rosworms made this wonderful post about how Maui from the Disney animated movie Moana is not obese. Despite what many people think about his body type, he is actually very powerful and strong man. Obviously Disney’s animation style is exaggerated, but he is really not fat at all. Our perceptions of the male body are skewed because we’re conditioned by the media to see male strength a certain way. It really comes down to form vs function, as you can read in the post below. Anyway, this post is very important because male body image matters too:
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Sorry to burst your bubble…but most competitive bodybuilders can bench press in excess of 400 lbs and deadlift in the 600’s to 700’s. Whatever IDIOT doesn’t equate that to strength needs their head examined or show me the “average” male can even come close to those numbers. It takes POWER to build muscles.
You will never see a competitive bodybuilder who can’t bench press his own weight or do power cleans with a measley 200lbs.
All bodybuilders I’ve known are much, much stronger than me in the gym.
I’ve also worked with a few of them, and without fail, they’re the first to need a break. That used to confuse the heck out of me until I learned more about bodybuilding from them. Like the story clearly says, bodybuilders train to look good and they carry a lot of bulk around that tires them out when having to put in a sustained effort over time. All that muscle also needs a lot of oxygen to work, and too many bodybuilders skip cardio thus making them prone to collapse quicker than a fat forty year old.
So, yeah, bodybuilders are strong, just not in a very useful way. Which was kind of the point of the whole article.
And you probably weigh a hundred pounds les than them lmao. I’d love to see you move at their weight and still talk shit
I got in a ring to spar with a bodybuilder once. I’m a light heavyweight with no visible ribs and a gut sticking out. The guy was gassed in less than two minutes and could barely hold his arms up after five minutes.
I have no doubt that bodybuilders are a very specific kind of strong. But they’re weak in a lot more ways than they are strong.
I’d say yes and no. The post is somewhat confusing with their statements
“Maui is a powerful demigod. Big and strong and. . .oh, you think he looks fat?”
“That’s probably because you’ve been conditioned by the media to accept this”
“Sadly. . . these guys are not all that strong. Yeah, they got muscles. . . but they aren’t built in a useful way. They are built for looks and that’s about it.”
At first I thought they were out to prove that Maui wasn’t fat, but then they kind of conflated it with us being conditioned to think what “fit” looks like, and then they weirdly implied that bodybuilders are somewhat strong(“are not all that strong”) at the same time not strong at(“built for looks and that’s about it”). So it’s kind of an all over the place post.
I don’t really see the point of comparing bodybuilders if their point was just to say that Maui isn’t fat. They could have just focused on the strongmen instead and defining what “fat” really means. The bodybuilder comparison just made it look like they were undermining the strength of bodybuilders. Yes, bodybuilders get tired easily because of what you said, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t strong. It just means the tire easily.
But to give credit where credit is due, they post did successfully convince me that he isn’t really fat, just built big. I just think there was a lot of unnecessary stuff thrown in there.
If you’re going to steal coleasquid’s art, at least credit them.
Muscles=Strength
Less the body fats these are more useful in show of strength, but if you’ll ask me who’ll lasts longer without food…these will be the fat guys…muscle guy would have died a lot sooner and fat guys will still be burning their last sugars
On the contrary: your body eats PROTEIN first. Not fat. That is why starvation diets do not work. Because it does not lead to permanent fat loss. When your body has exhausted all of its protein stores…the kidneys fail. Because protein is needed for urine formation. Therefore the guy with more protein will actually last longer. Unless he has a fast metabolism. In which case a fat guy can potentially last longer because his metabolic rate is slower. Bodybuilders do not all have the same metabolism. So survivability is individualized.
If you check all the strongmen you have listed in your story they are both strong and Obese….. carrying much more fat than is healthy for your organs….. where as the bodybuilder is both strong and lean often carrying much less fat than is healthy….. Maui Arms are larger than his legs meaning he is no demigod. A demigod would be much wiser!! Also Peter Maivia dies at age 45 which means perhaps that isn’t the best comparison you should be using for a “big and strong demigod”.
Ya’ll are stupid. This is a kid’s cartoon you idiots WHO THE HELL CARES! The movie was good and funny, nobody gives a damn about your feelings and insecurities.
Just eat a pile of shit and die you lunatic fucks.
funny thing, i never noticed a difference between the way marvel actors look (dehydration to have muscle definition) and the way maui looks, other than the obvious: maui is an animated character, marvel actors are living breathing people on a set.
idk but i never questioned maui’s strength, the movie was like “this is maui he’s strong” and i went “ok! HEY WAIT IS THAT THE GUY WHO MADE A ROPE OUTTA FRICKEN COCONUT FIBERS AND LASSOED THE SUN TO MAKE DAYS LONGER SO PEOPLE COULD ACTUALLY GET SH!T DONE??!!!! COOL!!! YAY MYTHOLOGY!!”
thats seriously how it went lol im a complete mythology nerd