{"id":1440332,"date":"2021-11-14T19:23:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T00:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1440332"},"modified":"2023-02-21T16:59:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T21:59:17","slug":"lifting-cars-bare-hands-intimidating-arnold-schwarzenegger-weight-room-wilt-chamberlain-herculean-strength-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/lifting-cars-bare-hands-intimidating-arnold-schwarzenegger-weight-room-wilt-chamberlain-herculean-strength-epic\/","title":{"rendered":"From Lifting Up Cars With His Bare Hands to Intimidating Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Weight Room, the Tales of Wilt Chamberlain's Herculean Strength are Epic: ‘He Was the Strongest Human Being Who Ever Lived'"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wilt Chamberlain<\/a> is remembered today as the tall, lanky big man who could score 50 points and grab 25 rebounds<\/a> every night without breaking a sweat. The NBA Hall of Famer's averages during his prime look more like typos than actual stat lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the most impressive part about Chamberlain wasn't his ability to score at will over multiple defenders or grab every missed shot in a game. It was his Herculean strength that caused one of the smartest basketball minds in history to label him the “strongest human being who ever lived.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lifting up cars with his bare hands<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Wilt Chamberlain poses in front of the Parthenon in 1969 | Max B. Miller\/Fotos International\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A midsize car can weigh over 3,000 pounds, but that was nothing for Chamberlain. According to an old newspaper clipping posted on Twitter<\/a>, the basketball legend once tried to help former NBA PR chief Haskell Cohen change a tire by lifting up his car with nothing but his own bare hands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“One day up here I found a flat on my car and no jack to change the tire,” Cohen said. “Wilt was only 17 then, but he started to lift the back of the car off the ground with his bare hands when I stopped him. I was afraid the kid would give himself a hernia.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another instance<\/a>, Chamberlain picked up one of his teammate's Volkswagens off the ground with just one hand and placed it down gently at a different angle. The guy wasn't human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intimidating Arnold Schwarzenegger in the weight room<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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