> I find it hard to believe that guys growing so much meat on themselves that they can't clap their hands over their head get only largely positive health effects.
Muscles don't make you inflexible. Inflexibility is what makes you inflexible. Olympic weightlifters and gymnasts are both heavily muscled with high mobility. Try overhead squatting some time. It's harder than it looks.
A common cause of difficulties is in benching heavily without working the shoulder through external rotation. You see it a lot in powerlifters and in the general "bench bro" population.
> I just see people doing it as if it was a mean to something and that's what eludes me
I lift weights for a number of reasons. Primarily to get better my sport, which is ... lifting weights.
Muscles don't make you inflexible. Inflexibility is what makes you inflexible. Olympic weightlifters and gymnasts are both heavily muscled with high mobility. Try overhead squatting some time. It's harder than it looks.
A common cause of difficulties is in benching heavily without working the shoulder through external rotation. You see it a lot in powerlifters and in the general "bench bro" population.
> I just see people doing it as if it was a mean to something and that's what eludes me
I lift weights for a number of reasons. Primarily to get better my sport, which is ... lifting weights.