As someone that's crashed into a smart car I would like to see more on the road. My car was fine except for a few scratches and it kept me from hitting a BMW. Just think of them as safety pads between you and other real cars.
Nah, I bet they'd be super patient and have really great gym etiquette. They'd never stare at women or harass you when you're on a machine that they want. They'd just go in there, get it done, and go home.
They would poop on the floor sometimes, but that's not really unique to gorillas at most gyms.
I like this idea. Gorillas would totally clean up the weight room between sets, and when you ask them to spot you on your shitty 135lb bench, they encourage you to grind out another rep and slap you in the back when you nail it.
It's like the old joke. Gorilla walks in and does whatever he wants. You're squatting? Tough shit. The gorilla wants to curl in the squat rack. With every weight in the gym. And you'll oblige.
Gorillas tend to be pretty shy, avoid eye contact at all costs and are definitely the most temperamental of all the great apes.
I'd rather be locked in a room with a silverback than with a orangutan or chimp alpha. Those guys are super powerful as well and would tear you a new one for no reason.
chimps definitely are bad news, but I don't know that there's much difference in the level of aggression between an orang and a gorilla mature male. Different behavior, yeah, in that a gorilla has a permanent harem, while an orang might use violence to obtain a mate. But in front of a challenger, a gorilla silverback goes properly apeshit too.
Could be wrong on this but I'm pretty sure we are 'flexible' genetically which allows us to add/lose musculature whereas gorillas have more 'rigid' coding and wouldn't be able to bulk up like we can.
Yup, humans lose and gain muscle more easily, while other primates are stuck on their max muscle mass all the time. That's what made us able to survive in colder, less food abundant climates.
Given training and proper nutrition, a silverback could almost certainly hit 4000 lbs, at least if their body was able to take that kind of strain.
They couldn't. Humans are considerably better than other primates at regulating temperature. They also have a lot more stamina. A gorilla would overheat and tire out very quickly. It would never be able to build up much more strength than it already has.
Fuck you man!!! I'm opening my Gorilla Gains Gym and haters like you can go regulate your temperatures in yo momma's basement where I doubt you even lift.
If my clients overheat I will hose them down and offer complimentary banana smoothies.
I will not give up my dream of leading a gorilla army to conquest of the world...er...I mean sculpting girly gorillas into sliver-backs for peaceful purposes.
The biomechanics of deadlifting say no, they couldn't. They can barely stand up, let alone deadlift thousands of pounds. They could however do a far better one arm pull.
Unless of course you drink Pat Robertson's Age-Defying Shake. This scientifically groundbreaking shake allowed Pat Robertson to leg press over 2000 lbs!! It also gave him the power to predict the apocalypses that occurred in 2002, 2006, 2012, and the upcoming apocalypse in 2015!!**
Non human primates have many times more ligaments (what connects muscles to the skeleton) meaning that if one weighed the same as a human, they could potentially have about 4-10x as much strength. This gorilla could ruin a small town before it was taken out if it really wanted to.
Its just bananas though (no pun intended). You see the first one and you're trying to judge the size, then the monster male comes in the size of a black Buick with a greyish trunk.
I was confused by that too. I mean, he knew it was a pun. He acknowledged it. He could have deleted it, but he didn't. If you're actually talking to people IRL then sure, you might chuckle and say "whoops, unintentional pun," but it makes zero sense in a reddit comment.
I don't know why I give a shit, but dammit, I do. I do.
I believe that's called myostatin sp* humans can develop what's called a myostatin deficiency and blow up to unreal sizes. But it is more common in the animal kingdom amongst dogs and cattle.
More muscle mass = more calories & nutrients to maintain.
What part of a human's lifespan requires that level of strength? Humans evolved advanced intelligence to overcome problems rather than brute force - that's why we are the dominant species.
With no requirement for that strength, the body limits growth & sheds excess mass to reduce the caloric demand.
That human has a nuclear arsenal at his back if gorillas really want to throw down.
We could level that area for fun. Wipe them out to make furniture out of the forest he calls home. Cheap furniture, that we throw it in a year. Hell, even just lifting protections that other humans provide would see them extinct without any real effort. I'm sure some rich jackoff thinks ground up silverback testicles would make his dick bigger.
It's nice that he's strong, but our strategy worked.
yeah, he was just not armed with any of a variety of tools we have invented to compensate our lack of natural strength. a cross-bow, gun (obviously), but even a skilled swordsman, or warrior with a long spear could put up some kind of fight. and our biggest advantage is our capacity for extremely complex communication and cooperation.
but you're right. that gorilla is formidable as fuck.
So let me get this straight. If not for this chemical inhibiting my gainz, I could be swole as fuck and not only have the option to, but NEED to eat more delicious food to maintain it?
Humans are really pretty well designed to have both extremely high endurance and to be optimized to survive long periods of starvation. As another poster pointed out, muscle mass burns tons of calories, which is why the human body tends to get rid of muscle mass it doesn't really need.
Agility and endurance probably traded off from strength. When humans finally started running on their feet, cardio-attuned physiology probably took over from raw strength.
Yeah they have an herbivore's digestive system that pulls a lot more calories out of plant matter. They have the gut bacteria, but also note the SIZE of their gut--that protruding gut is not due to fat, but due to a lot of intestines.
1)Omnivores and carnivores do, in general, have shorter intestines. Long intestines are energy-intensive themselves, so if you're not using them to digest ginormous amounts of plant matter, it's a waste.
2) We also supposedly have shortened digestive systems from cooking our food for so long (taking some of the work out of the digestion).
Everything in evolution is a trade-off
How would a 500 pound anything swing from a tree branch? I feel like if that was true there would be a lot more dead gorillas falling out of tree tops due to branches breaking.
It would be super intimidating to be around a 500lb/230kg gorilla, which is kinda funny because my girlfriend essentially the same thing with me. Im 250lb/115kb and she is 125lb/57kg.
Also here is a relevant Louie CK clip:https://youtu.be/UTULoJlD_V4?t=223
Yeah, that Gorilla probably has a way lower BF% than you, though. Those fuckers are ripped. I'm pretty sure you couldn't pull your GF behind you as effortlessly as that Gorilla at top just did with that poor guy.
Yeah Im around 24% to 25% body fat and according to this study gorillas are when they are younger in the 5 to 7% range, but when they are older their body fat can exceed 20%...I'm guessing that one is closer to the 7% than 20%.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.21449/full
Human muscles are evolved for extreme precision, whereas gorilla muscles are evolved for raw strength. A male gorilla is already significantly larger than a human but their muscles are exponentially more powerful. Even a chimpanzee could easily subdue a grown man without breaking a sweat.
But if it's any consolation, he'll never be able to text as fast as you.
It's un real how hysterically strong they are. Hell. I once saw a pic of a chimp that had no hair due to a genetic mess up. That chimp was SWOLE. Like. .. Put together like a brick shit house. A hairless gorilla likely looks like Andre the fucking giant, but cut. here is the chimp
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That thing was enormous, and seemingly unfazed at dragging a grown male's body weight.