4000lbs bench press!

**rdh_1990** · 08-10-2006, 01:39 PM

thats right i benched 4000lbs...........jokes but i did see a website on the internet that claims the average male gorilla can bench press 4000lbs wot do u think? i think it cud probly make about 400lbs not 4000

**xahliftinracerx** · 08-10-2006, 01:41 PM

If a gorilla can even actually bench press...I would LOVE to see a video of that.

**BODYBUILDER889** · 08-10-2006, 01:43 PM

I am going to kick you in the balls...
im sitting here thinking" wtf?!?!??! they hit a new world record?!?!?!?"

**rdh_1990** · 08-10-2006, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by BODYBUILDER889

I am going to kick you in the balls...
im sitting here thinking" wtf?!?!??! they hit a new world record?!?!?!?"
http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?i...6413014sy7.gif

loool nah not yet i dont think there will be many people gettin that amount in any time soon

**Uriel_da_man** · 08-10-2006, 01:46 PM

I trust a gorilla could bench 400. Not 4000 though, that's like an SUV or something. Gorilla's don't get their strength from tons of muscle mass, they have the strength they have because their skeletons are like twice as heavy as ours and they also have MUCH more and much stronger connective tissue.

**ukstrongman** · 08-10-2006, 01:52 PM

gorillas can close #4 grippers.

**ScrillaKeith** · 08-10-2006, 01:55 PM

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives...5256.Zo.r.html

**WowWeakForum** · 08-10-2006, 01:55 PM

Ha ! 400 lbs

Even 1000 lbs is laughable for a gorilla. I don't know if all gorillas could bench press 4k lbs, but a male silverback could. A little chimpanzee weighing 120-160 lbs at most, could rip a car door off it's hinges. A silverback weighs up to 500 lbs. A 4k bench press is probably a conservative estimate for it. All humans are physically frail. The strength of our species lies in the power of our brains, which is why this forum is incredibly weak (until I sign on).

**Uriel_da_man** · 08-10-2006, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by WowWeakForum

A little chimpanzee weighing 120-160 lbs at most, could rip a car door off it's hinges.

I'm sure it could

That's exacly why they keep them in two foot-thick reinforced titanium cages at zoos, after all normal cages can't hold them [/sarcasm].

**WowWeakForum** · 08-10-2006, 02:11 PM

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=559145

Yes, even a small chimp is 5-7 stronger than a human. Now, go to your corner

**Khonner** · 08-10-2006, 02:14 PM

I believe it. 4000 lbs sounds bout right.

**Uriel_da_man** · 08-10-2006, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by WowWeakForum

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=559145

Yes, even a small chimp is 5-7 stronger than a human. Now, go to your corner

That doesn't mean strong enough to rip steel apart, sorry.

**AM_129** · 08-10-2006, 02:37 PM

They have long arms and short legs... I wonder what they could deadlift and squat. lol

**LiLRyan** · 08-10-2006, 02:47 PM

Adult chimpanzee's have atleast 5x the strength of adult humans, and at their biggest their usually 250lbs+.
http://www.janegoodall.org/chimp_cen...es/as_pets.asp

Adult male gorillas are about 10x stronger than our american football players... Adult males usually 400+lbs.
http://www.awf.org/wildlives/149

So theoretically they probably could, you just have to teach him how to bench hahah.

Damn look at this

A Chimpanzee - Seven Times Stronger than Modern Man
It is said that one chimpanzee has the strength of seven men. A chimp can easily deadlift 600 lbs with one arm while yawning with the other. In 1924 at the Bronx Zoo, they tested a female chimpanzee who weighed only 135-lbs pull over 1,000 lbs - with one arm! The chimpanzee is genetically closer to us humans than the gorilla, yet the average man actually seems to be closer related to larva.

http://www.mattfurey.com/primate_power.html

In tests at the Bronx Zoo in 1924, a dynamometer--a scale that measures the mechanical force of a pull on a spring--was erected in the monkey house. A 165-pound male chimpanzee named "Boma" registered a pull of 847 pounds, using only his right hand (although he did have his feet braced against the wall, being somewhat hip, in his simian way, to the principles of leverage). A 165-pound man, by comparison, could manage a one-handed pull of about 210 pounds. Even more frightening, a female chimp, weighing a mere 135 pounds and going by the name of Suzette, checked in with a one-handed pull of 1,260 pounds. (She was in a fit of passion at the time; one shudders to think what her boyfriend must have looked like next morning.) In dead lifts, chimps have been known to manage weights of 600 pounds without even breaking into a sweat. A male gorilla could probably heft an 1,800-pound weight and not think twice about it.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_001b.html

**Renthal** · 08-10-2006, 03:28 PM

I dont think it could bench 4000 lbs, definatley deadlift close to it though.

**WowWeakForum** · 08-10-2006, 03:32 PM

You're crazy

With a triple ply denim, a gorilla could push that up easy

**De Haan** · 08-10-2006, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by WowWeakForum

You're crazy
With a triple ply denim, a gorilla could push that up easy

Getting it on the damn animal is another question

**WowWeakForum** · 08-10-2006, 04:07 PM

These jokers could do it. They have what it takes

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bz8NQdg****Y

**Mr Beer** · 08-10-2006, 04:15 PM

A 2000 lbs deadlift is apparently quite do-able for a gorilla. However, they have long arms. So say a 1000lbs bench for a reasonable guess. 4000lbs sounds excessive to me, though with serious training, may be it could. Good luck getting a gorilla to train hard however.

**Freestyle72** · 08-10-2006, 04:29 PM

i almost feel jealous of gorillas now....

**mrtoughpants** · 08-10-2006, 04:44 PM

The heaviest gorilla ever kept in captivity was a male of the mountain race names 'N' gagi, who died in San Diego Zoo, California, USA on 12 January 1944 at the age of 18. He weighed 310 kg 638 lb at his heaviest 1943. He was 1.72 m 5ft 7� in tall and boasted a record chest measurement of 198 cm 78 in.

http://www.4to40.com/recordbook/inde...y=&counter=470

78 inch chest lol

**shadowwalker021** · 08-10-2006, 04:50 PM

my dog can do all that stuff you guys just talked about

**Drew23** · 08-10-2006, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by Freestyle72

i almost feel jealous of gorillas now....

The average male gorilla has a 2" penis.

Still jealous?

**Big_G1986** · 08-10-2006, 08:12 PM

Have any of you seen a gorillas upclose? Without a *****ing doubt.

This isnt just my bias of thinking gorillas are totally awesome and sweet, its just the damn truth.

Humans are patheticly weak creatures designed to store fat and THINK of ways to kill. Thats why we are so deadly.

Anyways, I knew all this stuff from a long time ago because of my aformentioned love of gorrilas (and bears) so I have been concocting a plan to kidnap a male gorrilla at birth, feed it all sorts of Gorilla steroids and a 20,000 calorie diet while training it (ILL FIGURE OUT A WAY) in all the lifts until I have a 2000 pound super beast. I would then train it to listen to verbal commands, attach a laser gun to its head for good measure, then sell it and its clones ( I plan on cloning it) to the highest bidder.

I was also thinking of training a steroided up superbear for it too ride but that seemed kinda silly and farfetched. Dont steal my idea.

**Tomek** · 08-10-2006, 09:10 PM

**** me....

I go to the gym to train... but would get owned by a 5 year old chimpanzee.. hehe

**biggmatt77** · 08-11-2006, 08:31 AM

oh but yes a gorrla is 10x stronger than a man ,so the best bench is 1008lbs. x 10 is ???.

**De Haan** · 08-11-2006, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by biggmatt77

oh but yes a gorrla is 10x stronger than a man ,so the best bench is 1008lbs. x 10 is ???.

But bench records are the result of heavy training over many years.
The average person could bench (without ever training) no more then 200 or 300 lbs.
So the gorilla's strength would be a natural 2,000 lbs IMO

**KMA_2** · 08-11-2006, 08:46 AM

you need to understand that humans and apes are diffrent we lost a lot of brute strength for more brain power....an orangutan arms are 7 times stronger than humans....(I read that some where...or that I've seen it on national geographic or somthing like that) so I guess that a well trained and bulked gorila will be able for that considering thers people who can bench a 1000lbs....

**bloK** · 08-11-2006, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by Big_G1986

Have any of you seen a gorillas upclose? Without a *****ing doubt.

This isnt just my bias of thinking gorillas are totally awesome and sweet, its just the damn truth.

Humans are patheticly weak creatures designed to store fat and THINK of ways to kill. Thats why we are so deadly.

Anyways, I knew all this stuff from a long time ago because of my aformentioned love of gorrilas (and bears) so I have been concocting a plan to kidnap a male gorrilla at birth, feed it all sorts of Gorilla steroids and a 20,000 calorie diet while training it (ILL FIGURE OUT A WAY) in all the lifts until I have a 2000 pound super beast. I would then train it to listen to verbal commands, attach a laser gun to its head for good measure, then sell it and its clones ( I plan on cloning it) to the highest bidder.

I was also thinking of training a steroided up superbear for it too ride but that seemed kinda silly and farfetched. Dont steal my idea.

hahahahaha, im sitting in my room by myself and i still laughed my ass off after reading that...

**DrewYoung** · 08-11-2006, 08:18 PM

I believe its possible...maybe in the 2500 to 3000 mark.

A silverback gorilla has arms the size of most body builders legs!

Now, think about the chest....add some tricep strength in there..I definately think its plausible.

and you gotta remember, throug evolution and technological reliance, we have lost muscle.

Truth be told, and Im serious, a massive body builder today is what we would look like had we not found out opposable thumb so ....interesting...and useful.

Perhaps this gorilla is a natually massively built fella.....ergo, its entirely within the realm of plausibility.

Forget it...none of us would stand a chance against a gorilla.

Thats why we found sticks so useful....ad infinitum.

Now if I may interject a real world experience.

I am 6'7 and about 330 lbs....a relative lightweight compared to some lifters.

Several of my good friends are thick, and I mean so massive but none taller than 6 ft at most.

I am pretty big myself, not proportionately as big though about David Prowse size.

Still when I needed some help moving a giant 12 foot x 4 x 4 box of scrap metal into my truck, I callled up my friends.

What they and I realized is that I was indeed stronger than they, in part to length, leverage and my lifting styles...I work out every 9 days or so. Give my muscles time to rest--- a mistake many body builders make and one that is not seen in nature! Animals that are naturally endowed with huge-ness and strength dont work out and rest ALOT....we dont rest enough.

Even in high school I could max the leg and bicep extension machines.

Now if you stop and think that a silvermane gorilla stands upwards of 4-5 feet tall, and you think about how big their friggin arms, legs, back and chest are.... you can see how a huge animal with longer arms could potentially pull of 4gs.

Be proud of your brain, its your strongest muscle...

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