Gorilla Muscles

[PBR]

Why is it that "WE" strive for larger muscles when the human body has the skeletal muscle structure to lift 10x our body-weight?? How is it that a chimpanzee that is half our size is 10-15x stronger than a human male???? IF you think about it our muscles are very large in comparison to many animals with small muscles, yet pound for pound we are still very weak considering...YOU can only imagine the strength of a silver-back mountain gorilla@ 450-550lbs....who eats grass BTW....THATS IT!!! LAWN TRIMMINGS!!! By the pound, are we on to something??? hurry before the FDA finds out....WHY ARE WE SO WEAK???

 

[gilly6993]

simple....eat more bananas.

 

[boss]

simple....eat more bananas.

 

[Primo57]

Also, why is it that people can get extraordinarily obese >800 lbs, but yet you never see anyone get extraordinarily muscular >300 lbs. It would seem like some sort of cellular mechanism would kill off these fat people before they reached such a level of repulsion. Maybe when someone figures out the proper dose of Il-15, we'll get a chance to push nature's limits.

primo

 

[DaddyX]

how do you know im not as strong as a gorilla ?

 

[PBR]

karma for both of you.....

 

[genarr4]

It has to do with muscle attachements.

 

[RADAR]

Theres test in them there bananas!!!! Or maybe their family jewells are just bigger.

 

[macDbol]

Why is it that "WE" strive for larger muscles when the human body has the skeletal muscle structure to lift 10x our body-weight?? How is it that a chimpanzee that is half our size is 10-15x stronger than a human male???? IF you think about it our muscles are very large in comparison to many animals with small muscles, yet pound for pound we are still very weak considering...YOU can only imagine the strength of a silver-back mountain gorilla@ 450-550lbs....who eats grass BTW....THATS IT!!! LAWN TRIMMINGS!!! By the pound, are we on to something??? hurry before the FDA finds out....WHY ARE WE SO WEAK???

my guess is our brains are really developed and we dont need brut strength to survive, ie: we dont need brute strength to push down a tree, we'll invent an axe.

 

[Fukkenshredded]

You think a bodybuilder has muscle size similar to a gorilla?

BZZT! WRONG!

Gorillas have enormous muscles. The leverage of the attachments is different, and the psychology of 'too heavy' is non-existent as they have no reason to engage in such abstract thinking.

BTW, for those wondering just how strong a gorilla really is, there are some accounts that give us some insight. I have personally seen a gorilla snap a bike tire with its hands. It was at the San Diego zoo years ago. The gorilla was playing, it seemed, but was also agitated for some unknown reason. It flexed the tire several times before stretching it to the point of breakage. Incidentally, it looked easy.

There is a fairly in depth account of a female chimpanzee executing a one handed pull of 1200 pounds, but I forget where this reference is. A chimp, folks. Not a gorilla.

Gorillas are unbelievably strong. MUCH stronger than the strongest men...by a HUGE factor. In the book "Raw Power, Building Strength and Muscle" (title may be off a touch) it is asserted that a gorilla's strength would allow for a 4000lb bench press.

That's natural strength, without training or steroids! This is equivalent to a bench press of roughly 10X their weight. Also, it is commonly noted that gorilla's chests are as wide as five feet. Keep in mind that is the average height of a gorilla as well, so they tend to be very nearly as wide as they are tall.

 

[BigAndy69]

You like Gorillas don't you FS,

 

[Zyglamail]

It has to do with muscle attachements.

And genetics, we are two different animals, hard to compare apples to oranges.

 

[satchboogie]

You like Gorillas don't you FS,

lmao

 

[ThickNick]

I went to the Phildelphia zoo recently. there is a male gorilla there who is 900lbs. and they have sign posted saying he has 6% bodyfat. Damn. You can imagine how I almost burst into tears.

 

[biogeared]

simple....eat more bananas.

bwahahahaha

 

[powerforward]

yet another wonderful post on the anabolic forum.

 

[manny78]

That's natural strength, without training or steroids! This is equivalent to a bench press of roughly 10X their weight. Also, it is commonly noted that gorilla's chests are as wide as five feet. Keep in mind that is the average height of a gorilla as well, so they tend to be very nearly as wide as they are tall.

Now I'm trying to think what a gorilla on test/dbols/halotestin would look like. Probably among the madest animal on earth.

 

[IronKop77]

You think a bodybuilder has muscle size similar to a gorilla?

BZZT! WRONG!

Gorillas have enormous muscles. The leverage of the attachments is different, and the psychology of 'too heavy' is non-existent as they have no reason to engage in such abstract thinking.

BTW, for those wondering just how strong a gorilla really is, there are some accounts that give us some insight. I have personally seen a gorilla snap a bike tire with its hands. It was at the San Diego zoo years ago. The gorilla was playing, it seemed, but was also agitated for some unknown reason. It flexed the tire several times before stretching it to the point of breakage. Incidentally, it looked easy.

There is a fairly in depth account of a female chimpanzee executing a one handed pull of 1200 pounds, but I forget where this reference is. A chimp, folks. Not a gorilla.

Gorillas are unbelievably strong. MUCH stronger than the strongest men...by a HUGE factor. In the book "Raw Power, Building Strength and Muscle" (title may be off a touch) it is asserted that a gorilla's strength would allow for a 4000lb bench press.

That's natural strength, without training or steroids! This is equivalent to a bench press of roughly 10X their weight. Also, it is commonly noted that gorilla's chests are as wide as five feet. Keep in mind that is the average height of a gorilla as well, so they tend to be very nearly as wide as they are tall.

Nailed it on the head bro. The main reason has to do with muscle attachments. If we had better points of attachmnets we too could be equally as strong lb for lb. It is the simple physics of leverage principles. They also are not small by any means and as someone else said before they are literally as wide as they are tall(in the chest area). What gets me is how they support that muscle mass without any meat. Gorillas are vegitarians! The zoos do give them a protein/grain treat, nuts, and beans but thats it for protein really. They do eat a ton though its not uncommon for the silverback to down 15-20 apples for a snack!

 

[tiger88]

in the beautiful forest in Cameroon and Zambie the african gorilla is mueaured to be 30 times strong as human....get those motherfuckers on high protien diet( they can eat meat but eat 40lbs of leaves a day) and some test and those fuckers would awsome looking.....in some muscle book i saw bull jacked on juice it was cool as fuck

 

[powerforward]

take this to chat, this is stupid as hell.

 

[horsePOWER]

doesnt CNS have anything to do with it also? i mean some powerlifters can be pretty small looking but sick on the lifts.

i thought i heard the averge person doesnt even recruit 50% of their muscle fiber potential. im sure gorillas have better ability to use much more fiber recruitment.

and cant a persons muscle attachments be slighty varied from person to person? giving some an advantage on lifts

 

[PBR]

POWER- my original post was to provoke the idea of us having rather large muscles and being weak for our size....our skeletal structure has been made to handle 10x-15x our body weight...the question was why cant we attain this function with our present bodies...even with training and gear, we are FAR from being able to handle these feats of strength....AS far as adaptation goes as one member said, training and supplementation only puts us a little closer to the bodies capabilities....I understand physics and leverages.....why can a MACAW parrot bite a broom stick in half???? our jaw muscles are 10x the size??? YET A MUSCLE 1/10th the size can do this!! just a thought guys.....we can dump this.....PBR

 

[Triple J]

well if u wanted to measure the strongest muscles in the human body the jaw muscles would probably be at the top - this is due to their leverage, and not size, obviously