Why are Somali girls/women non athletic generally speaking?

[ilmoweyn]

The Somali women I know all do 15k+ or pilates/gym or some other form of exercise daily

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[Kisame]

I'm pretty sure most of them weren't given the opportunity to go play outside as a kid

 

[Avalanche]

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I had too

 

[Kisame]

Somali males in the diaspora are athletic and play basketball and other sports all the time we will have a Somali in the NBA soon enough

Somali women on average don’t play sports or work out it’s just the truth let’s not bring gender war nonsense into this thread

I'm pretty sure most Somali parents don't even allow their daughters to play outside.

 

[gasara]

I'm pretty sure most Somali parents don't even allow their daughters to play outside.

what type of crazy parents were you around.

 

[olore]

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This is really the only region in Somalia where Somalis are athletic in terms of fast twitch imo. Majority of the good middle distance 400-1500 runners I know in Diaspora have family links here.

It’s not only sanaag but northern Somalis yes

 

[Inquisitive_]

Its mainly a backward shallow understanding of religion.

Go to Somalia and you will see little 3 year olds in full Jilaabib and they think its religion, it's ceeb for her to exercise or play, and this comes at the most critical time when muscles develop, the earlier you start the better.

Even here in the West I have seen them stopping young girls far away from the age of puberty from swimming classes because it's mixed, and they think this is religion.

We have a pandemic of Somali girls with knocked knees and this also reflects into the type of babies they give birth too, Indian looking, malnourished, weak.

Its a combination of a false understanding of Islam and shallow ignorance about life and health.

 

[berberaboy66]

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This is really the only region in Somalia where Somalis are athletic in terms of fast twitch imo. Majority of the good middle distance 400-1500 runners I know in Diaspora have family links here.

I’ve said this before but it’s usually geeljires that do well in middle distance running. So I wouldn’t say northern Somalia necessarily, more so people who hail from areas like Togdheer, Sool, Galgaduud, etc. Reer miyi folks.

 

[SixthAbdi]

Most of my female cousins aren't chubby besides like 2, some have lots of fat on their face like my sister but that's genetic

 

[Pizza man]

Thats more of a somali issue not gender specific imo, we don't really have any form of sports culture and our nutrition and diet isn't helping us either.

Despite all that i think diaspora Somalis are doing well there is a culture shift happening and we already have Somalis with Olympic medals and soon we will have some in the nba and hopefully in the wnba too with jmad's camps

 

[olore]

I’ve said this before but it’s usually geeljires that do well in middle distance running. So I wouldn’t say northern Somalia necessarily, more so people who hail from areas like Togdheer, Sool, Galgaduud, etc. Reer miyi folks.

What’s geeljires?

 

[therandomone]

you say that as if the men are atheltic. and also is there not a literal boxing champion from the uk whos a somali woman. thats more than any male has ever accopmlished

You should watch my high school soccer tapes. I used to be defensive beast.