how can muscles be big but not strong, like body builders vs rock climbers?
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Just to clarify, they are strong. There’s a strong correlation between muscle size and strength. Bodybuilders are very strong.
There’s relative and absolute strength, how strong you are relative to your body weight, and how strong you are period. Strongmen are massive because they have to lift the most weight possible, climbers are strong relative to their body weight, but they still get smoked by bigger people if we’re talking how much is being lifted.
Smaller people have more strength/bodyweight ratio, in powerlifting/weightlifting, you can find people lifting 3 to 4 times their bodyweight on certain lifts. That never happens for heavyweights, they lift a lot more but it might be like twice their bodyweight.
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