1,000,000 lbs a year...is this true

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matthias1891

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Hey, so a co-worker of mine says he read an article that bodybuilders need to "move" 1,000,000 lbs/year to become a bodybuilder/get ripped. To me this makes NO sense. Maybe he has the numbers incorrect, maybe I don't understand. I mean I weigh 205lbs, so in theory every step I take I'm moving 205lbs. 5000 steps x 205 = 1,025,000 lbs...I walk more than that every day, and I ain't no bodybuilder, lol.

Has anyone else read this or heard of something like this? Or is my coworker on dope??

Matthias
 
That sounds like an oversimplification. Sure, if anyone were to count each step they took as "moving" their weight and add it up, it were certainly reach extremely high numbers, but that alone has nothing to do with body building

Your coworker is probably thinking about moving weight in terms of adding up the amount of weight they lift during training and anything else along those lines. That's still oversimplifying it, though. Body building involves way more factors than that.
 
If a bodybuilder does 3x10 squats once a week at 400lb for 50 weeks, that's 600,000lb alone. That's not even progressing on the lift, which obviously they should be, nor is it that epic a squat (I mean, sure, to a weak runt like me it's pretty epic, but I think most good bodybuilders would be squatting 400-600lb, and of course high level, high weight powerlifters have been known to squat 1,000lb or more), and that's only for one exercise. When you factor in all the other exercises that a bodybuilder would be doing throughout the week, and progression, I'd expect much more than 1,000,000lb of external weights to be shifted across the year.

ETA: Of course, in reality it's not worth thinking about how many thousands or millions of pounds you could move across 12 months. What is worth thinking about is how many pounds can you move with good technique right now, and how can you improve on that next week/month/year.
 
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