How much of strength do you base on size?

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

yes

 

[JauntyAngle]

Is it only iron weight that puts someone in the strong category?

150lb guy doing 10 pull ups for warm up and 250 lb guy can't do 1. But then they go to lat pulleys and the smaller guy can't budge the weight the bigger one is repping. Who's stronger

No, what makes you strong is high force production. It doesn't have to be a bar, but bars are very good loading and training with. Things like yokes and Fingal's Fingers in strongman also demonstrate strength. Advanced gymnastics also demonstrates high levels of upper body strength- even though they are only moving their bodyweight, they are doing it in hugely mechanically disadvantaged positions and so actual force production is really high.

Being able to do more reps with less weight is only relevant when force production is still high. Like Kirk Kawoski squatting 1,000lbs for 2 reps. Arguably you can go lower, like Poundstone deadlifting 800lbs for 9 reps, stuff like that. But at lower levels where absolute force production is not high, it's not comparable. Or you would get into stupid situations where you say "Hafthor Bjornson took 8 steps with 4.5x his bodyweight (his own weight plus a yoke which was 3.5x times his bodyweight). Marathon runners take 55,000 strides with their own bodyweight... who is stronger?"

 

[corpse]

it's like people saying an ant is the strongest animal. according to this logic, an elephant is the weakest animal.