Well, if you’re proper skinny, you ain’t pressing 500.
That being said, as long as you’re doing enough exercises while adding the fat, you will at least maintain your strength. Fat guys in the gym tends to have a noticeable increase in weights on a leg press vs a squat because when you’re squatting, you’re lifting the extra body mass. Well, presses are a tad easier as well, what with it being stabilized by the sled.
But, yeah, if you hang with lifters that carry extra fat, they’ll tend to have decent leg gains by virtue of hauling around the extra mass all day.
Even with people that don’t lift, they’ll be able to push more in a press than a squat.
I could press 400 with my legs when I was a 95lb 5’9" ballet dancer, I was proper skinny certainly as I weigh now half again as much and people still think I am thin. Just all my strength was in my legs back then. Now more distributed.
Wiry is a good word for it. I was honestly shocked at how much I could push with my legs back then, my arms were like string though. I don’t have any idea what I could press now, no machine to measure it, working towards deadlifting my own weight by 60 and will be well satisfied with that. And still want to be able to cartwheel, lol.
I do find fat people are overall very powerful because they have mass behind their movements and yes, strength from carrying all that mass all the time. Absolute strength but not good strength - to - weight ratio.
Well, if you’re proper skinny, you ain’t pressing 500.
That being said, as long as you’re doing enough exercises while adding the fat, you will at least maintain your strength. Fat guys in the gym tends to have a noticeable increase in weights on a leg press vs a squat because when you’re squatting, you’re lifting the extra body mass. Well, presses are a tad easier as well, what with it being stabilized by the sled.
But, yeah, if you hang with lifters that carry extra fat, they’ll tend to have decent leg gains by virtue of hauling around the extra mass all day.
Even with people that don’t lift, they’ll be able to push more in a press than a squat.
I could press 400 with my legs when I was a 95lb 5’9" ballet dancer, I was proper skinny certainly as I weigh now half again as much and people still think I am thin. Just all my strength was in my legs back then. Now more distributed.
Ballet dancer.
Skinny.
I dunnnoooooo, seems like an oxymoron. Never met a serious dancer that didn’t have thighs like granite.
Though, at 95 at that height, I must admit that you were wiry rather than stacked lol.
Wiry is a good word for it. I was honestly shocked at how much I could push with my legs back then, my arms were like string though. I don’t have any idea what I could press now, no machine to measure it, working towards deadlifting my own weight by 60 and will be well satisfied with that. And still want to be able to cartwheel, lol.
I do find fat people are overall very powerful because they have mass behind their movements and yes, strength from carrying all that mass all the time. Absolute strength but not good strength - to - weight ratio.