🏋️♀️ Extended version of this interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/comparing-and-157852639 🏋️♀️ How to compare who is a better weightlifter if the lifters are from different weight classes, sexes, or age groups? We could compare lifters of different body weights using Sinclairs, Robi points, or Q-points before, but never of different sexes. Now we can with GAMX points. Dr. Marianne Huebner has spent the last few years developing and testing statistical models that allow ranking across body weights, sexes, and, in some cases, ages. It is a huge deal as IWF promised to support the use of the method in ongoing and possible new formats of competitions. Marianne Huebner is Professor of Statistics and Probability, Adjunct Professor of Kinesiology, and Director of the Center of Statistical Training and Consulting (CSTAT) at Michigan State University. She is a Masters weightlifter competing for 10 years at national and international championships. GAMX points use generalized additive statistical models to jointly adjust for body weight, sex, and age, placing male and female performances on a common scale with a median of 1000 points. Web applications for athletes and coaches to calculate GAMX-points - for the total: https://huebner.shinyapps.io/GAMX/ - for snatch and clean & jerk: https://huebner.shinyapps.io/GAMX_teams/ Excel workbooks for GAMX: https://osf.io/wy5mr/overview, folder GAMX v2.0 Original research papers: Huebner M, Cole T. Ranking performances of Olympic-style weightlifters adjusted for body mass on the same scale for both sexes: A novel approach. http://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2024.2423138 Huebner M, Lei R, Cole T. Comparing weightlifting performances of Masters athletes across age, body mass and sex from 2000 to 2025. Int J Sports Phys Performance. Published online 22 Apr 2026. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2025-0580 ❤️ Join Evidence Strong Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/evidencestrong ▶️ Watch the episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9L-_m0WGD_7xV0sf87Zy7oMVDdtqR3bG ✉️ Follow Marianne Huebner: 🔹 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marianne-Huebner 💪 Follow Evidence Strong: 🔹 https://www.instagram.com/evidence_strong 🔹 https://x.com/EvidenceStrong All the content is for informational purposes only and is not intended as medical, nutritional, coaching, or financial advice, nor does it substitute for advice from your health care professional/provider. Any actions you will take, changes you will make to your nutrition, training or health care, are on your own responsibility and not mine.
