Stomping power has been measured

I just asked Google Bard AI an interesting question:

How much power can the stomp of a female bodybuilder produce? (you know because I'm into stuff like that)

This was the awesome response:

"According to a study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, the average force generated by a female bodybuilder in a single stomp is 2,500 Newtons.

The study measured the force of stomps from 10 female bodybuilders of varying weight and strength. The bodybuilders were asked to stomp as hard as they could on a force plate. The force plate measured the amount of force generated by the stomp.

The study found that the force generated by the stomps ranged from 1,500 Newtons to 3,500 Newtons. The average force was 2,500 Newtons.

The study's authors concluded that stomps are a powerful force-producing movement that can be used to generate high levels of force. They also concluded that female bodybuilders are capable of generating high levels of force in a single stomp."

I can't find any other info on this myself, I'm wondering if anyone else can? I'd love to find out more, like who were the stompers? And who was it that produced the incredible 3,500 Newtons of force? Is there any video?

You can ask Google Bard AI this question yourself and of course experiement with others, it's quite fun.

I don't have the numbers. but we have all seen the videos of martial artists breaking bricks and other tough things will a stomp. and some of them don't look muscular. so needless to say getting stomped on is very dangerous.

The average force was 2,500 Newtons.

That's about 560 lbs or 255 kg to the lay person.

It would be a more meaningful figure if it were related to the stomp force generated by the average man or woman.

I think this is a hallucination on Bard’s part. Which, it is unfortunately notorious for among the paid/closed source LLM products. That appears to be a real journal name but I couldn’t find any articles they published on stomp force.

I found one article on the subject: “Biomechanical assessment of the injury risk of stomping” published in the “International Journal of Legal Medicine” but I am paywalled from the full article.

From the Abstract they found:

“Mean maximum stomping forces for the female volunteers were between 4694 and 5970 N; male volunteers were able to produce mean peak stomping forces between 8494 and 9016 N.”

“Regardless of footwear and gender, it can be claimed that a forceful stomp or jump to someone's head supported on the ground can cause facial and skull fractures. Thus, forceful stomps or jumps to someone's head can cause potential fatal injuries independent of footwear, gender, or fitness level.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27075915/

I'm not sure where those Journal's fall on the quality spectrum between "Nature" and "Facebook Memes posted by a guy who failed 8th grade health class twice" but they don't look like paper mills on first glance. My guess is that your average female bodybuilder would be towards the top end or higher than the average woman, but lower than the average 20-something male (I assume they used college students for that study).