The video is from 94, back when people didn't understand that you had to practice fighting to be good at fighting. Truly this is only a few decades after people discovered that you had to exercise to be good at sports at all, so you can't really blame the guy for thinking that you just had to be big and strong to win a fight

  • Eris235 [undecided]
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    3 years ago

    Always interesting to see the builds of top athletes, like those pics of Olympic athletes by sport that go around. Almost none actually look like bodybuilders.

    Most interesting to me tbh are 'strongmen'; and how they honestly look fat, if also sturdy. Like, these are actually the strongest people in the world, but media has influenced us to think strong=bulging, cut muscles, with as low of body fat as possible, and that barrel-chested look now looks fat to most people.

    I think its well talked over at this point how 'strong' actors have to be pretty cruel and unhealthy to their bodies, especially regarding dehydration, to achieve that look. See some interviews with Henry Cavill or Hugh Jackman about just how dehydrated they need to be to get that 'veiny and cut' look.

    And none of that is to say that body builders aren't strong. But if you cultivate muscles to look as good as possible, it shouldn't be any surprise the people working out to be as good as possible in their sport, looks be damned, are going to perform better than you.

    • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Vice grip construction workers are often big dudes that you'd think were a bit on the heavier side, but I swear that's just how bodies work when you constantly lift and grab heavy things and eat enough calories to support it.

      Still bitter at how hard they shake hands though grr