I have a buddy who does power lifting and arm wrestling. I couldn't beat him even if he was asleep. But I'm a fence builder and carry 100lb bags of concrete about 30 times 200 ft away. My buddy couldn't last 10 minutes
But we each compliment that we couldn't do each other's job
This is it bruh. I see these posts about bodybuilders vs athletes all the time.
I've powerlifted, done sports, and now work manual labor.
You are good at what you train for, simple as that. Something like powerlifting or bodybuilding will give you a great base of strength as it did me. But you'd still have to train at something else for it to be effectively helpful at the other task.
Agreed that's why I'm always seeing gains after I change a sport or hobby, or even a exercise I'm trying to master.
Because I'm always focused on the weight loss I'm always amazed by the muscle, balance and capability I have when I change my routine every few months to try a different activity
Yup my buddy is a construction electrician. He spends his days pulling wires, carrying pipe around, moving heavy shit etc. when we used to work out together before I moved, I could lift heavier than him on squats, deadlift, whatever (except bench cause this man has johnny bravo chest). But I wouldn't last a day in his job.
Side note, he's the most helpful person ever for moving , dude can pick up anything and get it where it needs to be lol.
Years back my brother did a cross country bike trip. We have a history of running races together and usually are pretty evenly matched (same height similar weight). I’d been running but his cardio was way better than mine no question. Well we did a race about a week after he got back and I smoked him, just absolutely blew him out of the water. He had strong legs, great cardio, and was in peak shape for something like that, but he hadn’t been running. Within a month we were back to being evenly matched and that base he had actually helped him beat me at some races that next few months. The thing is he had to condition to running again.
You'll do better at hiking than most. As cardiovascular endurance and some increased leg strength will help. But you won't out hike someone who does a ton of hiking. Just like he won't outrun you but he will run better than someone who does neither.
Also, those enlarged muscles and lack of fat definitely means they gas quick. They might be able to learn to pick that stack up easier than the smaller guy, but I guarantee they won't be able to keep up with dude during a day. Big muscles require lots of fuel and lots of oxygen.
Training is very sport specific. Lance Armstrong ran a marathon after his racing career, and said it was the hardest thing he ever did. He had the cardiovascular capacity to finish among the first (even without juice), and he had endurance in his leg muscles, but not the right fibers in the leg muscles.
That's specifically a great way to get a tendon injury or stress fracture in the foot, but he had trouble sustaining the basic movement of running for that long.
To be fair, his struggling with a marathon was still an elite time.
He ran the NY Marathon for his first ever and ran a sub 3h, which at 35 already puts you in the elite category. He ran it again the next year at 2:45 finishing 698th/39,085 and 37 minutes behind the winner.
Sub 3h in your mid-late 30s is a ridiculous time for a marathon, especially without any real formal training to speak of specifically for running.
Why not use a wheelbarrow!?!?! 80-100 pound bag, 30 of them, 200ft? I've set many posts and you wheel that shit over and either have a bunch of posts ready to go and mix a bunch or you wheel that shit over and mix it at the single post. Why would anyone carry a bag 200 ft just to mix it anyways? Mix it in a bucket if that's the case and walk the bucket over, still less than 100 pound bag + water + waterever your mixing it in + mixer + mixing paddle. Like wtf?
Huh, i know for bodybuilding only the top 1% get paid enough to make a living out of it. Surprised its different for powerlifters assuming you’re not capping
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u/IronHuevos Feb 25 '25
I have a buddy who does power lifting and arm wrestling. I couldn't beat him even if he was asleep. But I'm a fence builder and carry 100lb bags of concrete about 30 times 200 ft away. My buddy couldn't last 10 minutes
But we each compliment that we couldn't do each other's job