now i understand this might come off as a simple question, but the more i thought about it, it really didn’t make sense. yes theyre eating +6k calories a day, so then why wouldnt it turn into something more useful like dense muscle with all the training their doing?
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>so then why wouldnt it turn into something more useful like dense muscle with all the training their doing?
It does, these guys are absolutely packed with dense muscle. If you ever see a strongman after they lose weight (Thor and Eddie Hall are good recent examples) they’re absolute units.
There are a couple of reasons for the “gut”. It’s normally not that large a layer of fat, their cores are absolutely packed with muscle to stabilise them through the lifts they do, with a healthy layer of fat over the top. It makes their midsections disproportionate.
They’re also training usually for 4+ hours a day, it makes sense for them to keep a calorie surplus, which can lead to fat gains. Bodybuilders “bulk” too when they’re training, then they go through quite a severe cut and dehydration to reduce their body fat % for competition, strongmen and powerlifters (specifically in the higher classes with no weight limit) don’t.
There’s also a bit of a scaling issue, most of these guys are *huge* – they’re giants. They’re massive even after they cut down, it’s not all fat, they’re just big blokes. They’re always going to look bigger than a normal reference human, especially given their unusual proportions.
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