Size matters more than you're giving it credit for.
Speaking as someone significantly larger than average human at 2.1m, who doesn't even particularly work out - I'm WAY stronger than most people. Seriously, I can pick up the rear ends of small cars, or drag entire trees to the refuse pile before cutting them up, or push pickup trucks out of ditches in the snow, etc. Back in high school, when I was actually in gym and had access to a weight machine, I managed to verify that I could push the whole stack of weights on pretty much everything that measured leg strength and came damn close to it everywhere. And, again, I am a lazy sumbitch most of the time who's out of shape.
What I get for not working out as such, is that if I keep up something that takes enormous strength for more than a minute or two, I am out of breath and puffing like a steam engine, or if the weather's too hot it takes me ages to get back to a normal/ non-distressed state. People my size who are physically fit, are also very very strong and don't have that problem. People my size who actively do strength training ...
Somebody 2.4 or 2.5 meters tall - if the difference is anything like between me and average-size people - would be several times stronger than a typical human, even before taking into account any disciplined training or enhanced muscles.
Keep in mind that strength is proportional to the cross-section of a muscle - so a linear size increase in the same proportion leads to a square strength increase. (and a cube mass increase, which is why oversize people don't take any running or jumping trophies....).
Speaking as someone significantly larger than average human at 2.1m, who doesn't even particularly work out - I'm WAY stronger than most people. Seriously, I can pick up the rear ends of small cars, or drag entire trees to the refuse pile before cutting them up, or push pickup trucks out of ditches in the snow, etc. Back in high school, when I was actually in gym and had access to a weight machine, I managed to verify that I could push the whole stack of weights on pretty much everything that measured leg strength and came damn close to it everywhere. And, again, I am a lazy sumbitch most of the time who's out of shape.
What I get for not working out as such, is that if I keep up something that takes enormous strength for more than a minute or two, I am out of breath and puffing like a steam engine, or if the weather's too hot it takes me ages to get back to a normal/ non-distressed state. People my size who are physically fit, are also very very strong and don't have that problem. People my size who actively do strength training ...
Somebody 2.4 or 2.5 meters tall - if the difference is anything like between me and average-size people - would be several times stronger than a typical human, even before taking into account any disciplined training or enhanced muscles.
Keep in mind that strength is proportional to the cross-section of a muscle - so a linear size increase in the same proportion leads to a square strength increase. (and a cube mass increase, which is why oversize people don't take any running or jumping trophies....).