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by 634636346 1081 days ago
> This is only made worse when they scan the gym and compare the weight they can lift with that of a power lifter who’s often times no where near as big yet capable of lifting more

No one in a gym is made insecure by someone who is clinically obese, irrespective of how much they can lift. It's even more ridiculous when you realize how many of these people are obese, and on steroids.

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Not all power lifters are clinically obese. You will quite often see a smaller scrawny powerlifter out lift a bodybuilder, purely because they’ve been following strength specific programs rather than focussing on hypertrophy.