Girth Comparaison of Animals

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(04-19-2018, 08:54 PM)Pckts Wrote: I've said it before, but once again, there is no cut and dry lift to declare strength, feats of strength are many and some of the strongest men on the planet still have weak spots, it's never a black and white issue.

I can agree with this, although we can generally say that bears have a general pound-for-pound advantage over big cats in strength (but cats still pull stronger, I think) and strongman (much more obviously) generally have a huge strength advantage over basketball or baseball players, strongmen may not be proficient in strength out of their flexibility as basketball players are. But this doesn't mean that bears are absolutely stronger than big cats in every way simply because they have most strength advantages.

Similar to me, I always had that natural "real-life strength" from helping my dad with manual labor growing up, but when I started powerlifting, I naturally excelled at the deadlift and curl but was struggling extremely badly with benches. Even with perfect form, my lats far exceeded my pecs in terms of muscle balance, which obviously hurt my muscle imbalances when I pressed the weight back up. Benches felt weird to me all the way until I stopped powerlifting, so I started not liking them. Squats were meh (improved that a lot too though), although my hip flexors were tight (and still are) which were created from/and created an anterior pelvic tilt from me walking "weird" since the age of 10 or so.

I would generally agree that there is no absolute way to determine absolute strength between two individual animals with similar molecular muscle formation or similar muscle mass percentage. And football players and smaller-sized strongmen are a great example of this. Reply