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
@@Christian_Wedoy True, even with low body fat you can float with proper technique. If it wasn't their primary job to work in the water it'd make sense they wouldn't have the skills to keep it up long enough to be saved. That's where dropping extra gear and backfloating come into play
No I think its because people fell of ships where swimming to shore would be difficult especially since you have to remove the Armour swim to the surface then swim to shore without being attacked and killed or injured
Bone density at all skeletal sites was statistically significantly greater in black than in white subjects; on average, adjustment for covariates reduced the percentage density differences by 42% for men and 34% for women.
@15thelongway Bone density is greater in "blacks" due to skin melanin aka darker skin. Melanin processes vitamin D much more efficiently, which leads to greater bone health.
No fr I’ve seen heavier people float weight isn’t what makes you float the oxygen does and muscle takes in more oxygen if it hand anything to do with weight then how come skinny people don’t float still if they let out oxygen and before someone’s like how do people drowned then that’s bc they are panicking and filling their lungs with water
Everyone floats … The position he was in and I bet the exhaling of oxygen has helped him to stay down. Lay him on his back, legs spread and arms spread out , he would float. Lifeguard in past life here ….
He didn't exhale. Guys bigger than him might look all muscle, but the bigger the more food, the more natural fats. Even in that position he should float. I'm the se way. It takes movement for me and him to float. Doggy paddle.
Would that mean most black people are bodybuilders, because of their in ability to swim? The fact that the guy showed sinking was black helps supports that idea anyway.
Actually, you sink when you don't let the air in your lungs out before going in. You'd float if you kept the air in your lungs. But I think your muscles are tough enough to cause you to sink😅
Actually there is a point they are missing here, people from African descent have denser/heavier bones wich might also explain the difference here. It's not just big muscles
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.
no....its about weight. take a pool of water in a zero-g environment and the bodybuilder would not float to the top. rather, he would stay right where hes at. why? because it has nothing to do with density and everything to do with weight displacement
@@AmmoGus1 Don't be stupid..... You could have two men,100kg(220lb) each. One is 40% bodyfat.... Other is 10%bodyfat.... Lower bodyfat guy sinks even though his weight is the same to higher bodyfat because the VOLUME he displaces is less than the water for the equivalent weight yet the fatter guy floats because his body displaces more volume than the equivalent weight in water. Density is mass divided by volume , gives a ratio. Why Ice floats. Have equal amount of Water by weight and ice by weight. Put together and Ice floats because its volume is larger for the same weight. Buoyancy Force? Archimedes Principle?
@@AmmoGus1weight doesn't matter. insanely large battleships completely made of metal managed to float and defeat the seas. Its not about the weight its about density and what makes you float
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.
This happened to me as a kid. I was heavily into martial arts and started a swim class and couldn't figure out why I couldn't float. My swim instructor said that exact thing to me: not enough body fat.
This explains why I was the only person in my swimming team always floating around in the poor in our free time. I should gain some body fat, I loved floating around.
a lot black people (me included) also tend to naturally be negatively buoyant. David Goggins talked about this once, when he was asked why there aren’t alot of black navy seals
When I was younger I hated the advice that I just needed to relax then I'd float. I sank down every time... Nowadays I'm pretty sure I have a good chance of floating.
Also, if someone is sweating twice as much as you doing the same exercise, they do twice as much exercising when you’re both not in that classroom. He’s not weaker because he’s sweatier, he’s sweatier because the body is used to regulating for an additional three hours of intense workout.
Been low body fat most of my life. Great depiction of my struggle in water. If you see a muscular dude swimming for distance understand is much harder than you realize.
When i was in the army we did a swim for a proficiency badge. It involved running, shotputting, high jumping and a ruck march. The black dudes could NOT complete the swim in spite of being faster in the run and stronger in other events. Watching that happen honestly blew my mind. I thought the stereotype was baseless until i saw that.
yep, i took a swim class and the professor assumed i'd outperform everyone based on my build, but i actually had to work twice as hard as the rest of the class. the final exam required us to tread water for two minutes. i passed, but it was hell. the skinny fat kids had no problems
I’m a personal trainer and I absolutely hate swimming. While my friends just relax and float around I’m fighting for my life just to keep my head above water 😂
Fun fact: During the old witch trials they would throw people into bodies of water and if you sank, you weren’t labeled a witch, and if you floated, you were. The problem is that it literally only has to do with the BMI of the individual, and also if you sank they would just let you drown so you were basically boned either way...
To get my SCUBA certification, I had to tread water for ten minutes. Was a challenging workout for me, while others just relaxed and bobbed there for ten minutes.
Taking a big breath in will make you more buoyant in water because the air in your lungs adds to your overall buoyancy. In terms of muscle versus fat, muscles are denser than water, so having more muscle can make you less buoyant compared to having more fat. Fat is less dense than water, contributing to increased buoyancy.
If you know how to swim you should be fine. If you don't know how to swim, don't get buff before learning. I never learned and I simply can't learn because the first step to learning how to swim is learning how to float and I can't even do that. I've tried, but honestly I end up going backwards when attempting to swim and I sink so fast that the difficulty increases substantially to learn. Floaters don't help, they're too unrealistic. My body is not going to float at the surface if I swim.
This has been a good way for me to track my muscle growth actually over the months and now aproaching year 3 ive went from floating like buoy to sinking like a rock
This video has taught me more about swimming than 25 years of life has, I only found out a year or two ago that floating yourself involves air, but I have never seen it in practice.
Story time. I was always the fat kid through elementary school. I never understood people who "can't swim" because I would easily float and could paddle around at my leisure. Never needed a pool noodle or life jacket or anything. Then, in the summer before middle school, my family went on the Atkins diet and I lost like 40lbs while also getting a few inches taller. Towards the end of summer, we went to a lake and I got in the deep water without hesitation. To my horror, instead of being able to float with my whole head well above water, I had to tread and paddle like madness and look straight up just to keep my nostrils in air. I could feel myself getting tired and realized that drowning isn't just something stupid people do. Fortunately, I was able to grab a log or a boat or something, which I know only because I'm here now and not on the bottom of that lake. I still thought I was the fat kid, though.
@trashthug Obviously, being strong makes things easier. But when you're fat, you can keep your head above water while expending zero calories. I'm not trying to say that being fat would make Michael Phelps faster. Floating is not the same as swimming. If you've been lean all your life and have always had to tread water in order to avoid drowning, then I could forgive you for thinking it's universal. Lean people either swim or drown. Fat people don't. Fat people can TAKE A NAP in a lake or pool.
All my life iv been lean, I've had to explain to people that I can't float because I don't have enough body fat and they look at me like I'm stupid " no you just gotta relax" fml , Glad I have video reference now
Same here. I was 160 fresh out of highschool at 6'1. I could float with slow, deep breathing. After I hit the gym for a year and put on 20lbs of muscle I sunk like a rock regardless of breathing. Swimming became less fun after that.
@@sg5184 When i was younger. Now that Im 37 things have slowed. Year before last I hit the gym again. Walked in at 170 lbs and after a year I put on about 15
@@sg5184 The first 10 has always been the easiest. It seems like 10 lbs just happens after the first 6 weeks. After that its a slow crawl. I stay natty. I often thought about getting on test but then I looked at my already thinning hair and said nope.
In college I took a swimming class. I told the instructor, a slightly old blonde woman with some fat, that I sink if I stay still as she told us to do. I said I'm heavy while gesturing towards my buff legs. My arms are scrawny though. She scoffed at me saying plenty of guys are bigger. When I had to be tested, I sunk, and she had to bring me up. She told me to try again but relax all muscles. I did that. I sunk again.
if you move erratically you'll go down but if you take a deep breath and keep it and slowly let go 9f the edge of the pool you'll float as long as you don't let out your breath. I'm big too and I always thought I can't float, but lately I gave it try and noticed I can float as long as I take a deep breath
@@amortalbeing Of course I held my breath without moving. I still sunk. The bottom half of my body is pure muscle with nice calves, flat feet and a big butt. There is zero fat there. Fat is only at my waist 'cause I saw my metabolism was fast, and assumed that I could eat as much as I want, and merely poop more, but I was wrong.
I'm fat enough that it takes a significant amount of effort for me to touch the bottom of a 12 ft pool. Swimming is literally the only place where being fat is an asset, not a hindrance. My brother gets cold and shivery after about 10 minutes in a lake, but I can swim in the same lake all day long. I love swimming.
Same. I can't swim for long now for to other problems and covid complications completely draining my stamina, but I can spend hours in water swimming most of the time, just with breaks
@@alexthemovie Sorry to ruin the joke, but I'm not sure what that is. A quick Google search says it's a video game, but I'm pretty sure there are some serious connotations that go with it if you're trying to use it as an insult. I gather that the reputation includes being overweight, based on context, but can you explain further please? Thanks! :)
Bone density at all skeletal sites was statistically significantly greater in black than in white subjects; on average, adjustment for covariates reduced the percentage density differences by 42% for men and 34% for women.
@@nook-d considering the fact that they keep complaining about not floating, im giving them the benefit of doubt and assuming they are holding onto that air. Otherwise they’d just be stupid. What kinda idiot breathes out and tries to float?
@@agnotuz6791 bodyfat percentage does play a role and makes you float "easier" but what makes you float in the first place is the waters density, not your bodyfat. That's why in more dense waters, for example saltwater, you float more easily. :)
@@agnotuz6791 nobody who "just took a deep breath" abd does not have steel tied around their feet sinks like the bodybuilder in this video he definitely exhaled before the clip
As a swim instructor and former gymnast, this is true. UPDATE: From personal experience: I went from competitive gymnastics to competitive swimming on a predominantly African-American swim team. I was jacked when I began swimming and couldn’t float regardless of what I did and was taught. The only person on my team at the time that could float was admittedly overweight. The majority of the few other nationalities on our team would glide on top of the water and float effortlessly. Adipose tissue floats, dense muscle does not. Bone density can also be a factor but not necessarily race specific. While having air in your lungs can be a factor, it is not the determinate; body composition, muscle mass, and adipose are determinative. In my profession experience of 20 years, children that still have adipose tissue typically float. Children under toddler age do because their bone density is still developing amongst other juvenile and genetic factors. Out of the many teens and adults I’ve taught, not one that is not obese or have large breasts, are athletic, and are above muscularly average can float and sink like rocks despite what air is in their lungs. Simply put, these types of swimmers have to learn to swim a little bit differently. Lifeguarding experience has also contributed to this personal assessment.
I rember getting in trouble in swim class (at about 6 years old) for being unable to float. The teacher thought I was deliberately sinking. I still cant float.
This same shit happened to me for weeks in university until the teacher actually paid attention to me and said “oh, you do sink”😭 only other guy in the class who had trouble was a jacked bodybuilder (I am not a bodybuilder just lean)
when i was a kid i used to sit on the bottom of the pool. then i got older and questioned how i did that. i now have this knowledge and it makes it more confusing.
@@dantheman9919uh yes it is. When I was 270 and pretty fat I could still stay at the bottom of the pool by letting all of my air out and directing my weight downward. I would show all my younger cousins how to sit on the pool floor for 10-15 seconds
@@dantheman9919 most of your buoyancy comes from the air in your lungs, so yes, you can get to the bottom without moving, as long as you can exhale and hold your breath for long enough
@@kingkarna7168 go see a recruiter. I would start doing pullups, pushups, crunches, running and learn to shoot with open sights. While Marines are known for being physically fit, a lot of it is being mentally fit. This mentality get you ready to push through adversities. Boot camp will break you down and build back up. Good luck and Semper Fi
I had the same problem when I was bodybuilding and tried to learn how to swim. Didn't believe the instructor when she said it's because of my muscle, but it makes sense
It's a lie it has nothing to do with body density. Body density is absolutely negligeable from one healthy person to an other, body fat or no. Sure if you take one morbidly obese person they'll float pretty much anywhere but that's not the norm
I don’t usually swim much but when i was a kid i did. It was easy to tread water because i was abit chubby and would float. In my early 20s i worked out alot and lost all the fat. Last time i went to swim it was so difficult staying above the water, made me realise how easy it can be to get tired and drown. It felt like i had taken off a built in life jacket
@@anon2447i used to go to the pool a lot before i used to lift. And hold my breath for 1 min and 20 secs. Now i can only hold it for 20secs lol but i can sink. Need to get it back up so i can scare people under water with that run jaja
Our local swimming lessons had 12 levels, and most kids progressed through about 2-4 levels per summer until they completed all of them. Level 1 was simply floating without treading water. I had such low body fat that I spent 4 years in level 1, unable to float, eventually with kids half my age. It was humiliating, and to this day I’m a terrible swimmer because the instructors refused to advance me and teach me to swim.
I’m sorry to hear this, thought it was just me. They said everyone can float you’re doing something wrong. I did everything they said and someone had to get me off the floor of the pool. I gave up after.
Wow, that explains alot! I always had trouble staying afloat, even when spreading my arms and legs out. I just don't seem to ever be able to put on fat, which kinda sucks - but I know that a lot of people have the opposite problem so I wont complain (too much).
I almost failed scuba training because I have such little body fat so I would sink like a rock but it actually helped me in the long run as it was easy for me to become neutrality buoyant when im actually under the water
@@Christian_Wedoy what are you talking about, as far as I know taking a deep breath makes you more buoyant than before. Being a Science student I can argue on that.
I noticed that it’s not just fat that makes you float, it’s air too. So if your chest is puffed up or you’re bloated, you’ll have an easier time floating
@@nylotical woah slow your roll whyd you get so offended? everyone in fact does have a weakness, he isnt trying to be lazy or spiteful. yes, its easier to swim with competent muscles but at the same time being too bulky causes issues swimming, and imagine if you in the water unconscious with nothing but your anatomy and surroundings to save your life
Unless those body builders are also cardio nuts then I doubt they can tread water for long. The more muscular they are the more water they'd need to tread, so they'd tire and drown relatively quickly, while all the non body builders float with no loss of stamina.
Bone mass and muscle is made of protein and other substances that are more dense than water, bodyfat is less dense than water, so the leaner you are and the more bone mass you have the less you will float or even sink, bone mass is not only influenced by genetics as you might have guessed you can eat a healthier diet and exercise to improve it or normalize it if you have a health condition that prevents that speak to a doctor/specialist but you would be surprised how much an actually welll designed diet and exercise plan can change your life for the better.
i also sink like a stone, can sit on the bottom and even change pose, ill stay down. Also always got the: you do it wrong everyone can float. Even if i fill up my lungs 100% it doesn't work. The first time i was kinda floating was in high % Saltwater pool.
I was a twig for most of my life and couldn’t float at all. Now, 30 pounds later, I can lay down in a pool, put my hands behind my head, and just relax without sinking like the Titanic. It’s wonderful!
I call that bullshit. When I was a kid, I was very fat, 30 plus percent body fat. I exhaled all the air out and I sank to the bottom like a piece of metal.
I'm a pretty lean guy and i sink even if i do the things my friends tell me like "relax your body, try moving your limbs to float" so even until now i still sink fairly quick
@@geist2820don't buy into race pseudoscience (some scientists still believe this stuff and introduce biases to their research). People who are more athletic, especially with high-impact activities, have higher bone density.
@@geist2820 Does it have to do with total muscle & bone weight? Because I sink, not float, even though I am pretty skinny fat. But I’m 202cm, so I have bigger bones than most guys.
Does this means women are able float more since women tend to have more body fat than men.. P.S this doesn't means women are fatter...it just means women's fat is essential to protect their organs and the Generation Of Estrogen which is Very Important for women's Health.. Infact women's fat often functions in similarity to their muscles ....
I have never been able to float and I wondered why I could sit on the bottom of the pool like this guy. Swimming is extremely tiring for me, too. Probably because my body is not buoyant.
"Sinks like an iron cause he lifts a lot of iron" Such irony😔
Nice
Awesome, Haha. He pronounced it I-ron. It’s pronounced I-ern. I know it looks and sounds stupid.
Aaron earn an iron urn
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Emotional damage
Me noticing that the water just called us ‘weak’
Well that's one way to look at it
Well technically yes. Muscles does not mean strong lol. Bruce lee already debunked this
This is so funny 😂
😂 No, water called us 'fat'
@@sallysally9483yea because even a strongman with more muscle than body builders would float because of how much fat they have
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
Or most lightly because they did not learn to swim..
@@Christian_Wedoy True, even with low body fat you can float with
proper technique. If it wasn't their primary job to work in the water it'd make sense they wouldn't have the skills to keep it up long enough to be saved. That's where dropping extra gear and backfloating come into play
No I think its because people fell of ships where swimming to shore would be difficult especially since you have to remove the Armour swim to the surface then swim to shore without being attacked and killed or injured
@@Christian_Wedoythere’s a scary amount of people in the military who don’t know how to swim. Even in the navy, tf?
@@meatloverspizza23 lmao seamen don't swim to war
Muscle isn't heavier than fat. Muscle is denser than fat.
-Doctor Mike
Bone density at all skeletal sites was statistically significantly greater in black than in white subjects; on average, adjustment for covariates reduced the percentage density differences by 42% for men and 34% for women.
And therefore more heavy in the same mass
thank you
Very true. The dense bones and muscles tend to offer an advantage in short distance sprint on land. 100 to 200m.
@15thelongway Bone density is greater in "blacks" due to skin melanin aka darker skin. Melanin processes vitamin D much more efficiently, which leads to greater bone health.
"Muscle sinks, fat floats, chest flys"
*Folks, I took off the 14 one arm pull ups* *Support the people!*
Lol 😅
Urine warms
luckily the back rows
Fuck yes
RIP all bodybuilders that were on the titanic
😂 I swear I thought of titanic watching this too
Jesus Christ loves you! Please get to know him, he wants you with him. He waits for you everyday with open arms full of love! God bless you 🙏🏼❤️
@@ChiqueChiing unlucky back then their are only fat rich people
@@juanmorales2514How many people do you really think you're gonna convert on the internet with a random yt reply?
@@juanmorales2514 ole hiljaa
Plot twist: He exhaled before going under 💀
No fr I’ve seen heavier people float weight isn’t what makes you float the oxygen does and muscle takes in more oxygen if it hand anything to do with weight then how come skinny people don’t float still if they let out oxygen and before someone’s like how do people drowned then that’s bc they are panicking and filling their lungs with water
Everyone floats …
The position he was in and I bet the exhaling of oxygen has helped him to stay down.
Lay him on his back, legs spread and arms spread out , he would float.
Lifeguard in past life here ….
@@Tk-jq8brnot weight fat brother
He didn't exhale. Guys bigger than him might look all muscle, but the bigger the more food, the more natural fats. Even in that position he should float. I'm the se way. It takes movement for me and him to float. Doggy paddle.
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.
Lesson learned : Being a bodybuilder increase chances of drowning
Would that mean most black people are bodybuilders, because of their in ability to swim? The fact that the guy showed sinking was black helps supports that idea anyway.
@@Esteban-nk3nm💀
@@Esteban-nk3nm I think we don't use race for this.
@@Esteban-nk3nm
That’s just a stereotype
@@Esteban-nk3nmit's their bone density or smth, not their muscles
Water to all unfit people: "LIGHTWEIGHT, BABY!"
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Now I know why I keep on sinking!!! Blame it on my muscles💪🏾💪🏾💁🏾♀️😭😂😂
Actually, you sink when you don't let the air in your lungs out before going in. You'd float if you kept the air in your lungs. But I think your muscles are tough enough to cause you to sink😅
at first i thought even the water is racist
Actually there is a point they are missing here, people from African descent have denser/heavier bones wich might also explain the difference here. It's not just big muscles
@@stefanosharples6849true but Africans centrality swim the stereotype is an American thing
@@salmaabdullahgb it’s a common stereotype in the UK too
@@salmaabdullahgbAfricans can swim, but apparently almost none of them can float
gullible
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.
for how long did you play?
@@capybaravillelegend says he's still curled up underwater
He still should have been able to learn how to swim…
Till you kick him into the deep end💀
I'm a short stocky guy and I sink like a stone. I can swim, but can't float. I'm not super muscular so nobody believes me until I show them
Fun fact: it’s not about weight it’s about density
no....its about weight. take a pool of water in a zero-g environment and the bodybuilder would not float to the top. rather, he would stay right where hes at. why? because it has nothing to do with density and everything to do with weight displacement
@AmmoGus1 holy shit the stupid in this is astounding.
@@AmmoGus1 Don't be stupid..... You could have two men,100kg(220lb) each. One is 40% bodyfat.... Other is 10%bodyfat.... Lower bodyfat guy sinks even though his weight is the same to higher bodyfat because the VOLUME he displaces is less than the water for the equivalent weight yet the fatter guy floats because his body displaces more volume than the equivalent weight in water. Density is mass divided by volume , gives a ratio. Why Ice floats. Have equal amount of Water by weight and ice by weight. Put together and Ice floats because its volume is larger for the same weight. Buoyancy Force? Archimedes Principle?
@@AmmoGus1weight doesn't matter. insanely large battleships completely made of metal managed to float and defeat the seas. Its not about the weight its about density and what makes you float
@@AmmoGus1bro this guy must be joking look he’s getting clowned on! 🤡
“I knew they couldn’t float!” -👴🏻
I was suprised how long it took me to find a comment like this
Black people really don't be floating like that😂
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.
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@@olivierjean-baptiste3910musmus?
That might be a bit of a stretch.😜
Rare footage of water being racist
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Thanks for the explanation, never understood why I was sinking that hard in comparison to everyone when I had swimming classes
It is really fun being able to just drop to the bottom, makes it easy to do deep dives but it is a workout to stay up for long periods
Summary: you are what you lift.
i dont remember lifting a handsome, charismatic gentleman
@@icommitedwarcrimes4879eamn, that was pretty damn slick-
guess im a Shop know.
@@Jan-nl6kq 😂😂
@@icommitedwarcrimes4879"i don't remember lifting a pedophilia"
"Water is Fatphobic"
That's actually a fairly good description
Actually it’s the fat that’s hydrophobic 😉
Watch them cancel each other
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But he has low body fat so shouldn't it be muscle-phobic?
This happened to me as a kid. I was heavily into martial arts and started a swim class and couldn't figure out why I couldn't float. My swim instructor said that exact thing to me: not enough body fat.
Now I know why I get tired easily when swimming. I need to swim again
Damn! Even water is tryin to keep a brother down
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u racist
@@rollinghippo2940No, you.
Its not bcz hes a body builder it's just bcz hes bl- (jk)
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I was a fat teenager. I could float like a boat. Now I’m a 200 lbs muscular man, I sink like an anchor.
i was skinny 5-8 y old kid and i would sink, lol
I love when things get upside down
@@AEGIS-RED-MEGA-VIEWScuz you was bony
This explains why I was the only person in my swimming team always floating around in the poor in our free time. I should gain some body fat, I loved floating around.
@@msk-qp6fnIts funny how in swimming being fat actually kinda helps lmfao, ofc not like REALLY fat but just enough that you can just float lol
Lifting will also ensure your body retains a higher average (bone) density. Among other things.
a lot black people (me included) also tend to naturally be negatively buoyant. David Goggins talked about this once, when he was asked why there aren’t alot of black navy seals
If I have lungs full of air I float, if I exhale, I sink
lol finally common sense
Scuba 101
this doesn't invalidate the video my man@@bravo795mp
It's fun doing that
same lol most of my friends and i are like borderline buoyant lol
When I was younger I hated the advice that I just needed to relax then I'd float. I sank down every time... Nowadays I'm pretty sure I have a good chance of floating.
It's a well researched fact that black men are simply less buoyant than white men, there's a reason y'all make up less than 2% of navy seals
Yeah man it was your muscle content nothing else 👨🏿 👨🏿 👨🏿
I thought it was just me for real
Always yold me to relax and breath
Id exhale and immediately try to touch the bottom
it is true tho, if you relax more you’d float.. they don’t just say that for nothing
you must have been very muscular i cant think of anything else my homie 👨🏿 👨🏿 👨🏿
Also, if someone is sweating twice as much as you doing the same exercise, they do twice as much exercising when you’re both not in that classroom. He’s not weaker because he’s sweatier, he’s sweatier because the body is used to regulating for an additional three hours of intense workout.
Been low body fat most of my life. Great depiction of my struggle in water. If you see a muscular dude swimming for distance understand is much harder than you realize.
Maybe the water is rascist ☠️
Agree aaahaha😅😂
LMFAO 😂😂😂
How?! …i thought water was colorblind?
No bro. Racism doesn't exist unless its against white people. I know because white people told me so.
W comment
That’s why I don’t work out. Safety first.
the excuses bro
These people didn’t know that he was joking lol
The guy above me doesn’t realize everyone else who subcommented is joking
The guy above me realized that the guy above him didn't catch the irony on the posts from the guys above the guy that is above the guy above me.
All the people above me are gay
When i was in the army we did a swim for a proficiency badge. It involved running, shotputting, high jumping and a ruck march. The black dudes could NOT complete the swim in spite of being faster in the run and stronger in other events. Watching that happen honestly blew my mind. I thought the stereotype was baseless until i saw that.
yep, i took a swim class and the professor assumed i'd outperform everyone based on my build, but i actually had to work twice as hard as the rest of the class. the final exam required us to tread water for two minutes. i passed, but it was hell. the skinny fat kids had no problems
I’m a personal trainer and I absolutely hate swimming. While my friends just relax and float around I’m fighting for my life just to keep my head above water 😂
Michael Phelps is lean as fuck.
Also need to move to stay afloat.
I know exactly how you feel bro
And then all your friends think you're weird cause you're hanging out at the edge of the pool or beach
@@SirChucklenutsTM Exactly, they don’t understand that I don’t want to do HIIT lol
Where are my homies that sink even in sea water
I’m one
My dad told me that if I crawl into a ball I will float automatically. He showed it to me and I was like wait.. so I tried it too and it worked!
@@Enrikohdoesn’t work for me :’(
@@Bondenaron you have to hold your breath
Me
Fun Fact: Hippos are actually very high in muscle and low in fat, which is why they cant swim; they run underwater.
Fun fact: During the old witch trials they would throw people into bodies of water and if you sank, you weren’t labeled a witch, and if you floated, you were. The problem is that it literally only has to do with the BMI of the individual, and also if you sank they would just let you drown so you were basically boned either way...
To get my SCUBA certification, I had to tread water for ten minutes.
Was a challenging workout for me, while others just relaxed and bobbed there for ten minutes.
Damn life is not fair!
subtle way to say you're jacked
I can literally stand straight and bob. No treading necessary. Lol it’s so weird. My husband can’t float at all.
Sometimes, bones can be more dense than normal, making you heavier
Next time you can advice others to get fat for their certification.😅
Rip bodybuilder
the emoji lol
Android ahh emoji
@@pedrouo best emoji fr
@@mortaldeity1922 no 😂 is best emoji
He dyed 😢😢😢😢
I thought you said "sink like Iran." That'd be the most shade I've ever seen in an educational video
Taking a big breath in will make you more buoyant in water because the air in your lungs adds to your overall buoyancy. In terms of muscle versus fat, muscles are denser than water, so having more muscle can make you less buoyant compared to having more fat. Fat is less dense than water, contributing to increased buoyancy.
Nobody told me this when I started bodybuilding 😂. I miss floating….I used to float so well….
You need body fat and air in lungs
We all float down here, Franky...
😂
i didn't work out in 12th grade but i was slim and over 6 foot yet also sunk to the ground. what was my excuse.
@@Ndasuunye very little body fat and heavy bones
Moral of the story: Don’t go to gym so that you’ll not sink when you want to swim.
Excuses. Go back to the Gym man
As an avid swimmer, climber, and llifter, I can outswim all my homies, but I can't float. Now I know why. This short was quite informative. 🎉
@@cstephendrew so true ;(
Moral of the story: visit the dead sea!
If you know how to swim you should be fine. If you don't know how to swim, don't get buff before learning. I never learned and I simply can't learn because the first step to learning how to swim is learning how to float and I can't even do that. I've tried, but honestly I end up going backwards when attempting to swim and I sink so fast that the difficulty increases substantially to learn. Floaters don't help, they're too unrealistic. My body is not going to float at the surface if I swim.
This has been a good way for me to track my muscle growth actually over the months and now aproaching year 3 ive went from floating like buoy to sinking like a rock
This video has taught me more about swimming than 25 years of life has, I only found out a year or two ago that floating yourself involves air, but I have never seen it in practice.
Story time. I was always the fat kid through elementary school. I never understood people who "can't swim" because I would easily float and could paddle around at my leisure. Never needed a pool noodle or life jacket or anything. Then, in the summer before middle school, my family went on the Atkins diet and I lost like 40lbs while also getting a few inches taller. Towards the end of summer, we went to a lake and I got in the deep water without hesitation. To my horror, instead of being able to float with my whole head well above water, I had to tread and paddle like madness and look straight up just to keep my nostrils in air. I could feel myself getting tired and realized that drowning isn't just something stupid people do. Fortunately, I was able to grab a log or a boat or something, which I know only because I'm here now and not on the bottom of that lake.
I still thought I was the fat kid, though.
Dam
Also water in lakes generally has very low salinity, so you might float in the sea and not in a lake.
@@gabrielex I grew up swimming in lakes and rivers, so I was used to floating in that kind of water. Seawater was like crazy flotation.
If you were doing a fad diet and not exercising it was simply just that it’s not harder to swim when you’re more fit 🙄
@trashthug Obviously, being strong makes things easier. But when you're fat, you can keep your head above water while expending zero calories. I'm not trying to say that being fat would make Michael Phelps faster. Floating is not the same as swimming. If you've been lean all your life and have always had to tread water in order to avoid drowning, then I could forgive you for thinking it's universal. Lean people either swim or drown. Fat people don't. Fat people can TAKE A NAP in a lake or pool.
All my life iv been lean, I've had to explain to people that I can't float because I don't have enough body fat and they look at me like I'm stupid " no you just gotta relax" fml , Glad I have video reference now
Same here. I was 160 fresh out of highschool at 6'1. I could float with slow, deep breathing. After I hit the gym for a year and put on 20lbs of muscle I sunk like a rock regardless of breathing. Swimming became less fun after that.
@@johnwirk nice 20 pounds of muscle?!? Those are some good gains!
@@sg5184 When i was younger. Now that Im 37 things have slowed. Year before last I hit the gym again. Walked in at 170 lbs and after a year I put on about 15
@@sg5184 The first 10 has always been the easiest. It seems like 10 lbs just happens after the first 6 weeks. After that its a slow crawl. I stay natty. I often thought about getting on test but then I looked at my already thinning hair and said nope.
anybody can float. If you take a deep breath you float. if you exhale, you sink. It's all about the amount of air in the lungs
It's not about fat or muscle. It's about the inhalation.
The body builder didn't inhale air.
As the movie The Guardian said “Muscle doesn’t float” 😂.
I'm not a bodybuilder but I'm damn good at sinking....
Bone density plays a role, too, so it could be that.
Im skinny,and i cant float😂
@@scr4932u dont understant what he mean🤣
@@TropaSoy_same here 😂
- Captain John Smith 1912
He called us fat in 69 languages
Quite the contrary. Fat has a lower density than water. Muscles is denser than fat. In theory fat people should float to the top in water.
The water fogort the protein
@@lancepage1914 mainly because they have a wider mass scale and therefore are spread out, making their bodyweight even on the density of the water
If you feel attacked you probly.are fat 😂😂😂
So water is trying to murder bodybuilders now 💀
I wasn't a body builder as a child but I still sunk so it's just about muscle and density💪🏽
Lesson learned: being a bodybuilder is basically eating a devil fruit
In college I took a swimming class. I told the instructor, a slightly old blonde woman with some fat, that I sink if I stay still as she told us to do. I said I'm heavy while gesturing towards my buff legs. My arms are scrawny though. She scoffed at me saying plenty of guys are bigger. When I had to be tested, I sunk, and she had to bring me up. She told me to try again but relax all muscles. I did that. I sunk again.
if you move erratically you'll go down but if you take a deep breath and keep it and slowly let go 9f the edge of the pool you'll float as long as you don't let out your breath. I'm big too and I always thought I can't float, but lately I gave it try and noticed I can float as long as I take a deep breath
Men actually have a different centre of gravity than women as well, which makes it harder for them to float which probably didn't help eather lol
@@amortalbeing Of course I held my breath without moving. I still sunk. The bottom half of my body is pure muscle with nice calves, flat feet and a big butt. There is zero fat there. Fat is only at my waist 'cause I saw my metabolism was fast, and assumed that I could eat as much as I want, and merely poop more, but I was wrong.
@@karinisvetcool I'm not even big. I'm short and mostly skinny. The center of gravity was between my legs...like everyone else.
@@user-qd4td7yb8e that's not where the centre of rabbity is
I'm fat enough that it takes a significant amount of effort for me to touch the bottom of a 12 ft pool. Swimming is literally the only place where being fat is an asset, not a hindrance. My brother gets cold and shivery after about 10 minutes in a lake, but I can swim in the same lake all day long. I love swimming.
Same. I can't swim for long now for to other problems and covid complications completely draining my stamina, but I can spend hours in water swimming most of the time, just with breaks
Be careful of dirty lakes tho they can have virus and bacteria which are deadly once inhaled
@@alexthemovie Sorry to ruin the joke, but I'm not sure what that is. A quick Google search says it's a video game, but I'm pretty sure there are some serious connotations that go with it if you're trying to use it as an insult. I gather that the reputation includes being overweight, based on context, but can you explain further please? Thanks! :)
It's funny. Someone who works out a lot has to expend even more energy to swim in a pool than someone who doesn't.
Swimming is not the only place where being fat is advantageous
None of my black friends can swim because they honestly say they can’t float ,the only ones that can are half white it’s quite crazy tbf .
Bone density differences
Bone density at all skeletal sites was statistically significantly greater in black than in white subjects; on average, adjustment for covariates reduced the percentage density differences by 42% for men and 34% for women.
The number of times I've had people tell me "oh, EVERYONE can float, you just *aren't doing it right*" is enough that I just want to smack them all.
It’s probably the fat, if you have low body fat then you wont float. Guess this mean you need a sandwich bigman.
@@agnotuz6791its the air in your lungs :) if you take a deep breath you'll float if you exhale deeply before going into the water you'll sink ;)
@@nook-d considering the fact that they keep complaining about not floating, im giving them the benefit of doubt and assuming they are holding onto that air. Otherwise they’d just be stupid. What kinda idiot breathes out and tries to float?
@@agnotuz6791 bodyfat percentage does play a role and makes you float "easier" but what makes you float in the first place is the waters density, not your bodyfat. That's why in more dense waters, for example saltwater, you float more easily. :)
@@agnotuz6791 nobody who "just took a deep breath" abd does not have steel tied around their feet sinks like the bodybuilder in this video he definitely exhaled before the clip
As a swim instructor and former gymnast, this is true.
UPDATE:
From personal experience: I went from competitive gymnastics to competitive swimming on a predominantly African-American swim team. I was jacked when I began swimming and couldn’t float regardless of what I did and was taught.
The only person on my team at the time that could float was admittedly overweight. The majority of the few other nationalities on our team would glide on top of the water and float effortlessly.
Adipose tissue floats, dense muscle does not. Bone density can also be a factor but not necessarily race specific.
While having air in your lungs can be a factor, it is not the determinate; body composition, muscle mass, and adipose are determinative.
In my profession experience of 20 years, children that still have adipose tissue typically float. Children under toddler age do because their bone density is still developing amongst other juvenile and genetic factors.
Out of the many teens and adults I’ve taught, not one that is not obese or have large breasts, are athletic, and are above muscularly average can float and sink like rocks despite what air is in their lungs.
Simply put, these types of swimmers have to learn to swim a little bit differently.
Lifeguarding experience has also contributed to this personal assessment.
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Why please explain this
Then as a swimming instructor you are wrong, because the only reason the first guy floats is because he has a lot of air in his lungs
probably because the muscle mass with so low body fat is hevyer then the water.@@vincentestinson896
@@Paulmesolikeysome people don't need air in their lungs to float
This actually explains so much. I have an obese friend that floats like a damn buoy, while I sink to the bottom in a second.
As a man who lifts logs and boats, I see this as an absolute win👁️👄👁️💀
“I know the real reason he sinks” 👴🏻
I read that with a texan old man accent lol😂😂
I searched for this comment
Lmao 👵
I read that with a british accent!
LMFAOO
I rember getting in trouble in swim class (at about 6 years old) for being unable to float. The teacher thought I was deliberately sinking.
I still cant float.
Skill issue
Lung capacity and maybe not relaxed in the water
Same here, I can't float, people told me to relax but still I can't float to surface, just floating in middle
This same shit happened to me for weeks in university until the teacher actually paid attention to me and said “oh, you do sink”😭 only other guy in the class who had trouble was a jacked bodybuilder (I am not a bodybuilder just lean)
when i was a kid i used to sit on the bottom of the pool. then i got older and questioned how i did that. i now have this knowledge and it makes it more confusing.
This is why prehistorically humans have struggled to learn to swim. We have much more food now.
*Buoyancy left the chat*
You can deflate your lungs and sink regardless of your body fat %
@@dantheman9919 Try it then. Deflate your lungs and see if you float or not
@@dantheman9919It is. I've got a lot of fat. I exhale almost fully and I sink.
@@dantheman9919uh yes it is. When I was 270 and pretty fat I could still stay at the bottom of the pool by letting all of my air out and directing my weight downward.
I would show all my younger cousins how to sit on the pool floor for 10-15 seconds
@@dantheman9919 most of your buoyancy comes from the air in your lungs, so yes, you can get to the bottom without moving, as long as you can exhale and hold your breath for long enough
I knew a kid who would sink
When I was 18, I had that problem when I had to water quail in the Marines. Now 28 years later, I'm 60lbs heavier ( more fat) I don't sink as fast.
your 40
Sir, im trying to get into the Marines, tips please
@@kingkarna7168get used to crayola, and learn to breath shity california air
@@rizzlej2019. *you're
@@kingkarna7168 go see a recruiter. I would start doing pullups, pushups, crunches, running and learn to shoot with open sights. While Marines are known for being physically fit, a lot of it is being mentally fit. This mentality get you ready to push through adversities. Boot camp will break you down and build back up. Good luck and Semper Fi
I had the same problem when I was bodybuilding and tried to learn how to swim. Didn't believe the instructor when she said it's because of my muscle, but it makes sense
As a frequent lifter i had to learn to swim very well because i do not float very much even in nine feet deep
Ah, so that's why Snorlax can learn Surf
😂😂
Might as well call it float.
A much clearer explanation is “muscles are dense. Dense things are less buoyant”
It's a lie it has nothing to do with body density. Body density is absolutely negligeable from one healthy person to an other, body fat or no. Sure if you take one morbidly obese person they'll float pretty much anywhere but that's not the norm
I don’t usually swim much but when i was a kid i did. It was easy to tread water because i was abit chubby and would float. In my early 20s i worked out alot and lost all the fat. Last time i went to swim it was so difficult staying above the water, made me realise how easy it can be to get tired and drown. It felt like i had taken off a built in life jacket
conclusion: Don't lift Iron, unless you want to sink like Iron
As an extremely skinny person I can relate to just sinking in water all the time
It’s embarrassing how long it took me to realize that that was why I could swim fine but always had trouble just floating still
@@pivotb5691bruhhhh why did yall just teach me that I cant float bc Im too skinny
If ur black it’s harder to swim too because African Americans typically have negative buoyancy
I am slos skinny, but I float with zero issues!
I feel you bro. I like swimming but I can't float properly.
This is why I just prefer to walk across the pool's floor. It's funny to see a person's reaction to a man just standing like he's on dry land. 😂😂😂
If you Lift even more you could do what Hippos do and just run full speed at the bottom of the body of water, it looks cool
@@anon2447i used to go to the pool a lot before i used to lift. And hold my breath for 1 min and 20 secs. Now i can only hold it for 20secs lol but i can sink. Need to get it back up so i can scare people under water with that run jaja
You banished me from the land dwellers
gullible
CREATINE! HIS MUSCLES ARE FILLED WITH WATER!
Reminds me of how people called me skinny fat in high school but whenever I swam I sunk like a stone despite being a good swimmer. That made it easier
Our local swimming lessons had 12 levels, and most kids progressed through about 2-4 levels per summer until they completed all of them. Level 1 was simply floating without treading water. I had such low body fat that I spent 4 years in level 1, unable to float, eventually with kids half my age. It was humiliating, and to this day I’m a terrible swimmer because the instructors refused to advance me and teach me to swim.
I’m sorry to hear this, thought it was just me. They said everyone can float you’re doing something wrong. I did everything they said and someone had to get me off the floor of the pool. I gave up after.
That's so sad. Trainers without appropriate knowledge can quickly destroy someone's potential.
Wow, that explains alot! I always had trouble staying afloat, even when spreading my arms and legs out. I just don't seem to ever be able to put on fat, which kinda sucks - but I know that a lot of people have the opposite problem so I wont complain (too much).
I swam competitively when I was a child, but as I hit puberty I stopped floating. I could still swim well but had to tread water if I wasn't moving.
I almost failed scuba training because I have such little body fat so I would sink like a rock but it actually helped me in the long run as it was easy for me to become neutrality buoyant when im actually under the water
Nahh i think water is racist💀
Edit : OMGGGG thank you for the likes
Bodybuilders are simply gay. That is why.
The water was a trained police officer
@@semirealistichumanNot letting criminals, especially if they’re black, get away unpunished is racist! 😿
👨🏿🦲🤿 “I can’t breath”
defund the water !
But if you take a deep breath and keep your lungs full of air before diving, you'll float no matter you're a bodybuilder or not.
That is wrong, and the whole point of this video is to show that.
@@Christian_Wedoy what are you talking about, as far as I know taking a deep breath makes you more buoyant than before. Being a Science student I can argue on that.
I noticed that it’s not just fat that makes you float, it’s air too. So if your chest is puffed up or you’re bloated, you’ll have an easier time floating
No matter how strong you are there is always a weakness
Wrong, you can still swim and tread the water if your muscles are competent enough to do so. You sound like you're making excuses. Skill issue.
@@nylotical woah slow your roll whyd you get so offended? everyone in fact does have a weakness, he isnt trying to be lazy or spiteful. yes, its easier to swim with competent muscles but at the same time being too bulky causes issues swimming, and imagine if you in the water unconscious with nothing but your anatomy and surroundings to save your life
@@fabiannn126if you’re unconscious in the water, you’re not gonna make it no matter wut your body is like 🤣
Unless those body builders are also cardio nuts then I doubt they can tread water for long. The more muscular they are the more water they'd need to tread, so they'd tire and drown relatively quickly, while all the non body builders float with no loss of stamina.
@@thechh8297i would drown you with my huge muscular arms
Live by the iron, die by the iron.
Bone mass and muscle is made of protein and other substances that are more dense than water, bodyfat is less dense than water, so the leaner you are and the more bone mass you have the less you will float or even sink, bone mass is not only influenced by genetics as you might have guessed you can eat a healthier diet and exercise to improve it or normalize it if you have a health condition that prevents that speak to a doctor/specialist but you would be surprised how much an actually welll designed diet and exercise plan can change your life for the better.
Alternate title: inflated lungs compared to deflated lungs in water
I would tell people in high school that I don't float in water and just watch their brains explode. Like they couldn't fathom it at all😂
Everyone float you just suck
FAThom
I never did too, I never understood why swimming was so hard lol
@@NickDoraRawnah you just bad because the video is not real. if you exhale before getting in you will sink, if you inhale you will float, simple.
i also sink like a stone, can sit on the bottom and even change pose, ill stay down. Also always got the: you do it wrong everyone can float. Even if i fill up my lungs 100% it doesn't work. The first time i was kinda floating was in high % Saltwater pool.
I was a twig for most of my life and couldn’t float at all. Now, 30 pounds later, I can lay down in a pool, put my hands behind my head, and just relax without sinking like the Titanic. It’s wonderful!
No offense but this isn't a flex... like homie said if you are denser you will sink
I could do it as a kid being only bones and skin 😂😂 maybe I have empty bones or what.
Some of y’all be hollow 😂.. most of my family can not float!
@@colewhitehurst3734 That's the joke, he got fat
@@colewhitehurst3734man's saying "gained 30 pounds of fat let's goo"
I call that bullshit.
When I was a kid, I was very fat, 30 plus percent body fat.
I exhaled all the air out and I sank to the bottom like a piece of metal.
I'm a pretty lean guy and i sink even if i do the things my friends tell me like "relax your body, try moving your limbs to float" so even until now i still sink fairly quick
“I don’t think that’s the reason” -👨🏻🦳
Wait get out of the swimming pool Tyrone and get back to work you monk-👴
Black people also have less body fat to muscle and aldo a higher bone density on average.
Finally someone said it 👨🏻🦳
@@dummyfunny5098 a month ago💀💀💀💀
It has to do with the amount of air you take in if you breathe out your air you will sink to the bottom.
Also he has denser bones than an average guy.
Not about bones it’s body fat
@@hg2460 it's also about the bones, some people are more negative boyant than the average, usually black people.
@@hg2460 Actually it is about bone density as well. All of it plays a part. People of African descent happen to have higher bone density on average.
@@geist2820don't buy into race pseudoscience (some scientists still believe this stuff and introduce biases to their research). People who are more athletic, especially with high-impact activities, have higher bone density.
@@geist2820 Does it have to do with total muscle & bone weight? Because I sink, not float, even though I am pretty skinny fat. But I’m 202cm, so I have bigger bones than most guys.
Does this means women are able float more since women tend to have more body fat than men..
P.S this doesn't means women are fatter...it just means women's fat is essential to protect their organs and the Generation Of Estrogen which is Very Important for women's Health.. Infact women's fat often functions in similarity to their muscles ....
People don't float, air floats.
You started with a deep breath. Try exhaling, you'll sink like a stone
Never understood why I couldn’t float like all my friends and family till now
Right same i also cannot float
Same
I have never been able to float and I wondered why I could sit on the bottom of the pool like this guy. Swimming is extremely tiring for me, too. Probably because my body is not buoyant.
Nah you guys just REALLY fat
no offense
Fr it’s because i have no fat, but i have no muscle either 😂😂😂😂😂 ok i have a couple muscle but not many
Now imagine the comments if this video was posted on instagram💀💀
Maybe it's because he's bl-
lol
Mr krabs: we used to beat people up for saying shit like that
Can’t blame the water for wanting to drown him
Instructions unclear! CrossFit here, almost drowned!
A man has fallen in the river in lego city