A 'strenght' question

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JackShephard

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Right - sorry if this is obvious but I have to ask :)

You see these shows about the 'strongest man' or the 'ultimate fighter'. As a society we seem obsessed to know who is the 'best' and produce 'ladders' of who is the most what.

But isn't evident that if you take 2 men:
- who are roughly the same age
- are the exact same height
- have the same bodyfat %
- have roughly the same proportions
- BUT one of them weights 20 kilos more than the other guy

... that considering the identical bodyfat %, the 'heavier' one would be 'stronger' by default?

Aren't strength levels factored in most exclusively by muscle mass? Meaning, if I have bigger biceps than you, I'll curl more than you?

Please feel free to answer 'well, duh' - but I'm really curious :)
 
Not necessarily. When I started powerlifting, every woman could lift way more than I could because they had been doing it for 5 years and I had just started out. Our measurements were pretty similar, but pound for pound, they were way stronger than I was. And I weighed more than most of them, which was very humbling ;)

I think it all boils down to training and technique and how densely the muscle fiber is packed.

Although with men, right-of-way/dominance is usually determined through tonnage :D
 
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