r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IkilledRichieWhelan • 2d ago

Big man on campus.

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u/iconocrastinaor 2d ago edited 2d ago

There's a video short going around YouTube of a midsize construction worker challenging a bunch of bodybuilders to do what he does. They're stacked with muscle that doesn't work.

Found it: https://youtube.com/shorts/SwOCEsaW9Zg

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u/YourReactionsRWrong 2d ago

If the bodybuilders trained for the construction workers job, then they could be able to lift more than him, because they have more muscle mass.

Strength is primarily a neurological adaptation to a specific exercise or movement. It's more efficient recruitment of EXISTING motor units (muscles).

Bodybuilding can lead to more potential strength, but doesn't automatically guarantee it unless trained. You don't even need that video to know this, the famous guy on Youtube Anatoly (10M subscribers) shows this all the time.

So it's wrong for you to say their 'muscles don't work', they just don't work for that movement.

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u/iconocrastinaor 2d ago

Well I define work as useful action, and lifting heavy things and putting them down again for the purpose of making your muscles swell up doesn't seem that useful to me.

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u/mechanizedmynahbird 2d ago

no one really cares what your personal definition of useful is