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Yes, but they are stronger than 99% of people. You claimed that their muscle size had no correlation with strength, which is absurd.


You know what I meant. I didn't submit my comment to a peer reviewed biology journal.

Stop trying to nitpick and engage with the actual argument.


You said “it's well-known it's not a physique that correlates with actual physical strength” when the reality is closer to it being perfectly correlated, so no, I wasn’t nitpicking.


Ok, let me rephrase if it makes you happy: the bodybuilder physique is suboptimal for raw strength, agility, and general fitness. A person in peak fitness doesn't look like a bodybuilder. Bodybuilders themselves admit this; their shape and physique is optimized for competition-level standards, not for health or fitness.

Furthermore, this physique is mostly attractive and desirable to other bodybuilders, and not to regular people. Therefore, it's puzzling that Hollywood used to push this as the "ideal" body shape.

There. Happier? Almost everybody else in this thread understood what I meant.




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