Yeah, I don't think so either. I mean No one's gonna mistake me for being "ripped" or "shredded", but I can step out of the shower, look straight down and see all the equipment. I'm just an unusually heavy motherfucker. Don't know what causes it, and don't feel like wasting money trying to find out just to satisfy my vain curiosity.
Derailing the thread a little but are there any health downsides to lifting heavy enough to be well past the average population? I'm sure there must be some, even smoking has some upsides.
There are issues I've heard with having too much muscle tissue for your body to handle and it puts too much strain on vital organs. But this seems to be something that only happens with PED use, the body itself seems to be self-regulating. When you get older and that becomes an issue, the body just kinda downsizes on its own. I guess if you go hog wild with the diet trying to get the biggest numbers on the bar and don't give any fuck at all about the scale or your body composition, it can have deleterious effects. But being "well past" the average population is not a crazy high bar to shoot for. Most people don't train at all, never have prior, and are very weak. Even most of the ones who go to gyms are not really putting up great numbers.
Yeah, there's that. But most people will never have to worry about even unracking a 500 pound bench. Hell if you can use 185 for work sets you're already well ahead of the average person. That's how weak people are. Maybe I'm just using a flawed dataset here. I've often wondered if there is something going on in my region that is making weaker people. The heaviest deadlift I've personally witnessed in any gym was a 525 double. Maybe it's all from those fuckloads of birth control hormones getting into the water.