chair to my chest. I do feel a slight bit of a pull in my hamstrings as I do that.
I guess that’s what happens when you grow up riding a bicycle for miles every day from the time you’re 6 until you’re 19.
That was really cool!!!! Who would have thought it?
I was told that the center of gravity in men is between the shoulder blades (better for physical labor) and that the center of gravity in women is between the hips (better for bearing children).
Probably you were told that by someone somewhere sometime. ….but, women bear children and do at least 50% or more of the physical labor, in addition to their child-bearing and child-rearing…on the face of the Earth. Several published stats bear this up. It’s sort of embarrassing to some.