Yes makes you feel inadequate ! They're freaks of nature I reckon. When I worked as a labourer on the railways many years ago a bloke in our gang was skinny and about nine stone wet. Yet he was the strongest of us all and yet drank and smoked and never had a day off. We all called him the Alien !
Sounds like me from my Army days! I'm 6'4" and always been really skinny. Until about mid to late 20s I was about 12-13 stone. Lads used to say I had 'mong' strength as I could lift just about anything. I was quite a deceiving 1nd row as I'd push the pack as well as anyone twice my build. Being so light and tall I was good to throw up for line outs too.
Are you sure you're not Alien ? Only joking but he was incredible as he drank us all under the table,eat like a horse,and never took a day off. But fitness/strength is deceptive as someone who looks strong can be weak.Sounds like me from my Army days! I'm 6'4" and always been really skinny. Until about mid to late 20s I was about 12-13 stone. Lads used to say I had 'mong' strength as I could lift just about anything. I was quite a deceiving 1nd row as I'd push the pack as well as anyone twice my build. Being so light and tall I was good to throw up for line outs too.
Was always super fit too! Used to smoke 20 a day and drink the equivalent of 4-5 bottles of vodka a week but still ran the mile and a half (10mins 30secs was the requirement, 9mins 30 for para and commando) in 8mins 30. It's only now I'm out the Army and have given up smoking and all but given up the drink (and eat healthy) that I'm now 16.3stone and get out of breathe walking up the steps at the ricoh to my seat!
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No, really, don't.
My youngest son who's 32 is slim and about 11 stone. To look at him he doesn't look strong but he's a roofer and a tough tackling midfielder. I had a drink recently with his roofer workmate and he said my son was the hardest worker he'd ever worked with,and is as strong as an Ox. Bloody hell there are aliens everywhere !And the moral of the story is? Never pick a fight with a skinny guy.
Some people are just more suited, biologically and physically, to manual labour and heavy carrying. I'm definitely not, it's not a case of strength cos I can lift anything that's no absurdly heavy, just haven't got the lung capacity. Bloody asthma.
Been looking up strength etc online. The strongest animal/creature on earth is the dung beetle which can lift over a thousand times it's own body weight !And the moral of the story is? Never pick a fight with a skinny guy.
Some people are just more suited, biologically and physically, to manual labour and heavy carrying. I'm definitely not, it's not a case of strength cos I can lift anything that's no absurdly heavy, just haven't got the lung capacity. Bloody asthma.
Have seen them on documentaries, carrying the big balls of dung.
Don't mess with a dung beetle,they don't take no shit. Well yes they do !