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the quiet ability to carry what would flatten the person you used to be
means The quality or state of being physically powerful, mentally resilient, or capable of withstanding force, pressure, or hardship.
from From Old English 'strengþu,' built on 'strang' (strong) plus the noun-forming '-þu' — the same pattern that turns 'long' into 'length' and 'broad' into 'breadth.' That core 'strang' is a deep Germanic word, a cousin of German 'streng' (strict, severe), with the underlying sense of something tight, taut, drawn firm. So strength was once less about bulging muscle and more about tautness — a rope, a will, a thing pulled tight enough not to snap.
- grip secret
- ants lift 50 times their own body weight
- slow win
- muscle grows during rest, not the lift itself
- hidden muscle
- the tongue is among the body's strongest
- old iron
- Milo of Croton trained by carrying a growing calf daily
- mental rep
- willpower fatigues like a muscle and recovers like one
eddie hall — strongman who lifted 500kg deadlift in 2016, heaviest ever
lasha talakhadze — weightlifter with 220kg snatch, olympic gold medalist 2020
hafthor julius bjornsson — iceland's strongest man, deadlifted 501kg in 2020