Mekanik

posted Sun, 12/18/2011 - 13:05

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Chimp strength and other primates

so I see treads silver-back Gorilla avatar...

This makes me think about planet of the apes. Yeah they have a new movie in the series coming out on Video/DVD today? yesterday? All those big apes...got me thinking. I love a good movie. I like Charlton Heston... I have popcorn... its a date w/ myself!

so I go and dag out a movie from my collection and watch it. I have the house to myself this weekend.

So then my mind is wandering?? or wondering ??

So how the hell are they 3-4x stronger than us homo sapiens ( no homo ) when muscle size is not 3x as large ? How can they jump so much further? They have limited use of legs but I bet they have legs that are a lot stronger too.

I have heard a chimps strength is crazy and Chimps are smaller than us.
Should we eat more bananas? should we lay around more ?

Maybe you can answer this question ??

No he winner does not get a free vial of Prop -

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GURU
12/18/2011 - 16:44

OUR Muscle strength per square inch of muscle is greater due to the use of these muscles as intended over years. Humans were once similar in that muscles were stronger due to use. Use it or lose it theory or fact as it really were. Plus I ate some of Chuck Norris' beard clippings once.

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tread-m
12/19/2011 - 13:36

Beard clippings
I wonder if I could get some Chuck Jedi mojo by shaking his hand by chuckmosis??

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12/18/2011 - 16:34

I looked this up, for those of you that are interested...

I checked 3-4 places... seems the hypothesis is we have more fine motor skills, we homo sapiens ( no homo ) can perform more delicate tasks. Chimps have much less gray matter in their spinal cords than humans, less motor neurons, less control but more strength.
I also read that their muscle structure is different. One article said the chimp can recruit more muscle to fire than we can.

The downside is I see no way to apply these principles to the gym?

~~Anon~~
12/18/2011 - 13:54

KMC is on the right track, it has to do with their tendons and ligaments. We dont swing from trees all day, so we dont develop the way needed to have the strength they do. Just as an ant is able to lift 20x it's own body weight... Imagine if you could lift 1000lbs... With your jaws.