Are fat people strong ?

MooseJam

So I was out and about today and was noticing all the fat people, not just plump I'm talking hippo size, and some of them have massive arms , even the woman had enormous arms, like two times bigger than mine, anyway is that just fat or would these people have some serious strength ?

Tar.Aldarion

Yep.


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Hanley

Tara Le d'Arion wrote: »

Yep.


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+1

It's all down to better leverages really.

carbsy

+1

Al_Fernz

I remember seeing an article a while ago by Kelly Baggett that quoted a study [source needed] exploring the amount of muscle gained by sedentary individuals on weight gaining diets. The study concluded that 35% of the mass gained by the sedentary individuals was muscle.

Also a big belly is very beneficial in quite a few lifts because of leverages.

Money Shot

Obviously a fat person will be a lot stronger than a skinny person.

You do get stronger the more weight you put on, but how much stronger you get will depend on training etc.,

rubadub

A big guy walking around all day is similar to a normal guying doing farmers walks everywhere they go! Swinging your arms while walking is like doing curls.

Try walking up the stairs with a 100kg extra every time you do it. Many must have huge leg muscles, this is the one advantage I can see some people having, if you have always been big you should have a lot of muscle, if you do adequate resistance training and shed the fat you could have a lot of muscle already there underneath and be able to keep it, or at least some of it. Many professional lifters & strongmen are fat.

Who would be quicker going up a stairs, an untrained 20stone man giving a 10stone man a piggy back, or a trained 10stone man giving a 20stone man a piggyback

Roper

I'm pretty sure that people who are clinically obese might sacrifice some of their strength gains for a bit of weight loss though... maybe.

Mind you, my missus finds those shows like "I had a 40 inch colon" and "The Boy with the Basketball sized head" compulsive viewing. One night I walked in and she was watching the 80 stone man, or something. By the rationale in this thread, he could well be the strongest man in the world. I was feeling sorry for him when they had to remove the wall of his house to get him out, but now I'm sort of jealous and hope I never have to lift beside him in the weight room.

Hanley

Roper wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that people who are clinically obese might sacrifice some of their strength gains for a bit of weight loss though... maybe.

Mind you, my missus finds those shows like "I had a 40 inch colon" and "The Boy with the Basketball sized head" compulsive viewing. One night I walked in and she was watching the 80 stone man, or something. By the rationale in this thread, he could well be the strongest man in the world. I was feeling sorry for him when they had to remove the wall of his house to get him out, but now I'm sort of jealous and hope I never have to lift beside him in the weight room.

Wow. No exaggeration there.

NOBODY is saying just getting fat is gonna make you super strong. But having some meat on your bones, and yes, a bit of a gut WILL make you stronger than a skinny person of the same training age.

Roper

Note to self. Even when you think emoticons aren't necessary to show you're joking, they may well be.

Hanley

Roper wrote: »

Note to self. Even when you think emoticons aren't necessary to show you're joking, they may well be.

A specific sarcasm font may work too?

MagicMarker

well, i've always been a big guy...

My very first time at the gym lifting weights was when i was 16.. I was with a friend who. at the time, had been training for about 6 months to a year. He was well built/muscular but i was bigger in height and weight (albeit fat). I was almost able to match his lifts, and he said that what i was lifting was over double what he lifted when he first started.

Tar.Aldarion

All I've learned from this thread is that fat people are stronger than Roper.

corkonian1

Hanley wrote: »

Wow. No exaggeration there.

NOBODY is saying just getting fat is gonna make you super strong. But having some meat on your bones, and yes, a bit of a gut WILL make you stronger than a skinny person of the same training age.

Yeah but surely there is not a straight line connection between weight and "strength" as we define it. The additional strength is required to move you about, no?

Roper

Hanley wrote: »

A specific sarcasm font may work too?

Or maybe just enough savvy to know that when someone says 40 inch colon they're probably being sarcastic...

Dragan

This is going nowhere fast.

Closing it down rather than let it get to the point where people are getting infracted.