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That woman with the same height and weight have similar body types.
Like my sister in Christ do you not know that bone, muscle and fat density is a range and that there are 300+lbs women who are rail thin and 90lbs women who have the figure of the stay-puff marshmallow man at the same height.
Is this meant to be hyperbole? If not, can you provide examples? It seems wildly inaccurate to me.
You mean can I point out women like Nataliya Kuznetsova and the genetic mutations that can double or half your bone/muscle/fat density? Because there are hundreds of them.
A 4x density range exists for humans if you include the extremes. A 1.4x density range if you want to limit yourself to 96% of the population
I guess we have a different definition of rail-thin, because I would not use it to describe anyone with bulging muscles. I also have trouble envisioning a 90-lb stay-puft woman of the same height.
Fair enough, everyone imagines differently.
Imagine someone with low muscle mass and fragile bones; (likely chronically condemned to be stuck in hospital beds) thus more than half their body weight would be fat. You might only find them in medical journals as case studies for rare diseases but they do exist.
Muscle is denser than fat. You can easily replace body fat with equivalent volume of muscle and suddenly come out denser (by quite a bit even). If the muscle you're building is the non-bulky slow twitch variety, it won't even be visible to casual inspection underneath that little layer of remaining fat you're going to have left.