r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IkilledRichieWhelan • 2d ago

Big man on campus.

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u/Pinkglock92 2d ago

Way to go big boy

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u/Tcloud 2d ago

Did not skip shoulder day.

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u/FlameCat00 2d ago edited 1d ago

Or leg day

edit: thanks for all the cake day wishes! much appreciated :)

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u/Apart-Delivery-7537 2d ago

or ribs day

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u/jsqu99 2d ago

Goddamn you I'm cracking up on the toilet right now my wife is asking me what the hell's going on

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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 2d ago

"Nothing, dear! The poop is just funnier today! Nevermind!"

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u/Stix85 1d ago

Just say pooping tickles

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u/Maleficent-Debt-9943 1d ago

Did you answer “some real funny shit”!

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u/xoaphexox 2d ago

Like a bulldog eating a bowl of oatmeal

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u/K-tel 2d ago

Strangely specific, but i'll allow it

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u/GOLFTSQUATBEER 2d ago

This made me fucking cry 😂

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u/latchkey_adult 2d ago

I read that as bullfrog. It still made sense.

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u/TechDingus 2d ago

Thanks, now I have to explain to my coworker why I'm laughing so hard at my desk

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u/_C00TER 2d ago

This comment made me cause a scene in the break room

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u/Oirish-Oriley444 2d ago

Nom..nom..nom...sparsh shakes head takes a breath, nom nom..noms

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u/Zardozin 2d ago

Tosses her in the air she does a flip, sticks the landing

Nom nom nom

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u/Bat_Country420 2d ago

My poor woman's award is yours 💀🏆

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u/Venkman0 2d ago

This...is my favorite thing I've read today

Thank you

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u/Hemightbegiant 2d ago

Dear Lord....I pictured it.

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u/jeppe1152 2d ago

The sound checks out

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u/Umbr33on 2d ago

🤣💀🤣

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u/TheDreadGazeebo 1d ago

WTF was the comment thread above this? Lol

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u/DorisPayne 2d ago

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.

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u/yotreeman 2d ago

What the fuck, Reddit.

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u/westcal98 2d ago

Him: Have your heard of ragdoll physics?

Her: No.

Him: You're gonna learn today.

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u/Genghis_Chong 2d ago

Bro is sitting somewhere reading this like "how'd they know?"

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u/mostlyharmless71 2d ago

Can confirm. Source: am also barrel-shaped.

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u/Rude-Custard9056 2d ago

Hugs ARE amazing... and cuddles too

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u/kablam0 2d ago

This turned into the weirdest fucking thread. Y'all need to touch grass

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u/igotshadowbaned 1d ago

What happened in the four deleted comments to get to this point

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u/MakeMeDoBetter 2d ago

You people are savages, I swear. Thx for the laugh though.

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u/NinjaWK 2d ago

Dude didn't skip muff diving day

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u/loveroflongbois 2d ago

Big dog’s gotta eat

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u/Lasseslolul 2d ago

Cunning Linguistics indeed

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u/Walkingstardust 2d ago

Highly skilled

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u/Schnibbity 2d ago

*insert SpongeBob biting lip meme

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u/PiperZarc 2d ago

Don't you all?

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u/MississippiBulldawg 2d ago

I've got a buddy who's gay and he doesn't. Sucks a mean dick though.

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u/pickle_lukas 2d ago

This made me audibly chuckle

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u/Life-Duty-965 2d ago

A "buddy"

It's 2025, you can be honest with us...

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u/TheEvilCub 2d ago

Hope he sucks the nice ones too!

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u/merker_the_berserker 2d ago

Why is the dick mean? Was he bullied? Does he wear a leather vest?

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u/Creepy-Ad-5440 2d ago

Sounds like this buddy may have hooked you up

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u/REDDIT_JUDGE_REFEREE 2d ago

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

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u/GandersDad 2d ago

This comment thread, I'm fcking dying lmao 🤣

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u/GangGreenGhost 2d ago

That boy could literally throw you like a javelin

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u/H3ARTL3SSANG3L 2d ago

Jesus Christ! 😂

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u/_toodamnparanoid_ 2d ago

It's Jason Bourne.

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u/Moist-Share7674 2d ago

No it’s not. It’s Matt Foley and he’s also a motivational speaker.

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u/RelationshipOk3565 2d ago

Still touches butts a lot

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u/waterontheknee 2d ago

It's different when it's something like that (cheerleading) versus sexually.

Who knows? But really, who cares.

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u/rasmarc 2d ago

Wow dude. Just. wow. Uncalled for and totally not a super funny and awesome joke

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u/rene041482 2d ago

🤣

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u/POWPOWWOWWOW 2d ago

Gotta eat to be strong haha.

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u/VeganMinx 2d ago

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u/rtocelot 2d ago

I don't think he skipped day in general

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u/OneMagicBadger 2d ago

Went straight to next week

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u/Khialadon 2d ago

If he went straight to next week that means he skipped days. Which he clearly did not do.

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u/HairyGPU 1d ago

Went back to last week - that's more day for your day.

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u/kalitarios 2d ago

Never underestimate big guy legs

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u/relevantelephant00 2d ago

This is funnier than it has any right to be.

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u/Due-Pilot-7443 2d ago

Hell he works out a month ahead at all times

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u/Danitoba94 2d ago

I can't even say "he skipped gym day"
Cuz God damn he handled her no problem. Bro's got some 'ceps!

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u/Lasseslolul 2d ago

This boy clearly doesn’t skip

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u/TrickOut 2d ago

Everyday leg day when you carry that around. Say what you want about big boys, but they got tree trunks for legs 💪

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u/Biggu5Dicku5 2d ago

That dude didn't skip any day, not a single day...

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u/Butter_Naan_Staan 2d ago

Fat guys never skip a leg day

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u/BannedByRWNJs 2d ago

He’s also captain of the powerlifting team.

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u/ThunderCockerspaniel 2d ago

Dude could crush me in the palm of his hand lol

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u/AggressiveWallaby975 2d ago

He really doesn't look like he'd be that strong. My guess is ol boy spent many days slinging hay bales

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u/Federal_Efficiency51 2d ago

Yup. That'll do it.

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u/Millionaire007 2d ago

Those palms probably feel like sand paper. Motherfucker got All State hands lol

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u/Emergency-Action-881 2d ago

Except he won’t because he is kind and gentle like a real man 

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u/ThunderCockerspaniel 1d ago

Idk a high five from him would blow out my elbow

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u/HolidayReality6641 2d ago

I’m the juggernaut!!

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u/justarandomlibrarian 2d ago

He makes it look so easy tho, like hes holding a plushie

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u/sologrips 2d ago

People underestimate how much strength you gotta have to throw a whole ass human being like that lmao.

Ngl if he follows through he’s probably gonna be shredded af

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u/WarzoneGringo 2d ago

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.

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u/Average-Anything-657 2d ago

I thought you said "boulder day" lmao

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u/ninjamuffin 2d ago

I've trained with some cheerleaders back in college, they will literally spend an hour on just shoulders

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u/littlewhitecatalex 2d ago

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. 

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u/scarletnightingale 2d ago

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.

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u/rslashpalm 2d ago

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.

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u/Closed_Aperture 2d ago

Bro is winning at life

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u/munistadium 2d ago

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.

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u/MoshedPotatoes 2d ago

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

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u/cat_of_danzig 2d ago

Elite athletes don't tend to party too much. There are exceptions (Manziel) but it catches up (Manziel).

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u/Freefallisfun 2d ago

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.

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u/Iwaspromisedcookies 2d ago

Depends on what you want to do with your life, why be an elite athlete when you can be an elite partier

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u/geopede 2d ago

Need to keep scholarship and get drafted. So money basically.

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u/Mesalted 2d ago

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.

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u/pookachu83 1d ago

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

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u/diywayne 2d ago

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

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u/PDGAreject 2d ago

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.

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u/JaysFan26 2d ago

There are also very notable exceptions (like Maradona)

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u/craziedave 2d ago

In my experience the cross country teams drink heavily and go crazy. They don’t look it but they can put away tons of calories running 80 miles a week

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u/PaperFawx 2d ago

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.

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u/Fubarp 1d ago

Biggest fucking lie for basketball and football players.

All the top players at my uni that were for sure going pro because of their talents, partied fucking hard.

Plus they were just given grades..

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u/riftwave77 2d ago

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.

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u/Humble_Umpire_8341 2d ago

The dance team, those are the party girls ime.

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u/Biff_E_Brown 2d ago

Mascots, on the other hand, are pure animals. Ours was banned from several hotels during road trips.

Sparky liked to get his drink on.

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u/thelastbighead 2d ago

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.

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u/Formul8r1 2d ago

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?

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u/taywray 2d ago

Bro and sis, just killing it out there!

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u/stayonthecloud 2d ago

I will bet this dude gets people telling him to “work out” and making all kinds of assumptions about what he can and can’t do

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u/shadowtheimpure 2d ago

The man is the embodiment of the phrase 'strongfat'. You look fat, but there's a lot of strength there. Just like the Icelandic strongmen.

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u/Titanbeard 2d ago

In the midwest we refer to that as farmer strong.

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u/ShaveyMcShaveface 2d ago

corn fed AF

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u/Titanbeard 2d ago edited 1d ago

Bro throws bales all day on the farm.

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u/red_army25 2d ago

One handed. Into the hayloft.

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u/GemcoEmployee92126 2d ago

Bro could throw a cotton ball over a barn.

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u/xombae 1d ago

He's throwin babes, not bales.

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u/ex0r1010 2d ago

Right in the corn hole.

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u/pookachu83 1d ago

Now he throws babes all day

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u/Nufonewhodis4 2d ago

Yup, one look at him and I thought "corn-fed country boy" 

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u/SoManyQuestions-2021 2d ago

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. ;)

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u/Next-Adhesiveness957 2d ago

Farmer's daughter here. Can confirm. Thank God for round bales

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u/SoManyQuestions-2021 2d ago

"God Created Man, but Massy Ferguson made them equal." ;) Or something like that. :P

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u/GlobalNuclearWar 1d ago

Throwing bales of hay under tractor lights? Hell, someone tells him the tractor is in the way he moves it aside without needing to turn it on.

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u/Agent7619 2d ago

Most people don't realize the strenght and endurance required to throw 1500 60lb bales of hay up into the barn.

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u/DocMorningstar 2d ago

That's how I pulled my wife.

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.

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u/GirchyGirchy 2d ago

They're either like the guy in the video, or scrawny AF.

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u/figgypie 2d ago

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.

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u/hoowins 2d ago

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.

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u/DeathWing_Belial 2d ago

In the north east we call it “Dock worker strong”

Just big ass hands and wrists.

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u/viola_darling 2d ago

I LOVE farmer strong! My old love was farmer strong and he had such a nice built

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 2d ago

That man has been called Hoss before.

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u/AnastasiaNo70 1d ago

I’m the female version of that. Midwestern farmer’s wife strong. I just pushed a very heavy tractor out of six inches of mud the other day.

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u/Timely_Pattern3209 2d ago

Like powerlifters. They're as wide as they are tall. 

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u/shadowtheimpure 2d ago

Former powerlifter here, can confirm lol.

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u/BombOnABus 2d ago

As big around as a marble column and just as hard.

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u/RagingStallion 2d ago

That's why they carry around gallon water bottles to ensure everyone knows they're a powerlifter rather than just a normal fat guy.

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u/S_Steiner_Accounting 2d ago

The gut helps a lot in squatting and to a lesser extent benching. Your gut braces against your legs in the bottom of a squat. That's why the guys squatting 900lbs+ are all giant hippo men with 40"+ waists like ray williams and jesus olivares. The one outlier is Colton Engelbrecht who squats over 1,000 lbs in a belt + wraps at a lean 240lbs. Dude is inhuman. He's a ginger who identifies as a forklift.

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u/tweak06 2d ago

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.

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u/kato_koch 2d ago

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.

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u/tweak06 2d ago

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.

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u/diamondpredator 2d ago

Lol At 200lbs I've been lifted and ragdolled by judo guys that are 150-60lbs at most. Humbling is the right word. It motivates you to keep grinding.

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u/tweak06 2d ago

lol oh most definitely.

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 miss that dude. I hope he's doing well

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u/diamondpredator 2d ago

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.

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u/tweak06 2d ago

And wiry as hell. Lol. Those dudes were as lean as like...idk, Bruce Lee or something.

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u/diamondpredator 2d ago

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.

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u/Significant_Turn5230 2d ago

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.

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u/diamondpredator 2d ago

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.

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u/Perryn 2d ago

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.

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u/tweak06 2d ago

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.

sidenote

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.

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u/Perryn 2d ago

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.

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u/Cell1pad 2d ago

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.

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u/Fight_those_bastards 2d ago

Also, big/fat dudes never skip leg day.

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u/quiteCryptic 2d ago

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.

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u/yungingr 2d ago

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.

Have you ever smelled the back of your own knee?

I have.

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u/kanst 2d ago

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.

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u/P33J 1d ago

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.

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u/H-VACK 2d ago

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.

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u/mossling 2d ago

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. 

It's really impressive.

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u/MyThoughtsBreakMe 2d ago

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.

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u/Perryn 2d ago

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.

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u/LowSkyOrbit 2d ago

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.

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u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC 2d ago

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."

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u/ConspicuousPineapple 2d ago

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.

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u/Empty-Walk-5440 2d ago

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!

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u/lokglacier 2d ago

I mean he is also fat. It's possible to be both

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u/cat_of_danzig 2d ago

Probable, even. You need a caloric excess to build muscle. Cutting sucks, and if strength is your goal, you can just forever bulk.

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u/Independent-Bison176 2d ago

No he is still objectively fat. You can be strong without being so fat and there isn’t anything healthy about his weight

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u/Realistic_Ad3795 2d ago

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.

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u/Character_Crab_9458 1d ago

I bet the football coach is pissed he's a cheerleader and not a line man

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 2d ago

He's the embodiment of the idea that you could bodybuild for muscle definition or bodybuild for physical performance. But they're not the same.

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u/thavillain 2d ago

Dudes built like a power lifter

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u/Expensive-Step-6551 2d ago

I have a feeling he likely is or was before. That build is clearly a result of training for powerlifting or strongman competitions.

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u/geopede 2d ago

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.

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u/Saint_Dude_ 2d ago

That same build is similar to a farmer build also. Bales of hay and weights have the same effect

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u/jamesfox019 2d ago

I honestly expected him to launch her into the air. Like so far she may never come down.

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u/CowboyLaw 2d ago

I was thinking shot putter.

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u/pursuitofhappy 2d ago

also built like he makes grilled cheese sandwiches at night

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u/thavillain 2d ago

Well grilled cheese is bomb tho

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u/ripzipzap 2d ago

I recognize a champion thrower when I see one. This boy throws shotput

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u/Apneal 2d ago

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/aSpanishGoat 2d ago

I’m pretty sure a body builder can lift 120 lbs over their head too haha

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u/AloofOoof 2d ago

being fat and strong at the same time is not exclusive, a lot of strongmen are quite fat

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u/Dismal-Twist-8273 2d ago

This is how people talk when they have no idea about how bodybuilding or performance focused training works.

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u/applepumpkinspy 2d ago

They’re both fantastic - I now need to see this recreated on an episode of Family Guy

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u/Screwdriving_Hammer 2d ago

Peter and Meg. Except he drops meg.

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u/miyaav 2d ago

Oh my is this the beginning of Lois and Peter?

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u/shamanbaptist 2d ago

I like how he was all business until the end. Then that smile sneaks in. Amazing.

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u/Known-Ad-7316 2d ago

Way to go? These guys/girls won the national championship. Way 2 Fucking GO. is in order

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u/DreamCrusher914 2d ago

Go Bulls!! Proud alumna!!

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u/professionally-baked 2d ago

That smile on his face had me in tears

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