Chimps are impressively muscly

Merlin5 said:
How is that possible then? I can understand a human with less muscle being able to take down a massive bodybuilder if the less muscly person has good skill as a fighter. But how can a less muscly person be physically stronger if muscle mass is what determines physical strength?
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Being "ripped" is just about low body fat percentage and muscle definition, its hard to build muscle and stay low fat, its very hard naturally but possible with drugs.

Bodybuilders are strong but not powerlifter strong. It all depends on how you train and eat, chimps freakish powerful.
 
EdGey said:
No doubt your right, but even then we still relied 99% on weapons to do all the work. Do you know what the documentry was called? Sound's interesting, I may give it a watch.
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I've always believed that the mind is the best weapon.
 
But if you eat less protein and still do lots of exercises and strength work you will still get stronger however your muscles will lot be as pronounced AFAIK. That's also one of the reasons people who don't eat much meat (such as the people on the human planet) look pretty skinny but are very strong.
 
Protein is not just really only about building muscles it's about cell regeneration, and help repair the cells in your body. A chimp's metabolism is different enough to ours, and their basic genetic makeup allows them to high a high power / strength ratio without the need of pushing their genetic defaults. Unlike humans that have to load themselves with more calories and nutrients and push themselves in the gym/exercise to achieve a similar level.

Wild animals are designed to cope with the wild and survive - we haven't had that requirement, hence why we aren't as lean or as tough as we used to be.

Size also doesn't necessarily equal strength - you can be strong without being big, it's about power to weight.
 
pioneer2000 said:
So how do their bodies build such density of muscle when they are only eating low protein foods?
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Same way cows do. This cow has the "double muscle" gene mutation:

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Freefaller said:
Protein is not just really only about building muscles it's about cell regeneration, and help repair the cells in your body. A chimp's metabolism is different enough to ours, and their basic genetic makeup allows them to high a high power / strength ratio without the need of pushing their genetic defaults. Unlike humans that have to load themselves with more calories and nutrients and push themselves in the gym/exercise to achieve a similar level.

Wild animals are designed to cope with the wild and survive - we haven't had that requirement, hence why we aren't as lean or as tough as we used to be.

Size also doesn't necessarily equal strength - you can be strong without being big, it's about power to weight.
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Some of it is just the strength of the nerve signals the CNS is sending too. A chimp could have the same size bicep as a bodybuilder but if its brain/CNS is pumping 3x as much neurons it will be able to recruit more fibers and lift much more. They probably have thicker nerve fibers.

I think humans have a quite low limit on that to avoid injuring themselves.
 
I once saw a chimp go in a rage at a zoo and pull his car tyre from it's chain then hurl it.
You will also notice at zoo's that the chimps have stronger cages.
They are seriously strong animals.
 
With the protein thing I believe cows (and maybe gorillas and chimps) can synthesize the full array of amino acids just from the crap grass proteins they eat, but humans can't. That's why we need to eat stuff that already contains the essential amino acids like meat.
 
Larkspeed said:
I read an article on this not that long ago

The 4 to 8 times stronger number is based off an old study from the 20s that was invalidated in the 90s but because the belief had been around so long it stuck and still comes up today.

When you factor in body size they are in fact stronger than humans but only 2 x not 4 or more.

This is of course referring to Chimps.

Orangutans and Gorillas may have a different ratio
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I may stand a chance if I'm ever in a situation where a chimp thinks I'm a Mr Potato Head and decides to swap my limbs around then lol.
 
Larkspeed said:
I read an article on this not that long ago

The 4 to 8 times stronger number is based off an old study from the 20s that was invalidated in the 90s but because the belief had been around so long it stuck and still comes up today.

When you factor in body size they are in fact stronger than humans but only 2 x not 4 or more.

This is of course referring to Chimps.

Orangutans and Gorillas may have a different ratio
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I would be interested to know how a commando or special forces soldier would hold against these kind of animals in a fight?

Most of these comparisons are against normal humans.
 
WingZero30 said:
I would be interested to know how a commando or special forces soldier would hold against these kind of animals in a fight?

Most of these comparisons are against normal humans.
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Im afraid special forces soldiers ARE normal humans buddy.
 
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