Anonymous
6/13/2025, 6:35:25 AM No.76255463
... then why are powerlifters fat?
Or do powerlifters don't have that much lbm?
Or do powerlifters don't have that much lbm?
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Anonymous
6/13/2025, 6:46:18 AM No.76255494
they eat too much because they want to saturate their muscle building pipeline and their goal isn't to burn fat
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 6:47:01 AM No.76255499
>>76255463 (OP)
If I had to guess it's because having a heavier body helps with the physics not just purely muscle but having more weight on your feet means you can spend less of your strength just resisting falling over. It has to have some advantage right or else no one at the elite levels would be?
If I had to guess it's because having a heavier body helps with the physics not just purely muscle but having more weight on your feet means you can spend less of your strength just resisting falling over. It has to have some advantage right or else no one at the elite levels would be?
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 6:47:21 AM No.76255500
>>76255463 (OP)
Strength is more of a skill. You don't burn huge amount of calories doing, 5x5 bench, 3x3 squats and 1x3 deadlifts or whatever and they eat way way more than their maintenance calories. Simple as.
Strength is more of a skill. You don't burn huge amount of calories doing, 5x5 bench, 3x3 squats and 1x3 deadlifts or whatever and they eat way way more than their maintenance calories. Simple as.
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Anonymous
6/13/2025, 6:50:12 AM No.76255507
I have the same problem. getting strong hasn't helped me lose fat
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Anonymous
6/13/2025, 7:24:09 AM No.76255556
>>76255463 (OP)
contrary to popular belief if you gain weight a certain amount of it is lean tissue , this is true even if you are getting fatter, if i recall correctly its a 1:3 ratio 1lbs lean tissue 3 lbs fat, so essentially the fatter you are the more muscle you can carry, now obviously you are going to hit a wall with a ratio like that pretty quickly, so getting giga fat isnt functional, but up to 30-40% body is still going to net you muscular gains over staying lean, so the only way to get as strong as you possibly can is to roid and be pretty fat too, and thats exactly what you see in weight lifting
contrary to popular belief if you gain weight a certain amount of it is lean tissue , this is true even if you are getting fatter, if i recall correctly its a 1:3 ratio 1lbs lean tissue 3 lbs fat, so essentially the fatter you are the more muscle you can carry, now obviously you are going to hit a wall with a ratio like that pretty quickly, so getting giga fat isnt functional, but up to 30-40% body is still going to net you muscular gains over staying lean, so the only way to get as strong as you possibly can is to roid and be pretty fat too, and thats exactly what you see in weight lifting
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 9:11:35 AM No.76255752
>>76255463 (OP)
You don't burn that much more. A kilo of muscle at rest burns like 15 calories per day while a kilo of fat close to 5. So even if you put on 10kg of muscle that's like 150 calories per day extra tops which is a slice of bread or a soda.
You don't burn that much more. A kilo of muscle at rest burns like 15 calories per day while a kilo of fat close to 5. So even if you put on 10kg of muscle that's like 150 calories per day extra tops which is a slice of bread or a soda.
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Anonymous
6/13/2025, 9:12:57 AM No.76255754
>>76255463 (OP)
Because maybe, just maybe it doesn't burn as much kcal as you think it does, when some powersharter can out eat it
Because maybe, just maybe it doesn't burn as much kcal as you think it does, when some powersharter can out eat it
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 12:01:16 PM No.76256106
>>76255971
Looks like just afters kek
Looks like just afters kek
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 12:11:10 PM No.76256124
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 1:40:49 PM No.76256322
>>76255500
See, that's CNS training, not hypertrophy training.
See, that's CNS training, not hypertrophy training.
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 1:44:06 PM No.76256330
>>76255752
We were all told every pound of beef burns an extra 100 calories of pork daily. No idea where that came from - apparently it's more like 6 calories a day per pound of muscle.
We were all told every pound of beef burns an extra 100 calories of pork daily. No idea where that came from - apparently it's more like 6 calories a day per pound of muscle.
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 1:47:54 PM No.76256338
>>76255463 (OP)
they overeat by thousands of calories per day because they are retarded and believe you need to be in a nuclear caloric surplus to gain muscle, which is false. powershitters are at the bottom (left) of the bell curve.
they overeat by thousands of calories per day because they are retarded and believe you need to be in a nuclear caloric surplus to gain muscle, which is false. powershitters are at the bottom (left) of the bell curve.
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 1:52:46 PM No.76256352
>>76255752
I watched a buff dudes video about Hudson doing his recent contest prep. His stats, 6'1" and 210lbs, mirrored mine. Dude was putting away 2800 calories daily as his cut looking beefy as hell, while I was on 2000 calories a day trying to cut and failing at like 25% BF. I think it's less about the muscle mass itself and a lot more about the activity level required to have the muscle.
As an experiment, I'm now recomping. Bounced backed to 215, pretty steady there, but my lifts are going up 13% every single week. I was literally just staring at the lat pull down stack after I finished it yesterday, surprised at myself.
My takeaway is that it's a lot easier to build strength while not sweating too hard about the spare tire. IKR, I've discovered bulking, who would have thought. Apply this to strongman, though. Why would they ever bother cutting?
I watched a buff dudes video about Hudson doing his recent contest prep. His stats, 6'1" and 210lbs, mirrored mine. Dude was putting away 2800 calories daily as his cut looking beefy as hell, while I was on 2000 calories a day trying to cut and failing at like 25% BF. I think it's less about the muscle mass itself and a lot more about the activity level required to have the muscle.
As an experiment, I'm now recomping. Bounced backed to 215, pretty steady there, but my lifts are going up 13% every single week. I was literally just staring at the lat pull down stack after I finished it yesterday, surprised at myself.
My takeaway is that it's a lot easier to build strength while not sweating too hard about the spare tire. IKR, I've discovered bulking, who would have thought. Apply this to strongman, though. Why would they ever bother cutting?