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Author Topic:   Gorilla strength
djrobins
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Message 224 of 287 (357164)
10-17-2006 10:31 PM
Reply to: Message 165 by bcw3
07-01-2006 10:37 AM


Re: Body structure comparison
Deal is they were compared about powerlifters.
The deal is this.
I believe while it might be hard to get a 450LB gorilla to benchpress,
we can get it to deadlift.
Current deadlift is just under 1000Lb. I'd wager the gorilla hand gripping strength is 4-6 x greater than a human being.
How much you think a 450Lb ferocious gorilla could deadlift? I'd wager over 2000LB the first attempt.
Will a gorilla get stronger with repeated deadlift attempts, sure he would.
How about a body builder gorrilla, you know, just like human being, build one up so he is 40% larger in size and almost twice as strong as when he first started training. Shoot grams and grams of roids into him every day too.
If he could go thru the motions of the benchpress, I have no doubt
he could bench press over 500Lb the first attempt.
If we could train a gorilla for the bench press, I have no doubt he could get over 3x that of a human being.

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djrobins
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Message 226 of 287 (357178)
10-17-2006 11:50 PM
Reply to: Message 225 by Hyroglyphx
10-17-2006 10:53 PM


Re: Body structure comparison
Say the deadlift is forced some how.
The bench press, I imagine it would be hard to get the animal to want to bench the weight in the first place. But I imagined laying him on his back, with a ceiling coming down on him. 500LB of force, i have no doubt he would keep the ceiling from coming down on him.
What we all keep missing here is "power", while with greater strength you should create greater power, these animals have tremendous amounts of power, especially under adrenaline.
I have no doubt the animal would deadlift 2000LB untrained, and possibly over 800LB in one hand alone.
If the deadlifts have to be forced, it is possible by using a special "lifting straps" with hooks on them, similar to humans use.
The straps would have to of course be super heavy duty, possbly made out of kevlar and strapped so tight to the rists that the anmila has no choice but to lift that weight off the ground.
I have no doubt that while these animals strenght is amazing, their POWER is astonishing.
The same power that would allow a 500LB animal to cross a 20 ft chasm.
I saw the shoulder, neck and trap structure on that ape Casey. ANd then to top it off, they have so much more inherient POWER than the most trained human being.
This is definately interesting, and im now wanting to see two near 600LB roided up, trained angry gorillas going at it.

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