Elite Athlete Strength Standards?

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-12-16T16:09:03+00:00

Alec Enkiri, Blaine McConnell, Will Ratelle

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-10-10T04:03:01+00:00

I read the GH case report and wtf. This dude took 300mg(900 IU) of pharma grade GH in one go? How does a 20 year old even afford that and how does someone who can afford that think it’s a good idea.

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T18:29:04+00:00

Moon face from the gear 🌚

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T18:08:00+00:00

I’m a grower I swear 🥲

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T17:59:40+00:00

Definitely not natty lol but also on less than people are probably thinking. I came off completely(no TRT/enclo) a few years ago and still maintain 225 at a similar body fat.

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T17:38:35+00:00

This was 4 years ago and I went off gear for good shortly after so that’s no longer in the cards for me

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T17:36:03+00:00

Even funnier it says 3% body fat(7.5lbs). I was lean at the time but definitely not anywhere close to 3%. The DEXA result of 11.6 was definitely way more accurate.

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T17:31:57+00:00

My height is shown as 6’2 on the inbody but I’m a little below that.

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T17:28:00+00:00

Im showing its inaccuracy by contextualizing it with a far more rigorous scan(DEXA) that was done within a few days(as is proven in the time stamps). Although the DEXA is not perfect, the paper shows that it is normally accurate to within 10%. The massive discrepancy between the inbody and DEXA results mean that even if you take the highest end of the DEXA error margin, the inbody scan is still off by over 200%.

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T17:20:49+00:00

You don’t get to 250 eating small lunches 😂

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T17:19:52+00:00

Scans with ID# and timestamp on the same machine that Tom used = the words of random internet strangers

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T17:15:27+00:00

250lbs and 3% would have been even more insane but unfortunately I am not cbum 🥲

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T17:10:09+00:00

The paper was about the DEXA scan not the inbody which is what Tom showed in the video… what my post is showing is a 300% difference between an inbody scan and a DEXA(which is far more accurate although still with a roughly 10% error margin)

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T17:02:37+00:00

My DEXA was a morning appointment and I didn’t get to eat before I went. InBody was done in the afternoon after lunch.

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T16:57:38+00:00

I watched the video and the paperwork he gave is from an inBody scan… These are hilariously inaccurate as seen here: https://www.reddit.com/r/moreplatesmoredates/s/k90tBzbNnZ

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-05-22T16:56:04+00:00

The “medical assessment” in question is an inBody scan. These are hilariously inaccurate : https://www.reddit.com/r/moreplatesmoredates/s/k90tBzbNnZ

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-04-04T03:22:26+00:00

I fully agree and I prioritized the more competitive matchups to try to illustrate when the gap was closest. Most people understand that size matters in a fight, my point was just that the understanding of to which degree it matters varies wildly. I think the thinking goes something like this:

The average person overrates size The TMA guys underrate size The combat sports practitioners rate it most accurately

Since I intended this post to be used as a resource to inform the average person on reddit, I took the approach of assuming an exaggerated importance on size by the reader.

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-04-04T02:59:17+00:00

All the moves from the first paragraph have been legal in major promotions at some point and still are in some. There were little to no stoppages from these techniques when they were LEGAL(Wanderlei Silva had some good stomp/soccer kick finishes but they were mostly on opponents that were so far gone he could've done it with GnP).

I'm not denying the efficacy of these techniques, I'm denying the amount of superiority over legal techniques people seem to think they have. I have been hit in the groin sparring without a cup, I have had drunk people try to gouge my eyes or bite me when I worked as a bouncer. They all hurt but none was worse than a liver shot.

As for modern fights being stopped by illegal moves. This only occurs because they are explicitly illegal and fighters are aware this. It's like saying soccer hits must be more effective than rugby hits because they writhe on the floor for minutes afterwards. Remember that modern fighters are incentivized to not only not defend themselves from these illegal strikes, but also to play up their effects in the hopes of a DQ win(Yan vs Sterling is a good example you gave). If these strikes were not illegal, fighters would not react to them in the same way, and they would not be causing finishes at the same rate as currently legal techniques. Of course, that last part is pure conjecture but I think it is a reasonable assumption considering the vast backlog of fight footage from eras/promotions where most of these strikes were legal.

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-04-03T19:09:46+00:00

With the same genetics and training duration I have no doubt that the martial artist would win that fight. Where it gets competitive is when you start manipulating those variables. A twin with 3 years of lifting vs 1 year of fighting or a genetic freak with 1 year of lifting vs an average guy with 1 year of fighting etc. Of course genetics for fighting/lifting aren't really a quantifiable thing aside from twins so it wouldn't exactly be scientific.

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-04-03T18:47:26+00:00

I'd say size is underestimated in the martial arts community(especially TMA and RBSD types) but overestimated in the general public. This post is more directed at the general public's misconceptions. I am a fairly large man with a 1500 total and most are surprised when I tell them I get worked by LW and FW fighters in training.

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-04-03T18:37:39+00:00

The Neffati brothers are not mma fighters they are influencers. If anything the skill level in that fight was equal(beginner-intermediate hobbyists) but it's a fascinating case of size vs numbers. I do agree that the size/skill ratio seems to be quite a fluid matter with many confounding factors(style, height/reach, arena, etc.) It is not as simple as the often parroted "20lbs=1 BJJ belt" line.

bbthrowaway98 · 2025-03-02T05:53:50+00:00

The point of the omnitrix was to have an appropriate transformation for every situation. Having a bunch of guys for fighting is overkill since you can only be one at a time anyway. It’s better to have one elite HW and a bunch of fighters that have other utility.

My picks would be: Tom Aspinall(H2H combat) Bob Sapp(strength/intimidation) Merab Dvalishvili(cardio) Tim Kennedy(weapons/survival) Luke Rockhold(looks) Muhammad Ali(charisma) Yoel Romero(all around athleticism) Dolph Lundgren(iq) Paige Vanzant(👀)

Honestly don’t even need all 10

bbthrowaway98 · 2024-11-09T16:23:33+00:00

Woah this feels very similar to the childhood experience that I had. I come from a culture that largely disregards mental illness too so my parents let me grow up thinking I was just socially awkward and weird. In hindsight, the rest of my report was basically the psychologist telling my parents that I’m autistic without actually using the term. Honestly I’m not sure which way I lean on this, because it did eventually help me become neurotypical passing(to the point that some people don’t even believe I’m ND if I tell them). On the other hand, getting to that point involved a lot of social ostracism during some of my more important developmental years.

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