What are some examples of people who possess extraordinary human abilities?

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Mar 23, 2018 4:42 PM



Nishith Rastogi

Building RideSafeApp.com , Engineer, Photographer, Traveler, Trivia Geek

253w ago

The man who can run 50 Marathons, in 50 Consecutive Days, in 50 different States. 
Dean Karnazes 



This guy can literally (yes, literally) run forever at 10+ Km/Hr if kept sufficiently well hydrated and fed. The guy has actually ran 350 miles (560 km) in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep in 2005. Try browsing Facebook without sleep for 80 hours, this guy was running, while maintaining an average speed greater than 7 Km/hr, for 560 Km.


The Super Human Part:

"they measured his CPK number, which shows the amount of damage your muscles sustain from exercise. So for instance, a normal runner's CPK would be through the roof after a marathon -- around 2,400. Karnazes' was found to be at 447 ... after 25 consecutive marathons."



Saikrishnan Ranganathan

works at Goldman Sachs

247w ago

Cristiano Ronaldo.

He is truly a world class athlete and has some serious power packed in his body. His jump is higher than the average NBA basketball player, just one facet of an incredible athlete.

When Ronaldo jumps, he generates 5G of G-force on take-off - this is five times the power of a cheetah in full flight. This enables him to reach heights of 44cm in the air from a standing start and 78cm with a run-up - 7cm higher than the average NBA player. This was measured during biomechanic tests on the forward at the University of Chichester in 2011. He was put to the test in a film for Castrol Edge Rankings made by M&C Saatchi Sport and Entertainment.



Powerful thigh and upper body muscles are essential for this kind of leap and so Ronaldo spends hours in the gym training his muscles to maintain his power - the circumference of his thighs is 62cm. In fact, during a full weight training session, the Portugal star will lift the equivalent of over 16 new Toyota Prius cars.

Another side effect of this strenuous fitness regime is that Ronaldo has less body fat than a supermodel. This is just the beginning of the impressive features of a footballing machine, however. Ronaldo's reaction times when on the pitch are so quick they would circumnavigate the world over 31 hours faster than the quickest bullet train.



Ronaldo can reach a height of 44cm from a standing jump.



With a run-up, Ronaldo can attain a height of 78cm

This impressive strength and power has won many a game for Ronaldo and his team.



Ronaldo rises above the Chelsea defence to head home United's goal in the 2008 Champions League final



A Ronaldo free-kick accelerates four times faster than the Apollo space rocket at lift-off

He possesses such endurance that every season he runs the equivalent distance from Madrid to Lisbon.

It's not just long-distance running either - he will sprint 900 times more in a season than an Olympic sprinter.

Scientists have found that one of his free-kicks accelerates four times faster than the Apollo 11 space rocket at blast off.

No wonder Real paid £80m to grab the Portugese star from Manchester United.

WHAT MAKES HIM SPECIAL?

DNA
Most people who can jump so high are born with a high percentage of fast-twitch muscles, which gives them explosive speed.

YEARS OF PRACTICE
From 12 years old, players start plyometric training — jumping and hopping while carrying a weight bar. They also do gym work to develop their leg muscles, such as lunges and single leg squats. They also jump off boxes on to the floor, and then spring straight back up and over hurdles.

STRENGTHENING KEY MUSCLES
To jump high, you need strong calf muscles, hamstrings, quads and glutes (see left for where they are on the body). When you are in the air, you also need strong stomach muscles, which allow you to move your back, shoulder and neck muscles to head a ball higher. Players use very heavy weights in short bursts to develop these muscles. During a full weight training session, 13st 7lb Ronaldo will lift a total of the equivalent of more than 16 Toyota Prius cars.

DIET
Players eat a lot of protein to build muscle. That means plenty of fish, eggs and meat. Some sugars and carbohydrates before training provide energy. Due to his rigorous regime, Ronaldo has less body fat than a supermodel.



Deepa

253w ago

Shakuntala Devi

She is the only person who comes to my mind when i see the word "Mental calculator/Human computer".

Some of her achievements -

in 1980, Shakuntala Devi demonstrated the  multiplication of two 13-digit numbers: '7,686,369,774,870 x  2,465,099,745,779', picked randomly by the Computer Department of  Imperial College, London. She produced the correct answer of  '18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730', in just 28 seconds.
In 1977, at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas,  Texas, She extracted the 23rd root of a 201-digit number, in 50 seconds, with the correct answer being '546372891'. She  had beaten the then fastest computer, UNIVAC's time of 62 seconds, and  13,000 instructions.
Shakuntala could find the cube root of 332 812 557 in under a minute.



Brijesh Chandrakar

Fitness,Football | Cooking,Travel | Science,Spirituality

253w ago

Talking about extraordinary human abilities. 
How about a person who was excellent painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, polymath, cartographer, botanist and what not. 
He is none other than Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519), acclaimed by many as THE greatest genius of all time. 



His Signature: 



Painter- No need to write about this. Most of you know about his painting skills.
Mona Lisa



Last supper



Musician!- A rare music composed by him. As the top comment states,"
Da Vinci was inventing the 8-bit game soundtrack centuries before there were 8-bit games!!" 
Scientist, Mathematician, Inventor, Engineer, Anatomist- Compare the following two( difference between the two is about 460-470 years)






Some other designs which were centuries ahead of its time
Cross bow



Multi barrel Gun



Design for helicopter



Here is a documentary video 

Leonardo DaVinci - The Man Who Wanted To Know Everything


Source: Leonardo da Vinci



Vaibhav Ahlawat

just another among 7 billion others

228w ago

Fauja Singh ( wikipedia - Fauja Singh)

This guy is 102 years old:-




and still runs marathons: 









him carrying the olympic torch: 



His running career (source- Wikipedia): 
Rediscovered at age of 81Marathons run: London (5), Toronto (2), New York (1)Marathon debut: London, 2000, aged 89London Flora Marathon 2000: 6:54London Flora Marathon 2001: 6:54London Flora Marathon 2002: 6:45Bupa Great North Run (Half Marathon) 2002: 2:39London Flora Marathon 2003: 6:02Toronto Waterfront Marathon 2003: 5:40New York City Marathon 2003: 7:35London Flora Marathon 2004: 6:07Glasgow City Half Marathon 2004: 2:33Capital Radio Help a London Child 10,000 m 2004: 1:08Toronto Waterfront Half Marathon 2004: 2:29:59Toronto Waterfront Marathon 2011: 8:11:06Hong Kong Marathon (10 km) 2012: 1:34 (raised $25,800 for charity)Hong Kong Marathon (10 km) 2013: 1:32:28
And he is a vegetarian: