Gorillas are some big bad motherf*ckers no doubt but 4000 lbs is too much...I dont think they can. Now slap 950 lbs on there and I bet they can do that. But over 1000 lbs I dont think so. ANd yes I know sites say that Gorillas can do this but its all SPECULATIVE.
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Thread: 4000lbs bench press!
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08-11-2006, 08:31 PM #31
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08-11-2006, 08:41 PM #32
Stop and think about it though.
Physically speaking, they are not humans....
Their arms ARE LONGER. And they have much more massive chests.
Leverage, leverage, leverage. Marsha marsha marsha
And we know there are genetic differences in muscle, some are the same size but can satisfy more than one wom......I mean, are stronger than others.
Now if you figure they have longer and wider frames, may very well have more muscle, and you get a super freak gorilla.....I would not rule it out.
Geesh, look at a horse...horses can pull thousands of pounds, but you wouldnt immediately get that impression by looking at what appear to be scrawny legs.
And remember that a gorilla on his arms is still about 4-5 tall.
I wouldnt write it off.
If cornered by angry gorillas, tell em you know diane fossey
Look at the attached image to see how big these things are next to us....theyre natually huge to begin with....their arms are like twice the size of ours...:
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/jpito...rts/human+.JPG
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/...lla_human.jpegLast edited by DrewYoung; 08-11-2006 at 08:44 PM.
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08-11-2006, 10:18 PM #33
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08-11-2006, 10:44 PM #34
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08-12-2006, 12:21 AM #35Originally Posted by rdh_1990
Last edited by farmerlee; 08-12-2006 at 12:23 AM.
"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory."
Isaiah 6:3
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08-12-2006, 05:26 AM #36
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08-12-2006, 09:50 PM #37Originally Posted by Drew23
nope thx 4 that"I shoot I score, He shoots I score" - Dan Gable
"Doesn't it say in the bible...
And on the fifth day God invented iron for man to lift. And lift it he did. And strong he did become. And good he found this to be. And God said unto He, go and lift and be strong and be good.
stop wishing and get lifting." - joekerr31
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08-12-2006, 11:43 PM #38
hey...apparently bears skeletal structure is similar to ours with the limbs being farly proportionate to their bodies. I bet a 1500 pound grizzly or a 1800 pound polar bear can pull a sled with a gorilla and all the weight it can lift on it as their daily GPP work. A 800lbs siberian tiger can beat the crapp out of a gorilla any day so imagine what it can bench? A cheetah has very explosive speed so what is DE squats for a cheetah like. ****...imagine what an elaphant can do!! The point is you can't compare animals to people let alone animals doing human performances ie. powerlifting. This thread reminds me of the Disney animated Robin Hood where all the characters were animals.
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08-13-2006, 07:26 AM #39
no way in hell a gorilla would bench 4k lbs. apes are built for pulling, NOT pushing, you need to keep that in mind. all of their strength achievements relate to pulling on things. as far as the insane chimp dl, you need to consider that at the height a person would be going down to pull on it, a short little chimp with short legs and long arms is basically locking out the last inch, and with strong bones and connective tissues you could lock out an inch of anything. THAT is why the female deadlifted more than the male chimp, because she was yet another couple inches shorter.
now consider much more importantly these ratios are based on the average human. so if a gorilla can bench 10X that of the average human, he's not that strong at all (by crazy gorilla standards, obviously he owns people still). if he can bench 10X that of the average human MALE (the AVERAGE male is untrained, remember that folks), well then he's probably benching 1400 lbs (which still makes a man look weak, but with a good 100 lbs on mendy, its not really that bad for us). now consider the distribution in humans, some people are just total beasts. lets say that a guy who is just naturally a beast can throw up twice that of a normal man having never lifted, and since a gorilla is a primate too we can make a similar conclusion about them. ie, a total absolute freak of a gorilla (like the 600+ lb behemoths) would maybe be able to bench 2800.
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08-13-2006, 09:48 AM #40
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08-13-2006, 04:51 PM #41
This forum has almost as many Animal experts as we do Street Fighting Experts, wow.
Not only do I know what gorillas actually bench.
I know that apes were actually designed for pulling.
(and what a gorilla could most likely bench after a year of steroids, will help with future plans)
I bet the Gorilla was just inflating his E-stats. I saw him "bench 4000:, it was shirted and his ass was off the bench....he didnt even go down all the way.
Besides for there bodyweight gorillas arent even that strong, just like ronnie coleman who is actually really weak and full of useless bloated muscles. I bet gorillas are full of it, did you know gorillas can barerly bench 225 in the on season?
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08-13-2006, 05:00 PM #42
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08-13-2006, 10:43 PM #43
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08-14-2006, 03:50 PM #44
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08-14-2006, 06:21 PM #45
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08-14-2006, 06:33 PM #46
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08-14-2006, 06:44 PM #47
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08-14-2006, 07:06 PM #48
If you guys think thats an impressive then you should see the species of ape thats now extinct. I forget their names but there was a species of 8 foot tall apes that basically looked like big foot that lived in china. Their latin name was something gigantus.. damn i cant even remember, been so long since i had anthropology.
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08-14-2006, 07:20 PM #49
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08-14-2006, 08:32 PM #50
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08-14-2006, 08:40 PM #51
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08-15-2006, 12:59 AM #52
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08-15-2006, 05:54 PM #53
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08-15-2006, 05:55 PM #54
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08-15-2006, 08:24 PM #55
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08-16-2006, 05:12 PM #56
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08-17-2006, 06:10 AM #57
You should think of it this way: the same way we use our legs to move around, gorillas and most apes use their arms (hanging on the trees and all). Now, considering that a silverback weights about 2.5 times as much as the average adult human, and the average, untrained, adult human could leg press, what, 400lbs? Do that times 2.5 and it should give you a rough estimate of how much a gorilla could bench methinks - about 1000lbs. But 4k? No ****ing way. Maybe, like said above, if they trained for years and used gear, but not your average gorilla.
As far as teaching a gorilla to bench goes, I honestly don't think it would be THAT hard. They can be tought to comunicate with us. They can be tought to operate simple machinery. Why couldn't they be tought to lay on a bench and push a bar?
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08-17-2006, 06:50 AM #58
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08-17-2006, 12:39 PM #59Originally Posted by Uriel_da_man"There is no room for failure now. The innocent must die."
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08-17-2006, 04:00 PM #60Originally Posted by Uriel_da_man"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
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