Anatomical
I often wonder, as I’m sure everyone does from time to time, exactly how much
Bigfoot can
deadlift. So I’ve taken the time to put together what I believe is
an honest and analytical assessment of the upper limits of a large male Bigfoot
in the competitive powerlift known as the deadlift.
For those of you who aren’t up to speed, these two links should help: the first
is the premier Bigfoot informational website, and the second is an
explanation of the
deadlift.
As both human beings and the Bigfoot species share similar morphology, it makes sense to first look at the deadlift limits of humans. An adult male Bigfoot is projected to weigh anywhere from 800–1000 lbs. We will examine the heaviest human lifters because they will be closest to the Bigfoot in size. Generally, a super heavyweight lifter’s body weight will be somewhere between the low 300 lbs and 400 lbs, or roughly one half to a third the size of a Bigfoot.
At the time of this writing, the world record in the deadlift is 971 lbs and
is held by Andy Botlon from England. Mr. Botlon performed this lift weighing
around 330–340 lbs, and most of the men who have deadlifted over 900 lbs are in
this weight range, give or take a few pounds. At the time of this article, there
are about ten men who have deadlifted over 900 lbs and only a few are under 300
lbs. So if we take a linear projection, a large Bigfoot is roughly three times
the size of Mr. Botlon. If we triple his best competition deadlift, we wind up
with 2913 lbs. Very impressive indeed Mr. Bigfoot. There are, however, other
factors that we need to consider.
Neurological
We can assume that Bigfoot is very explosive in his physical makeup. There are reports of these creatures actually running down deer. Taking into consideration a bi-ped (two-legged) creature running down an agile, quick, four-legged creature, it leads to speculation about just how explosive the Bigfoot is. As we all know, explosion and speed are very important physical attributes for lifting heavy weights.
Now obviously a Bigfoot in the wild is going to be untrained in the
traditional deadlift. So for the sake of this article, we will assume that we
have somehow been able to train Bigfoot on a template with the deadlift ensuring
his neurological conditioning and coordination with heavy weights in that lift.
Otherwise, Bigfoot would be very explosive and have an extremely high general
physical preparedness (in layman’s terms, he would be in good shape) from the
foraging, hunting, and general surviving in harsh conditions. But he wouldn’t be
close to his physical limit in the deadlift if he was not training for it.
Anatomical
Standing at ten feet tall and 1000 solid pounds, Bigfoot would be the ideal deadlifting machine. His height would be an attribute as well as his longer, simian limbs. Of course, grip would be no issue with his enormous hands, since there are reports of him twisting thick tree branches for his own amusement. But another key factor in the Bigfoot deadlifting question is the fact that although very humanoid, the creature is still considered an animal.
As we all know, animals are generally several times stronger, especially in
reference to their body weight, than people. A chimpanzee, another humanoid
animal, is seven times stronger than the average person, even more than that if
you take into consideration their strength to body weight ratio. Check out a
brief breakdown of a
chimp’s strength
in relation to ours.
Summation
So taking into consideration all of these factors, the linear projection is probably quite low. Normally, we couldn’t just multiply the linear projection by seven because Mr. Bolton is the strongest human in the world at the deadlift and much closer in strength to a primate of his size than a layperson would be. However, considering that we are dealing with a trained Bigfoot and that Bigfoot’s anatomy almost seems designed for the deadlift, the seven times multiplication method should hold true. Thus, seven times our original projection of 2913 lbs brings us to a bit more than 20,000 lbs or about ten tons! Holy crap!
To give you a better perspective of this, here is what
ten tons of
marijuana looks like.
Or better yet, here is a picture of
ten tons of counterfeit Legos that
were recently confiscated by the Dutch authorities.
I don’t know about you, but I sure am impressed!
Aaron DiPrima continues his studies of the elusive Bigfoot while residing at
Strength Beyond in Michigan. He does not possess big feet nor is his body hair
out of control. He just likes Bigfoot.
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