Is it really true you can never become stronger then your father?

taylorblade
taylorblade Posts: 261 Member
edited November 21 in Fitness and Exercise
I always here stories you can never become stronger due to "old man's strength" if this is true then how do you be able to surpass your father or a old person? So is it true that us younger generation can never succeed them in strength and skill, etc no matter what?
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  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Huh?
    As a 57 year old I've seen a few generations grow taller and stronger.
    At 5'9" I was average height when I was growing up and now I'm a shrimp!

    I'm taller and stronger than my father ever was though.
  • cqbkaju
    cqbkaju Posts: 1,011 Member
    edited September 2017
    Of course it isn't true.

    I don't know why you would ever believe that sort of BS.
    I could literally send my father to the hospital -on accident- about 30 years ago.

    * It sounds like you might be intimidated by your father or something.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    I am now stronger than my father. It is the natural cycle of life. Improve your sources.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    LOL What? That is a new one for me. I will never be stronger than my father was at his prime because he was a male construction worker and I am a woman. He was actually probably stronger than I will ever be up until about a year before his death.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    I LOL too. For one thing, OP's writing makes little intelligible sense. Since that is the case, the meaning I derived from reading it made me LOL.

    It is not true, and has never been true, that humans are inconceivably able to surpass their father in physical strength.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    LOL - I hope you're trying to be funny.
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    wat
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    If you understand how life evolved from humbled origins, you know this can't possibly be true.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    If that is true then Adam must have been strong enough to lift boulders.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    taylorblade wrote: »
    I always here stories you can never become stronger due to "old man's strength" if this is true then how do you be able to surpass your father or a old person? So is it true that us younger generation can never succeed them in strength and skill, etc no matter what?

    Where have you heard this?
    I suppose this might have been a valid view when your parent and older generation was doing heavy physical labor every day of their life or walking across the entire country and the younger generation switched to working desk jobs or retail and driving everywhere.
    If you want to be stronger be active, do physically hard things.
  • jdlobb
    jdlobb Posts: 1,232 Member
    this is the dumbest thing I've heard today, which in 2017 is a mighty accomplishment

    I am definitely genetically predisposed to be bigger and stronger than my dad. His side of the family are all tall, lanky, English stock, which my brother inherited. But my mother's side is a mix of sturdy Scots and Norwegians, shorter but built like brick *kitten* houses, this is the side I inherited more of my genes from.

    My dad has 4 inches on me, but I have about 15 pounds of lean mass on him at least.
  • LeoT0917
    LeoT0917 Posts: 206 Member
    LOL. I thought the saying was that "your father could always beat your @ss."
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    taylorblade wrote: »
    I always here stories you can never become stronger due to "old man's strength" if this is true then how do you be able to surpass your father or a old person? So is it true that us younger generation can never succeed them in strength and skill, etc no matter what?

    Think about it for a second.

    That would mean that every world record setting powerlifter had a father who was stronger and set higher records than him. Therefore, he couldn't be a world record holder because his dad already held the records and he wouldn't be able to break them because he couldn't be stronger than his father.

    It would also mean that as generations went on, old records could never get broken and totals would get lower and lower because each successive generation was getting weaker because they couldn't be stronger than their fathers. Which would mean that the strongest people ever existed at the beginning of mankind and it's all been downhill from there.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,341 Member
    edited September 2017
    How strong was Arnold Schwarzenegers father?

    Apply a tiny bit of logic to this. If it was the case, our ancestors would have been epically, massively strong, and we would be puny weaklings. It's completely illogical.

    I'm sorry, please understand I'm not mocking you personally, but of all the wild, crazy, downright silly things I've heard/read about physiology, this has got to be one of the most ridiculous.
  • dutchandkiwi
    dutchandkiwi Posts: 1,389 Member
    Of course not! That would mean we'd get weaker as a species with every generation. Complete hogwash therefore.

    P.S. I am female (49) and currently stronger than my father (73)
  • deputy_randolph
    deputy_randolph Posts: 940 Member
    Definitely a myth parents must have said to keep kids in line back in olden times.

    My husband's stronger, 3 inches taller, and more built than his dad. I suspect that my son (probably won't be as tall as my husband, but still tall like him) will be stronger. My kid is built like my family...thick. He won the genetic lottery.
  • Sunna_W
    Sunna_W Posts: 744 Member
    edited September 2017
    Personal strength is cumulative due to life experiences. If someone is older than you, then based on their life experience, they could be stronger than you, because they have withstood more than you. However, I also think that some children, given the fact that they have weathered horrible things, critical illness, the loss of people they love, seeing someone die in front of their eyes - that would also give them more strength than someone who hasn't experienced something like that. Challenge yourself to get out of your comfort zone and help others. By helping them you will have a better appreciation for their experiences and be wiser for it.
  • amtyrell
    amtyrell Posts: 1,447 Member
    In solid terms it is false. In a metaphor it is true the idea in the metaphor is that a good child would always help their parents and thus you add your strength to theirs.
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