Look at cats. Cats sleep up to 17 hours a day. They lie around seemingly doing nothing most of their waking hours. But if you watch a cat work out - wow!! it works out. It's going all out for a few minutes. Talking about a healthy country cat here, which, compared to its body weight pulls of physical feats a human can only dream of.
People often ask me if I go to the gym. Nope. I just do push ups now and then, not even every day, but when I do, I do them properly, military style push ups until I almost faint. Between 50 and 80 full on ones seems to do it for me. Takes... 2 minutes or so?! Fitness secrets!
Smaller animals have a higher power to weight ratio than larger animals, because strength scales as a quadratic function and mass as a cubic function.
For the same reason, smaller weightlifers snatch a larger multiple of bodyweight than bigger weightlifters. At the Olympic level it goes from about 3xBW down to 1.6xBW depending on weight division.
Also, humans are upright bipeds in a body that has the architectural hallmarks of a system for quadripedal locomotion. Cats have not compromised those advantages: we have.
Yes. Proportionally, tigers can't jump as high as their smaller cousins, can't run as fast as their smaller cousins and unlike humans still use quadripedal locomotion.
Dude my cat barely sleeps at all, and I have literally seen her drag a 90 pound deer up a tree. Her power to weight ratio is off the charts and she has a VO2 max of 88.0 at her peak. I too, do not go to the gym. I just do power squats all day.
Look at cats. Cats sleep up to 17 hours a day. They lie around seemingly doing nothing most of their waking hours. But if you watch a cat work out - wow!! it works out. It's going all out for a few minutes. Talking about a healthy country cat here, which, compared to its body weight pulls of physical feats a human can only dream of.
People often ask me if I go to the gym. Nope. I just do push ups now and then, not even every day, but when I do, I do them properly, military style push ups until I almost faint. Between 50 and 80 full on ones seems to do it for me. Takes... 2 minutes or so?! Fitness secrets!