Why did dominant super tall heavyweights only emerge relatively recently?

Big Red · Feb 28, 2023

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yeah but understand that even if Angus was exceptionally strong, the legends make him improbably powerful-well beyond what anyone ever achieved with modern training AND PEDs is not at all plausible.

However if he had those listed proportions, or close to it, then it is certainly possible that just due to how much muscle he could attach he could have been the strongest man ever known-at least naturally.

About the population-take a longer view, it is plausible that a single man that size could have popped up through random chance in say the last 100 years-OR it could have happened in the last century.
And like say Steve Dalknowski/otherworldly throwing ability in an otherwise average me-very rarely.

As for your comment of those who are exceptionally tall, a variant of the statistical frequency argument I just made.
The reason the strongest men tend to cap out at 6'9" or so is that even being "just" 7' tall is so rare.
There are supposed to be @ 2800 men of at least 7' tall in the WORLD.
Do the rough math-over 8 billion people, almost half of them male, remove those under 18...
That is just a bit shy of
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While the tallest woman is barely over 7'...

When you get to OVER 7'3", you are starting to approach a % that is almost vanishingly rare.
Take ANY height, a very small % of people are naturally very strong.

EDIT: there is at most 1 man over 7'3" in the NBA-& since he has also been listed at 7'3" "only", & heights tend to be taken in sneakers in the league, even he may fall "short".
Biggest NBA hands ever, images here for fun.
That so many tall man are strong shows I think that just because height is correlated with bone structure, more massive men can put on more muscle.

However you have to account for them getting enough calories to maximize strength, harder when you are so large-but easy for many in the modern world.
Also you need to subtract or provide a handicap for pituitary giants-they still may be able to be really strong like Andre The Giant, but also may be limited-as he eventually was, although he could easily push parked cars around & relocate them just as a joke with friends-due to bone & joint problems.

I appreciate No Neck sending me that link to endeavor to research the probability of epigentics effecting height potential for multiple generations!
That is a Stand Up, no Ego thing.
And also secure since I occasionally tease him re: his extreme aversion to George Foreman!
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Good post, I would also add that not many people want to be weight lifters. There may have been some 7 footers that could have pursued some strength sport, but could not be bothered the same as Andre the Giant.

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