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[CelticMuscle]

This is a question I have been asked in the subject of bodybuilding from a person in Indonesia on All Experts.com and I would like member's take on a possible answer.

"Hi there. I love US superhero comics, especially the big and muscular golden age heroes. I want to write my own superhero story and want to know how much muscle can a human body support? I want my hero to be a complete and abolsute wimp and turn into a 700lb monster by being electrocuted"

So, the question is "How much muscle can a human body support?" but the secondary question is, "Electric Muscle Growth??? What are they feeding these Indonesians?"

[Rarity]

How much muscle could the human body take? Well, bones accommodation whatever pressure they're under, and muscles will grow outward from the organs. The world's fattest man was around 1,300 pounds. He could not move, but on the flip side, his weight was crushing himself. So with that in mind, theoretically, I think you can have any amount of muscle. However, that means more stress on the heart and flexibility will go down the drain up until the point where the person cannot move any more.

So to make it work, the super hero would have to have some super powered heart. Perhaps mechanical; maybe genetically mutated - which is why the wimp was chosen in the first place.

[Shahrazad2]

There was a Spider-Man newspaper comic strip where a street thug that Spider-Man thwarted and left to be picked up by the police and sent to jail was lifting a barbell in the prison yard when lightning struck the barbell. The thug gained superhuman strength (though I don't recall him actually growing) and he gained the power to fire bolts of electricity from the barbell, which he used both for blasting and as a sort of bludgeoning weighted metallic quarterstaff (thanks to his enhanced strength). Spider-Man eventually stopped him by rigging up some electrical cells under the floor of a wrestling arena, that absorbed the ambient energy released every time the guy fired lightning bolts at spiderman, and used that energy to activate a powerful electromagnet (also underneath the wrestling arena), so that the more the guy tried to blast spider-man, the more the magnet dragged the barbell out of his hands and held it to the floor. When the guy tried to punch spider-man without holding the barbell, he was no stronger than a normal man.

Also, back when electricity first became widely popular, all kinds of effects were attributed to it, including health and mental and physical power, similar to the way that radiation was treated in comics during the silver age (i.e. instead of dying or getting badly sick or sunburned, you'd get superpowers from exposure to radiation). The Flash's powers come from being struck by lightning mixed with a variety of chemicals, and Thor's powers are arguably electrical in nature as well. Heck, even the Power Rangers have something of an electrical theme to their transformations, to say nothing of the D.C. version of Captain Marvel. Meg Cabot (author of the Princess Diaries) wrote a series of books about a girl who was struck by lightning and gained the ability to find missing people on milk cartons and the like. Lightning origins aren't as outrageous as they appear (or at least, they're not uncommon).