🏋️‍♀️ Extended version of this interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lean-mass-and-112135034 🏋️‍♀️

Does lean mass (mainly muscle) influence weightlifting performance? Of course it does, but how exactly? Wanda Sihanath walks us through the research she has recently conducted on American elite weightlifters.

Wanda is a second-year PhD student at Marquette University. She has an extensive background in engineering and is also a weightlifter herself.

Enjoy!

Original research paper:

Sihanath W, Ahn N, Papanek P, Kipp K. INFLUENCE OF LEAN BODY MASS DISTRIBUTION ON GROUND REACTION FORCE AND SNATCH PERFORMANCE IN MALE AND FEMALE WEIGHTLIFTERS. I ...