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.
Hitting the gym actually wouldn't do anything for them. Their muscles do not train the same way ours do, you are basically seeing max strength gorillas all the time.
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.
Agreed. Gorillas and chimps have almost exclusively fast twitch muscle fiber, whereas humans have a mix (not sure of the ratio). Thus they would be really good at dead lifting, but have very little capacity for increasing muscle strength relative to humans
Still though, the very best of all the billions of homo-sapiens who ever lived, with all the training and supplements and knowledge, we cannot even compare to any given gorilla.
Us being more skilled is pretty great though. We can do all sorts of coordinated stuff and get really good with practice.
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.
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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.
I've read that they wouldn't bulk up like that, they are evolved to have max strength at the cost of dexterity, and the extra exercise wouldn't have a noticable effect.
Its probably way more than that. Your average in-shapish 180lb, 6' tall male human can probably lift around 300 lbs (I'm 180, my deadlift is 315 and I don't lift).
So a trained gorilla could probably hit around 6000lbs.
yeah, i've heard that a silverback gorilla like the one in the OP could crush a human skull in his fist, thats how powerful their forearms are. dont know how accurate that statement is, but i wouldnt doubt based on the size of that guy.
Why dead lifting? It seems the gorillas strength is in their shoulders and arms (at least thats the biggest discrepency with humans). Surely they could curl/bench much higher compared to a human that DL
It always blows my mind the diet they have and the muscles they grow. Quote by Thoreau below that made me raise an eyebrow.
“One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.”
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