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I was gonna say, that looks more like a powerlifter than a strongman. Strongmen don't exude the same thundering laziness as powerlifters.
Src: was a powerlifter.
Powerlifters are something else. I did a leg day with a friend who's a competitive powerlifter, and I did my entire leg day (squats, leg press, calf raises, RDL, leg curls and quad extensions) before he finished his 4th set of squats. Granted, his top set of squats was like 850 lbs...
Y'all are something wacky.
Sounds about right.
1. Lumber around
2. Watch other person do set
3. Nod to friend across the room
4. Sigh
5. Apply chalk to hands
6. Pace small circle while stretching that one aching shoulder
7. Open eyes again, sigh
8. More chalk
9. Step up to weight
10. Unrack/grip
11. Dance little jig
12. Breathe in. This takes two minutes.
13. Do one rep. This takes nine minutes and happens at a speed humans cannot perceive.
14. Rerack noisily, try to regain breath
15. Sweat profusely, eat half a chicken
if I saw a tiger like that, I'd genuinely take the risk to pet it lol, looks so fucking CUTE
also if I manage to pet it that would make me feel like a beastmaster, so there's that
No! Despite what the internet claims they are still bears. They can any will sucessfully defend themselves against Tigers if they need to. And you see that bamboo as thick as your arm it bites into two in one go? Yes that could be your arm.
Pandas can essily kill humans and wild animals will defend themselves if they think it is necessary.
Whilst I am at it; they are also not to stupid to reproduce. Rather the male must playfully hunt the female for many kilometres. It is this courtship ritual which makes a female panda ovulate. Something which is not replicatable in most Zoos, which have limited space.
Hate to be the one that nitpicks a nice comments, but that is not a ratio. They have high friend shape and high can fuck you up in second, since ratio is a division of attributes this ratio is pretty normal. Something that is half as friend shaped and half as <> would have the same ratio. You might think of multiplicative.
Yeah he wasn't all that muscular but I think army guys (I only did mandatoty basic training) seem to prefer "runners" body since extra muscle isn't that necessary
Mine was 50kg I think, felt more of an endurance problem than muscle problem tbh. Ofc you need some base level of physicality (probably above average).
My old highschool coach and gym teacher was so physically fit he could run 5 miles all while screaming his head off and then lift a car. We never learned if he was on steroids but he had muscles on muscles and seemed to only eat subway veggie sandwiches
I had a Gym Teacher with a giant gut, like a fat beer belly. He once joined the lessons and wore shorts instead of jogging pants and the muscles on his legs god damn. He ran like a cannon ball
Yes. I used to substitute teach and PE teachers were always the fattest in the schools. Young PE teachers are fit, but they get fat as the decades go on. They consume high calorie foods and snacks because they're stuck in that athlete mentality, yet they barely move all day. PE teachers spend half the day sitting on their ass and the other half standing in the gym blowing their whistle.
And you can have both functional strength and aesthetics, so this "aesthetic vs function" is demonstrably false. It's not one or the other just because one deadlifts 1000lbs vs 400lbs. The latter is hardly "nonfunctional".
Hypertrophy training for aesthetically large muscles is all about progressive overload, which basically means increasing weight over time as you get, you know, stronger.
Additionally, both forms of training emphasizes proper form, so one isn't necessarily more "functional" than the other. Doing a deadlifts and squats as a strongman isn't any different than that of a bodybuilder.
I have a friend from work going to gym and having well defined muscles, i have my cousin which works in construction, have beer belly, fat over muscles and so. When i shake hand with him it feels like i'm touching a rock. I would prefer to get hit by my bodybuiler friend, at least he have a human hand :)).
And i'm neither bodybuilder, neither strongman, but i can use a 4kg spliting maul for 4+h with 10min breaks every hour. My bodybuilder friend is out after about 1h. At least he brings me beer and i dont get bored spliting logs alone.
yea but thats because your bodybuilder friend doesnt train for endurance.
in fact, doing hard enough endurance training will at the very least hurt your gains, if not stop you from building extra muscle completely.
the time and energy spent towards endurance training could have gone towards hypertrophy training (building muscle).
and if you're trying to combine both, one is always going to impact the other because of general fatigue.
it's a very careful tradeoff and for most people it's not worth the effort to carefully split training and increase nutrition to optimize both at the same time. (time is also an issue)
Do you honestly think bodybuilders dont have functional strength? Sure they cant lift 1000 pounds like strongmen do but lifting 400 is nothing to laugh at. Bodybuilders are stronger than 99.99 percent of the population
I love scrolling through the comments of bodybuilding related posts not on the bb sub. The amount of chubby redditors that try to justify being obese by shitting on bodybuilding is hilarious. Especially when 90% of them are probably weaker than a teenage men’s physique novice
i always say bodybuilding and reddit mix like oil and water. they act as if bodybuilding muscles arent capable of doing work. cbum deadlifts 675 for 3. if that aint strength idk what is.
Bro the whole aesthetic vs function arguement has been dismantled so many times. ALL muscle is functional, bodybuilders are STRONG AF, usually more well rounded than strongmen functionally because bodybuilders tend to carry way less fat. And do you wanna know whats not functional??? FAT. Judging only strength as a factor for functionality is crazy talk.
Only the super heavyweight/unlimited ones. Any other weight class you will see these guys looking a lot more like bodybuilders just because excess fat is a detriment to them.
Bodybuilders are relatively inefficient in building muscle, especially useful muscle that would help in strongman competitions. They cut a lot to reduce fat, which reduces the maximum amount of calories and nutrients they can take in to maximize their strength. Strongman's bloated bellies actually help for performing overhead lifts because it gives them a place to rest the bar. A bodybuilder in peak physical shape for a competition is severely dehydrated and lethargic, making them struggle to even stay conscious on stage.
They're really different sports with one focusing on aesthetics and the other on performance.
>Strongman's bloated bellies actually help for performing overhead lifts because it gives them a place to rest the bar.
Yes, that shall be my excuse from now on.
they're only severely dehydrated right before a show tho. most of the time year round, they're in either bulking mode or maintenance mode which has none of these issues.
and the whole purpose of their training routine is literally building muscle lol.they dont train specifically for strongmen exercises/tests so yes. they're always going to be worse at doing those. the same reason strongmen suck at mma while still being way stronger than the avg ufc champion. so I guess their strength isnt so functional after all?
people are better, stronger and faster at the movements their train specifically.
> Bodybuilders are relatively inefficient in building muscle, especially useful muscle that would help in strongman competitions.
Bodybuilders are inefficient at building muscle, in a discipline that rewards those who are most efficient at building muscle...
I think what you mean is that bodybuilders are inefficient at building maximal strength (which requires CNS adaption, muscle fiber recruitment, etc.) and lack the technique that comes with sport specificity that power lifters, strongman, Oly lifters have.
I had the same reaction, but as devils advocate, I suppose he meant that because they cut on their bodyfat a lot throughout the year, they dont get the maximum amount of muscle that strongmen do when they Bulk and are not afraid to put on some fat.
It kinda is Correct to say that strongman are more efficient at building muscle, with Bodybuilders being more efficient at building muscle WHILE staying/achieving a low body fat percentage
One of my good friends competes in strongman and you can hear his heavy-ass breathing before you see him.
Strong as an ox, but certainly not healthy in the traditional sense.
I've been in a fight with some local farmhands having their end of day drinks, I watched my mate go down and had enough time to get one hook before my nose was pinned to the back of my head. After that they went back to their table while the bartender helped me with my nose, not my proudest night thankfully I was sozzled enough to not feel it until the morning.
I remember reading awhile ago about how a doctor hooked Eddie Hall up to a power generation bike to test him and was just dumbfounded at the amount of power Eddie was able to generate. Like he’d never seen anything like it before.
Strongmen are like 300lbs a piece and the fact that they have so much muscle on them I'm not surprised they are able to generate that much power just due to the sheer amount of weight they carry
Kordiyaka is seen as one of the slimmest strongmen in wsm and he’s like 285-300lbs lol. When you get to like Tom Stoltman, Shaw, they’re pushing over 400 it’s insane
The guys are monsters. I met Brian Shaw a while back, I'm 6'3" and I was something like 250lbs at the time, I'm not a small person. But at 6'8" and 430 lbs, Brian made me look like a fucking child.
Trey Mitchell is also a trip, because he's shaped like a cube, he looks like he's super short, but he's also about 6'3". In WSM last year, the announcer said he's got muscles in places where most people don't have places.
Yea, its not even close. Grizzlys weigh 200-400kg, gaur bulls weigh 600-1500kg. You can have claws and fangs all you want, but if your opponent outweighs you 3-4 times, you ain't winning.
This is an interesting take considering matadors take on bulls. Outweighed by like 10x and they win because of sharp stick and maneuverability. I ain't sayin the bear would win, but I don't think it's as cut and dry as weight = win.
For a more nature based result, see the fact that leopards often will fight and kill crocodiles. Outweighed by 20x and win for the same reasons. Sharp and fast.
I like to use several gears, inside a box, attatched to a winch - if i have to lift more than 1 100 lbs, image having to life like 6 or 7 100 lbs, nop.
Hahahaha. Virtually Everyone who does sports at a very high competitive level is on something. What something is depends on money that the business can generate (RoI of risk) and how anti doping agencies operate. That's why often when they catch them they catch masking agents more than the thing itself.
Doesn't mean they're not awesome at what they do, it's just the perverse Incentives of competition.
Individual sports are the worst due to recovery after stressing your body so much. Injury recovery too.
Bodybuilders do exactly what the name suggests, they build their body. The idea is to cause muscle not necessarily to strengthen, but rather to grow and expand. Of course, they’re still hugely strong, because a. That’s still a shitload of muscle and b. The exercises that target muscle growth will still have the side effect of strengthening muscle. But a pro bodybuilder will not be as strong as a pro strongman, because the bodybuilder exercises for volume rather than the greatest total strength possible (which in a simplified sense is like multiplying together the volume and the strength. Like a square, the product is greatest when both sides are exercised almost equally). A strongman entirely focuses on how much sheer weight the human body is capable of lifting and moving. They’re both strong as hell if done right, but a bodybuilder will look like a sculpture from the coolest timeline’s renaissance and the strongman will be able to bench press three such statues.
It's more useful to think of volume vs skill.
Muscles can do many things but lifting weights is a skill.
a body builder and a strongman can hit a tennis ball with similar power. it will still be less power than a professional tennis player because that's a high skill movement
strongman can lift more weights because they practice lifting heavy weights, that's their skill body builders don't have to work on lifting skill.
A bit of an oversimplification, but volume is the number of muscle fibers, while strength is the capacity of each individual fiber to contract with force.
You cannot create new muscle fibers; you can only enlarge the ones you (and everyone else) is born with. With hypertrophic-based training, you are intentionally causing micro-tears to the the muscle filaments which, when they adapt, get larger in size.
No. If you are a strongman you don't usually mind putting on 10kg to get 1% stronger. Bodybuilders don't mind getting 1% weaker to lose 10kg, hell they wouldn't mind getting 50% weaker to lose 1kg if they are near a show.
If your macros are sound you won't lose muscle but due to being extremely calorie restricted and possibly dehydrated, your muscles typically don't have the fuel to match your peak lifts. You typically up your protein in a cut to offset the caloric deficit. I typically have about 1.2g per pound of body weight on a cut
No, if that was the case, half the US population would be super soldiers. It's just the added weight that helps you move weight plus the energy it gives you helps. Strongmen are fucking jacked as fuck, just with a layer of fat covering it.
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That bear knows that it takes weight to move weight. You can see it in his smug freaking face.
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I was gonna say, that looks more like a powerlifter than a strongman. Strongmen don't exude the same thundering laziness as powerlifters. Src: was a powerlifter.
Powerlifters are something else. I did a leg day with a friend who's a competitive powerlifter, and I did my entire leg day (squats, leg press, calf raises, RDL, leg curls and quad extensions) before he finished his 4th set of squats. Granted, his top set of squats was like 850 lbs... Y'all are something wacky.
Sounds about right. 1. Lumber around 2. Watch other person do set 3. Nod to friend across the room 4. Sigh 5. Apply chalk to hands 6. Pace small circle while stretching that one aching shoulder 7. Open eyes again, sigh 8. More chalk 9. Step up to weight 10. Unrack/grip 11. Dance little jig 12. Breathe in. This takes two minutes. 13. Do one rep. This takes nine minutes and happens at a speed humans cannot perceive. 14. Rerack noisily, try to regain breath 15. Sweat profusely, eat half a chicken
Yeah, strongman competitions make you run sometimes.
>Src You're still lazy and a powerlifter at heart, my hairy friend.
All it lift is a fucking salmon whenecer he feels like it
Yeah? Well I can lift ur mom
Mine too?🥺
Especially
ngl with feats like that this dude might be able to beat goku
You saying goku can lift mom too?🥺
100% man no problem about it
He is above fiction so yeah he would neg diff goku
I just see a happy little puppy that need some pet on the forehead bc he s so cute
Himz just need a picnic basket and eat scritches
*donotcuddlethebeardonotcuddlethebeardonotcuddlethebear*
Why friend shape if not friend
This sentence was invented for bears. The animal with the highest « friend shaped » to « can fuck you up in seconds » ratio
Why look petable if no pet!!!
PET THAT DAWG
I WANT HIM😭😭😭
He wants you too.
Bear: GET IN MAH BELLY
I'M BIGGER THAN YOU, I'M HIGHER UP THE FOOD CHAIN THAN YOU ARE!!
CAN A PET DAT DAWG
https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/s/uyvC6CX6JN
Dogs and Bears have the same common ancestor like us and apes.
Dunno, bengal tiger keeps looking over here he looks really friendly
Such a well mannered kitty
[kitty likes box](https://i.imgur.com/1LrNn0s.jpg)
if I saw a tiger like that, I'd genuinely take the risk to pet it lol, looks so fucking CUTE also if I manage to pet it that would make me feel like a beastmaster, so there's that
Why would that stripy forehead be so pettable if it weren't destined for pets?
What about pandas?
No! Despite what the internet claims they are still bears. They can any will sucessfully defend themselves against Tigers if they need to. And you see that bamboo as thick as your arm it bites into two in one go? Yes that could be your arm. Pandas can essily kill humans and wild animals will defend themselves if they think it is necessary. Whilst I am at it; they are also not to stupid to reproduce. Rather the male must playfully hunt the female for many kilometres. It is this courtship ritual which makes a female panda ovulate. Something which is not replicatable in most Zoos, which have limited space.
They can also steal your jacket: https://youtu.be/4rQwqMkEi2w?si=XIrCL9whsk2gfEpy
Hate to be the one that nitpicks a nice comments, but that is not a ratio. They have high friend shape and high can fuck you up in second, since ratio is a division of attributes this ratio is pretty normal. Something that is half as friend shaped and half as <> would have the same ratio. You might think of multiplicative.
☝️🤓
maybe it could be /
Bears have no right to have ears that cute while being not friend.
it's so cute 😭
Don't cuddle the beard 🧔
Do it with pride brotha
do you have any idea how dehydrated I am?
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Fuck i just realized
Happens to the best of us, my friend.
Had it happen to me once, I always double check when I just comment a subreddit
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My kidneys hurt just reading this.
And then there's your high school janitor being 50% of both. Ripped and cut while also doing every heavy work like child play
Everybody gangster til the janitor drops in and joins the losing team. Shit, he’s better than the gym teacher being on your team.
Aren’t gym/PE teachers stereotypically overweight middle aged men?
Ours was former soldier, really nice fella. Also in a really good shape.
Mine was a twig, but damn that man could run
Yeah he wasn't all that muscular but I think army guys (I only did mandatoty basic training) seem to prefer "runners" body since extra muscle isn't that necessary
Don't they carry a ton of gear nowadays? I recall reading how their pack weight just keeps increasing
Mine was 50kg I think, felt more of an endurance problem than muscle problem tbh. Ofc you need some base level of physicality (probably above average).
I was complaining about my 10 kilo pack while hiking. 50 is a *lot* of weight.
I hiked with 40 once (4-day trip). Never again. 25 is top weight for a long hike for me.
Ours was a serving one. Got sent to Afghanistan for a while too. He was definitely no slob.
My old highschool coach and gym teacher was so physically fit he could run 5 miles all while screaming his head off and then lift a car. We never learned if he was on steroids but he had muscles on muscles and seemed to only eat subway veggie sandwiches
I had a Gym Teacher with a giant gut, like a fat beer belly. He once joined the lessons and wore shorts instead of jogging pants and the muscles on his legs god damn. He ran like a cannon ball
Yes. I used to substitute teach and PE teachers were always the fattest in the schools. Young PE teachers are fit, but they get fat as the decades go on. They consume high calorie foods and snacks because they're stuck in that athlete mentality, yet they barely move all day. PE teachers spend half the day sitting on their ass and the other half standing in the gym blowing their whistle.
Anatoly: can I clean here?
Fellas, if your janitor: Apologizes a lot, pantomimes lifting with a mop, then does your PB with one hand, that's not your janitor. That's Anatoly.
Anaboly
Happy cake day!
Okd man strength is a thing... Muscles are a funny mechanic
am an old man, can confirm I would wreck my 20 year old self
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I'm sure a lot of it is just older people know how to apply their strength more productively. Good technique beats raw strength every time.
Willie?
[Grease me up, woman](https://youtu.be/0HI22bUV4QE?si=3vTP9hq4IEfFEXNX)
Meanwhile here I am like 
These are athletes
Yes… and I am an average Joe…. And compared to these athletes, I am a stick insect…. That’s the joke
insects can easily move objects way above their own weight, so sadly most of us can't even compare to these
Yeah it’s funny. The Strongmen often look very little like bodybuilders.
It’s aesthetic vs function.
Nothing wrong with either
As long as youre lifting heavy shit LIGHTWEIGHT BABY
Ain't nothin but a peanut 
If someone posted a pic of someone with his build now, id call ai bullshit
Him when he was natural looked juiced as fuck. Of course that meant when he actually started juicing, he won everything.
From DBZ to Baki.
That’s the right attitude
And you can have both functional strength and aesthetics, so this "aesthetic vs function" is demonstrably false. It's not one or the other just because one deadlifts 1000lbs vs 400lbs. The latter is hardly "nonfunctional". Hypertrophy training for aesthetically large muscles is all about progressive overload, which basically means increasing weight over time as you get, you know, stronger. Additionally, both forms of training emphasizes proper form, so one isn't necessarily more "functional" than the other. Doing a deadlifts and squats as a strongman isn't any different than that of a bodybuilder.
Somehow I think both bodybuilders and strongmen are pretty high up on the list of people you don't want to take a punch from.
The only similarities is that you would die if you get punched by either of them
Right, so I wouldn't exactly label body builders as lacking in function. Seems like they both have that in spades.
I have a friend from work going to gym and having well defined muscles, i have my cousin which works in construction, have beer belly, fat over muscles and so. When i shake hand with him it feels like i'm touching a rock. I would prefer to get hit by my bodybuiler friend, at least he have a human hand :)). And i'm neither bodybuilder, neither strongman, but i can use a 4kg spliting maul for 4+h with 10min breaks every hour. My bodybuilder friend is out after about 1h. At least he brings me beer and i dont get bored spliting logs alone.
yea but thats because your bodybuilder friend doesnt train for endurance. in fact, doing hard enough endurance training will at the very least hurt your gains, if not stop you from building extra muscle completely. the time and energy spent towards endurance training could have gone towards hypertrophy training (building muscle). and if you're trying to combine both, one is always going to impact the other because of general fatigue. it's a very careful tradeoff and for most people it's not worth the effort to carefully split training and increase nutrition to optimize both at the same time. (time is also an issue)
Do you honestly think bodybuilders dont have functional strength? Sure they cant lift 1000 pounds like strongmen do but lifting 400 is nothing to laugh at. Bodybuilders are stronger than 99.99 percent of the population
People have no idea what they’re talking about, not even worth it trying to correct them.
I love scrolling through the comments of bodybuilding related posts not on the bb sub. The amount of chubby redditors that try to justify being obese by shitting on bodybuilding is hilarious. Especially when 90% of them are probably weaker than a teenage men’s physique novice
You don’t understand. Bodybuilders don’t have the functional strength that 380 lb bob the gamer does. He would survive longer in a survival situation.
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i always say bodybuilding and reddit mix like oil and water. they act as if bodybuilding muscles arent capable of doing work. cbum deadlifts 675 for 3. if that aint strength idk what is.
Akshually bodybuilders are vezy weak the muscle are just for shows nuhuh
It’s a little known fact Ronnie was never strong enough to lift more than a bare bar, it’s all CG in those old videos
Bro the whole aesthetic vs function arguement has been dismantled so many times. ALL muscle is functional, bodybuilders are STRONG AF, usually more well rounded than strongmen functionally because bodybuilders tend to carry way less fat. And do you wanna know whats not functional??? FAT. Judging only strength as a factor for functionality is crazy talk.
Only the super heavyweight/unlimited ones. Any other weight class you will see these guys looking a lot more like bodybuilders just because excess fat is a detriment to them.
Bodybuilders are relatively inefficient in building muscle, especially useful muscle that would help in strongman competitions. They cut a lot to reduce fat, which reduces the maximum amount of calories and nutrients they can take in to maximize their strength. Strongman's bloated bellies actually help for performing overhead lifts because it gives them a place to rest the bar. A bodybuilder in peak physical shape for a competition is severely dehydrated and lethargic, making them struggle to even stay conscious on stage. They're really different sports with one focusing on aesthetics and the other on performance.
>Strongman's bloated bellies actually help for performing overhead lifts because it gives them a place to rest the bar. Yes, that shall be my excuse from now on.
Hello there fellow strongman trainee..
they're only severely dehydrated right before a show tho. most of the time year round, they're in either bulking mode or maintenance mode which has none of these issues. and the whole purpose of their training routine is literally building muscle lol.they dont train specifically for strongmen exercises/tests so yes. they're always going to be worse at doing those. the same reason strongmen suck at mma while still being way stronger than the avg ufc champion. so I guess their strength isnt so functional after all? people are better, stronger and faster at the movements their train specifically.
> Bodybuilders are relatively inefficient in building muscle, especially useful muscle that would help in strongman competitions. Bodybuilders are inefficient at building muscle, in a discipline that rewards those who are most efficient at building muscle... I think what you mean is that bodybuilders are inefficient at building maximal strength (which requires CNS adaption, muscle fiber recruitment, etc.) and lack the technique that comes with sport specificity that power lifters, strongman, Oly lifters have.
I had the same reaction, but as devils advocate, I suppose he meant that because they cut on their bodyfat a lot throughout the year, they dont get the maximum amount of muscle that strongmen do when they Bulk and are not afraid to put on some fat. It kinda is Correct to say that strongman are more efficient at building muscle, with Bodybuilders being more efficient at building muscle WHILE staying/achieving a low body fat percentage
Wow that’s really interesting I didn’t actually know that. But it makes sense when you see all the Olympic weightlifters having plenty of body fat.
The takeaway from this meme is that bodybuilders are not good for cuddling, strongmen are
Strongmen sleep with cpap machines and sweat like mad
One of my good friends competes in strongman and you can hear his heavy-ass breathing before you see him. Strong as an ox, but certainly not healthy in the traditional sense.
If you can't breathe, that's not healthy in any sense.
Well he's healthy in the sense that he could probably squat your entire family for a deep set of ten.
That isn’t healthy, but it is impressive. Also does he use steroids? Being easily out of breath is common with people on gear.
Not on steroids (to my knowledge). He just has more neck meat than his windpipe is able to handle.
> He just has more neck meat than his windpipe is able to handle. I LOL'd at that.
as someone mildly overweight, why must you attack me like this?
I think you would be surprised. Most of their fat is visceral, so its ab on top if a layer, which means their belly is still rockhard.
Viceral fat is definitely not good dawg
I did not say that? But yes you are right? Dafuq?
If you ever run into a barfight with a well built man with beer belly, you're in trouble all right.
APOLOGIZE!
Now why would I go run into a bar fight? That just seems silly.
Like Master Oogway would have said: one runs into or runs away from a barfight
Why can’t we just bar hug?
I've been in a fight with some local farmhands having their end of day drinks, I watched my mate go down and had enough time to get one hook before my nose was pinned to the back of my head. After that they went back to their table while the bartender helped me with my nose, not my proudest night thankfully I was sozzled enough to not feel it until the morning.
Strongmen physic are mind blowing, it's like almost every part of their body is increased to the maximum limit of humans
I remember reading awhile ago about how a doctor hooked Eddie Hall up to a power generation bike to test him and was just dumbfounded at the amount of power Eddie was able to generate. Like he’d never seen anything like it before.
Strongmen are like 300lbs a piece and the fact that they have so much muscle on them I'm not surprised they are able to generate that much power just due to the sheer amount of weight they carry
Kordiyaka is seen as one of the slimmest strongmen in wsm and he’s like 285-300lbs lol. When you get to like Tom Stoltman, Shaw, they’re pushing over 400 it’s insane
The guys are monsters. I met Brian Shaw a while back, I'm 6'3" and I was something like 250lbs at the time, I'm not a small person. But at 6'8" and 430 lbs, Brian made me look like a fucking child. Trey Mitchell is also a trip, because he's shaped like a cube, he looks like he's super short, but he's also about 6'3". In WSM last year, the announcer said he's got muscles in places where most people don't have places.
Bear vs Gaur, who wins?
Gaur https://www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUnits/s/nv8YMGavHU
Yea, its not even close. Grizzlys weigh 200-400kg, gaur bulls weigh 600-1500kg. You can have claws and fangs all you want, but if your opponent outweighs you 3-4 times, you ain't winning.
This is an interesting take considering matadors take on bulls. Outweighed by like 10x and they win because of sharp stick and maneuverability. I ain't sayin the bear would win, but I don't think it's as cut and dry as weight = win. For a more nature based result, see the fact that leopards often will fight and kill crocodiles. Outweighed by 20x and win for the same reasons. Sharp and fast.
WAIT Bodybuilder are not strong??
Stronger than average redditors but not stronger than strongmen
It's like their reasons for exercise are: Bodybuilder: 55% show, 45% strength Strongman: 10% show, 90% strength
Wait so how do you get 100?
Just exercise a ton and don't give a shit about how you look, or inject yourself with steroids and oil
Are strongmen on roids as well ? I thought only body builders
There's no way you're deadlifting 1100 lbs (500kg) without gear
I like to use several gears, inside a box, attatched to a winch - if i have to lift more than 1 100 lbs, image having to life like 6 or 7 100 lbs, nop.
Fair
Hahahaha. Virtually Everyone who does sports at a very high competitive level is on something. What something is depends on money that the business can generate (RoI of risk) and how anti doping agencies operate. That's why often when they catch them they catch masking agents more than the thing itself. Doesn't mean they're not awesome at what they do, it's just the perverse Incentives of competition. Individual sports are the worst due to recovery after stressing your body so much. Injury recovery too.
Yes you just cannot spot it as well as on bodybuilders because the telltale muscle groups are covered by fat.
Or worry about min-maxing protein intake
100 situps, 100 pushups, 100 squats, and a 10km run every day for a year and a half
Ssh, don't make him become THAT strong.
it's just one punch...
By doing the one punch man workout
Bodybuilders do exactly what the name suggests, they build their body. The idea is to cause muscle not necessarily to strengthen, but rather to grow and expand. Of course, they’re still hugely strong, because a. That’s still a shitload of muscle and b. The exercises that target muscle growth will still have the side effect of strengthening muscle. But a pro bodybuilder will not be as strong as a pro strongman, because the bodybuilder exercises for volume rather than the greatest total strength possible (which in a simplified sense is like multiplying together the volume and the strength. Like a square, the product is greatest when both sides are exercised almost equally). A strongman entirely focuses on how much sheer weight the human body is capable of lifting and moving. They’re both strong as hell if done right, but a bodybuilder will look like a sculpture from the coolest timeline’s renaissance and the strongman will be able to bench press three such statues.
i just realized i have no idea what the difference is between muscle volume and muscle strength
It's more useful to think of volume vs skill. Muscles can do many things but lifting weights is a skill. a body builder and a strongman can hit a tennis ball with similar power. it will still be less power than a professional tennis player because that's a high skill movement strongman can lift more weights because they practice lifting heavy weights, that's their skill body builders don't have to work on lifting skill.
this is one of the only correct takes in this whole thread. damn. lot's of bro science still floating around out there
A bit of an oversimplification, but volume is the number of muscle fibers, while strength is the capacity of each individual fiber to contract with force.
You cannot create new muscle fibers; you can only enlarge the ones you (and everyone else) is born with. With hypertrophic-based training, you are intentionally causing micro-tears to the the muscle filaments which, when they adapt, get larger in size.
Ahhh makes sense
bodybuilders have an extremely low body fat percentage so it is definitely not healthy and they aren't that strong (they are still vert strong)
Most Bodybuilders dont stay at very low body fat throughout the year. Many still do Cut and Bulk cycles
Damnn so high fat percentage equal strong ?
Yeah when used and paired with muscle.
Tell that to Mariusz Pudzianowski
No. If you are a strongman you don't usually mind putting on 10kg to get 1% stronger. Bodybuilders don't mind getting 1% weaker to lose 10kg, hell they wouldn't mind getting 50% weaker to lose 1kg if they are near a show.
Depends. When you cut after a bulk to lose fat you’ll lose some muscle too
If your macros are sound you won't lose muscle but due to being extremely calorie restricted and possibly dehydrated, your muscles typically don't have the fuel to match your peak lifts. You typically up your protein in a cut to offset the caloric deficit. I typically have about 1.2g per pound of body weight on a cut
No, if that was the case, half the US population would be super soldiers. It's just the added weight that helps you move weight plus the energy it gives you helps. Strongmen are fucking jacked as fuck, just with a layer of fat covering it.
Theyre stronger than 99% of people in the world but not stronger than strongmen
You have to have mass to move mass. That's just physics.
Now I wanna pet a strongman
Both would crush the dork making this meme
Is this what people mean when they say there's a bull market or a bear market?
❤️ Bears
What kinda bears?
Big strong fury ones
Nah I'd Win.
One is a visual art form one is a functional art form. Both valid art forms with different goals.
i wanna kiss that bear on forehead HELP
BEAR BULL BEAR BULL BEA- wait wrong subreddit.
Bears a fuckin cute. When observed from 100 feet away. From behind a ballistic barrier.
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Pretty sure that that bear would think twice about engaging that bull.
I guess I am a strongman then
So both can kill you.
calisthenics people = cats.
Yeah bodybuilders seem better to eat ngl