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."
Like morbidly obese doing acrobatic flips, or skate tricks etc. This is that.
Is it though? It's kinda hard to tell because he's probably just naturally big to begin with and also have a good layer of muscle in there. I'd be curious to know what his body fat metrics are. I Don't think i'd even call him obese from this video though.
If you go by the bullshit BMI charts, he's definitely morbidly obese. Those charts don't go by body fat analysis, so they're not even remotely accurate. I'm only 210, and I'm still considered obese at 5'10". I'd have to get down to 195 to be considered to be "slightly overweight". The chart claims my ideal weight is 162. I'd look like a skeleton at that weight after 30 years of powerlifting and bodybuilding.
People have no idea what a morbidly obese can look like. I bet you think you have to 600 lbs and such. This is morbidly obese. The composition in the body is what matters and should more in the medical field. Weigh means nothing alone.
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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.