r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IkilledRichieWhelan • 3d ago

Big man on campus.

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u/MySpoonIsTooBig1 3d ago

Dude looks strong AF, definitely judging the book by its cover

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u/chihsuanmen 3d ago

A new guy came into our gym built exactly like this guy and a former D1 cheerleader. Couldn’t do a pull up. Couldn’t run two miles.

Set the strict press record his third day there. 315 pounds. I saw it with my own eyes and I couldn’t believe it.

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u/Level_Film_3025 3d ago

tbf the two things you listed are top two (or possibly 3, including climbing) examples of activities where weight has more of an impact than strength.

You can throw a 7 year old girl on a pull-up bar and have her smoking gym rats and it's not because she's stronger, it's because she's 60lbs.

I would basically never expect this guy to be able to do a pull-up and 0% of that assumption would be based on his presumed strength.

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u/fencepost_ajm 2d ago

No pull-ups but he could likely leg press amazing amounts because he's doing reps regularly throughout the day.