Are you Really Strong?????

[Lord_Suston]

Thanks everyone for replying

So here are the results in order:

1) Absolute strength is key, since weight is true objective

2) Smaching soemone's skull or making them tap out

3) relative strength Body weight to to weight lifted

 

[Heffe]

Try this one on: Enter a "Strongman" contest
See who can pull a 35 ton semi the fastest in 100'
Carry an 800lbs superyoke the fastest
Load 5 stones 240-365lbs the fastest
Press a log over your head
or do a 300 lbs farmer's walk the fastest
Always a great test of strength!!!

 

[Yellowbottle]

Whiteox you are one strong motherfucker. How tall are you, and what cycles have you done?

 

[nyper]

NFL strength coaches usually figure out the strongest and the strongest pound for pound by a max on the bench for example
for thestrongest and how many times you can bench your own
body weight for pound for pound. If your 215lb half back can do his weight 30 times as opposed to lineman who might do 325
10 times and max at 425, the back is stronger pound for pound

 

[BigWh1tey]

I think the pound for pound thing is the war cry of the little man .

He who lifts the most weight is the strongest , to make up for this we have the term "Best Lifter" in the light and heavy classes. The strongest still lifted the most weight , the best lifter did the most weight pound for pound.

Now trying to figure is your "strong" in a general is a matter of comparison, either to yourself or others . Look at the chart posted above and see where you land .

 

[BigWh1tey]

Damn - there are some strong bros on this board. I just weighed myself - 196 and am benching 435 (no shirt), squatting and pulling 615 and 605. I'll do boxsquats w/455 for reps and heavy half-squats w/765. I hurt my knee 2 weeks ago and my last two wks it's been to painful to go over 500 on squats - even with my inzer z-wraps cranked on like a cast.

That one friend of yours thicklee sounds like an animal. If he's really pulling 800 then he's one of only a handful who can do it (regardless of bodyweight).

HEY BRO .. i bet you'll total Elite with a shirt and a suit . Awesome !

 

[solidj55]

Damn, you guys really like dawging the little guys dont you. Hell we cant help we are smaller than you guys, thats just a little genetic thing that we have no power over. Im a little guy but I very much agree that whoever lifts the most is the strogest bottom line. But I do also know about how the percentages work. Hell to be honest I dont care about how much anyone lifts as long as Im continuing to get stronger. Its all just fun for me.

 

[G-Force]

What about if you have two guys lifting the same weight yet one is 170 and the other is 200 you would have to say that the lighter guy is actually stronger even though he only lifted the same weight because if he packed on another 30lbs he would obviously blow the 200 pounder away! I mean everybody knows about someone whom they could say "I know he's small but he's strong as fuck" I suppose it all depends on how you interpret the word "strong" because for me there is some bro's who are just genetically strong because IMO technique does not account for the massive differences in poundages that you see two similar sized guys squatting or benching on a smith for instance!

 

[KA-BAR]

Well first off, Im one of the small guys. I am 5'5" and I do powerlifting meets in the 165lb class. Back in September of this year I did 350lbs at a bodyweight of 165lbs. That was with a Bench Press shirt on. Two weeks before the meet I did 330lbs at 165 bodyweight without a shirt. My opinion is this, whom ever pushes the most weight is the strongest regardless of bodyweight. But at the same time, as far as percentages for the individual if a smaller guy pushes like 2 or 3 times his body weight and the big guy pushes only 15 or 20 pounds over his weight then the smaller guy is stronger in that respect. Its all in how you look at it but my final thing to say is that I agree with Bulldog_10. In real life situations the only strength that matters is who makes who tap out. Oh yea I forgot, That statement that Golfer18 made about guys with short arms being stronger is not very accurate. I hate hearing that. Its like an excuse tall weak people make when a short guy is stronger. Ive heard it most of my life, people use it as an attempt to lessen the strength of someone in order to make them look better. Not directed toward you golfer18 but thats just how I feel. I have seen really tall, monkey armed s.o.b.'s push hella weight. The distance IMO doesnt really matter, weight is weight and strength is strength. Thats my opinion. Sorry for long post.

I dont see how tapping a guy out has Anything to do with strenth.. Lots of things come to play in wrestling and submission wresting mainly technique. Speed and Cardio also play a big roll. There are tons of people i have wrestled that are stronger than myself and I can toy with them when it comes to wrestling. Shit at work Ive squared off with one of the biggest guys in the plant who is ripped 18" arms and very massive and at the time I was 200 with my 15" pipes and guys thought he would squash me but I took him down at will and always controlled the position. Also he was gassed after the first min. Strenth is strenth if you push more weight you are stronger.

 

[whiteox]

Yellowbottle - thanks bro, I'm 5'8". I've done 3 cycles total.
1. 200mg deca/wk + 100mg winny/wk for 7 weeks - 3 years ago
2. 400mg deca/wk + 150mg winny/wk for 6 weeks - 6 months ago
3. 300mg deca/wk + 200mg eq/wk - finished 3 weeks ago
I've also done about 2 months total (couldn't afford longer) of hgh at 3iu's 5 days a week - but that only seemed to make me a little leaner - nothing else.

Bigwhitey - Unfortunately my 615 squat is already with a suit and my deads don't seem to go any higher with a suit. I guess my bench would be over 450 with a shirt but it's only speculation since I haven' t put on a shirt in years. There are a couple powerlifters around here who would spank me at a meet but I appreciate your compliment