Bodybuilders Can't Float In Water. Why?

[JayJo]

"Sinks like an iron cause he lifts a lot of iron" Such irony😔

[Oceansteps.]

Me noticing that the water just called us ‘weak’

[ac]

Along with armor, this might be why drowning was so common in military history, since soldiers usually are pretty fit, so combined with heavy gear it’d be too hard to swim

[nithilar]

Muscle isn't heavier than fat. Muscle is denser than fat.
-Doctor Mike

[HolTukIj]

"Muscle sinks, fat floats, chest flys"

[killerbirdcat]

RIP all bodybuilders that were on the titanic

[Plan__Z]

Plot twist: He exhaled before going under 💀

[HekateMGO]

I’m no bodybuilder but have never been able to float except in really salty water like the Caribbean. I’ve always had really low body fat.

[thatonedude]

Fun fact: it’s not about weight it’s about density

[tiananelson]

Now I know why I keep on sinking!!! Blame it on my muscles💪🏾💪🏾💁🏾‍♀️😭😂😂

[nobody]

Lesson learned : Being a bodybuilder increase chances of drowning

[aslahazlan]

Now I know why I get tired easily when swimming. I need to swim again

[phantombtz]

Im currently in the us navy and i had to do remedial swim in boot camp, i can confirm that this is true. We had a lot of males in level 1 of swimming and the vast majority were decently muscular. Due to this they'd try to fight the water or "muscle through it" thinking the goal is to push the water harder when in reality its to push it correctly. Then when theyd sink they'd panic and use their strength to try to push them back up. Technique is better than strength.

[daenite]

Water to all unfit people: "LIGHTWEIGHT, BABY!"

[Respect_pluse]

It's not about fat or muscle. It's about the inhalation.
The body builder didn't inhale air.

[ramandiezo]

Thanks for the explanation, never understood why I was sinking that hard in comparison to everyone when I had swimming classes

[daniells]

Damn! Even water is tryin to keep a brother down

[Meta_Noman]

at first i thought even the water is racist

[legatilegions]

it has nothing to do with bodybuilding, but it has to do with race, some black people cant float, im not being racist, thats just a fact....

[hazel]

I was friends with this 5'3ish super muscular guy who insisted he couldn't swim, we went to the pool so i could teach him and he kept sinking under. I then tried to teach him to just float, take a breath of air and just lay there. Again he sunk.

We realized this guy just had way too much muscle, but thanks to his small stature, he curled up into a ball and we played underwater soccer using him as the ball. He really did just roll around at the bottom, it was hilarious

Edit: I promise we didn't kill him, we stayed in the shallow end, he came up like every minute or two for air, we only played for like 20 minutes total. It was also his idea for us to kick him around the bottom, and our kicks weren't painful, they were basically just pushes with our feet. He thought it was funny, and we would have stopped if he wasn't enjoying himself.