Dude, who even knows.
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Occasional reminder that as someone who has actually grappled with Downs Syndrome guys, “retard strength” is real, it’s the flip side of their shitty fine motor coordination, they can’t use helper muscles to chain the strength from their major groups together so each muscle is practiced up to bear the entirety of any motion using it
Another way to put it, you know how in movies the big dum-dum bruiser will try to bear hug and crush the hero but get confused and outwitted by some minor technique? Absolutely real.
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kontextmaschine said:
@theresponseblog I mean thematically maybe, it’s not compensatory but a direct consequence of bearing the max weight on each muscle rather than coordinating them together - kontextmaschine reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
Another way to put it, you know how in movies the big dum-dum bruiser will try to bear hug and crush the hero but get...
theresponseblog said:
so it’s the meme about “when you are crippled and cannot use X, you experience hypertrophy in not-X to compensate” only it’s your actual muscles… - theresponseblog liked this
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