Powerlifters/Bodybuilder question...

[kristo]

So why do powerlifters always have a lot of body fat?

I know there's some good reason, but I've never bothered to figure out why.

[DeeJay]

Leverage.

[moose_lee]

Well, from my point of view a lot of powerlifters go overboard on their eating. Over indulge if you will. Powerlifting and such uses a ton of energy, so the competitors eat a lot to give themselves the needed energy. The fat is a by-product of their over indulging and over compensating for their energy usage.

[kristo]

Leverage.

Can you explain that?

[compleks]

No, because he wasn't serious (I hope not).

Only the heavyweights are fat. Look at the lighter devisions, some of them are quite lean. Anyway, they train hard, and they eat alot. They aren't concerned with looking ripped.

[Lobo]

Excess bodyfat does actually give you some leverage advantage though, ha ha.

[compleks]

How so? I don't think it would really be classified as leverage.

I can't be bothered trying to think for myself.

[rock_ten]

yea "leverage".. in the deadlift the more weight youve got leaning back, the easier the bar will come up. Squatting you can bounce off your huge gut. Benching, reduce the ROM.

Also, and probably importantly too, I guess it would act in the same way as wraps/shirts/suits would - by taking up tension on the negative, and aiding you back up.

and yes, only the SHW's are fat turds. Everyone else adheres to weight classes, and then being lean would be far more useful than being fat.

[J.B. II]

ho ho ho, branle bran.

[Ashtar]

Leverage aside, they can basically be on an eternal bulk and never have to worry about strength losses from cutting.

[DeeJay]

yeah alot of powerlifters are afraid of cutting and actually looking decent.

[Ashtar]

Well, it is understandable that they don't want to risk losing the strength they worship, and if there is indeed leverage advantages to fat for lifting, more so.

Even though fat tissue has a small caloric maintenance (less than muscle obviously), wouldn't the energy you save on generating body heat due to the insulation of the fat actually lower the amount of calories you have to eat (once you got that big anyway), assuming that powerlifting was the only strenuous thing you did? A lot of them are like that after all, generally being afraid to walk up a flight of stairs because they might lose some muscle tissue.

Another thing is, bulk is bulk, and these guys often worship size. In sumo, I can understand that, since it helps you knock another guy down, though with these guys it might just be more an image, scaryness, reverse-anorexia thing.

[Nabil]

if they need extra weight for leverage, why dont they add muscle instead of fat? (which actually weighs more (muscle ofc.))

[DeeJay]

Because it's a shitload harder to put on alot of muscle rather than alot of fat.

[Steve]

Christ, what he was talking about was that you can bounce things off your lard ass easier than if you had no fat at all.

[Ashtar]

There seems to be sort of a cap on how much muscle a man can gain, but none I've ever observed (except death) on fat gain.

This can be observed in that the weight and size of the largest bodybuilder hasn't even approached half of the world's fattest men.

[Steve]

On the next episode of Tricks Tutorials, Ashtar goes into a pseudo-scientific rant on myostatin.

[rock_ten]

This fucking retarded lecturer last year:

http://media.putfile.com/Myostatin

hmm, not sure if the video works.

anyway, he showed us a pic of some alleged myostatin inhibiting supplement (total bullshit product) and pics of pro BBers and said thats how they can grow so big, by pwning myostatin. He should have known better, what an idiot.

[Kitosho]

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