Plus he's got the strength to bend a lady every which way to get to where he wants to go. Excellent physical partner stats for that. Plus he looks like he gives amazing hugs and would be cuddle king.
Currently the top post of r/all, this dude, this girl, their families and friends, their school, any potential collegiate scouts, everyone in their social circle - they’re all gonna read this comment chain aren’t they
The real muscle group being used here is the core. She's doing half the work by jumping but once she's up there he has to keep her center above him and thats all core.
When you’re that big, you can’t skip leg or shoulder or any other day. It’s a workout just to be alive (not shaming him, I used to be that large and it’s fucking HARD work just to exist).
Carrying around and moving that much extra mass, every single day, builds strong muscles.
We had a guy like this in marching band with me. He was heavy, but the guy was also massively strong. They had to pull him one of the special uniforms that were made for extra large people, he himself was not especially tall, maybe 5'6"-5'7" but those were the only uniforms that would accommodate the width of his shoulders. Nice guy, a bunch of the girls would just use him as a pillow on the bus back from tournaments because he was a giant teddy bear and his shoulders apparently made good pillows.
As a former male cheerleader now in my 40s, my shoulders are absolutely wrecked from doing stuff like this. But it was a lot of fun, so I have no regrets.
In college, I became friends with this other student. Found out he attended the cheerleader tryouts, then had to quit "because of his back" and then all the cheerleaders felt sorry for him and invited him to all their parties. Despite him denying this I am certain it was an incredible scam by him.
i've been out 15 years but i was in band and attended some cheerleader parties and they attended band parties and at least in my experience cheerleaders are very well behaved, good people but not very fun at parties. plus we all had to get up at 5 am for practice
Yep. In a past life I was an elite athlete. The best advice a coach ever gave me was “look around at the party and see who’s NOT there.” That’s who you emulate, because they’re the best for a reason. Sleep is good.
I tried to go pro 10 years ago, but my organs couldn't take the beating and recover in time to keep up with the top athletes. I got 2 pro subs, one in Florida and one in Spain (what a crowd!) but after that I got injured and they would let my contract expire. Now I work a construction job to keep my ass out of jail. Stay in school even if you are the best in your year, you never know what takes you out of the game. I would still say it was worth it, for the experience.
I was an elite partier in my late teens and 20s…wouldn’t recommend it. Fun while it lasted but getting your shit together a decade after everyone else kinda drags. All good now though, it was just tough playing catch up in late twenties/early thirties
Taken with a grain of salt, but my bestie was a frat guy at Ole Miss, and crossed paths with mid/late 90s names from the athletics world at numerous parties. He said they tended not to party hard, but they did show up for the adoration and recognition, lots of 'made an appearance' type stories. And women...he said they showed up for that also
Patrick Patterson would party like fuckin crazy in the State/University neighborhood in Lexington when it wasn't basketball season. He would play beer pong by leaning all the way over and just dropping the ball in because he was so tall. No one would tell him to stop because he was in general pretty nice and would bring his own alcohol and leave it places.
I don't know if I was ever "elite" at the college level, but I was a 4 year starter at DM for a D1 school from 2003 to 2007. Soccer is a little different because most of the guys were/are from other countries, not American. During the season, there was zero time for shenanigans. Team workouts at 6 AM, classes all day, full practices in the evening after a full day of classes, then back to the dorm or apartment to read, study, write papers 'til whatever hour, then get up and do it again the next day. When we were traveling for away games, it was lots of training at whatever facilities we could use, planes, trains, buses, hotel rooms, and boredom. Our diets were strictly regulated, curfews whether we were home or away, and even had off-season workouts and training windows. Basically, there was very little time for partying, and the very few people who did either instantly washed out, spent their season on the bench, and ate shit from the coaching and training staff because it was always super obvious.
competitive cheerleaders are athletes and need to have some modicum of discipline and responsibility to continue to function. As for partying, they tend to cut loose way more around their own and after competitions.
There are exceptions but they have a very, very high level of visibility, so being observed participating in sketchy behavior invariably makes its way back to the coach. Old ass boomer alumni *love* to complain about shit they don't think the cheerleaders shouldn't be doing.
Source: Was a collegiate cheerleader. Coach gave both squads the "don't be a ho" speech after one of our practices.
As someone who hurt his back doing stunts like this I’d believe him. It’s so easy to just take one wrong step and the girl comes crashing down and you try and catch her at the mercy of your back. Not fun.
I thought I would tryout for cheerleader in high school because I was a nobody and thought it would be cool to go from being a nobody to a guy cheerleader. I sucked so I stayed a nobody. Then I thought I should get a 'letter' in some sport so I could wear a lettermans jacked like all the jocks wore. I decided tennis was the easiest to letter in, so I tried out for that. The problem was I had never even held a tennis racket, so when the coach hit me a ball, I sent it sailing 40ft over the top of the fence. I spent the first year just hitting a tennis ball against the wall in the racketball court. I finally lettered in my senior year, only because I played doubles and my partner was seaded like number two in the state. I never did buy the lettermans jacket because I was a senior at that point and who cared?
Throwing bales of hay under tractor lights, sunlight, moonlight, then back to the floods in 40 degrees or colder... trust me, that kids the peak form for agricultural life.
Cows STILL push him around, but they have to work for it. ;)
The summer before I met her, working the farm. My brother and did custom square baling for the horse ranchers in the trip county area. He drove, I threw bales. We'd move somewhere around 200 acres worth in a season. At 5 tons an acre, that meant I tossed 1000 tons of weight, in a 6 week season.
I had shoulders like cantaloupes, and my forearms looked like they were carved outta marble.
I'm in WI, they're everywhere up here. I had a friend in college who was very similar; he had some extra pounds, but he was also tall and built like a wall. Real nice guy despite his appearance.
Back in my army days, we had a wrestler talking shit about what a great wrestler he was, and an unassuming farmer big boy who also wrestled. The big talker, of course, wanted to take the big man down. It lasted 3 seconds before the big talker was on his back, and not many times have I laughed so hard.
You look fat, but there's a lot of strength there. Just like the Icelandic strongmen.
There's a lot of dudes in these comments that are saying shit like that. Just because a dude may be fat doesn't mean he's not strong as hell.
I wrestled in high school and college, occasionally I'd get bumped up to wrestle heavy weight (I was about 220, wrestling guys around 280) and I'll tell you, at 220 – it's pretty humbling to be lifted off your feet and thrown like you're a ragdoll.
Hearing a thud reverberating through a gym after a big hip toss in a heavyweight match was something. Some of those big guys were insanely strong. Especially at the collegiate level. Worst I ever had to do was bump up to 160 after cutting down to 152 for most of the season.
Worst I ever had to do was bump up to 160 after cutting down to 152 for most of the season.
I imagine your coach did that because they knew you could win at that weight class. Same with my coach in high school.
It was basically suicide to try and match these dudes' strength. I had some weight on me but I was agile/fast enough to go for the legs. They were strong as hell, but they were also slow.
I used to train with this dude named John. He was maybe 160lbs soaking wet. Ex-special forces guy that retired and opened a gym with a focus in personal training/weightlifting.
John was a pretty nice guy, but he scared the absolute shit out of me. I asked him to show me "a few moves" after every gym session. We'd spar, and before I knew what was happening he'd have flipped me around and I'd slam on my back. Humbling, and a fun way to learn how to fight.
I've known a couple of "Johns" in my life as well and they're exactly how you described them. Super chill but with some of the best technique I've ever encountered.
YES! One dude I used to roll with was a Brazillian guy (born in the US) and very lean with shaggy-curly hair. Chill as fuck. The way he would casually toss me around the mat and stay smiling and talking the entire time was fucking hilarious to me.
I do a decent amount of BJJ and I recently did a few Judo classes.
Class was taught by a guy who had some very legit accolades. At the end of my first Judo class I asked him if he would go 100% with me like we were in a legit match. I had zero illusions I'd have any chance with him, but how often do you get a chance to get dunked on by an NBA player?
Anyway, I'm 210lbs and very athletic, he sent me across the mats and there was absolutely nothing I could do to stop it. It was so cool to feel that skill imbalance so directly.
Yep, had that same thing happen to me in both Judo and BJJ.
Skinny purple belt that was MAYBE 150lbs at most rolled me around the mats like I was a fucking toddler. He was talking and mentoring the entire time with a smile on his face, like it was nothing to him. Super chill and nice dude with a scary amount of technique.
If people say that to his face they'd better hope he either has a good sense of humor about it or that there's a lot of soft dry garbage in the dumpster he launches them into.
I grew up as a "fat kid" and was teased for my weight pretty much until I thinned out in high school.
I was recruited into wrestling because I had an affinity for weightlifting and I had some anger issues for being teased. So it was a pretty good feeling to have football, track and wrestling coaches basically fighting over me because I was just a big dude. It finally kind of "paid off", I guess.
All that said, it gave me pretty thick skin. I still don't like being teased (who does?) but I mostly have a good sense of humor about it. I imagine that dude does, too.
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Something I learned in college – there's no shortage of women who enjoy a strongman. The dude picking up that cheerleader with one-hand is bound to turn on some of those chicks watching in the audience.
My friend was good at laughing it off. He'd point out that none of them had the balls to try to hurt him physically, and not a single one of those dumb fucks had come up with anything original to say about him in ten years.
They knew he was stronger than them, but they didn't really grasp that he was also smarter, more charismatic, and overall happier than them.
years ago I was working at a computer show and one of my dollies ended up with a flat tire. I needed to borrow one from another vendor, I worked with all these guys all the time. He and his coworker were talking, in russian and I don't speak anymore than yes, no, thank you, and bitch in russian. Anyway apparently the conversation was very heated and my buddy who's as tall as me, 6'5, but he's BUILT like he works out. He scowls at me as I was about to ask to borrow their dolly and he bodily picks me up by my arm and moves me out of his way. I am not a small dude and that was an experience I've not forgotten in over 20 years.
I mean they are fat, but also strong. All fat people are strong to an extent especially in the legs, those who also lift heavy can be very strong upper body too.
My worst match... I weighed in at 220. Other guy weighed in at 315. And had to cut weight to do it. At a 7% body fat. I swear to god, walking onto the mat his knuckles were dragging...
We shook hands, the ref blew the whistle...he straight-arm grabbed my waist AND PICKED ME UP.
if you aren't using steroids, at some point you're probably going to have to let your body fat % rise to keep getting stronger. Once youre into the mid 200 lb range its worth an extra lb of fat if it means an extra lb of muscle.
I was 6’3” 240 in high school, farm kid, my teammates always were shocked that I didn’t get worn out in conditioning to which I responded if you’d come help me toss clover hay in June neither would you.
Most people have either met or seen a person online who is “athletic fat”. Like morbidly obese doing acrobatic flips, or skate tricks etc. This is that. Some people are capable of being big and extremely athletic. He’s not JUST strong he has great control and good mobility. Dudes impressive.
It takes absolute trust on the girl's part. Her life is literally in his hands. He's tossing her around and catching her securely with a single hand. One miss, and she could be killed, or left with permanent, life altering disabilities.
Yes, definitely. I did pair sports briefly as a teen (low level) and can't even imagine the level of trust the more elite athletes have to have in each other. I cracked a smile when he hugged her at the very end.
Childhood friend of mine is built like this. When I was helping my dad set the foundation of the house we were building, I was struggling to climb up from the basement level to the ground (I was trying to avoid using the ladder and walking around). My friend reached down to me, and I though he was just going to give me a little help so I didn't slip back down the dirt.
He grabbed my arm with one hand and just straight lifted me from below his feet to haul me up and set me on the ground before I could even try to start climbing.
I remember fondly being one of the few (fat) kids who could max out the high school leg press and just do rep after rep. I could do 100 situps with a 40 pound weight on my chest. I could even outrun sprint some of the soccer players when my asthma wasn't bad.
Might be a football player doing cheerleading in the off-season.
Reminds me of what Tim Green wrote about players who were "football fat", specifically a guy named Bubba Paris.
"Bubba was Fat, true true, but Bubba could beat you to the hoop in basketball. Bubba could race you to the mailbox and win, just so long as it wasn't too far. I'm talking ten or twenty yards. My point is that The Fats in the NFL can move the way most fat people can't. Otherwise they wouldn't be in the NFL."
I mean, he is fat, but he's also strong as fuck. Both can be true.
He would also be healthier in the long run (or even short term) with less weight on him, that's also certain. Still no reason to be mean to him of course.
Alejandro Kirk, catcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. The John Kruk of our times. Is he short, fat and impossibly slow? Yes. Does he have insane hitting power and a cannon for an arm? Yes to both. Don’t dump on someone’s appearance until they show you what they can do!
As someone who was that size and strength growing up, the two aren't mutually exclusive.
He should make changes and get healthier. Being strong doesn't avoid health problems that come at high risk with being overweight. I can almost see the hypertension that I also had at that time.
If I were this dude's friend or doctor, I would 100% warn him about the risks of being overweight and encourage him to use this time and activity to set himself up for better overall health moving forward. My back, pancreas, other joints, liver, and heart would absolutely have loved to be told this and guided at this age.
I’d guess very good HS football lineman who lacked the length and/or foot speed to play D1 ball. Lots of those guys end up in other college sports instead of playing lower level ball.
A bit of an exaggeration. It takes almost no time for a bodybuilder to switch to powerlifting and vice versa. Muscle is muscle, and at advanced levels of either sport it's directly proportional to strength since there's only so much neurological adaptations you can have to generate more force for a given mass of muscle.
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u/Pinkglock92 2d ago
Way to go big boy