Exactly this. Otherwise muscle size is strongly correlated to strength. It's just that training is very specific.
And for some reason people only want to laugh at bodybuilders for this. They wouldn't make fun at a cyclist for being less good at running than a runner
Possibly. Again, it's about specificity. Powerlifters don't always look super big. Squat, Bench, Deadlift they might match if that's what they train. Curls, probably not.
If they have to, they could, and it would not take too long before their body adapts, and they are moving just as much as the laborer, if not more. They are already strong: They just need to practice moving cement bags. Another week or two, they will be good to go.
I was a mover when I did bodybuilding for a few years. Moving was my cardio and functionally strength training, then I would eat a few thousand calories and go bodybuild for an hour. Worked just fine (but the time and energy cost was immense)
Of course it can. And how do you think most of us commenting here would perform at carrying those bags for the first time? No doubt that we would do much worse.
So they already showed that their strength training help a lot. They would only need to develop some more specific strength to get better at this task. But it wouldn't take long. Now imagine how long it would take for the average redditor to train to carry these bags, even if they had a very specific workout
Eh. There's a reason athletes from basically every sport squat.
No, you won't put a bar across your back in soccer, but training the quads and glutes to lift a lot of weight is absolutely transferable to real life movements.
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He likely could. The key here is that this guy has extremely dense muscles. When worked long and slowly like a farmer/laborer would, the muscles don’t get all torn up, so they recover and grow in more or less the same continuous state. Body building causes tons of micro tears in your muscles that swell up due to inflammation during healing, and then are permanently bigger after healing due to being swollen during repairs.
You could almost think of it as the muscle version of having a wonky bone where a break healed incorrectly, but more complicated and has added benefits like adding mass which makes you better at fighting for mates and further working muscles out due to increased weight.
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u/Ex-Wanker39 Feb 25 '25
Its about specificity. Do you think the worker could curl, squat and bench as much as the bodybuilders?