Adrenaline has a lot to do with it. I'm a complete string-bean, but as a 13-year-old (I was about 120 pounds), I once lifted my 250+ pound, 6'2'' male teacher off the ground. I can't do a push-up, but I can press over 250 pounds with my legs. Technique is important too, and women have to use different techniques than men. Men usually have greater arm strength than women, but maybe these women have been working out much harder than you have.
And women are supposed to have better pain endurance, but this has nothing to do with strength.
Is normal for women to out lift men in the gym
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Adrenaline has a lot to do with it. I'm a complete string-bean, but as a 13-year-old (I was about 120 pounds), I once lifted my 250+ pound, 6'2'' male teacher off the ground. I can't do a push-up, but I can press over 250 pounds with my legs. Technique is important too, and women have to use different techniques than men. Men usually have greater arm strength than women, but maybe these women have been working out much harder than you have.
And women are supposed to have better pain endurance, but this has nothing to do with strength.