Getting muscly by playing sports

yes, pls teach me to smart like u

No.

If you're pointing to sportsmen as examples of the sport causing gains, you are forgetting that they pretty much all work out in the gym on top of their sports.
(not to mention most elite athletes have great genes for gaining lean mass as well as possible PEDs but thats a story for another day)

Also most sportsmen are not big. They are just very lean, and a lean 160lbs looks bigger than a less lean 180lbs to the untrained eye.

>>40997402
You won't really gain mass in any sport other than bodybuilding... because they all rather require endurance and strength, and not massive muscles. Massive muscles don't make sense for all usual sports and the body won't develop them in a way as when you explicitly train to do so.

>>40997402
You'd have a good set of F U N C T I O N A L adaptations doing all those things, but not for the reasons you're thinking. There'd be a lot to go through to explain but I'll give two examples: rock climbing is very good for finger/upperbody tendon strength. It's also fairly good for musculature but most decent rockclimbers do a fair amount of cross training. Tennis won't give you strong arms, but it will give some interesting bone adaptations due to the shape of the racket and it being a hitting sport. You'll also get decent hand eye coordination and proprioception gains. Your tendons might also get some strength in the legs I guess but I haven't seen any research specific to this.

>>40997402
Athletes often lift weights to increase muscle strength and actually improve at many sports, dumbass

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Nope.
You'll get middle results at best.

You MUST lift weights if you want to be atleast big.

>>40997402
>How do you git gud by doing normal sports (no lifting etc)?
Gymnastics

Rugby, but you need to start playing young and until at least late teens.

what about sports + hitting the weights?
is it too late for me

>>40997425

even with lifting you still have to put a shit ton of work into it to get respectable gains

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>>40997402
Did someone say hypertrophic calisthenics with an emphasis on functional strength?

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>>40997402
>playing 7 different sports
Just play water polo or rugby and lift weights.

>Playing lots of sports to try and get fit
That's like heating your house by buying dozens of lamps because lightbulbs give off heat.
And besides, if you try playing so many sports you're putting yourself at a ridiculously high risk of injury.

>>40997402
no dumbest thing ive read today