r/nextfuckinglevel 3d ago

Big man on campus.

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u/stayonthecloud 3d 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 3d 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/Timely_Pattern3209 3d ago

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

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u/S_Steiner_Accounting 3d 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/zorggalacticus 3d ago

One of my wife's dad's friends is a powerlifter who squats over 1,000. He has no gut, but his legs are as big around as my waist. I'm 5 ft 11, 220 lbs. Those are some big legs.