... notion that larger individuals have an unfair advantage over smaller, or vice-versa, in measures of exercise performance. It is more formally defined as the correlation between a raw score (e.g., ... for several reasons. First, it is a sport of primarily muscular strength, not power, hand-eye coordination, or even complex cognition, all of which could be confounders in examining the relationship ... fat as a confounder. Third, the two primary determinants of performance are strength and body mass. Therefore, a sample of powerlifting world record holders would be heterogeneous in body mass...