If when I was young and skinny, I could leg press 600lbs. Now if later in life I balooned up to 500 or whatever does that mean everyday pulling my self up and walking im leg pressing 500 again?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

If when I was young and skinny, I could leg press 600lbs. Now if later in life I balooned up to 500 or whatever does that mean everyday pulling my self up and walking im leg pressing 500 again?

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 4 days ago

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.

RBWells@lemmy.world · 22 hours ago

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.