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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Sunday, 3 Jan 1993 02:57:09 CST
- From: David James Alexander Hanley <U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <93003.025709U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: MOTHER PICKS UP CAR
- References: <1h8lr3INNirn@mirror.digex.com> <28147@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
- <1992Dec29.101540.3008@mtroyal.ab.ca> <1287@xlnt.COM>
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- In article <1287@xlnt.COM>, david@elwood.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (David Johnson)
- says:
- >
- >PCP exhibiting the strength of several men. My theory of why one
- >normally cannot lift a car is not because your muscles are physically
- >incapable of generating the necessary power but rather that defensive
- >mechanism built in your body prevents you from doing such things to
- >prevent injury. Have you ever noticed that whenever you do get an
- >injury you unconsciously protect it? I think PCP suppresses this mechanism
- >and that is how PCP users are able to generate such power. My guess is
- >that these people are tearing up their own tissues at the same time
- >they are throwing police and ambulance workers around or breaking
- >restraints.
-
- I have looked into this and it is what I beleive as well. A human's
- muscles can generate great amounts of power, but there are safeguards
- to prevent us from generating enough power to damage our physical
- structure--particularly the tendons. This is why you sometimes find
- someone who is small and relatively un-muscular, but is very strong.
- They have strong tendons and joints, the body "knows" it, so it
- exerts the muscles to a greater tham normal degree.
-
- This makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. Animals that
- didn't destroy their bodies after a few weeks survived better. But
- if you had the ability to turn it off during emergencies, that made you
- fitter yet, and might reduce a 99% death situation to a 50% one.
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