let me tell you youngin's a wee story, I started hitting good heavy bags when I was 19 and when I started I was felt embarrassed because of how little power I could generate. I would pretend I was only light hitting at the start so nobody would become aware of how little power I had when i started. Over the period of a year I was so good all my buddies were in awe of my punching power asking me to show off. Mind you I trained 5 or 6 days a week. The point is, its shocking how good you can get when you love your craft and put a lot of effort into it. My left hook literally sucked when I first started training. I could not of knocked a dude out that closed his eyes and let me hit him. Fast forward a year and I accidently put a guy down in sparring from a left hook that I didn't even get full power onto. Now consider a PRO and how good they would get from all of their work :rasta
Yep. Civilization has turned us into pussies. Chimps are highly socialized creatures but they still haven't evolved the pussy gene we have, as one chimp if they get absolutely fed up with another still has free reign to bash their brains in and not face any consequences, free to continue thriving and passing on their "I-don't-take-no-shit" DNA. :deal
Sad part is it's only getting worse, society is constantly looking for a way to further sissify things..
Chimps are naturally stronger, stop talking ****. They are genetically different and have physical advantages that allow them to wing from trees effortlessly. Honestly some people talk some absolute **** here.
You completely missed his point. Humans actually have that same latent capacity (shown in rare flashes, like a mother hoisting a car off her children, or people high on PCP ripping telephone poles outta the ground). We're just bred for lives of docility and 99% of that potential remains untapped. Evolution has also given them base physiological advantages, but the gap narrows considerably if you take only those into account. We're still physically capable of a much greater degree of prowess than our hyper-socialized ways allow us to express.
This. Stiverne visited my gym last year and dropped my friend Bill twice and he's a former Muay Thai champion. Stiverne was wearing 20 oz gloves and his shots looked vicious.
He said our strength was equal, how did I miss his point? And your point is complete BS by the way. We always have an absolute maximum strength. We only unlock the extra few % through training. Pure pseudoscience in this thread. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/extreme-fear-superhuman/
Something as mundane as competition isn't going to motivate anyone to as great an extent as mortal fear for oneself or for one's progeny. :roll: (especially in females) We are hardwired to perform well above our normal standards when in peril, and to have our protective instincts toward our young (especially maternal) dwarf any other instincts including self-preservation or the kill-switch that prevents us from exerting extraordinary strength in such a way as to cause ourselves injury. Sorry, that isn't pseudoscience. I'll concede that he misspoke in calling our base strength equal to a chimp's (as that just physiologically isn't true, with all but the weakest and most sickly chimps being proportionately more built for explosive strength than even the fittest and most athletic person) but the larger share of what separates us from them lies in us leaving much of our physical potential unlocked and them being animals with no behavioral restrictions instilled by society. You two are basically arguing extreme black and white ends, when really there's a grey in there.,
It is pseudoscience, absolutely no medical journal agrees with you. It's your made up hypothesis. Simple biology shows you the limits, you should have really learnt that at school.
But can you tap into that power to lift cars and save babies WITHOUT really feeling you are in danger? Not yet, but one day. They'll see :mj
So is this one of the reasons why guys like Mike Tyson and Gerald McClellan could destroy people like they were? It's hard to generate rage though. The other guy you're fighting is usually a decent of guy. I don't see how a normal guy could become super angry before the fight.