one of many "super human" abilities of a human in emergencies
(this was taken from another thread i posted it in, where it certainly was off-subject and didn't belong)
this is off-subject, but for what it's worth, the world record bench press was not done in some gym at i don't know what it is ...maybe 500-700 lbs ?
the real world record was possibly this guy (this is a TRUE STORY. he had a friend with him and i think a camera or video camera or some device with such abilities. though i'm not certain of this. it's been awhile and my memory is bad) who was mountain climbing, and the chunk of cliff he was on gave away and he and that like over 1,400 lbs chunk of cliff rock fell to a downward sloped ledge below. fortunately-luckily, the 1,400 lbs chunk of cliff rock only fell on his legs, crushing them and pinning him to the ledge. unfortunately, he was still VERY high up, and being on the down sloping ledge....with him being trapped under the chunk of rock and sliding off the ledge to a fall of like who knows how high, though definately well high enough to kill him. amazingly, this skinny man (certainly not a weight lifter) literally was able to reverse-incline (the hardest type of bench press) bench the ~1,400 chunk of rock (which is well above the world record bench press in a gym by huge weight-lifters), up off his body, over his head, and push the rock out over the ledge-cliff in time before he slid off the ledge to his death as well !!!!
as to the science of how he just broke the world record for bench pressing:
being an emergency, his brain commanded every single muscle fiber in his entire arms to activate and fire, this caused the explosive force that was able to do the impossible and bench the 1,400 lbs chunk of rock. instead of dying, this emergency ability, merely torn his arms to shreds due to sheer the force that was generated from his brain activating his entire mucles fibers of his entire arms to fire, obviously this is a one time thing, that weight lifters can't use over and over again...it completely tears-destroys your arms, but that's a lot better than falling however far to a greusome and completely fatal "splat" below.
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most people (including many fraudulent "trainers", who actually only know nutrition and weight loss, but criminally lie saying they know how to lift weights) know NOTHING about the physics and biology of weight lifting.
it's NOT the size of your muscles, that gives u strength. see muscles are NOT actually huge chunks of "meat" as u might think. they are actually made up of many many fibers (hairs). think of like a steel cable (of how the steel cable is actually at least 3 smaller cables entwined around each other, instead of a single cable). that's kinda what your muscles are like. so the real strength and thus secret of weight lifting is not "size matters", but actually how many muscle fibers can you train/get your brain to activate/fire. this is done through repetition and desire-determination (mental-mind) using the PROPER technique, aka physics-science, yes muscles, bones, and human body also follows the laws of physics just as everything else in the universe (which also nearly everyone doesn't do or know how to).
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anyone and everyone can be a weight ("power") lifter.
this is because weight lifting, actually uses very little physical ability, contrary to foolish and erroneous mis-information/mis-understanding.
weight lifting is NOT for people with "brawns" (size-"strength")
weight lifting is FOR people with "brains" (science)
weight lifting is 99% science (physics). the 1% is the human doing the weight lifting. notice, i said, HUMAN. human means ANY human.
OF COURSE U HAVE TO KNOW WHAT U ARE DOING, or obviously weight lifting will be VERY dangerous. if u know what u are doing, weight ("power") lifting is 100% safe (excluding the law that things CAN always go wrong, no matter what, for anything and everything)
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additional comentary from the other thread posted/added here:
the rock climber, *LIVED*. he did NOT fall off the cliff (i'm pretty sure it was the rock's large mass-weight, gravity, and the downward slope that was the cause of his sliding. so once he got the massive rock off, he stopped sliding...or his friend was able to catch-grab-stop him from sliding. however take note...he was right AT the edge of the ledge...even with this "super human" ability it can only do so much. he could NOT "chuck" the 14,000 lbs rock over the ledge from 5 feet away from the edge....riiiight. he was RIGHT at the ledge and was amazingly just able to lift it, move it over his head, and "push" it jsut enough outward to clear his head and fall down the mountain cliff with OUT taking his head along with it or having it first fall on his head, crushing it-killing him *duh*, and than bounce and go over the ledge. THIS IS/WAS a ~14,000 lbs chunk of rock we are talking about!!! that's like... 7 small cars of weight!!! world record bench press by FAR!!! the force he/his brain/muscles generated jsut to lift, move, push that weight was easily enough force to tear and shred his arms apart every single muscle tendon cartilege completely TORE through his entire arms. possibly the best way to somewhat imagine this, is if u imagine his arms ripping off in half, "amputation/severing"). the friend (probably cell-phoned) a helicopter that got there in time before he bleed to death.
POOR GUY though!!!!! his legs CRUSHED to a powder of bone mixed with a mush/soup of flesh and blood by the rock falling on them, than his arms are OBLITERATED by the force he needed to generate to get the rock off him. no legs no arms... POOR GUY, yet he did still live/survive.....amazing!
TRUE STORY TOO, witnessed and even possibly recorded by his friend, witnesed and recorded-documented by the medical helicopter team rescuing him, and he lived himself, "to tell the story".