Can Danger Give You Super Strength?

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Have you ever heard that you become more powerful in life-or-death situations? There are a lot of anecdotes about super strength, but is it a real thing?

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[jaycurlz]

"So probably don't try to stop a train like super man."
You use the word probably, so is there still a chance that I can?

[welshzecorgi]

So remember people, if you want to see something cool, find wonderful, loving families and push their children into traffic.

[YormanGina]

So basically if I'm about to die I can open the Eight Gates out of sheer will?

[jaimie]

I once blacked out while driving when I was 18. I was in a rural area, and the minivan (my mother's) flipped several times and landed in the woods driver's side up. I came to, smelled smoke, forced the driver's side door above me open, climbed out, and ran for half a mile on a severely damaged ankle without feeling a twinge. Later, when the fire dept. showed up, they righted the minivan, and it was so severely crushed that they said it was impossible for any of them to open the door I had opened with what felt like little effort. The damage to my ankle was impressive. There were torn ligaments and stuff, and I shouldn't have been able to run on it at all, but I did. Bodies are weird things.

[Zeyox]

Once, after me, my dad and my little bro had gone looking for fossils (which is maybe 2 hours hill climbing to get there, look for fossils and rocks and crack 'em open, then go back the same way), at some point I was just exhausted and kinda ready to collapse. That was until some bulls showed up. I went from ready to collapse to running faster than I've ever run in my life in a few seconds. It's really amazing what the human body can do once it stops holding itself back.

[kustomweb]

During the 1994 earthquake, I broke out of our bedroom by throwing a filled bookcase out of the way with one hand. My arm hurt for over a week, but I did have super strength that day

[Wolfsgeist]

Is it true, that our brain essentially holds our body back in some way because using our full potential all the time would be too stressful and damaging to our muscles?

[KingYoite]

A while ago some of my mom's friend's kids were playing in a gravel pit when a huge boulder slipped off the ledge and landed on one of them, the other two immediately ran to him and lifted it off him and he got out with a broken arm or something. They were 12. The boulder was larger than a grown man.

[Gimbergp]

But can super strength give you danger? 🤔🤔

[parkerbenz]

A burn survivor friend of mine was trapped under a burning car that weighed over 3 thousand pounds, and a firefighter lifted the FRONT END of the car (yes, where the engine was) while other people pulled him out from under the car.

[maxdrags]

Is it possible to maybe make your body release those chemicals at will?

[edi]

Stress-hormones can do miraculous things: I fell down some stairs and walked home, as if it was nothing, but on the next day the pain knocked me out, once I tried to get out of bed and put weight on my foot (which had 3 torn tendons).

[glorvalmacglorvas]

What if your body is on 100% panic mode for a half an hour?

[AbudBakri]

So is this how Goku goes Super Saiyan?



#over9000

[GermansRuinedWT]

I remember when i was 8 i was trying to get up a tree with my friends but i was struggling and my sister decided to scare me and yell “Tanner theres a dog coming!”
I got my ass up that tree so fast

[DannyCRox]

When I was in middle school, I was a pretty skinny kid, probably like 110 Ibs and 5'5', and don't work out. There was this bully hoodlum in class who grabbed me from behind and put me in a choke hold. I felt so much adrenaline that I was able to lift him up with only my arms holding his near my neck where he was choke holding me and I nearly dropped him on the class tables in front of me, enough for him to release me and fall. And this guy was way bigger than me, especially in middle school, like 270ish Ibs and really built, and I remember doing that like it was nothing, like my legs and arms went full gear. It felt like I could do anything at that time like fight or flight. The bully was too shocked to come at me again after that, because to him it seemed like i lifted him up extremely easily. Clear to say I couldn't do that again afterwards, because at separate occasions other kids a little less heavier tried seeing if I could do it again. I could barely lift them an inch off the ground without feeling like i'm under huge pressure. Still I was called a strong kid that whole year lol.

[masterimbecile]

This reminded me of a story I read about more than 10 years ago. I was so amazed by the story that I still remember it today.

The story was about a lone hiker walking on a narrow path along the face of a sheer cliff. A slab of rock the size of a counter top peeled off the cliff, landed on the hiker's chest, and pinned him down. He summoned enough strength to push the slab off his body and wiggled his way out, but his strength tore some of his shoulder muscles away from the bones.

[jaydon]

Muscles: Sir, we’ve got a life threatening situation. Requesting permission to activate full muscle strength, over.

Brain: Roger that muscles, permission granted. Give em hell, over.

[BlazeOGlory]

when the dresser falls on your last taco from Taco Bell

[hououinkyouma]

I think on a show called fight science, they mentioned a hiker going up a cliff, a chunk of the wall came off and landed on him, dragging him down the hill and towards the edge of the cliff. somehow all his muscles connected at once allowing him to slide the boulder over him. he tore every muscle in his arms and shoulder, but he managed it.