I added both Imperial and Metric systems as almost half of the viewers I get are from the US and so that everybody in and outside of the US can understand. As for video, rabbit-hole goes deeper, there is a thing called maximum voluntary muscular force (MVMF) I didn't want to add because TH-cam doesn't like longer videos. So MVMF is the greatest amount of force a person can generate using their muscles under voluntary control. It's a difficult concept to pin down, as the MVMF of an individual can vary depending on factors such as age, gender, and training history. However, research suggests that the average person's MVMF is around 60-70% of their maximal muscle force. Now, let's put this into context. The current world record for the heaviest weight ever lifted by a human is 263.5 kilograms (581 pounds) in the clean and jerk category, set by Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia in 2021. If we assume that Talakhadze was operating at 70% of his maximal muscle force, we can extrapolate that his theoretical lifting capacity might be around 376.4 kilograms (830 pounds)!
The issue of that assessment is that ppl who regularly lift maximally incidentally train their voluntary max to be closer and closer to their involuntary max. A high level weightlifter like him would actually be using around 90% of his involuntary max.
And at what cost to the tendons, before a catastrophic structural failure as a result of torn tendons, simply because we overridden our safety limiter? Free weights aren't variable resistance, yet only the latter allows us to safely lift heavier for our tendons and muscles near the full range of motion. As for the news paper reports on hysterical strength, how much of the entire weight of the vehicle in question is consistently present during the full range of motion? I mean for anyone who've flipped heavy tires during bootcamps, did the weight of that tire stayed consistently throughout the entire motion, or did it shifted in relation to its center of gravity relative to its pivot?
If you think about it, she didn’t lift 3,500 lbs, it would’ve quite literally snapped bone, ligaments and the muscle clean off the bone. She only had to lift around a third or maybe quarter of that weight to get her son out.
I mean, basically all instances of hysterical strength end up with the savior being in the hospital: in one instance a boy save his brother by lifting a car, in the process he snapped both his forearms, ripped his biceps and crushed 3 teeth. In another a mother who fought a bear to save her daughter ended up with both her arms broken and she was fighting with on a leg that the bear had broken. Etc,etc, etc. Hysterical strength is not something meant to be used constantly, is a last ditch effort to survive, is the body deciding that it's possible to survive if it destroys itself.
Ah no. Humans are legitimately capable of lifting way more. Our brains just limit us. And under circumstances that would have caused damage we survive. That means there's way more to this than just "her bones would snap". Think deeper.
A third is still more than 1000 lbs lol. That's a freaky feat of strength in general, let alone an out of shape woman approaching her 50s/60s without exercise
Also need to consider that the woman who lifted the Impala didnt lift the ENTIRE car up off the ground. She just lifted one end, and that could jave been the trunk end of the car away from the engine. Still incredibly impressive, but you cant claim she lifted a full 3k lbs.
It would be equivalent to maybe a 450 lb. deadlift. Not huge but still very impressive for anyone without lifting experience. I'd bet she tore a few tendons, ligaments and some muscle tissue from that experience.
It always annoys me when people say they “lifted 3,000 pounds”, complete nonsense. In strongmen competitions they lift up cars for reps, it’s easy when lifting from an edge.
1:23 just a correction, larger muscles don't mean more fibres. Just that each fibre is bigger. When we train, our fibres get bigger. There has been some recent evidence that maaaaybe we also create more fibres in number, but mostly the growth is from fibre growth, not multiplication
Hey man, just a quick correction on the squat record. Ray Williams holds the raw squat record at 1,080 lbs. Tom Platz never squatted 1,000 lbs or anything close. He was a bodybuilder who only did high rep squats
That 1014 record was Fred Hatfield. Dr squat was the first to hit over 1000 in a meet back in the 80's. Tom and Fred were friends and they even did a couple demo lifts together. I would presume that could be the mix up.
Regarding the 3500 lbs reference you need to take into account the center of mass of the car. Say if the center of mass is closer to the front (where the engine is) whereas the mother lifted the car from the rear, then the actual amount of weight she had to lift would be much less than 3500 lbs.
This is true, but even taking that into account and she only had to lift one corner of the lightest part of the car - that's still looking like 400-600lbs, a feat *still* unbelievable by "normal" standards of strength much less by a housewife
For the impressive mother, I do not think she could’ve deadlifted a whole car, instead only lifted one side of the car. Therefore from the photos of her lifting the car, she had technically only needed to deadlift half of that weight by using pivot interactions. Anyway that is still very impressive for a human being (~750kg)
@@theguycalledturbo Yeah, it's a given that she didn't lift one side of the car to the point in which both wheels (on that side of the car) were completely off the ground but instead just transferred a couple hundred pounds from the suspension over to herself, which would have had the effect of raising that side of the car by an inch or so and thus freeing her son and allowing him to slide out.
There is a strong men who « lift » an ambulance(3T) but hé only lift 1 side so thé mother is probably not that much and they Did not talk about the floor (that’s an import factor) Bcs lift an car in this floor :/ is easier that this one:_
When Eddie Hall broke the previous deadlift record (465kg) and deadlifted 500kg, he said he wasnt deadlifting half a ton, he was lifting a car off of his wife and kid to get that adrenaline boost
Don't know if anybody has mentioned it but running the 4 min mile use to be thought impossible until roger banister did it. Shortly there after many more people did it. It was just a matter of redefining it as "possible"
@@shawnshawn8888there’s a whole colony of people who literally run and are nomads. I forget their name but it would be some easy research. I read a book on them; insane life style. They run hundreds of not thousands of miles a week
@@KaiBrunk125 I get that's what he's saying but I don't think that's true. The first European came to sub saharan Africa in 1442 and the 4 min mile wasn't broken until the mid 1900s. I think if the Africans had been doing it before then someone would've noticed.
as a powerlifter, hysterical strength is so real. while training in a gym, my max deadlift is 435 lbs, but at a competiton, my highest has been 485 lbs. Simply being somewhere with more hype and with the competition on the line I would be able to lift something that would exceed my expectations so easily.
@@TheDraftHorse2025there’s clearly a difference between hype atmosphere and a situation where you or a loved one is in immediate danger and so obviously your body will react differently
@@crazypato3752you have to peak for a competition by gradually increasing weight and decreasing reps, if you do this correctly your strength should hit an absolute maximum the day of your comp and it takes about 8 weeks of dedicated training to peak proficiently
Thor lifted 501kg with pure training. Eddie Hall lifted 500kg using mental phycological training. Eddie claimed to have never lifted more than 465kg in training but day of he lifted 500kg. He almost died and passed out for a period of time while Thor was completely fine. There are plenty of hysterical strength stories where the average person performed an incredible feat to save a life but later after find out that they had broken bones or torn muscles or both.
Both feats were incredible, but being that Eddie was 6" shorter than Thor and with a significantly smaller frame (albeit a world level strength body frame), Eddies 500 lift was waaaaaay more impressive in terms of a pound-for-pound demonstrations of strength.
@@briangoslin1973What? Eddie and Thor were both around the same weight at the time of their deadlift records. Also it's harder if you are taller your comment makes no sense at all 😂😂
she lifted the backside of the car which only weighs around 500 pounds, she had adrenaline which also boosted the blood flow and helped her lift the car, a man pushed a 2 ton boulder off of him while he got caught under it rolling down a cliff but severley damaged all of the muscles used to push it off and needed about a year to make a good recovery, your body will use all of the muscle fibers when you have a life or death situation which causes your muscles to become extremley weak after you do something to that extent.
@NikoCv-car_lift_strongman bruh the front of the car is much more heavy than the rear, assuming that the engine is mounted in the front ofc, engine can weight anywhere from 100-300 KG, also the gearbox is usually mounted right behind the engine, thats another 50-150 KG.
Eddie Hall had said he literally had to get hypnotised into thinking his loved one is trapped beneath the weight he has to lift to be able to event attempt it.
The woman only lifted a portion of the car's weight. It was only 1/4 to 1/3 of the weight of the car but it was still an expressive feat of strength especially if she's not really weight lifting.
0:16 the record doesnt belong to thor it belongs to Eddie Hall since thor’s 501 Kg wasen’t weighed properly and the only “referee” was thor’s dad also the weights he buyed at walmart arent 100% accurate u like the olympic weights that Eddie lifted
As a powerlifter for fun. I weigh 71kg, and was an average Joe. My first deadlift is 100kg on my PR. When everyone believed I can only lift 70-80. Then the following month I lifted 140kg with the same Bodyweight. I still have the same Bodyweight and my PR is now 170kg.. I hope it keeps climbing Update: pulled 180kg on deadlift!
My body works like that too. When I start to work out after a long time of not doing it, my strenght doubles and triples with time while my body weight and my appearance remain almost the same
Actually, that's not quite true. The official powerlifting dead lift record is 460 kilograms. And if you don't know what I mean, then you need to do your research. Strong men use wrist straps.
In a deadlift, you're applying force to the centre of mass of the bar, but in the cases with the cars, they would have applied the force to the edge of the vehicle. The car would act like a lever, so while the vehicles weigh a lot, the people didn't lift the total weight; probably closer to half, which is still impressive.
ANYONE WHO CAN DEADLIFT 700LBS can lift the back end of a car no larger than mid-size and smaller. Now thats very strong, and that mom obviously couldn't do that, making her feat still astonishing.
It's actually closer to a quarter. It's the heaviest at the bottom and gets easier as it pivots upward. If I'm not mistaken, the center of gravity in an Impala may be closer to the front axle.
I know it was already talked about, but I just have to say that your accent change is super impressive. Your delivery is smooth and sounds great, I think this will boost the channel
Hapfthor's deadlift was with straps and a suit... which is fine but it is useful information to tell people, also considering that there are even stronger deadlifts with even more favorable equipment being used out there, and even disregarding that, Danny Grigsby is very close to beating Thor's deadlift completely raw.
@@veiledhunter3088 at most I would say it's wide conventional, he's a very tall person so his relative stance width isn't that wide proportionally and his hands are still on the outsides of his legs while with sumo you would be widening the legs far enough to be able to pull with the arms inside them.
The absolute limit of our lifting strength is based on the load capacity of our femur. Which is around one metric tonne of load. Varying slightly from person to person depending on size, health, gender, etc. But ultimately how our bones are designed puts a cap on how much we can lift because our bones are designed like the crumple zones of a car, meant to flex and break to absorb impacts from things like falls.
You made me think of Scot Mendelson, he was talking about benching over 1000lbs in the equipped category and saying. A little over 1000lbs is when I would start to feel my forearms bones bend a little once under the full weight. Also the current equipped bench record is currently at 1,320lbs (598.7kg). Also at the 2017 arnold strongman classic there was a 1500+ lbs yoke, which would put quite a bit more impact weight then 2 metric tons per step.
Forgetting that people who train more have denser bones and people who are larger have the force spread out over a larger cross section. Also the ultimate strength is based on the weakest link of any specific lift. Usually this is around a joint, which is why ligament, tendon and dislocations are much more common than broken bones in powerlifting/weightlifting. The exceptions to this are when significant load is applied to a locked joint, or twisting force is applied that does not exceed the load of the muscles but does of the bone (see Magnus Samuelsson vs Nathan Jones)
@@sammorrissey9094 You do realize men and women have different bone structure. In the skull, hips and pelvis. So when you say people am sure you meant men. As people include women and children . That do not have the most abatable bone structure to do such things.
I feel like Eddie is being robbed for not being mentioned for lifting the magic 500 number. And he did it in a competition, while Thor lifted the 501 at home, so he had the advantage of choosing to lift at his peak, and Eddie actually had to program his training plan for the competition, which makes it more impressive imo.
A few misleading things here. First of all, Thor *didn't* have the advantage of choosing his peak. He was actually scheduled to do the lift in a competition. But, when Covid struck and the competition was cancelled, he *had* to do it in a gym instead *because* he had reached his peak at that time and couldn't wait around. So in regards to prep, Thor and Eddie were on equal ground. Both were scheduled to do the lift on a certain date, and both stuck to that. Second, Eddie might have technically been present at a competition during his 500kg lift, but he didn't truly partake as a competitor because he didn't follow any competition rules. He only did the deadlift event, no others. He also got to dictate the weight jumps during the deadlifts *at the expense of other competitors* for his own comfort. Brian Shaw had to drop out early because of this, as Eddie decided in the middle of the comp to increase the weight more quickly than initially planned for his own comfort. And on top of this, he also got to choose his own rest times and decide when he lifted on the day. Plus, he also used some of his own gear, and is on record saying he used his own bar. So Eddie used his own equipment, chose his own weight jumps, chose his own rest times, and chose not to compete in anything but the deadlift that day, some of which had a negative effect on the other strongmen competing - *none* of that follows competition standards in any way, shape, or form. The whole event was catered around him to help him achieve his lift. Then, when you look at the fact that Thor *did* have predetermined weights jumps and predetermined rest times that he rigidly stuck to for his lift, as though he were in a competition, it's actually very clear that Thor followed competition standards much more closely than Eddie did. And just to clarify, I'm not trying to discredit Eddie's lift. Both lifts were performed in front of a qualified judge with calibrated weights, so both are clearly legitimate and recognised records. But Eddie's lift was not more impressive, as Thor actually followed stricter standards. I just find it funny that Eddie is so determined to hypocritically undermine Thor's lift for not being *in competition* when Thor actually followed competition standards far more closely than Eddie himself did.
@@lbds954 Facts are facts, Thor did it out of competition, his lift still counts, but it wasn't in a competition, and it wasn't a round number, which makes it less impressive for me personally, you of course are free to disagree. And for the other stuff that you mentioned, that honestly feels like slandering, I bet if Eddie did anything to the detriment of other lifters or even simply bent the rules to his advantage, Thor would object as he was present in that competition. So this "stricter standards" line of argument sounds dubious to me.
@@Tork789 I mean yes, you can very much make an argument that Eddie's lift was more impressive due to the huge jump in weight compared to a 1kg jump. I'm not arguing that at all. I'm just pointing out the objective fact that Thor actually followed a far stricter regiment on the day of the lift, which is in response to you saying Thor had more advantages - which he objectively didn't for the reasons I outlined. It's also not "slander" at all as it's all unarguably true. You can research it for yourself. Brian Shaw himself has said that he had to drop out of the competition earlier than he planned to because Eddie chose to up the weights more quickly than scheduled. That, paired with Eddie getting to choose his own rest times and use his own equipment (which he has admitted to on camera during an interview) show that Eddie was very heavily catered to in order to help him achieve the lift. And I'm also not saying that any of this means Eddie's lift shouldn't count. It absolutely should, as Eddie performed the lift with calibrated weights in front of a qualified judge. Just like Thor's lift should also count for the same reasons. My point is that, while *both* Thor and Eddie met the necessary requirements for the lift to count, Thor actually went a step beyond and followed far stricter standards than Eddie did. He did this deliberately due to the circumstances with Covid, as he wanted to make sure there would be no question whatsoever that he achieved the lift legitimately. And Eddie claiming it needs to be done "in competition" retroactively is hypocritical, as he didn't follow "competition" standards during his own lift. All of this is easily researchable if you don't believe me, and you can look everything I've said up for yourself. My stance is this: both lifts count as both lifts met the necessary requirements. But if Eddie wants to start changing those requirements and claiming a lift needs to follow competition standards to be official, his own lift wouldn't count either. He only took that stance because of his rivalry with Thor, but it makes absolutely no sense as he himself didn't follow competition rules. Again, both lifts count - it's just that Eddie's reasoning for saying his own lift should count whereas Thor's shouldn't is hypocritical and makes no sense.
There are also veins and arteries that we need to talk about. If I remember correctly, then lifting heavy objects also increases your blood pressure. Eddie Hall (probably others as well) had a nose bleed when he lifted 500 kg and I believe he also passed out and his blood pressure was so high that when it was measured, it didn't show up. (I might be mistaking correct me if you know better)
No you are definitely right. Watched a video from Eddie Hall where he also spoke about this incident. He said he lost sight for a short moment and everything went black, also his mind went blank so I would count this as a blackout. The nosebleed is also correct, he also bleeded a little bit out of one eye if I remember correctly, not 100% sure on the eye bleeding though.
There's not much to talk about veins and arteries. Everyone has them. You want any better you have to hope for good genetics and have a healthy lifestyle. Blood pressure is more of side effect. It's the muscles and bones taken the workload. The heavier the workload the more blood flow is required to move the muscles. Eddie Hall had a nose bleed because he was holding his breath while taking a tremendous strain on his body.
@@fullercrane1795 No he had nose bleed cuz of enormous BP, you dont hold your breath while maxing out, you exhale in the cosentric face to embrace your core.
What amazes me is that how important human psyche is in, well, everything. You can have big ass muscles and still lift less compared to someone "smaller" that properly utilizes their muscle mass. Also the fact that people in general perform way better, withour knowing what their limits "should" be.
Vlad Alhazov has squatted 525kg while only using knee straps which is effectively a raw squat. Tom Platz to my knowledge hasnt not squatted anything near 460kg
You mean knee WRAPS and they are not raw, they will put at least 10-15kg on your squat. Neoprene knee SLEEVES are closer to raw, but even they help a little. The coolest thing about Vlad is how he rehabbed after a total knee replacement and went on to squat more than before the surgery, showing all of us in line for a TKR what is still possible.
@@1988antenne I could be a little under (I don't compete with wraps, but I help out with feds that do) and I doubt it's that much. Google says 25-40kg. I'm a lighter lifter in the 69kg class, natty, stiff bar and sleeves only (like IPF) so I'm used to dealing with smaller numbers ;)
Thank you for this video. I found an article noting that Tom Platz had squatted 525 for 23 reps but could find no reference to a 1,000-plus squat. Not that I would put it past him. They didn't call him Quadzilla for nothing.
0:05 Thats misleading, she didn't lift it up in the air. She lifted part of it which means she didn't lift the full 3,000 or so pounds. The deadlift record holder can lift more than her.
lol tom platz ? dude u better check ur data ... raw squat record is held by dan bell at 500 kg ... tom platz was a bodybuilder in 70s and 80s known for his high reps squats, he did like 23 reps or so with 525 lbs i think ... never did singles
How did you leave out body mechanics? How your skeleton is proportioned and where the ligaments attach has just as much to do with strength as muscle fiber, bone density, etc. That's by far the biggest reason gorillas are so much stronger than elite human athletes.
Strength is determined by how much force can be sustained in the whole body. Depends highly on genetics, which stem from a long generational chain of your ancestors constantly pushing their limits with their bodies in the prime ages of 10 - 60 years old.
@@A1_Amir If you were born when your parents were 30, how could anything they do after that effect your genes? Isn't evolution shaped mostly by reproductive advantage and surviving near extinction events?
Is it ? IDK how much different they really are. I don't even know anymore, but I think that is "kind of debunked". Gorillas and other just train mega hard, and they are happy doing it, this in turn makes their joint and bones huge and dense, and their strength reflects that, lb for lb. We train very little, and use as little strength as possible. We still share mostly the same mechanisms for regulation and growth as they do, but we stimulate those less, due to having more nuanced behaviour. I know chimps did some pulls on a pulley, a female did some 800-900 lb janks, but a human could do it too. The balance of where does mental stimulation begin and end, and what is needed, needs cutting into, to understand what really is different between us. They train every day, and they like it, mostly because of their "somwehat" hardwired physiological differences, but the biggest of the bone differences is tied to brain, its size, and being effective while standing. A human with a simpler brain could, perhaps, very well approach the conditioning of a more wild, natural ape. While I do believe we have some shaping as per this topic, we are largely the same, if not almost the same. I thibk the difference is, by far, mostly neurological, and of training history. No athlete will ever put as much effort nonchalantly as a wild ape, as they are subconsciously bound to the rate and timing of the society around them, and how the individual reacts and influences the others, every sport is finding "the human way", and politics, and a mental endeavour alltogether. The active rest and ease of work a chimp can do isn't reached by athletes at large. You cannot push against the clock, steroids and hormones need counterbalance, and in the end, you inflate the rest, always sub-optimally, and nothing really changes, you just get old fast, and parts of you super fast, which damages long term progress, and then you lean into being "a freak" that can withstand superhuman muscle loading, despite being damaged from the inside. It's all in the stable and steady- nuance and simplicity. You are bound to eventually outperfom users( not saying it's all in stone, but hear me), you are more effective, and age slower, you are more sensitive to anabolism- only need a 1/20 the chemical stimulation for 80% the outcome-. When you use you throw nuance out of the window, you accept side-effects for diminishing returns per- time, invite ineveitable imbalance induced damage- health is strength. I am not saying that nautrals will be as jacked as users, but they can grow bigger and healthier, eventually ending up stronger, with a peak well beyond breaking age of most athletes, and then, being better. But that cannot be done with fake incentives and for fake external goals. Many of the strong people, and giant men around, are so due to having a more balanced in and out, and are still of a stronger foundation, and in places stronger full stop, than the best juiced athletes in all of modern history. Health is wealth, as is being of substance all around.
@@japanesecar1501 wow. What a reply. I enjoyed every word, but I think we are talking about different things. There's a peak fitness level determined by genes, and I'm sure most humans are less likely to get as close to it as apes living in nature, but then there's the mechanics of the individual. For instance, my brother in law has limbs proportioned differently than mine, with a shorter upper arm and thighs compared to forearm. You wouldn't notice unless you looked for it, but once you pay attention it's obvious. This changes the leverage, giving him about a 10% advantage on how much weight he can bench press assuming the muscles are exactly the same strength. However, in one lift I am performing more work as the bar travels a greater distance. So in a punch I will generate more energy. We can train equally hard, but there's always going to be that tradeoff where I will have more power if left to my own devices but it won't will lose on that strength check. I can run with a higher speed, but not match the acceleration.These imbalances are part of what makes comparing different athletes so intriguing. Now the difference between a human and ape are far more pronounced. From an engineering perspective, they're built much sturdier, but less energy efficient. Our relative flimsiness is the price we pay for being able to travel over 50 miles a day via bipedal movement. No amount of training will enable a gorilla to match that feat.
What excites me about CRISPR is that these new super humans will be able to remove the limitations the body has when we start colonizing space. A major problem the human body has is that bones start to disappear when in zero gravity. If CRISPR can isolate that auto switch so it doesn't do that we then don't have to worry about building gravitational technology (spinning ships) to prevent bone loss. Same with growing new limbs if they have been amputated. It is super exciting, but scary because no doubt super humans will be used by ambitious nations to conquer one another. I wouldn't be surprised the CCP has already secretly grown super humans with CRISPR technology seeing as they don't give a damn about human rights.
Preventing bones from disappearing where no pressures are applied will only result in bones growing anywhere they can, for the entire life, rather than where they are actually needed. You will have to go through surgeries to remove undesired bone structures every few months. There has to be some kind of feedback control mechanism for any part that grows to grow correctly.
My dad tells me the story of when he was in high school and the bus they were on got in a serious accident. He got out to help people. Someone told him to go to their truck and get a tool from their built in truck tool box. It was locked so he basically bent the lid in half. When they went back later nobody could believe it or even flex it. Shock and adrenaline are very powerful.
Eddie hall talks about having to be hypnotized to complete his 500kg deadlift so i doubt someone without training could achieve that level of hysterical strength
It's really neat we're at a point where we can modify our bodies in such extreme ways, but every time it's brought up, the words of Dr. Malcom run through my head: "You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should."
The human brain has the ability to unlock huge amounts of strength when facing a life or death situation. Mind over matter, if mastered, can be unbelievable.
Many years ago a strongman Paul Anderson was reported to have did a backlift of over 6200 pounds which would be in excess of the amount you claimed to have been a limit. He also was an Olympic weightlifting champion.
Actually? That was embellishment on Anderson's part. He lifted in the range of 4500 to 4,800 lbs, still an astonishing feat. The backlift, typically only involves moving the stack a few inches, but still. More recently, a Canadian did a backlift of a pair of subcompact cars.
I always wondered about this question. Great video! Strength is not just about muscle, adrenaline is a chemical and mental strength is the other aspect. The ability of our mind to push us to the limit.
Just for the record, Eddie “The Beast” Hall (2016 Worlds strongest man) was the first man to ever deadlift 500kg. No disrespect to Thor, cuz he beat the record, but he wasn’t the first and he didn’t break the record in competition whereas Eddie Hall Did.
Yes, I was just thinking that Eddie would be pissed off to not even get a mention in this video, when his lift is still the OFFICIAL deadlift record. Thor did it in his home gym during lockdown (even if it was refereed by Magnus Ver Magnusson and the plates were even individually weighed in front of him). In any case, Eddie will always be the first man to ever lift half a tonne.
@@hedgehog1965uk I count thors because there was literally no competitions for him due to covid. If he stayed at his weight and strength for an indefinite amount of time he could’ve easily died. Also it was sanctioned by WUS (Worlds Ultimate Strongman) so it should count
The woman didn't lift the whole weight of the car. She just lifted like one side of it and moved it probably a tiny bit, not like she benched the whole car, 3.5 tonnes. I also doubt it weighed that much, more like 2 tonnes.
I’m currently in college and studying biology, in hopes to one day work on human enhancement and advance gene-editing techniques. I’ve done research and even a paper on ethics and Justice of human enhancement. It’s all very fascinating and I have a long way to go
Mental power in life/ death situations are so big , thats great. The power of the brain on the body is tremendous ! I saw and heard many miraculous examples !
Some people are too tough for their own good. For example, in the world of MMA, there are fighters (ex Cain Velasquez) whose mind are stronger than their body and they get injured while training hard. Their mind won't give up when their body is worn out.
@@CuriousReason Agree. But I mean when its about your life , or a kids life , or parents , or an animal. Not fighters. But normal people without muscles training . I think cortisol and endorfine and adrenaline in high doses driven by the brain ( in life-death situations) are so high , everything is possible. This is very interesting , I saw this on you tube and all the miraculous situations came back.
the effect isnt as amazing as you think, noone had ever caught it on video, a human does not just 10x their strength everrrrrrrrrr, its a load of rubbish, in a world with cameras in everyone's pocket for 20 years find me one video of someone who inexplicably lifts 10x what they usually could?????
his own judges? That's not how it works. A judge is a judge. And upping a record by 1kg is usually how people break records. Nobody considers this dirty.
@@FrenkieWest32 well they could have been in his pocket, he broke the record in his home gym in iceland with icelandic judges and his own weights, very fishy, I understand it was the pandemic, but it seemed like a way to steal Eddie's thunder, and he did, few people know Eddie by name, meanwhile wooden Thor got all the events, paper views, seems so unfair, especially since Eddie is so funny, well at least they fought each other and decked each other to the floor.
I feel it would’ve been interesting to make comparisons between what is estimated to be the maximum potential human strength with the feats of Louis Cyr, the strongest man to ever live.
@@Kamikazie65 which isnt used modern day as the numbers go way too high for it to be measured accurately so we use things like deadlift, squat and bench to give more accurate strength results
Problem with the muscle growth being increase is that the mice are more prone to tendon injury, so it's probably gonna be useful for ppl who have muscle atrophy, but I don't think it's going to be applicable for outright muscle growth without some serious negative side effects that end up hindering training long term.
What you're forgetting here you're not just gonna enhace the muscles, you're gonna enhance everything else too ala Spartan 2's from Halo to absolutely get the peak perfomace you can get out of your body and not get any bottleneck, tbh I still think it would be just easier at that point to skip flesh entirely and go straight for synthetic metal bodies
@@Aureonw It does not increase tendon growth. That's the problem. That's why I said that. It's a known problem they've seen in mice during testing. I...I wasn't guessing. This isn't a hypothetical, it's a real drug. It's potential, esp for ppl with muscle atrophy, cannot be overstated. It's just not magic. You still have to be careful about it and work to build up your physique naturally. Hell, even if it DID build up tendon strength, you still need to train your brain properly to utilize those muscles fully. Muscle memory is largely influenced by this and NO amount of muscle is a replacement for proper technique. I know I came off like i'm just knocking it, but it's just me wanting ppl to be wary and careful so they don't end up tearing their acl. I fucking wish we were at the point where we could just go full cybernetic enhancements tho. I think I'd prefer nano augmentation style over a full synthetic body tbh. I'm paranoid af about companies doing the whole 'we have to reposes your body because you didn't pay the late fee' type shit.
@@Heeroneko A fair concern, cyberpunk wise, but what I meant by not just muscle enhacements and etc is literally messing with DNA to make either myostatin inhibition natural to get bigger muscles, (also I knew of it that it doesn't increase tendons) mess with the dna to alter the density and the capacity of the neurons to connect to each other to make every single cell inside of your brain work more efficiently and make you smarter than any man today ever could have been on just pure random evolution, messing with tendons growth either inhibitors so it doesn't grow out of control or helping the body create stem cells so it heals itself without scarring or only scaring for faster wound closing and then the body goes around replacing the scar tissue with actual cells that work not just flex tape that when on organs don't help them do their work
Hey so the hole 3500 pound car thing is a sham, the women probubly slightly lifted the back end off its suspension, while the car was 3500 pounds she was probubly liting closer to 500 pounds
We don't need to build up muscles to lift 1000kg, thanks to our intelligence, we can build devices that can do it for us. That's an evolutionary step we chose.
To be fair, the leverages when lifting up one side of a car vs deadlifting a barbell are completely different. It's not unusual to see athletes who aren't even half as strong as Hafthor Bjornsson to be able to easily deadlift a car for reps (I remember seeing the TH-camr Alan Thrall doing that in place of deadlifting when gyms were closed at the start of the pandemic). The strongman Brian Shaw has even put an entire car up on top of a leg press and pressed it for reps before (th-cam.com/users/shortsbv0ypPZ2vdU). Nevertheless, lifting up a car is still an incredible feat of strength for an untrained mother.
I started weightlifting consistently for the first time in my life three yrs ago. I still can't do the deadlift without hurting myself. And I keep hearing its not worth it. I wonder if im doing something wrong and getting misinformation, or if it's a BS excercise.
Considering that the human body evolved for endurance and stamina, not speed or strength the fact that we've been able to find ways to push these factors as high as we have is nothing short of astonishing.
Back in his day, Arnold Schwarzenegger lifted the most heaviest weights on the planet. Nothing stopped him from lifting it, doing his thing. It's kinda cool, how men and women workout these days, awesome
As any marine, or most people military trained to push themselves, you can override your brain's limiter. I know many former marines who have hurt themselves by pushing past it. I've worked a handful of jobs where I, or other guys with similar backgrounds, have out done guys who were inarguably stronger than us because of this. My forearms were effectively ruined because of this.
As long as the wheels are on the ground, you have only to lift a part of the weight of the car. The springs take a lot of the weight. And it´s also important at which point you grap the car and if the ground is even or not, etc. You may have more power in extreme situations, but nobody lifts 3500 pounds. PS: If you ever have to lift up a car after an accident on one side, open the door and use the lever by grapping the door as far on the outside as you can and lift it.
I used to service heavy industrial machines with gigantic sized bolts and nuts. I'm talking size 50s and way beyond. These devices usualy came out of accident or fires so these bolts would usually be extra grippy on top of their normal strength. A simple way to unscrew these is to attach the fitting wrench to them, find a meter or longer steel pipe which is about the same width of the tool and get the pipe on it. Then you get a hammer you find suitable and tap at the end of the pipe. Very quickly you'll see the bolt or nut loosening and coming off easily. If the bolt isn't broken or welded itself somewhere requiring to be cut, you can use leverage for your benefit here. HOWEVER! Don't play around with devices you don't recognize and you are not trained with. Don't ever try to remove anyting on machines you don't know! I heard a terrible story of a guy removing bolts from the cap of a still highly pressurized air compressor reservoir. The reservoir itself was 1 meter wide, 2 meters tall approximately with big bolts holding its cap. Sadly, when he came to the stage where the remaining bolts couldn't hold the cap anymore, they failed catastrophically and the cap exploded upwards towards his face and removed his head clean off. Don't play with machine before training you guys!
The curb weight of an a5 facelift vw beetle is 3045 lbs, meaning an elephant could support 6.56 times the weight of the car. If the car is fully loaded it is still only 5 times the weight to get up to 10 us tons.
We all have the anime idea of a superhuman being able to do whatnot. I find this one humbling tho: 17:37 وَلَا تَمْشِ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مَرَحًا ۖ إِنَّكَ لَن تَخْرِقَ ٱلْأَرْضَ وَلَن تَبْلُغَ ٱلْجِبَالَ طُولًۭا ٣٧ And do not walk on the earth arrogantly. Surely you can neither crack the earth nor stretch to the height of the mountains. Btw, we are as strong as our weakest point. Like a chain. It's funny since some theorize based on certain variables, but there are quite a lot of variables, so perhaps we are leaving some without taking them into consideration, of course our experiments are heavily limited, and our understanding therefore. We know not except what we are allowed to know. Peace
Thank you for this video, and thank you very much for translating the pounds into kg, for someone who has been using the metric system their whole life, it helps understanding the measurments better. Great video, keep it up
4:57 Furthermore, if the brain perceives a lack of stability, it will limit the force generated. Hysterical strength can also relate to people under the influence of drugs, or people with a mental handicap. They each can be extremely strong for their size.
I like the boulder example best. The hiker/mountain climber had a boulder that he instantly propelled with all his strength but it shredded all the ligaments from his muscle and split tendons etc. That's the weak spot in our physiology and anatomy. We have fine tuned motor skills for tool use. Our anatomical supporting cast isn't up to challenge and probably limits us intentionally to avoid catastrophic injury.
There's something wrong with this "hysterical strength". Yes, you might be able to squeeze more force from the muscles, but you can't make your connective tissue, tendons and joints stronger in a moment. Just look at professional athletes: tearing muscles or tendons is pretty common for them.
I think you meant Eddie Hall was the wr holder for the deadlist world record (cause he actually did it legitimely and doesn't swear on his daugher's life).
Hachimon Tonkou. The 8 Inner Gates. The 8th gate is the death gate. Opening it imbues one with otherworldly strength for a period but results in the demise of the user. The lesser gates provide superhuman strength as well but result in severe damage to the body commensurate with how far one pushes past their natural limiters.
The 3500-pound car deadlift by a woman sounds like an urban legend. Most likely she pushed and rolled it off - or had a ton of help from bystanders. If a sudden burst of adrenaline can give an ordinary person superhuman strength, then how come none of the elite powerlifters, weightlifters and strongmen never figured out how to tap into these superhero powers? And how come people get injured lifting far less weight? How would adrenaline protect a person from injury when he is lifting far beyond his capacity.
I pulled 2.8x my own bodyweight deadlifting with only about 6 months of training and zero prior powerlifting training. Truth was that I psyched myself up completely before that lift kinda like how Eddie hall did his 500kg record at the time. I probably have good genetics mind you because I was adding 10kg onto my max every 1-2 weeks (fully natural). I do genuinely think that mindset is everything and psyching yourself up is important - and then when you break your theoretical limits and get proper rest, your nervous system and muscles recover to THAT level partially.
So you trained for 26 weeks and added 10kg to your lift every 1/2 weeks? Let's call it every 2 weeks making it a total of 130kg added to your deadlift, so your starting weight was 50kg at around 60kg body weight? That would make you very weak to begin with and also give you 5 years gym progression in 6 months. Starting to seem a bit doubtful.
@@Harry-TramAnh I'd never trained deadlift before and would exclusively do high reps. The vid is actually up on my channel if you want to watch it. FYI I've been doing endurance all my life and recently started gym so I wasn't weak. There was a lot of form and callusing that was needed.
@jarfmusic I'm not calling b.s on the lift, it's definitely achievable. I'm saying adding 10kg to your lift every 1/2 weeks for 6 months isn't possible, it's not a realistic achievement for anyone. If you're already in good shape, then your deadlift to begin with isn't going to be as low as you're proposing. Sorry I can't find the video, you're thumbnails are difficult to look through for me. I've seen those pull ups though, dam, that's good 👍
0:34 i mean technically, we do possess that kind of power. Even a baby is large enough to split the planet in half. Assuming all their mass was instantly converted to energy, making them the coolest baby ever. But fortunately, nobody can be that cool and nobody has to be harmed.
nahh its difficult, because u have more risk of injury in your spine.. because you've bend more and you're not as stable as a short guy who is more grounded compared to you.. and be cause your tall.. you'll have to lift it a little higher to call it a rep....
This is very true, One time at my job my boss told me to hire 4 friends plus me to lift a tractor engine that was around 600lbs, I was able to push it onto a pallet jack by myself, I was able to move it with it, but at the time of putting it on to a pallet the engine got stuck between the arms of the pallet jack, I ask to my friends for help but they were busy, I decided to do it myself again, I tried several times for about a week, I tried not hurting myself, but I tried lifting it to the point I felt my knees shaking, I finally gave up a Friday, the following Monday I tried again for the last time, I don't know how and I can't explain it but I was able to lift it in my first intent and push it on to the pallet and it wasn't even that hard, I don't know how the body works but that amazed my self, I'm not a big muscular guy but I was able to do that without hurting myself or my knees
Yoo beginner here, i can assure you that hysterical strength is real. I usually train 4x10reps with 70kg, a few days ago, while arriving to my 3rd repetition, i tried to push myself into some sayan rage shit and guess what ? I did 20rep non-stop without any effort, I started to shake, instead of taking a pose and continue my last reps i stopped to avoid injuries and stuff like that. Rage is really cool, but it's a state my brain really hate to achieve. But achieving it even helped me mentally tomorrow, i got a better self-control and resistance in everything. I will rarely do that, if i decide to enter the berserk form again i would love to be assisted by someone or do it as a final move and use it with moderation.
It's true some people have that condition which makes their bones very dense think it's genetic... These kind of people have been reported to have come out of car accidents with no skeletal injuries
@@shoaibhaq8680 You can still technically increase bone density doing isometrics, look up Dennis Rogers. He went to a special Ed gym due to how feeble he was. But look at him now breaking locks, bending wrenches, and holding planes from taking off. I believe one of his students was able to jump 20ft off the ground without breaking anything.
I added both Imperial and Metric systems as almost half of the viewers I get are from the US and so that everybody in and outside of the US can understand. As for video, rabbit-hole goes deeper, there is a thing called maximum voluntary muscular force (MVMF) I didn't want to add because TH-cam doesn't like longer videos. So MVMF is the greatest amount of force a person can generate using their muscles under voluntary control. It's a difficult concept to pin down, as the MVMF of an individual can vary depending on factors such as age, gender, and training history. However, research suggests that the average person's MVMF is around 60-70% of their maximal muscle force. Now, let's put this into context. The current world record for the heaviest weight ever lifted by a human is 263.5 kilograms (581 pounds) in the clean and jerk category, set by Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia in 2021. If we assume that Talakhadze was operating at 70% of his maximal muscle force, we can extrapolate that his theoretical lifting capacity might be around 376.4 kilograms (830 pounds)!
the squat world record is not held by tom Platz he could only squat around 700 pounds not a thousand
@@forgottencardboardbox2503 Yeah, the world record squat is held by Ray Williams
The issue of that assessment is that ppl who regularly lift maximally incidentally train their voluntary max to be closer and closer to their involuntary max. A high level weightlifter like him would actually be using around 90% of his involuntary max.
And at what cost to the tendons, before a catastrophic structural failure as a result of torn tendons, simply because we overridden our safety limiter? Free weights aren't variable resistance, yet only the latter allows us to safely lift heavier for our tendons and muscles near the full range of motion.
As for the news paper reports on hysterical strength, how much of the entire weight of the vehicle in question is consistently present during the full range of motion? I mean for anyone who've flipped heavy tires during bootcamps, did the weight of that tire stayed consistently throughout the entire motion, or did it shifted in relation to its center of gravity relative to its pivot?
Lasha Talakhadze lifted 267 kilos in 2021 and 270 kg in training
Tom Platz never squatted anything close to 1000lbs. He was known for high reps in the 600-700lb range.
yeah, that's what I was thinking
yeah this video is all over the place
true
500-600lb range
@@MRmOnThER322 I think in the famous Hatfield/Platz squat off, he did a one rep max of 765 and then repped 525 for 23 reps.
If you think about it, she didn’t lift 3,500 lbs, it would’ve quite literally snapped bone, ligaments and the muscle clean off the bone. She only had to lift around a third or maybe quarter of that weight to get her son out.
I mean, basically all instances of hysterical strength end up with the savior being in the hospital:
in one instance a boy save his brother by lifting a car, in the process he snapped both his forearms, ripped his biceps and crushed 3 teeth.
In another a mother who fought a bear to save her daughter ended up with both her arms broken and she was fighting with on a leg that the bear had broken.
Etc,etc, etc.
Hysterical strength is not something meant to be used constantly, is a last ditch effort to survive, is the body deciding that it's possible to survive if it destroys itself.
Ah no. Humans are legitimately capable of lifting way more. Our brains just limit us. And under circumstances that would have caused damage we survive. That means there's way more to this than just "her bones would snap". Think deeper.
Even if she lifted a quarter of that weight, it’s still pretty damn impressive
@@robcubed9557 but humans have legitimately lifted way more weight. 2500 lb helicopter side.
A third is still more than 1000 lbs lol. That's a freaky feat of strength in general, let alone an out of shape woman approaching her 50s/60s without exercise
Also need to consider that the woman who lifted the Impala didnt lift the ENTIRE car up off the ground. She just lifted one end, and that could jave been the trunk end of the car away from the engine. Still incredibly impressive, but you cant claim she lifted a full 3k lbs.
It would be equivalent to maybe a 450 lb. deadlift. Not huge but still very impressive for anyone without lifting experience. I'd bet she tore a few tendons, ligaments and some muscle tissue from that experience.
yh its a bit disingenuous and/or shows a lack of understanding of physics and/or journalistic integrity
I was just about to comment the same thing
It always annoys me when people say they “lifted 3,000 pounds”, complete nonsense. In strongmen competitions they lift up cars for reps, it’s easy when lifting from an edge.
@@caedmonswanson2378 I dont know about easy but yh he needs to be clear
1:23 just a correction, larger muscles don't mean more fibres. Just that each fibre is bigger. When we train, our fibres get bigger. There has been some recent evidence that maaaaybe we also create more fibres in number, but mostly the growth is from fibre growth, not multiplication
This checks out.
exactly, that's what hypertrophy is
yeah while its proven that you do create more fibres the main part is fibre growth/strengthening
but then again, the naturally larger muscles of our body do have more fibres (e.g. quads compared to biceps)
No your quadriceps have more fibers than your ear muscles you dont créate more but naturaly you have more bigger muscles have more fibers
I find it extremely hard to believe that the average man can only pull 70 kg
Yeh, maybe (as there's no source) he meant bench or squat
shut up. majority do not work out at all, nothing
I'm not surprised. Most of the population is sedentary - which is why obesity and diabetes is such a problem.
Well it's very nuanced that 70kg figure is for a untrained man weighing 200lbs who never lifted before ever in his life
I agree. If a 70 kg man can do a single pull-up, which is not difficult, then he can easily deadlift that weight.
Hey man, just a quick correction on the squat record. Ray Williams holds the raw squat record at 1,080 lbs. Tom Platz never squatted 1,000 lbs or anything close. He was a bodybuilder who only did high rep squats
i was so confused when i heard him say that
Toms heaviest recorded squat was 525lbs, but I think he once said that he managed to rep 600
That 1014 record was Fred Hatfield. Dr squat was the first to hit over 1000 in a meet back in the 80's. Tom and Fred were friends and they even did a couple demo lifts together. I would presume that could be the mix up.
Yeah i dont know why he said that
Tom stoltmans never pulled 500kg either :/
Regarding the 3500 lbs reference you need to take into account the center of mass of the car. Say if the center of mass is closer to the front (where the engine is) whereas the mother lifted the car from the rear, then the actual amount of weight she had to lift would be much less than 3500 lbs.
Yeah that was what I was thinking!
Plus you don't lift the entire car, more likely two wheels were supporting a lot of the weight
@@Skyrim279 yep
and she looked quite well built too, not the average female
This is true, but even taking that into account and she only had to lift one corner of the lightest part of the car - that's still looking like 400-600lbs, a feat *still* unbelievable by "normal" standards of strength much less by a housewife
For the impressive mother, I do not think she could’ve deadlifted a whole car, instead only lifted one side of the car. Therefore from the photos of her lifting the car, she had technically only needed to deadlift half of that weight by using pivot interactions. Anyway that is still very impressive for a human being (~750kg)
Power of a mother
and there's also the suspension helping the lift, still impressive
@@theguycalledturbo Yeah, it's a given that she didn't lift one side of the car to the point in which both wheels (on that side of the car) were completely off the ground but instead just transferred a couple hundred pounds from the suspension over to herself, which would have had the effect of raising that side of the car by an inch or so and thus freeing her son and allowing him to slide out.
There is a strong men who « lift » an ambulance(3T) but hé only lift 1 side so thé mother is probably not that much and they Did not talk about the floor (that’s an import factor) Bcs lift an car in this floor :/ is easier that this one:_
You could bounce it up as well, using suspension and momentum. Also as the weight pivots over the opposite wheels, the weight on the lifter reduces.
When Eddie Hall broke the previous deadlift record (465kg) and deadlifted 500kg, he said he wasnt deadlifting half a ton, he was lifting a car off of his wife and kid to get that adrenaline boost
He said that the scenario the psychologist created in his mind for the lift was WAY DARKER than that and it was just an example
@@manan5929 he said it was him pulling someone off his wife and kids
did he not inject straight adrenaline or?
@@wyattplenert it was a drug free competition, but he tried to get as much adrenaline naturally as possible
@@wrxvv I think you didnt watch the full one ,he later says that it was way disturbing than lifting a car off his kids
Don't know if anybody has mentioned it but running the 4 min mile use to be thought impossible until roger banister did it. Shortly there after many more people did it. It was just a matter of redefining it as "possible"
Nah. In the past there wasnt any journalist in Africa
@@shawnshawn8888 bro wtf are you on about? Roger banister was an Englishman
@@ecwilliams777he’s saying people have been running like that in Africa for Centuries. Which is probably true
@@shawnshawn8888there’s a whole colony of people who literally run and are nomads. I forget their name but it would be some easy research. I read a book on them; insane life style. They run hundreds of not thousands of miles a week
@@KaiBrunk125 I get that's what he's saying but I don't think that's true. The first European came to sub saharan Africa in 1442 and the 4 min mile wasn't broken until the mid 1900s. I think if the Africans had been doing it before then someone would've noticed.
as a powerlifter, hysterical strength is so real. while training in a gym, my max deadlift is 435 lbs, but at a competiton, my highest has been 485 lbs. Simply being somewhere with more hype and with the competition on the line I would be able to lift something that would exceed my expectations so easily.
@@TheDraftHorse2025there’s clearly a difference between hype atmosphere and a situation where you or a loved one is in immediate danger and so obviously your body will react differently
You had just hit your training peak. Nothing hysterical about that.
@@mistamomowhat's training peak ?
@@crazypato3752you have to peak for a competition by gradually increasing weight and decreasing reps, if you do this correctly your strength should hit an absolute maximum the day of your comp and it takes about 8 weeks of dedicated training to peak proficiently
Great numbers for a 60kg female.
Thor lifted 501kg with pure training. Eddie Hall lifted 500kg using mental phycological training. Eddie claimed to have never lifted more than 465kg in training but day of he lifted 500kg. He almost died and passed out for a period of time while Thor was completely fine. There are plenty of hysterical strength stories where the average person performed an incredible feat to save a life but later after find out that they had broken bones or torn muscles or both.
Eddie also held it for a lot longer
Both feats were incredible, but being that Eddie was 6" shorter than Thor and with a significantly smaller frame (albeit a world level strength body frame), Eddies 500 lift was waaaaaay more impressive in terms of a pound-for-pound demonstrations of strength.
@@briangoslin1973What? Eddie and Thor were both around the same weight at the time of their deadlift records. Also it's harder if you are taller your comment makes no sense at all 😂😂
@@petarjuric5828 deadlift is usually easier when your taller because you have longer arms
Something like that happened at canakkale war with seyit onbasi
she lifted the backside of the car which only weighs around 500 pounds, she had adrenaline which also boosted the blood flow and helped her lift the car, a man pushed a 2 ton boulder off of him while he got caught under it rolling down a cliff but severley damaged all of the muscles used to push it off and needed about a year to make a good recovery, your body will use all of the muscle fibers when you have a life or death situation which causes your muscles to become extremley weak after you do something to that extent.
@NikoCv-car_lift_strongmankiddo you don't know anything every part of the car is not equally divideed..
@NikoCv-car_lift_strongman bruh the front of the car is much more heavy than the rear, assuming that the engine is mounted in the front ofc, engine can weight anywhere from 100-300 KG, also the gearbox is usually mounted right behind the engine, thats another 50-150 KG.
I was going to say the same thing lol
Lol 3500 pounds to get the fax rate
@@kothrill5733 no, you weren’t lol
Eddie Hall had said he literally had to get hypnotised into thinking his loved one is trapped beneath the weight he has to lift to be able to event attempt it.
But it's not a real situation so it doesn't work.
Would not be surprised if he just made it up. 1000 lbs was considered impossible to lift, so was 500kg...
@@demoncore5342 why would he make that up? The lift would sound more impressive without this.
@@FrenkieWest32 But it would not be a cool story...
@@Pepe-pq3omhard to say how much of a differnce it made
The woman only lifted a portion of the car's weight. It was only 1/4 to 1/3 of the weight of the car but it was still an expressive feat of strength especially if she's not really weight lifting.
Excatly,i dont belive she pulled all wheels into air
likely very small range of motion too which makes it a lot easier to do the lift
But still. It's rare and impressive
she lifted like 1/15 of the car tbh
I think its less than that, there is a limit in the bone structure and tendens on a untrained
0:16 the record doesnt belong to thor it belongs to Eddie Hall since thor’s 501 Kg wasen’t weighed properly and the only “referee” was thor’s dad also the weights he buyed at walmart arent 100% accurate u like the olympic weights that Eddie lifted
Finally someone commented about this
Every time they mention thor as the record holder I stop watching video instantly
@@ArielSio But he is the record holder
Oh God are we still doing that?!?!
Ronnie Coleman once said "If you can pick it up, it`s lightweight baby."
Manic Mike
Then the fate of the woman who lifted the car is forever doomed
@@pedroadonish she didnt lift the car she only tilted it up a bit
As a powerlifter for fun. I weigh 71kg, and was an average Joe. My first deadlift is 100kg on my PR. When everyone believed I can only lift 70-80. Then the following month I lifted 140kg with the same Bodyweight. I still have the same Bodyweight and my PR is now 170kg.. I hope it keeps climbing
Update: pulled 180kg on deadlift!
Ok?
My body works like that too. When I start to work out after a long time of not doing it, my strenght doubles and triples with time while my body weight and my appearance remain almost the same
@@SacredSilence95that's cuz your fast twitch fibers recover to the point to do maximal lift.
Nice keep going brother 💪
@@Ryan-wx1bi Something wrong Ryan?
The official record was still accomplished by Eddie Hall lifting 500kg.
Actually, that's not quite true. The official powerlifting dead lift record is 460 kilograms. And if you don't know what I mean, then you need to do your research. Strong men use wrist straps.
@ It‘s not about powerlifting, it‘s generally about the deadlift record, and that‘s 500kg by Eddie.
In a deadlift, you're applying force to the centre of mass of the bar, but in the cases with the cars, they would have applied the force to the edge of the vehicle.
The car would act like a lever, so while the vehicles weigh a lot, the people didn't lift the total weight; probably closer to half, which is still impressive.
ANYONE WHO CAN DEADLIFT 700LBS can lift the back end of a car no larger than mid-size and smaller. Now thats very strong, and that mom obviously couldn't do that, making her feat still astonishing.
It's actually closer to a quarter. It's the heaviest at the bottom and gets easier as it pivots upward. If I'm not mistaken, the center of gravity in an Impala may be closer to the front axle.
@@disenfranchised2.073 : the center of gravity of most cars is closer to the front axle because of the engine.
220 lbs dl, may a bit more but the half of a car nah bro u r delusional
@@lucasheredia3579 220lbs? Nah, that would mean 12 year olds can deadlift a car. I think Roderick 9666's 700lbs number is more plausible.
I know it was already talked about, but I just have to say that your accent change is super impressive. Your delivery is smooth and sounds great, I think this will boost the channel
Thank you! 😃
@@CuriousReasonNext video How heavy gorillas can theoretically lift
Hapfthor's deadlift was with straps and a suit... which is fine but it is useful information to tell people, also considering that there are even stronger deadlifts with even more favorable equipment being used out there, and even disregarding that, Danny Grigsby is very close to beating Thor's deadlift completely raw.
What did eddie hall use?
@@rookieman329 same thing as thor
From images in google his technique is sumo right?
@@veiledhunter3088 at most I would say it's wide conventional, he's a very tall person so his relative stance width isn't that wide proportionally and his hands are still on the outsides of his legs while with sumo you would be widening the legs far enough to be able to pull with the arms inside them.
@@veiledhunter3088 Danny Grigsby is a sumo puller yes. Thor and Eddie are conventional as per strongman rules.
8:23 for the people who wanna skip 2 the answer
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tiktok effect is real.
The absolute limit of our lifting strength is based on the load capacity of our femur. Which is around one metric tonne of load. Varying slightly from person to person depending on size, health, gender, etc. But ultimately how our bones are designed puts a cap on how much we can lift because our bones are designed like the crumple zones of a car, meant to flex and break to absorb impacts from things like falls.
You made me think of Scot Mendelson, he was talking about benching over 1000lbs in the equipped category and saying. A little over 1000lbs is when I would start to feel my forearms bones bend a little once under the full weight. Also the current equipped bench record is currently at 1,320lbs (598.7kg). Also at the 2017 arnold strongman classic there was a 1500+ lbs yoke, which would put quite a bit more impact weight then 2 metric tons per step.
@@wildwilie that depends on your sturdiness, gravity, mass, precision, and technique.
@@seijin4426 Brian Shaw + 1500lb yoke is 100% very much over 2000lbs with each step he's taking.
Forgetting that people who train more have denser bones and people who are larger have the force spread out over a larger cross section.
Also the ultimate strength is based on the weakest link of any specific lift. Usually this is around a joint, which is why ligament, tendon and dislocations are much more common than broken bones in powerlifting/weightlifting. The exceptions to this are when significant load is applied to a locked joint, or twisting force is applied that does not exceed the load of the muscles but does of the bone (see Magnus Samuelsson vs Nathan Jones)
@@sammorrissey9094 You do realize men and women have different bone structure. In the skull, hips and pelvis. So when you say people am sure you meant men. As people include women and children . That do not have the most abatable bone structure to do such things.
I feel like Eddie is being robbed for not being mentioned for lifting the magic 500 number. And he did it in a competition, while Thor lifted the 501 at home, so he had the advantage of choosing to lift at his peak, and Eddie actually had to program his training plan for the competition, which makes it more impressive imo.
A few misleading things here. First of all, Thor *didn't* have the advantage of choosing his peak. He was actually scheduled to do the lift in a competition. But, when Covid struck and the competition was cancelled, he *had* to do it in a gym instead *because* he had reached his peak at that time and couldn't wait around. So in regards to prep, Thor and Eddie were on equal ground. Both were scheduled to do the lift on a certain date, and both stuck to that.
Second, Eddie might have technically been present at a competition during his 500kg lift, but he didn't truly partake as a competitor because he didn't follow any competition rules. He only did the deadlift event, no others. He also got to dictate the weight jumps during the deadlifts *at the expense of other competitors* for his own comfort. Brian Shaw had to drop out early because of this, as Eddie decided in the middle of the comp to increase the weight more quickly than initially planned for his own comfort. And on top of this, he also got to choose his own rest times and decide when he lifted on the day. Plus, he also used some of his own gear, and is on record saying he used his own bar. So Eddie used his own equipment, chose his own weight jumps, chose his own rest times, and chose not to compete in anything but the deadlift that day, some of which had a negative effect on the other strongmen competing - *none* of that follows competition standards in any way, shape, or form. The whole event was catered around him to help him achieve his lift.
Then, when you look at the fact that Thor *did* have predetermined weights jumps and predetermined rest times that he rigidly stuck to for his lift, as though he were in a competition, it's actually very clear that Thor followed competition standards much more closely than Eddie did.
And just to clarify, I'm not trying to discredit Eddie's lift. Both lifts were performed in front of a qualified judge with calibrated weights, so both are clearly legitimate and recognised records. But Eddie's lift was not more impressive, as Thor actually followed stricter standards. I just find it funny that Eddie is so determined to hypocritically undermine Thor's lift for not being *in competition* when Thor actually followed competition standards far more closely than Eddie himself did.
@@lbds954 Facts are facts, Thor did it out of competition, his lift still counts, but it wasn't in a competition, and it wasn't a round number, which makes it less impressive for me personally, you of course are free to disagree.
And for the other stuff that you mentioned, that honestly feels like slandering, I bet if Eddie did anything to the detriment of other lifters or even simply bent the rules to his advantage, Thor would object as he was present in that competition. So this "stricter standards" line of argument sounds dubious to me.
@@Tork789 I mean yes, you can very much make an argument that Eddie's lift was more impressive due to the huge jump in weight compared to a 1kg jump. I'm not arguing that at all. I'm just pointing out the objective fact that Thor actually followed a far stricter regiment on the day of the lift, which is in response to you saying Thor had more advantages - which he objectively didn't for the reasons I outlined.
It's also not "slander" at all as it's all unarguably true. You can research it for yourself. Brian Shaw himself has said that he had to drop out of the competition earlier than he planned to because Eddie chose to up the weights more quickly than scheduled. That, paired with Eddie getting to choose his own rest times and use his own equipment (which he has admitted to on camera during an interview) show that Eddie was very heavily catered to in order to help him achieve the lift.
And I'm also not saying that any of this means Eddie's lift shouldn't count. It absolutely should, as Eddie performed the lift with calibrated weights in front of a qualified judge. Just like Thor's lift should also count for the same reasons. My point is that, while *both* Thor and Eddie met the necessary requirements for the lift to count, Thor actually went a step beyond and followed far stricter standards than Eddie did. He did this deliberately due to the circumstances with Covid, as he wanted to make sure there would be no question whatsoever that he achieved the lift legitimately. And Eddie claiming it needs to be done "in competition" retroactively is hypocritical, as he didn't follow "competition" standards during his own lift. All of this is easily researchable if you don't believe me, and you can look everything I've said up for yourself.
My stance is this: both lifts count as both lifts met the necessary requirements. But if Eddie wants to start changing those requirements and claiming a lift needs to follow competition standards to be official, his own lift wouldn't count either. He only took that stance because of his rivalry with Thor, but it makes absolutely no sense as he himself didn't follow competition rules. Again, both lifts count - it's just that Eddie's reasoning for saying his own lift should count whereas Thor's shouldn't is hypocritical and makes no sense.
@@lbds954you cannot lift in your home gym with you dad weighing the plates and claim it's a world record. Sorry.
isn't programming for the competition literally peaking as you said Thor did? lol
There are also veins and arteries that we need to talk about. If I remember correctly, then lifting heavy objects also increases your blood pressure. Eddie Hall (probably others as well) had a nose bleed when he lifted 500 kg and I believe he also passed out and his blood pressure was so high that when it was measured, it didn't show up. (I might be mistaking correct me if you know better)
Never heard that he passed out but he did say in an interview that he showed signs of a concussion for a few weeks after his world record deadlift
No you are definitely right. Watched a video from Eddie Hall where he also spoke about this incident. He said he lost sight for a short moment and everything went black, also his mind went blank so I would count this as a blackout.
The nosebleed is also correct, he also bleeded a little bit out of one eye if I remember correctly, not 100% sure on the eye bleeding though.
@@sinistressdreams7243 i think i remember the eye bleeding being mentioned.
There's not much to talk about veins and arteries. Everyone has them. You want any better you have to hope for good genetics and have a healthy lifestyle. Blood pressure is more of side effect. It's the muscles and bones taken the workload. The heavier the workload the more blood flow is required to move the muscles.
Eddie Hall had a nose bleed because he was holding his breath while taking a tremendous strain on his body.
@@fullercrane1795 No he had nose bleed cuz of enormous BP, you dont hold your breath while maxing out, you exhale in the cosentric face to embrace your core.
What amazes me is that how important human psyche is in, well, everything. You can have big ass muscles and still lift less compared to someone "smaller" that properly utilizes their muscle mass. Also the fact that people in general perform way better, withour knowing what their limits "should" be.
Vlad Alhazov has squatted 525kg while only using knee straps which is effectively a raw squat. Tom Platz to my knowledge hasnt not squatted anything near 460kg
You mean knee WRAPS and they are not raw, they will put at least 10-15kg on your squat. Neoprene knee SLEEVES are closer to raw, but even they help a little. The coolest thing about Vlad is how he rehabbed after a total knee replacement and went on to squat more than before the surgery, showing all of us in line for a TKR what is still possible.
@@PinataOblongata 10-15? u mean 50-60 depending on ur max? wraps help extremly for squatting.
@@1988antenne I could be a little under (I don't compete with wraps, but I help out with feds that do) and I doubt it's that much. Google says 25-40kg. I'm a lighter lifter in the 69kg class, natty, stiff bar and sleeves only (like IPF) so I'm used to dealing with smaller numbers ;)
@@1988antenne50-60 if you squat in the 400s maybe. For the average person it will be around 20kg
Thank you for this video.
I found an article noting that Tom Platz had squatted 525 for 23 reps but could find no reference to a 1,000-plus squat.
Not that I would put it past him. They didn't call him Quadzilla for nothing.
hes called quad father, not quadzilla
Yeah, he must have read that Tom Platz had a squat record and assumed he had the heaviest squat record...
He’s never done a max squat ever. Only high rep ranges
@@stewpleee Naw, you're thinking of King Quad
@@stewpleeePaul demayo was quadzilla I believe
0:05 Thats misleading, she didn't lift it up in the air. She lifted part of it which means she didn't lift the full 3,000 or so pounds. The deadlift record holder can lift more than her.
Misleading, yes, but not disregardable, she lifted it with almost no prior training. Just pure grit and adrenaline
Yeah the ground supported most of the weight. Still impressive though
@@Forty-Kit was apperantly on a car jack and had others hold it up from what I heard
This
May Doomslayer be born one day.
lol tom platz ? dude u better check ur data ... raw squat record is held by dan bell at 500 kg ... tom platz was a bodybuilder in 70s and 80s known for his high reps squats, he did like 23 reps or so with 525 lbs i think ... never did singles
That's probably a result of putting that set into one of the 1 rep max calculators. Will always be a remarkable feat!
yeah that whole vid is a mess imo so much wrong or incomplete data
@@alexschutz7283 Well the 1 rep max calculator is completely inaccurate, especially at high reps.
How did you leave out body mechanics? How your skeleton is proportioned and where the ligaments attach has just as much to do with strength as muscle fiber, bone density, etc. That's by far the biggest reason gorillas are so much stronger than elite human athletes.
Excellent points. Also? The sheer frame size of a gorilla provides it with a major leverage advantage.
Strength is determined by how much force can be sustained in the whole body. Depends highly on genetics, which stem from a long generational chain of your ancestors constantly pushing their limits with their bodies in the prime ages of 10 - 60 years old.
@@A1_Amir If you were born when your parents were 30, how could anything they do after that effect your genes? Isn't evolution shaped mostly by reproductive advantage and surviving near extinction events?
Is it ? IDK how much different they really are. I don't even know anymore, but I think that is "kind of debunked".
Gorillas and other just train mega hard, and they are happy doing it, this in turn makes their joint and bones huge and dense, and their strength reflects that, lb for lb. We train very little, and use as little strength as possible. We still share mostly the same mechanisms for regulation and growth as they do, but we stimulate those less, due to having more nuanced behaviour. I know chimps did some pulls on a pulley, a female did some 800-900 lb janks, but a human could do it too.
The balance of where does mental stimulation begin and end, and what is needed, needs cutting into, to understand what really is different between us. They train every day, and they like it, mostly because of their "somwehat" hardwired physiological differences, but the biggest of the bone differences is tied to brain, its size, and being effective while standing.
A human with a simpler brain could, perhaps, very well approach the conditioning of a more wild, natural ape. While I do believe we have some shaping as per this topic, we are largely the same, if not almost the same. I thibk the difference is, by far, mostly neurological, and of training history. No athlete will ever put as much effort nonchalantly as a wild ape, as they are subconsciously bound to the rate and timing of the society around them, and how the individual reacts and influences the others, every sport is finding "the human way", and politics, and a mental endeavour alltogether. The active rest and ease of work a chimp can do isn't reached by athletes at large.
You cannot push against the clock, steroids and hormones need counterbalance, and in the end, you inflate the rest, always sub-optimally, and nothing really changes, you just get old fast, and parts of you super fast, which damages long term progress, and then you lean into being "a freak" that can withstand superhuman muscle loading, despite being damaged from the inside.
It's all in the stable and steady- nuance and simplicity. You are bound to eventually outperfom users( not saying it's all in stone, but hear me), you are more effective, and age slower, you are more sensitive to anabolism- only need a 1/20 the chemical stimulation for 80% the outcome-. When you use you throw nuance out of the window, you accept side-effects for diminishing returns per- time, invite ineveitable imbalance induced damage- health is strength. I am not saying that nautrals will be as jacked as users, but they can grow bigger and healthier, eventually ending up stronger, with a peak well beyond breaking age of most athletes, and then, being better. But that cannot be done with fake incentives and for fake external goals. Many of the strong people, and giant men around, are so due to having a more balanced in and out, and are still of a stronger foundation, and in places stronger full stop, than the best juiced athletes in all of modern history. Health is wealth, as is being of substance all around.
@@japanesecar1501 wow. What a reply. I enjoyed every word, but I think we are talking about different things. There's a peak fitness level determined by genes, and I'm sure most humans are less likely to get as close to it as apes living in nature, but then there's the mechanics of the individual.
For instance, my brother in law has limbs proportioned differently than mine, with a shorter upper arm and thighs compared to forearm. You wouldn't notice unless you looked for it, but once you pay attention it's obvious.
This changes the leverage, giving him about a 10% advantage on how much weight he can bench press assuming the muscles are exactly the same strength. However, in one lift I am performing more work as the bar travels a greater distance. So in a punch I will generate more energy. We can train equally hard, but there's always going to be that tradeoff where I will have more power if left to my own devices but it won't will lose on that strength check. I can run with a higher speed, but not match the acceleration.These imbalances are part of what makes comparing different athletes so intriguing.
Now the difference between a human and ape are far more pronounced. From an engineering perspective, they're built much sturdier, but less energy efficient. Our relative flimsiness is the price we pay for being able to travel over 50 miles a day via bipedal movement. No amount of training will enable a gorilla to match that feat.
What excites me about CRISPR is that these new super humans will be able to remove the limitations the body has when we start colonizing space. A major problem the human body has is that bones start to disappear when in zero gravity. If CRISPR can isolate that auto switch so it doesn't do that we then don't have to worry about building gravitational technology (spinning ships) to prevent bone loss. Same with growing new limbs if they have been amputated. It is super exciting, but scary because no doubt super humans will be used by ambitious nations to conquer one another. I wouldn't be surprised the CCP has already secretly grown super humans with CRISPR technology seeing as they don't give a damn about human rights.
😂 what. I'm developing this shit and no one has it yet. 😂 And we already can lift way more than we think. Our brains just limit us.😅
@Revolutions End-Times Church your church is already in the dust. Apostate
We can now have real life space marinea minus the rituals and multiple surgeries 😂
@Revolutions End-Times Church you're denying the existed of space?
Preventing bones from disappearing where no pressures are applied will only result in bones growing anywhere they can, for the entire life, rather than where they are actually needed. You will have to go through surgeries to remove undesired bone structures every few months. There has to be some kind of feedback control mechanism for any part that grows to grow correctly.
My dad tells me the story of when he was in high school and the bus they were on got in a serious accident. He got out to help people. Someone told him to go to their truck and get a tool from their built in truck tool box. It was locked so he basically bent the lid in half. When they went back later nobody could believe it or even flex it. Shock and adrenaline are very powerful.
Eddie hall talks about having to be hypnotized to complete his 500kg deadlift so i doubt someone without training could achieve that level of hysterical strength
the start is the hardest point in a deadlift, he could pull up to 700 800 kg if it was just pulling
It's really neat we're at a point where we can modify our bodies in such extreme ways, but every time it's brought up, the words of Dr. Malcom run through my head: "You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should."
Dr. Malcom is a fictional character.
@@SeptemberChild1835 The meaning behind the quote is there nonetheless.
Oh,taste and see that the lord is good! Blessed is the man who take refuge in him!
Psalm 34:8
For we to know if we should we need an universal moral ground, and that doesnt exist.
@@doodoo2065 Should we?
4:01 u sure about that squat record?
The human brain has the ability to unlock huge amounts of strength when facing a life or death situation. Mind over matter, if mastered, can be unbelievable.
Many years ago a strongman Paul Anderson was reported to have did a backlift of over 6200 pounds which would be in excess of the amount you claimed to have been a limit. He also was an Olympic weightlifting champion.
Actually? That was embellishment on Anderson's part. He lifted in the range of 4500 to 4,800 lbs, still an astonishing feat. The backlift, typically only involves moving the stack a few inches, but still. More recently, a Canadian did a backlift of a pair of subcompact cars.
yea, i and i did a backlift of 800 pounds when i came from the toilet and was refreshed
@@maherabdu5358 😆 😆 😆!
Guinness has disproved Andersons former record
I always wondered about this question. Great video!
Strength is not just about muscle, adrenaline is a chemical and mental strength is the other aspect. The ability of our mind to push us to the limit.
Just for the record, Eddie “The Beast” Hall (2016 Worlds strongest man) was the first man to ever deadlift 500kg. No disrespect to Thor, cuz he beat the record, but he wasn’t the first and he didn’t break the record in competition whereas Eddie Hall Did.
Yes, I was just thinking that Eddie would be pissed off to not even get a mention in this video, when his lift is still the OFFICIAL deadlift record. Thor did it in his home gym during lockdown (even if it was refereed by Magnus Ver Magnusson and the plates were even individually weighed in front of him). In any case, Eddie will always be the first man to ever lift half a tonne.
@@hedgehog1965uk I count thors because there was literally no competitions for him due to covid. If he stayed at his weight and strength for an indefinite amount of time he could’ve easily died. Also it was sanctioned by WUS (Worlds Ultimate Strongman) so it should count
The woman didn't lift the whole weight of the car. She just lifted like one side of it and moved it probably a tiny bit, not like she benched the whole car, 3.5 tonnes. I also doubt it weighed that much, more like 2 tonnes.
"The human body is a remarkable machine"
The human body:
Back pain from laying in a bad position while still sleeping on a soft bed.
Blame the brain, not the body
Tbf Humans were never adapted to sleeping on such soft surfaces.
@@ShoaibMalik-un1gureally
I’m currently in college and studying biology, in hopes to one day work on human enhancement and advance gene-editing techniques. I’ve done research and even a paper on ethics and Justice of human enhancement. It’s all very fascinating and I have a long way to go
2:55 wdym 9000kg is 2.5X the weight of a VW beetle, a beetle does not weigh anything close to 3.6 tons
Mental power in life/ death situations are so big , thats great. The power of the brain on the body is tremendous ! I saw and heard many miraculous examples !
Some people are too tough for their own good. For example, in the world of MMA, there are fighters (ex Cain Velasquez) whose mind are stronger than their body and they get injured while training hard. Their mind won't give up when their body is worn out.
@@CuriousReason Agree. But I mean when its about your life , or a kids life , or parents , or an animal. Not fighters. But normal people without muscles training . I think cortisol and endorfine and adrenaline in high doses driven by the brain ( in life-death situations) are so high , everything is possible. This is very interesting , I saw this on you tube and all the miraculous situations came back.
the effect isnt as amazing as you think, noone had ever caught it on video, a human does not just 10x their strength everrrrrrrrrr, its a load of rubbish, in a world with cameras in everyone's pocket for 20 years find me one video of someone who inexplicably lifts 10x what they usually could?????
@BRETT yep
@BRETT people just don't know basic physics lol
It's also important to note most of that impala's weight was at the front, and most had a lever called "The frame" acting on it
0:15 Wow, Bjornsson did do Hall dirty by upping the weight by 1 kg, and at home, with his own judges.
Yeah but because it wasn't in competition it still doesn't beat the record for during a competition.
@@TheUniquename002 yeah, hope so, I just wish Eddie got the recognition he deserved.
Yes
his own judges? That's not how it works. A judge is a judge. And upping a record by 1kg is usually how people break records. Nobody considers this dirty.
@@FrenkieWest32 well they could have been in his pocket, he broke the record in his home gym in iceland with icelandic judges and his own weights, very fishy, I understand it was the pandemic, but it seemed like a way to steal Eddie's thunder, and he did, few people know Eddie by name, meanwhile wooden Thor got all the events, paper views, seems so unfair, especially since Eddie is so funny, well at least they fought each other and decked each other to the floor.
There are so many conditions and catches to everything explained in this video that I won't even begin with the explaination.
I feel it would’ve been interesting to make comparisons between what is estimated to be the maximum potential human strength with the feats of Louis Cyr, the strongest man to ever live.
The greatest weight ever raised by a human being is 6,270 lbs. in a back lift (weight lifted off trestles) by Paul Anderson.
@@Kamikazie65 which isnt used modern day as the numbers go way too high for it to be measured accurately so we use things like deadlift, squat and bench to give more accurate strength results
Problem with the muscle growth being increase is that the mice are more prone to tendon injury, so it's probably gonna be useful for ppl who have muscle atrophy, but I don't think it's going to be applicable for outright muscle growth without some serious negative side effects that end up hindering training long term.
What you're forgetting here you're not just gonna enhace the muscles, you're gonna enhance everything else too ala Spartan 2's from Halo to absolutely get the peak perfomace you can get out of your body and not get any bottleneck, tbh I still think it would be just easier at that point to skip flesh entirely and go straight for synthetic metal bodies
@@Aureonw It does not increase tendon growth. That's the problem. That's why I said that. It's a known problem they've seen in mice during testing. I...I wasn't guessing. This isn't a hypothetical, it's a real drug. It's potential, esp for ppl with muscle atrophy, cannot be overstated. It's just not magic. You still have to be careful about it and work to build up your physique naturally. Hell, even if it DID build up tendon strength, you still need to train your brain properly to utilize those muscles fully. Muscle memory is largely influenced by this and NO amount of muscle is a replacement for proper technique. I know I came off like i'm just knocking it, but it's just me wanting ppl to be wary and careful so they don't end up tearing their acl.
I fucking wish we were at the point where we could just go full cybernetic enhancements tho. I think I'd prefer nano augmentation style over a full synthetic body tbh. I'm paranoid af about companies doing the whole 'we have to reposes your body because you didn't pay the late fee' type shit.
@@Heeroneko A fair concern, cyberpunk wise, but what I meant by not just muscle enhacements and etc is literally messing with DNA to make either myostatin inhibition natural to get bigger muscles, (also I knew of it that it doesn't increase tendons) mess with the dna to alter the density and the capacity of the neurons to connect to each other to make every single cell inside of your brain work more efficiently and make you smarter than any man today ever could have been on just pure random evolution, messing with tendons growth either inhibitors so it doesn't grow out of control or helping the body create stem cells so it heals itself without scarring or only scaring for faster wound closing and then the body goes around replacing the scar tissue with actual cells that work not just flex tape that when on organs don't help them do their work
@@Aureonw Yeah that'd be neat.
Considering that Ai is literally helping in science now i dont see those ideas as something that crazy anymore
Hey so the hole 3500 pound car thing is a sham, the women probubly slightly lifted the back end off its suspension, while the car was 3500 pounds she was probubly liting closer to 500 pounds
Though there is a lot of misinformation in this video, still a pretty good video.
Do this for runing aswell please,i've been looking for something like this
I did on running, enjoy: th-cam.com/video/6XqpY6aah2Y/w-d-xo.html
Endurance was MUCH more important than strength long long ago.
Brad Castleberry has shattered all of those records! 💪
lmao good one
We don't need to build up muscles to lift 1000kg, thanks to our intelligence, we can build devices that can do it for us. That's an evolutionary step we chose.
To be fair, the leverages when lifting up one side of a car vs deadlifting a barbell are completely different. It's not unusual to see athletes who aren't even half as strong as Hafthor Bjornsson to be able to easily deadlift a car for reps (I remember seeing the TH-camr Alan Thrall doing that in place of deadlifting when gyms were closed at the start of the pandemic). The strongman Brian Shaw has even put an entire car up on top of a leg press and pressed it for reps before (th-cam.com/users/shortsbv0ypPZ2vdU). Nevertheless, lifting up a car is still an incredible feat of strength for an untrained mother.
Nuh uh
Bruh Denis literally used to pull a truck with single hand for arm wrestling practice😂
I started weightlifting consistently for the first time in my life three yrs ago. I still can't do the deadlift without hurting myself. And I keep hearing its not worth it. I wonder if im doing something wrong and getting misinformation, or if it's a BS excercise.
There is no such thing as a bad exercise. You're probably doing it badly, and probably attempting too much weight/volume without enough recovery.
At age 51, I can deadlift 160kg at a body weight of 78.7kg. Ive been lifting for 8 yrs.
What about when you where younger?
@@fayiz_Fz he just said he's been lifting for 8 years. How would he know? Can u just think a little lol
@@kaykmartins7335 he just asked the guy about his strength when he was younger.
@@lean2260 Which he effectively can't know if he never lifted before that.
It is safe to assume here that he's strongest he's been in those 8 years
@@kaykmartins7335 why are you getting annoyed liberal sissy
She didn't lift the car. She lifted it 4 inches which isnt proven to be off the ground.
The weight mentioned at 3:02 is wrong. VW Beetle is not that heavy. It would mean it weighs 4 tons which is inaccurate. It is only 1.5 tons
Eddie Hall has the record, Hafthor was not in competition, but in his home gym
Can cope all you want, but thor officially holds the record.
Thor holds the record, not Eddie.
Considering that the human body evolved for endurance and stamina, not speed or strength the fact that we've been able to find ways to push these factors as high as we have is nothing short of astonishing.
Back in his day, Arnold Schwarzenegger lifted the most heaviest weights on the planet. Nothing stopped him from lifting it, doing his thing. It's kinda cool, how men and women workout these days, awesome
As any marine, or most people military trained to push themselves, you can override your brain's limiter. I know many former marines who have hurt themselves by pushing past it. I've worked a handful of jobs where I, or other guys with similar backgrounds, have out done guys who were inarguably stronger than us because of this. My forearms were effectively ruined because of this.
Permanently or just until they recovered?
omg what happened to your forearms please tell us, are they recovering now?
As long as the wheels are on the ground, you have only to lift a part of the weight of the car. The springs take a lot of the weight. And it´s also important at which point you grap the car and if the ground is even or not, etc.
You may have more power in extreme situations, but nobody lifts 3500 pounds.
PS: If you ever have to lift up a car after an accident on one side, open the door and use the lever by grapping the door as far on the outside as you can and lift it.
Yep... people like to believe mysteries, but we live in a real world
I used to service heavy industrial machines with gigantic sized bolts and nuts. I'm talking size 50s and way beyond. These devices usualy came out of accident or fires so these bolts would usually be extra grippy on top of their normal strength.
A simple way to unscrew these is to attach the fitting wrench to them, find a meter or longer steel pipe which is about the same width of the tool and get the pipe on it. Then you get a hammer you find suitable and tap at the end of the pipe. Very quickly you'll see the bolt or nut loosening and coming off easily. If the bolt isn't broken or welded itself somewhere requiring to be cut, you can use leverage for your benefit here.
HOWEVER! Don't play around with devices you don't recognize and you are not trained with. Don't ever try to remove anyting on machines you don't know! I heard a terrible story of a guy removing bolts from the cap of a still highly pressurized air compressor reservoir. The reservoir itself was 1 meter wide, 2 meters tall approximately with big bolts holding its cap. Sadly, when he came to the stage where the remaining bolts couldn't hold the cap anymore, they failed catastrophically and the cap exploded upwards towards his face and removed his head clean off.
Don't play with machine before training you guys!
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The curb weight of an a5 facelift vw beetle is 3045 lbs, meaning an elephant could support 6.56 times the weight of the car. If the car is fully loaded it is still only 5 times the weight to get up to 10 us tons.
I was looking for this comment
We all have the anime idea of a superhuman being able to do whatnot.
I find this one humbling tho:
17:37
وَلَا تَمْشِ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مَرَحًا ۖ إِنَّكَ لَن تَخْرِقَ ٱلْأَرْضَ وَلَن تَبْلُغَ ٱلْجِبَالَ طُولًۭا ٣٧
And do not walk on the earth arrogantly. Surely you can neither crack the earth nor stretch to the height of the mountains.
Btw, we are as strong as our weakest point. Like a chain.
It's funny since some theorize based on certain variables, but there are quite a lot of variables, so perhaps we are leaving some without taking them into consideration, of course our experiments are heavily limited, and our understanding therefore.
We know not except what we are allowed to know.
Peace
Thanks for the information
Thank you for this video, and thank you very much for translating the pounds into kg, for someone who has been using the metric system their whole life, it helps understanding the measurments better. Great video, keep it up
Eddie hall has the officially recognized record. Thor didn't do 501 in a proper recognized competition.
Thor lifted heavier weight with the same equipment, competition or not he lifted more with a verified judge (Magnusson)
4:57 Furthermore, if the brain perceives a lack of stability, it will limit the force generated.
Hysterical strength can also relate to people under the influence of drugs, or people with a mental handicap. They each can be extremely strong for their size.
I like the boulder example best.
The hiker/mountain climber had a boulder that he instantly propelled with all his strength but it shredded all the ligaments from his muscle and split tendons etc.
That's the weak spot in our physiology and anatomy. We have fine tuned motor skills for tool use. Our anatomical supporting cast isn't up to challenge and probably limits us intentionally to avoid catastrophic injury.
Thor's record didn't count.
Eddie pulled 500kgs in competition
Thor pulled 501kgs in his gym. It's not the same.
yes it did. A record is a record.
Thor’s lift was sanctioned by WUS and reffed my Magnus Vers Magnusson who is the most respected ref lol
Mother literally used the power of love like an anime character to lift that car
You clearly don't understand what literally means.
There's something wrong with this "hysterical strength". Yes, you might be able to squeeze more force from the muscles, but you can't make your connective tissue, tendons and joints stronger in a moment. Just look at professional athletes: tearing muscles or tendons is pretty common for them.
On another note I would be willing to take what would be needed to be this strong :)
9:49 real life captain America in the making
Real life Halo Spartans!!
0:05 So she lifted the car off all four wheels? I seriously doubt it!
8:13 what you came for
I think you meant Eddie Hall was the wr holder for the deadlist world record (cause he actually did it legitimely and doesn't swear on his daugher's life).
Hachimon Tonkou. The 8 Inner Gates. The 8th gate is the death gate. Opening it imbues one with otherworldly strength for a period but results in the demise of the user. The lesser gates provide superhuman strength as well but result in severe damage to the body commensurate with how far one pushes past their natural limiters.
Kai
Cool has nothing to do with real life weightlifting weird fairytail mumbo jumbo does not belong in the sport
Fuken Naruto nerds
@@kaldordraigo4020it was just a reference to an anime
@@Vainglory100 this existed far before naruto goober
The 3500-pound car deadlift by a woman sounds like an urban legend. Most likely she pushed and rolled it off - or had a ton of help from bystanders.
If a sudden burst of adrenaline can give an ordinary person superhuman strength, then how come none of the elite powerlifters, weightlifters and strongmen never figured out how to tap into these superhero powers? And how come people get injured lifting far less weight? How would adrenaline protect a person from injury when he is lifting far beyond his capacity.
The brain is a menace
I pulled 2.8x my own bodyweight deadlifting with only about 6 months of training and zero prior powerlifting training. Truth was that I psyched myself up completely before that lift kinda like how Eddie hall did his 500kg record at the time.
I probably have good genetics mind you because I was adding 10kg onto my max every 1-2 weeks (fully natural). I do genuinely think that mindset is everything and psyching yourself up is important - and then when you break your theoretical limits and get proper rest, your nervous system and muscles recover to THAT level partially.
How much you deadlift?
@@AdornedProduct1 180kg
So you trained for 26 weeks and added 10kg to your lift every 1/2 weeks? Let's call it every 2 weeks making it a total of 130kg added to your deadlift, so your starting weight was 50kg at around 60kg body weight? That would make you very weak to begin with and also give you 5 years gym progression in 6 months. Starting to seem a bit doubtful.
@@Harry-TramAnh I'd never trained deadlift before and would exclusively do high reps. The vid is actually up on my channel if you want to watch it.
FYI I've been doing endurance all my life and recently started gym so I wasn't weak. There was a lot of form and callusing that was needed.
@jarfmusic I'm not calling b.s on the lift, it's definitely achievable. I'm saying adding 10kg to your lift every 1/2 weeks for 6 months isn't possible, it's not a realistic achievement for anyone. If you're already in good shape, then your deadlift to begin with isn't going to be as low as you're proposing.
Sorry I can't find the video, you're thumbnails are difficult to look through for me. I've seen those pull ups though, dam, that's good 👍
0:34 i mean technically, we do possess that kind of power. Even a baby is large enough to split the planet in half. Assuming all their mass was instantly converted to energy, making them the coolest baby ever. But fortunately, nobody can be that cool and nobody has to be harmed.
how can i convert all my mass in2 energy
@@kiwi_2_officialcollide with an equal amount of antimatter
@@elmosco3936 no antimatter
With titanium foam for Wolverine bones, IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND pounds!!!
500kg is a REALLY small car, the first generation Fiat 500 is a bit above that and it doesn't get much smaller than that
The smart car weighs 680kg and you don't get too much smaller than that in today's market.
@@M4rio21 no any other modern small car is around 1000kg atleast
3:43 it’s Eddie hall that has the record thors one was not officially done
Yes it was. It was sanctioned by WSM.
nahh its difficult, because u have more risk of injury in your spine.. because you've bend more and you're not as stable as a short guy who is more grounded compared to you.. and be cause your tall.. you'll have to lift it a little higher to call it a rep....
This is very true, One time at my job my boss told me to hire 4 friends plus me to lift a tractor engine that was around 600lbs, I was able to push it onto a pallet jack by myself, I was able to move it with it, but at the time of putting it on to a pallet the engine got stuck between the arms of the pallet jack, I ask to my friends for help but they were busy, I decided to do it myself again, I tried several times for about a week, I tried not hurting myself, but I tried lifting it to the point I felt my knees shaking, I finally gave up a Friday, the following Monday I tried again for the last time, I don't know how and I can't explain it but I was able to lift it in my first intent and push it on to the pallet and it wasn't even that hard, I don't know how the body works but that amazed my self, I'm not a big muscular guy but I was able to do that without hurting myself or my knees
Impossible.
Mind over matter, perhaps.
After a weak, and your boss allowed it
My boi, what bullshit are you playing
Yoo beginner here, i can assure you that hysterical strength is real. I usually train 4x10reps with 70kg, a few days ago, while arriving to my 3rd repetition, i tried to push myself into some sayan rage shit and guess what ? I did 20rep non-stop without any effort, I started to shake, instead of taking a pose and continue my last reps i stopped to avoid injuries and stuff like that.
Rage is really cool, but it's a state my brain really hate to achieve. But achieving it even helped me mentally tomorrow, i got a better self-control and resistance in everything. I will rarely do that, if i decide to enter the berserk form again i would love to be assisted by someone or do it as a final move and use it with moderation.
"I got big gains but can't wipe my ass" energy
The world record dead lift is held by Eddie Hall, not the Mountain. Eddie did it in an official event. Give credit where its due
Quit hating on the Mountain.
@@SeptemberChild1835 The Mountain is a fictional character.
5:56 she never lifted that much, she didnt lift the entire car. she lifted a part of it, which weights much less
It still proves thes point tho, she had no prior weight training but still managed to lift way more than she possibly ever could in day to day life
Excellently made video 👍👍
I heard of a man whos bones are around 5 times more dense than average but idk is it true cuz internet
It's true some people have that condition which makes their bones very dense think it's genetic... These kind of people have been reported to have come out of car accidents with no skeletal injuries
@@shoaibhaq8680 You can still technically increase bone density doing isometrics, look up Dennis Rogers. He went to a special Ed gym due to how feeble he was. But look at him now breaking locks, bending wrenches, and holding planes from taking off. I believe one of his students was able to jump 20ft off the ground without breaking anything.
Do better reasearch. A lot of inaccuracies and false information in this video.
You ain't kiddin', it's a mess.
It’s fine.