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Heck, that nursing home early on that Rick’s people found would have a problem with the residents turning and having more energy to attack people dead than when they were alive.

I know that TWD zombies are slightly different from those of Max Brooks, but...

“Too often, the undead have been said to possess superhuman powers: unusual strength, lightning speed, telepathy, etc.
Stories range from zombies flying through the air to their scaling vertical surfaces like spiders.
While these traits might make for fascinating drama, the individual ghoul is far from a magical, omnipotent demon.
Never forget that the body of the undead is, for all practical purposes, human. What changes do occur are in the way this new, reanimated body is used by the now-infected brain.
There is no way a zombie could fly unless the human it used to be could fly. The same goes for projecting force fields, teleportation, moving through solid objects, transforming into a wolf, breathing fire, or a variety of other mystical talents attributed to the walking dead.
Imagine the human body as a tool kit. The somnambulist brain has those tools, and only those tools, at its disposal. It cannot create new ones out of thin air.
But it can, as you will see, use these tools in unconventional combinations, or push their durability beyond normal human limits.”

Excerpt From: Brooks, Max. “The Zombie Survival Guide.”