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health advisory Diet Diet 2007-11-11 21:04:46

i just wanted to know. why are people stronger if they weigh more? even though it may just be fat, they still manage to be stronger than someone who weighs less but is pure muscle. why is this?

Answer:

with eating excessive food muscles get more nutrients to grow. carrying around extra weight puts more strain on muscle fibers in which tell them to get stronger. It would be like walking around with a weighted vest, leg and arm cuffs all day long every day. You would get stronger too.

This however is not always true. some people are purely fat, no muscle really, this can be caused by genetics.

A healthy weight person can work out to be stronger which seems to be some peoples argument. I thought we were talking about average people that are doing the same things fat or not.

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that is not true

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That is not true. A 200 pound lethargic fatty has nothing on a 150 pounder of pure muscle. Simple pure logic.

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that is not true.

ppl who weigh more are stronger if the bulk of that weight is muscle not fat...

the large person with low muscle only has the advantage if s/he is pushing something/someone and putting all his/her weight into it...

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Not true

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They are not stronger.

They just have more mass to use.

Because of this they may seem stronger in pulling/pushing tests as they can use bodyweight, but in tests that measure pure muscle strength they will lose out every time.

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Usually because they have more muscle.

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There not dude the bigger they are the harder they fall

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Nope they are not those people that weigh nore have more chance of getting heark attack.

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because they have to have bigger muscles to support all their fat, and also just a little push and its not their force its their weight that pushes so yeah

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Well, if it's muscle tissue, that kind of answers your question. If it's fat, they still have the weight advantage. Getting hit by a train doesn't make the train muscular - just massive.

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They have more weight to lug around. Even if someone works out every day, a larger person is still carrying more weight ALL day. And if all that fat was to insantaneously dissappear (internally too - buildup around heart, etc is bad), that person would be amazingly fit.

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not true at all. My friend is 260lbs of pure fat and can only bench 140. My other friend is 200lbs of mostly muscle and can bench 300.

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That is not ture at all my friend. I have some fat friends and I am alot stronger than them. Do you know why? Because I work-out alot, they don't. So I can lift alot more than they can, I'm faster, stronger, sexier...You get the point my friend

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because the more weight the more powerfull something is think about it this way, if you drop a 20 pound weight on a see saw something on the other side will fly but if you drop a 100 pound weight on a see saw the think will fly farther this is pretty much the same concept with people, thats why football players are urged to gain weight

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People are only stronger if they have more lean mass. What some people don't realise is that when you gain weight, you don't just gain fat, but also a little extra muscle. They still aren't healthy if their body fat percentage is too high, but they may still have more lean mass than someone of a healthy weight and therefore will be stronger.