How has the coronavirus affected your personal life?

[fishhead0103666]

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A fan of speaking your mind with a tongue ever sharp I see old chap, you never fail to amuse me.

 

[Hendre]

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What is the point of this post, to make fun of someone?

 

[TwoHedWlf]

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My legs feel tired just looking at that picture.

 

[fishhead0103666]

This is off topic but kinda relates to the picture. I’ve always thought that if you got up to let’s say 700 pounds and we’re still able to walk a normal amount then started loosing weight until you got to let’s say 200, wouldn’t it be make sense for you to be able to squat 500 pounds? If you started squatting and kept adding the weight that you had managed to lose to the barbell then would it make sense?

It’s just something I’ve thought about for a few years.

 

[esoxlucius]

This is off topic but kinda relates to the picture. I’ve always thought that if you got up to let’s say 700 pounds and we’re still able to walk a normal amount then started loosing weight until you got to let’s say 200, wouldn’t it be make sense for you to be able to squat 500 pounds? If you started squatting and kept adding the weight that you had managed to lose to the barbell then would it make sense?

It’s just something I’ve thought about for a few years.

If you weighed 700lb and were still able to walk unaided you'd only be able to do so because your leg muscles had grown and adapted to carrying that weight. If you were to lose 500lb your leg muscles would gradually shrink and adapt again to the new weight of 200lb. So if you got down to 200lb, your "new" muscles would never be able to deal with the weight that they used to when you were at your 700lb max, unless you went back up to 700lb again!

That's how I see it anyway.

 

[Hendre]

If you weighed 700lb and were still able to walk unaided you'd only be able to do so because your leg muscles had grown and adapted to carrying that weight. If you were to lose 500lb your leg muscles would gradually shrink and adapt again to the new weight of 200lb. So if you got down to 200lb, your "new" muscles would never be able to deal with the weight that they used to when you were at your 700lb max, unless you went back up to 700lb again!

That's how I see it anyway.

You would have to train at that threshold to retain the muscle, otherwise if it is not needed it will gradually fade away. I think!

 

[Ulu]

What is the point of this post, to make fun of someone?

That is, of course, the point of all comedy. We either make fun of someone else, or make fun of ourselves, or we make fun of the situation.

The situation here is so overblown that to me this person represents the situation itself.

This was pointed out particularly well by the Hindu fellow who said, “I want to live in a country where the poor people are fat!” That country could very well be where I live in California.

I used to weigh 240 pounds and now I only weigh 172. Anybody can lose weight because it’s all in the brain. Either you control your brain or your brain controls you.

The woman in the picture above clearly has the brain of the Dalmatian Molly Fish. They will eat until there’s nothing left.

 

[esoxlucius]

You would have to train at that threshold to retain the muscle, otherwise if it is not needed it will gradually fade away. I think!

Yeah, if you were somehow able to train at that weight, given that even walking would be nigh on impossible, then as you gradually lost the bulk of your body mass, you would in theory, through the training, keep a lot of the leg strength. That scenario would work to a degree as opposed to losing the weight whilst not training at all.

 

[Ulu]

You would have to train at that threshold to retain the muscle, otherwise if it is not needed it will gradually fade away. I think!

Time takes it from you. When I was in high school I could benchpress 210 pounds. I weigh 5 pounds less now than I did then but there’s no way I could benchpress 215.

Of course I am 50 years older now…

 

[Ulu]

When she does find that chair, I hope it's been substantially over engineered!....

When she decides she needs to sit down she will make it about 6 feet to the concrete step right behind her.

(BTW, I think that photograph has been altered to make her appear even broader than life. It absolutely was not necessary. The poor woman is a walking billboard for public mental health care. Here you must voluntarily submit, and it costs a fortune.)