This is inspired but something I just read on TMZ.
Kevin Hart apparently tried to run a 40 yard dash against his friend Stevan Ridley, who was an NFL running back. During the race Kevin ended up completely tearing his lower abdominal and adductor muscles and is now literally in a wheelchair.
How this relates to world of warcraft (and Diablo IV), is that I’ve had lengthy discussions with people about how there are plenty of people that look athletic, but are not, or who look unathletic, but are not. If you google images of Kevin Hart with his shirt off, he has a very chiseled physique, visible abs, and looks very athletic. However, like many people that look like him, they are made of glass and under even the most basic athletic stress end up shattering into a million pieces.
There are plenty, though not many, real life people that look like Kul Tirans or the druid from Diablo IV that are extremely agile and quick. Not just for their size, but against people who look far more athletic. Stevan Ridley, for example, apparently runs a 40 yard dash in 4.66 seconds, and there are a few 320lb kul tiran behemoths in the NFL that can run it in 4.7 seconds.
So yes not every person that looks like a kul tiran can play warrior irl, but there are some who can.
power lifters usually lack the agility and mobility of true athletes, they are extremely good in specific atheltic motions, but in asymetrical movements like you would see in the NFL they are quickly exposed against true athletes
even pro wrestlers can’t really compete in the NFL… guys like “the rock” and brock lesnar couldn’t even stay on an NFL roster as a 3rd stringer for longer than a few weeks
Don’t know what Hart did to get this kinda shade being thrown at him. But like…not being trained to sprint like that doesn’t mean you’re “glass.” Especially not when the guy you’re sprinting against literally made a living running. Hell, I’m almost 40 and sometimes I feel like I need a wheelchair if I sleep on my back wrong…
the bottom line is, you can do a bunch of stuff in the gym to look really great like Kevin Hart does, but there are simple tests to tell how athletic someone actually is
I recently saw a video of Kevin Hart playing basketball, and he doesn’t look like one of those guys that only has visible abs in good lighting, nor did he look like a slouch. So honestly I’m a little surprised by this lol
I think the simple fact is, whatever you train for is what your body is used to doing and is ready to do. If you are a runner and have the body of a runner you are going to excel at running, but probably not at rock climbing. If you are a body builder with huge muscles, it doesn’t mean you can do pushups well or beat someone in an MMA fight as well as the people who do those things every day.
Kevin working out in a gym to look cut is one thing, but if he doesn’t run and practice running every day, then he’s not working out those specific muscles the way a practiced runner would, so is at a higher risk of pulling something he doesn’t normally stress.
That said, as already mentioned, even on a good day people who do practice those specific things can also tear, rip, pull and twist things, it happens.
I also have no issues with the way KTs look, and my alts are fine.
Body builders often perform very poorly on anything related to athleticism. Because they primarily train for size as opposed to strenght, stamina or speed.
Muscle size and strenght are related, but not as much as you’d think. It’s the internal structure of the muscles that counts.
Body builders often have these “balloon” muscles that do not perform anywhere near the capacity you’d think they would. The reason for this is because of the type of exercise body builders does. Which involves heavy exercise under anaerobic conditions, creating a lot of lactic acid (the burn you feel when working out).
Your body adapts to this by drastically increases the size of muscle cells by causing them to swell with water and glycogen. While the actin and myosin (the pulling structures of the muscles) stay relatively unchanged.
While powerlifters primarily train to learn to recruit more muscle fibers and to strengthen their actin and myosin.
The best example of this is of course powerlifters vs body builders. Where powerlifters often beat body builders in strenght test, even in cases where the powerlifter is substantially smaller.
Also you don’t really tear muscles or tendons unless they were already damaged to begin with, or you were souped up on adrenaline and/or some performance enhancing drug.
Kevin Hart had problably done some very heavy lower abs/body workout and then not given his body the time to heal. I mean, how often do you hear of people tearing their abs will running?
I believed this meme for a while. Bodybuilders are very, very strong on specific lifts that have a limited range of motion. The “bodybuilders are weak” thing is just simply not true, guys like Ronnie Coleman could squat 800lbs or so.
Now swinging a baseball bat, running a 40 yard dash, or pass blocking/rushing at an elite level is a different story.
If you powerlift you use specific muscles. If you sprint you use different muscles. They’re not ‘made of glass’, they’re built for different purposes.
RP wise, Guu is a bit out of shape but is able to dive, roll and even flip around while blastin’ things. Kinda a Max Payne thing. You can be big but still be able to move. Just what you do has a factor.
No that’s a powerlifter who has low body fat. You don’t need to look overweight to be a powerlifter.
I mean, the very definition of a powerlifter is literally what you described. Someone that is very very strong in a few certain motions. Usually squats and/or dead lifts.
All the heavyweight pro body builders have obscenely high bench presses and squats. No exception.
severe muscle imbalances usually lead to injury. The typical powerlifter injury is a torn bicep because squats/deadlifts/bench don’t really activate the biceps as much as other muscles. For most people this doesn’t cause injury, but if you are deadlifting half a ton, things can tear pretty easily if you don’t have a balanced muscular chain.
against the average person they aren’t made of glass, but only being good at a few exercises very often leads to injury and they will be exposed against a true athlete
Yeah but that only because the distinction got lost somewhere along the way. All the heavyweight pro body builders are almost always powerlifters in disguise. At some point powerlifters became synonyms with typical image of overweight strongmen. But they are not the same.
