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The bodymass grows cubic, but the muscle capacity (not it\'s mass) increases squarish (since muscles get stronger, when they increase in diameter and not in their volume at all).

If I increase my size by the factor 1.5, that would mean, that my muscle capacity increases by 2.25 and my weight by 3.375. I would probably die under the pressure of my own body mass.

Fun fact: For that reason, animals in arctic areas tend to be larger, than elsewhere. Their skin only increases squarish but their body mass increases cubic, what means, that they can contain much more body heat and tend to emit unproportunally less heat to their environment.
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