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

Miscellaneous / Others Strength of a manual worker vs bodybuilders

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u/Ok_Donkey_1997 Feb 25 '25

When people say "strength" they usually aren't very clear if they mean the raw strength in your muscles, or the ability to actually get a strength-based task done.

The thing with lifting is that you need to be able to do a bunch of stuff like estimating the weight of the thing you are lifting before you actually lift it, know how to get under the centre of gravity, get a proper grip, make sure the object follows a relatively direct path upwards, all sorts of stuff is going to make the difference between succeeding and failing.

Some of this is difficult to learn, and some of it is actually quite easy. You could fail spectacularly at a lift the first time you try it, take a few minutes to assess where you went wrong and then nail it.

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u/No-Helicopter1111 Feb 25 '25

the video clip makes it very clear, the big guys are holding cement awkwardly, the worker isn't.

I'm sure if the big guys got a shift doing this stuff, they'd be up to 4 bags per delivery before the days out...

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u/Ok_Donkey_1997 Feb 25 '25

Yeah, this is all very obvious stuff, but for some reason people want to turn it into some kind of scene from a kung-fu film. Like the humble, regular workers must have some kind of ki or magical ligament power.

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u/Cliffinati Feb 26 '25

Replace a steel barbell and weights with aluminum or painted wood of the same size and watch people nearly jump through the roof with it