Scandinavians and Balkan Dinarics are physically stronger than other Europeans

[Beowulf]

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my honest Reaction:

[Terminator98]

I would argue that fighters have more allround strength than strongmen who simply have a "specialized" strength lifting heavy things (aka maximal strength) but they lack in other things a lot. So yeah, heavy weight boxers, ufc fighters etc. i would count their strengths to be more well rounded and also the fact they can beat them up pretty badly counts for something as well to me.

I remember when I started with MMA, I thought I'd endure trainings easily because at that point I was quite strong gym rat, especially for a 19 years old boy (that was 5 years ago). My illusions were shattered the moment I had my first wrestling training. Next 3 days I was dead.

Edit: I forgot to mention that people should know that there are two types of muscle fibers; slow which contribute and are used in prolonged activities, and fast which are used more in short activities where explosiveness is important. People like strongmen, olympic weightlifters or simply majority of gym goers use almost exclusively "fast" muscle fibers.

[Atlantic Reptilian]

I remember when I started with MMA, I thought I'd endure trainings easily because at that point I was quite strong gym rat, especially for a 19 years old boy (that was 5 years ago). My illusions were shattered the moment I had my first wrestling training. Next 3 days I was dead.

I believe the type of muscle mass that is built through weight training quite taxing for the system, in multiple ways: healing takes longer because of how much energy the body has to put into the muscles, and just moving is more draining than usual (climbing is more difficult if you're heavy).

[daedhata]

Balkan slavs aren't physically stronger than northern europeans, generally.
Grip strength of a British population (lowered by South Asians): 51kg
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...ritish_Studies
Grip strength of young Sambo athletes from Serbia: 51kg-58kg for average-sized males
https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/...sis_of.63.aspx

[Atlantic Reptilian]

Balkan slavs aren't physically stronger than northern europeans, generally.
Grip strength of a British population (lowered by South Asians): 51kg
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...ritish_Studies
Grip strength of young Sambo athletes from Serbia: 51kg-58kg for average-sized males
https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/...sis_of.63.aspx

I doubt strong Balkanites go into sports. They usually do manual labor (especially the males more so than the females) if they aren't good at doing anything else.

[daedhata]

I doubt strong Balkanites go into sports. They usually do manual labor (especially the males more so than the females) if they aren't good at doing anything else.

Those weren't strong brits either though. They were average Joes. Office workers. Still pretty similar

[gixajo]

You are the one bothering others by being so aggressive. Seems like your HRT hasn't been working well lately.

We Iberians, and CV is a good example, make up for our physical weakness with our bad temper.

Our bad temper gives us superhuman strength, and if our anger gets out of control, a malnourished Spanish dwarf can topple the largest and strongest of the Scandinavian giants.

Never face an angry Spaniard, you will lose.

[Terminator98]

I believe the type of muscle mass that is built through weight training quite taxing for the system, in multiple ways: healing takes longer because of how much energy the body has to put into the muscles, and just moving is more draining than usual (climbing is more difficult if you're heavy).

This is the case for any type of mass you get, regardless of how you got it. The heavier you are, the faster you'll tire. It's mostly a matter of habits, if your body is used to climbing it won't be as tired like someone's who isn't used to it, even if you are heavier than him.

Perhaps the balkanites who are strong are often a mix of Dinaric + CM?

If I take my gym (regular, not mma) as an sample, out of 10 most robust guys (or widest, as you wish), 6-7 are people who phenotypically belongs to Dinaric/Noric type mixed with more robust element (be it borreby, baltid or generalized "cm"). Of course, this is just my personal experience and it proves nothing. This theory was somewhat supported by Coon in his anthropology book. Although I don't think taxonomy is crucial in these things, there is some logic that facially robust people would have more robust bodies on average and vice versa. By this logic, pure/proper Dinarics shouldn't be definion of robustness and strength.

[Atlantic Reptilian]

We Iberians, and CV is a good example, make up for our physical weakness with our bad temper.

Our bad temper gives us superhuman strength, and if our anger gets out of control, a malnourished Spanish dwarf can topple the largest and strongest of the Scandinavian giants.

Never face an angry Spaniard, you will lose.

I usually avoid people with bad tempers and complexes, if I stumble upon them IRL. There are a few here in Sweden too, but they are rather too mentally weak to even fight a kid like me.

[gixajo]

I usually avoid people with bad tempers and complexes, if I stumble upon them IRL. There are a few here in Sweden too, but they are rather too mentally weak to even fight a kid like me.

Everyone has fears, complexes and insecurities.

The big ones because they are big, the small ones because they are small, and the medium ones because they are neither big nor small.

In my case, despite the fact that I am perfect in every way, I am afraid of the envy of others.