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.