How can fat people lift more weight than skinny people?

recently i lost a lot of weight (maybe 50 pounds) and i still have a tiny bit of belly fat (maybe 1/2 an inch) that im still trying to work off. and my mom keeps telling me im underweight and look like a skeleton (this kinda hurts because the reason i lost all that weight was to keep people from making fun of the way i look, and now i still apparently look bad.), so i asked my grandpa if he can show me how to lift some weights to make up for my wieght and the way i look. im not lifting too much only about 20 pounds plus the bar, but hes saying that if i hadnt of lost all that weight i could be lifting 300 pounds by now, i dont get it. how does being fat allow you to lift so much more weight?

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Answer #1

Being fat has nothing to do with it, it’s all about how much muscle you have and how much weight your body can handle to lift.

Answer #2

thats kinda what i was thinking… but i dont want to just tell my grandpa hes wrong, hes been doing this for years…

Answer #3

Then don’t say anything, just let him believe what he wants:)

Answer #4

muscle weighs more than fat. It also depends on the health of the person and life style.

Answer #5

Like Kayla said, being heavy doesn’t mean you’re strong. Most of the time, the heavier people are much weaker than I am, and I weigh under 150lb.

Bigger /=/ Stronger Stronger /=/ Bigger

Answer #6

i agree with those people , for an example im small and skinny ‘apparntly’ and i have no mucle on me lol honeslty i sometimes struggle pushing a door open in college where as people with more mucle then me can and can do alot more then i could do x

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