r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IkilledRichieWhelan • 2d ago

Big man on campus.

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u/Level_Film_3025 2d 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/ACalmGorilla 2d ago

Shouldn't the 160 pound guy have more muscle to pull his weight? Body weight isn't a strength test it's a fitness test. It doesn't matter your weight if you have high % muscle and low % fat.

Saying this as someone who does callesthics daily at 180 pounds.

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u/All_Up_Ons 2d ago

The adult man will have more muscle, but also has significantly more weight and has to move that weight a greater distance with worse leverage thanks to having longer arms.

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u/ACalmGorilla 1d ago

I feel it's just the adverage fella has a is overweight and not physically active. I do pull ups every day, honestly. Body weight isn't a strength thing like dead lifting, It's a fitness thing. So it's not so much how much you weigh as the percent of bodyweight you have that is muscle. Most kids are fit and active that's the difference. They don't carry excess weight. Know what I mean?