r/BeAmazed • u/Super_Steve117 • Feb 25 '25

Miscellaneous / Others Strength of a manual worker vs bodybuilders

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u/SoraXes Feb 25 '25

Oh god here comes the 40% Bodyfat guys coming in to talk about farmer strength.

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u/endlessfight85 Feb 25 '25

"all that working out to be dead by 40" - 350 pound redditor

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u/SoraXes Feb 25 '25

https://youtu.be/En0ToMGT5nQ?si=tvsaWfBTcyUzll2V

Always comes to mind

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u/drawfanstein Feb 25 '25

Don’t fucking scream at me!

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount Feb 25 '25

Also the farmer.

Especially previous generations.

Turns out black coffee, bacon grease, and cigarettes don't count as a good diet.

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u/Altruistic_Book8631 Feb 25 '25

What's wrong with black coffee?

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u/Key-Veterinarian-536 Feb 25 '25

“I want to get stronger but don’t want to look like I’m on steroids”

Motherfucker you need to do steroids to look like you are on steroids.. as well as train for years and lock in your diet. Imagine instead of looking for a magic answer online you went to the gym and did a twice weekly push pull routine.

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u/Cute_ernetes Feb 25 '25

I was in a thread where I was talking about how important strength training is for longevity and that really everyone should be doing it.

Some guy came in saying "He would, but would get too big from doing it and didn't want to look like some bodybuilder"

Bruh, if it was thay easy 70% of adults wouldn't be overweight/obese. CBum doesn't look like that because he does 30 minutes of "starting strength" every couple days

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u/SoraXes Feb 25 '25

People want excuses ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/jdilly701 Feb 25 '25

It’s all show muscle and fake steroid strength. Those muscles are all air and steroids and serve no real purpose /s.

But seriously, every single one of these posts is filled with a plethora of ignorant people giving their input on a sport they know nothing about. I hate to break it to them, but a decent sized bodybuilder is almost certainly stronger than an untrained, but naturally strong person. They’re just not as good at performing the tasks that the untrained person performs everyday.

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u/facttax Feb 25 '25

This video was actually cropped to hide them all blowing into their thumbs

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u/kaas_is_leven Feb 25 '25

gomu gomu nooo

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u/icantsurf Feb 25 '25

They always talk about functional strength, as if the smaller dude isn't performing an extremely specific lift. The body builders are almost always more well rounded in terms of "functional" strength.

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u/SoraXes Feb 25 '25

That thread was infuriating to read but it ways pops up when stuff like this gets to the front page.

Ignorant people use ‘farmer strength', ‘show muscle’, and 'steroids' excuses to put down others instead of putting in the effort themselves.

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u/Tren-Ace1 Feb 25 '25

Lol there’s already a comment with 1.2k likes saying he’d rather look like a farmer than Superman.

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u/SoraXes Feb 25 '25

While looking like a god damn teletubby no doubt

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u/Ikanotetsubin Feb 25 '25

They don't even know Superman grew up on a farm lmao

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u/Casanova-Quinn Feb 25 '25

I can hear them now... functional strength, fake steroid strength, show muscle...

All laughable phrases to anyone who seriously lifts weights.

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u/jdilly701 Feb 26 '25

I love it when meet day arrives and all the other lifters are those steroid using goofballs. Easy win, fake muscles can’t move real weight. /s

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u/Bear-ly-here Feb 26 '25

Hey! I didn’t say nothing! Stop mentioning me!

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u/SoraXes Feb 26 '25

Strength comes from: 1. Available muscle mass. 2. The nervous system's recruitment of muscle fibers to perform a lift.

People who lift weights have more muscle mass than the guy that worked at a farm. What the farm guy has is the body being used to perform a lift from constant repetition and so the body has mastered number 2.

The argument is never that the 70 year old guy isn't strong, it's that it's foolish to think that the bodybuilder is weaker. Having muscle mass would mean they would outperform the person without the same muscle mass over time.

In the gym, if a lifter changes the degree of incline benchpress, their working weight or reps would drop compared to what they're used to.

Farmer strength isn't real. And baseline what separates a person from being stronger than another? Genetics.

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