Updated throughout the day with quick takes from staff.
It's fun to gawk at Terrence Cody, mostly because his physique is so far out of whack from what you would consider an athletic physique. This is probably something more along the lines of someone who is actually an underwear model, and not someone who like Cody is going to be paid to push other huge men out of the way on the field of athletic endeavor.
Take the world record holder in the clean and jerk, Hossain Rezazadeh. He's clearly far from the ideal of masculine beauty. In fact, he's kind of like a shaved bear that someone slapped a singlet on and handed a barbell. He can also lift 580 pounds over his head, something no other human being can do.
He's not pretty, but he's viciously effective, something Cody will likely also be in his chosen endeavor: clogging up the middle of a 3-4 defense as a nose tackle. Cody moobs may have their own moobs, but he also squats 700 pounds, benches 460, and is a power athlete with the nimble hands and feet you need to play on the line in the NFL. This is your weekly reminder that athletes are task specific, and that while some tasks require pretty people who can move fast, some require human juggernauts who look like marine mammals with their shirts off at the Senior Bowl.
After a certain point in the bodyweight/strength ratio, you have to be fat to be strong, and if you don't understand that you watched far too much He-Man and the Masters of the Universe growing up. Please return to your cartoons.
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