Who is stronger? - Gymnast or Weightlifter

thats fair enough.... but bear in mind that athlete had to cut to 85 and probs could CnJ 220 in training.

Also out of such a big population.... with or without gene doping I'm pretty sure we could produce a super heavy, they just aren't winning medals yet. The same thing with running, I know most people doubt chinese could win 100m, but somewhere down the line if we focus on it, we should get it eventually. Chinese people are naturally weak.... 50 years ago our CnJ were less than the presses of most countries. I personally think that winning 100m will be more difficult than producing a lifter who can CnJ 260kg.... purely down to the fact the athletics system is a joke atm... sports cheif just doesn't care that much about it.

i just dont see it happening if a 6ft 3 and 20 stone bloke went to china he'd be looked upon like godzillal....a lot of bouncers are that big....plus a few others are just around town on saturday night...they're v ery rare to have a chinese person that big...not that rare in nortern europe....now the likes of savickas and terry hollands are rare in europe and i just cant see any chinese people being that big particularly in terms of thickness... giantism dont count.....sprinting isn't going to happen either....long legs narrow hips and silly percentage of fast twitch fibres...chinese generally have wide hips and short legs which is good for gymnastics...plus being short....bolts changed how people see sprinting...tallers athletes definitely have the advantage

I see what your saying and it will be incredibly difficult... but like I said out of such a large population there will be some who are gifted enough to train..... would you have believed that a chinese man would beat a black man in hurdles? (he's 6"2) we have tall people and strong... we just need to find the right combo... and if not some day maybe engineer it, like those black super slaves, but in a lab. Obviously its just speculation... and lol at 20 stone bloke in china... hong kong is where tiny people are at where the average male weighs around 60kg. Your right its not natural.... but I think your wrong about it being impossible. We'll see what happens at 2012 eh.

Entirely depends on what you define strength as.

Pound for pound gymnasts trounce all other athletes. Objectively though, weightlifters are going to be stronger.

Pound for pound gymnasts trounce all other athletes. Objectively though, weightlifters are going to be stronger.

Take out the skill equation, and get them both to apply maximal force to something, and measure it. Both gymnastics and Olympic weightlifting is HIGHLY specialised. Get them to do a leg press and/or teach them both to deadlift and see who is stronger.

I bet I know who wins.

forgetting that

C&P because I cba to type it myself;

This is because the formula ignores one fundamental law of physics, that being that volume (and therefore mass & weight) increases by the cube of the scale factor rather than the square of the scale factor.

BOOM

forgetting that

C&P because I cba to type it myself;

This is because the formula ignores one fundamental law of physics, that being that volume (and therefore mass & weight) increases by the cube of the scale factor rather than the square of the scale factor.

BOOM

That noise is the sound of my brain exploding, you're talking to someone who scraped GCSE physics.

I think you could train gymnasts to deadlift an awful lot relative to their bodyweight. But I don't think you could ever teach a weightlifter how to do this