lite athletes today are bigger, stronger, and can lift heavier weights than ever before. Even in the lowest weight classes, they lift two, three, or even five times their own body weight.
The heaviest conventional lifts of all time are somewhere between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds (454 kilograms to 544 kilograms), and only a handful of athletes are capable of inching those numbers higher.
In this video, we're doing a deep dive into all the factors making this new era of human strength possible. And by the end, we'll answer the question: What's the maximum weight a human being can lift?
The heaviest conventional lifts of all time are somewhere between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds (454 kilograms to 544 kilograms), and only a handful of athletes are capable of inching those numbers higher.
In this video, we're doing a deep dive into all the factors making this new era of human strength possible. And by the end, we'll answer the question: What's the maximum weight a human being can lift?
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00:00Since the beginning of time, men have tested their strength by lifting the
00:05heaviest rocks they could find. And there are few lifting stones as famous as
00:13this one. The Husserfeld stone weighs 410 pounds. That's about the size of a
00:19small car engine. Not only might we see a new world record, we could be in the
00:23presence of a new legend. He's done it! The thing that I noticed is that thing is
00:28heavy on the chest, hard to breathe. That was the hardest thing about that. The
00:33Husserfeld stone from Iceland is so iconic that replicas of it are used in
00:37strongman competitions around the world. The legend goes that the triangular mass
00:42was the gate to a pastor's sheep pen. But the first person to lift it and carry it
00:48around the rock wall wasn't a man at all. It was actually the pastor's daughter.
00:58If the story is true, that makes Liefa Ingels and Sandra Bradley some of the
01:02only women to pick up the stone in over 250 years.
01:07It's like a puzzle you have to solve because everybody has different levers
01:11and advantages and strengths.
01:14Come on, arm yes!
01:17What's been the reaction since you've done this lift?
01:20I can't count how many times I've read that my spine is gonna pop out my back or my uterus is gonna fall out.
01:25Extend! Extend!
01:27Elite athletes today are bigger, stronger, and can lift heavier weights than ever before.
01:33Even in the lowest weight classes, they lift twice, three times, or even five times their own body weight.
01:44Wow, that's a wild amount of weight.
01:51The heaviest conventional lifts of all time are somewhere between 1100 and 1500 pounds.
01:58And only a handful of athletes are capable of inching those numbers higher.
02:03In this video, we're doing a deep dive into all the factors making this new era of human strength possible.
02:15How big can human muscles be? We don't really know.
02:18And by the end, we'll answer the question, what's the maximum weight a human being can lift?
02:24On the way we go! Ladies and gentlemen, here! Eddie Hall lifts the halves of 500 kilograms!
02:37Until strongman Eddie Hall did it in 2016, people weren't convinced a 500-kilogram or about a 1100-pound deadlift was even possible.
02:47But records don't seem to be slowing down.
02:50In 2020, Eddie's was broken by half Thor Bjornsson, the strongman and actor from Game of Thrones.
03:00I doubt that you're human sometimes.
03:02Yeah, I doubted it for a long time.
03:06Yeah, but I'm true that I'm human. I tore a plaque, remember?
03:09Oh, that's true.
03:10In strongman competitions, the Lifter is allowed to wear a suit and straps to help with their grip.
03:16This differs from raw powerlifting, in which the suit is not allowed.
03:23It could be argued that raw powerlifting is a more pure test of strength.
03:28But as you can see from this chart, all of the heaviest lifts of all time used some kind of equipment.
03:35And that allows the athletes to add several more plates to their heaviest lifts.
03:41And if we're purely talking about the heaviest weights a human can lift, an elevated bar is an easy adjustment that allows strongman to lift way more.
03:50Thor's 501-kilogram lift was with a standard barbell that sits 9 inches off the ground.
03:56But elevate the weight to 18 inches, and the world record climbs to 580 kilograms.
04:02And at 27 inches off the ground, it stands at a massive 670 kilograms.
04:09But for the strongman looking to prove themselves, the standard bar deadlift has become one of the key benchmarks of human strength.
04:16As like, good musicians, artists, anything, they do masterpieces, and it looks like zero effort.
04:23So I think my friend Javi is a true artist in the ways and the manners of the deadlift.
04:29Yeah, just wanted to say that. Thank you.
04:31What is that in here?
04:35Other people have argued that the ultimate test of strength is how much weight you can hoist over your head.
04:42In that case, we'll have to look at Olympic weightlifting.
04:45But compared to the recent string of record breaking in strongman competitions, Olympic weightlifting records are a different story.
04:53But it certainly felt as though all of the biggest lifts were hit in the 80s.
04:57It actually dropped off for 30-plus years.
05:01In the 1970s, the Soviet lifter Vasily Alexeyev set 80 world records.
05:07He was famous for increasing his lifts as gradually as possible, sometimes by as little as 500 grams.
05:14Because each time he broke a record, he received a payout from the Soviet state.
05:19And almost 50 years later, the clean and jerk world record now stands at only 11 kilograms more than his 256-kilogram best.
05:29Compare this to deadlifting, where in the last 50 years, the world records have risen by over 120 kilograms.
05:36And it's really only since 2016, there's this one guy who's turned up from Georgia, Lasha Talakadzi.
05:44And he has started to break all-time world records again.
05:47And because he's a super heavyweight, these are sort of the absolute most weights that any human has ever put overhead.
05:53He secured his third Olympic gold medal in the Paris games.
05:57What do you think it is that is getting him to be able to move that needle again in terms of inching up these weights?
06:05He's like a larger scale human. He's extremely tall.
06:09So he's in proportion to the most athletic smaller weightlifters, just scaled up.
06:14And so that allows him, because he's taller, he has a greater distance to pull the bar, to accelerate the bar.
06:20The bar can reach greater speeds.
06:23These lifts are incredibly impressive, especially considering that Olympians are always subject to drug testing before they compete.
06:32You think that everybody's clean, and then you learn a little bit, and you think that nobody's clean.
06:37And then you learn, and you stay in the sport for much longer, and suddenly you feel like you actually have no idea what's going on.
06:43We'll get into steroids more later. They're an open secret in strength sports.
06:48But steroid use can only enhance what's already there.
06:51With giants like Eddie Hall, Hafthor, and Lasha roaming the Earth, we know that size matters.
06:58Over the past 150 years of industrial civilization, people have just grown bigger, with easy access to lots of calories,
07:08and eliminating a lot of the things that used to kill us before we could grow up.
07:13But here's the thing. Science hasn't really cracked the code on what it takes to become super strong.
07:22That's partly because elite athletes rarely take the time out of their busy training schedules to sit for the kind of observation and testing that scientists like to do.
07:32There have been case studies from very high-profile athletes in other sports.
07:39Nobody really from strength and power sports.
07:41So that's why it was such a big deal when Eddie Hall agreed to go through a series of tests at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom.
07:48Do you know what you are already?
07:50You know, I've been treated as a guinea pig for the last ten years of my life, really.
07:54Every day I'm sort of poking and prodding it myself to see what I can do with my body.
07:59So I'm just used to it by now.
08:00Here we're testing all the different variants of my muscles and my tendons and ligaments and everything.
08:07So what did they discover?
08:10So his overall lower body muscle mass was bigger than any individual or groups that we've measured before.
08:16More than twice that of untrained controls.
08:19The scans of Eddie's legs are on the left and the images on the right are of an average person.
08:25But what was really interesting is that there was a pattern to that muscularity.
08:29Some muscles were only a little bit bigger actually.
08:31You know, maybe only 25, 30% bigger than untrained controls.
08:35Other muscles were three times as big, so 200% bigger.
08:39Three specific muscles in Eddie's leg were much larger than anybody else.
08:45The sartorius, gracilis and semitendinosus, also known as the guy rope muscles.
08:52The three muscles that help provide stability to the thigh and hip.
08:58Muscles that are really important for doing, you guessed it, really heavy deadlifts.
09:04The team also discovered that when compared to other professional athletes, Eddie is still in a class of his own.
09:11Quite similarly with his counter-movement jump, power output, his peak power output.
09:18He was about 40% more powerful than the highest values in the published research literature that come from professional basketball players.
09:28On this chart, Eddie's the X in the top right corner.
09:33When it came time to test the strength of Eddie's deadlift, he may have accidentally given us a preview of where human strength could be headed next.
09:42That's 7,483 newtons, about 750 kilos.
09:57That's equal to a force 250 kilograms more than the current world records.
10:02So now we're getting a little bit closer to understanding the idea of theoretical maximum human strength.
10:15Take a massive human being, train them in a few specific body movements, maybe feed them a little bit of steroids,
10:23and pretty soon we'll have somebody who can deadlift 750 kilograms. Sound about right?
10:30Well, what if I told you that the Guinness Book of World Records records the heaviest lift of all time at over three times that amount of weight?
10:39Who is gonna tell the child about Jesus? Who is gonna tell the child about God?
10:47That record belongs to this guy right here.
10:51Hello. Yeah, I'm Greg Ernst, and I live in Nova Scotia.
10:57I'm a farmer and a blacksmith, and I guess I'm the guy so far that the man that's lifted the most.
11:06He also sings gospel music with his family, in case that wasn't clear.
11:11In 1993, Greg set a world record with a type of lift that you just don't see that much anymore.
11:21For the past few years, Greg seems to be lifting everything and anything and breaking records along the way.
11:27The oxen may not be impressed, but the crowds keep coming back.
11:31Just two weeks ago in a driving rainstorm at this country exhibition, Greg did something no man has ever done.
11:38Using a specially built platform, he lifted two Ford Festivas and their drivers.
11:44Total weight, 5,340 pounds.
11:48There was press there, there was a lot of people gathered, and it was a real spectacle.
11:53So what did you do to prepare for that, and what do you remember about the day?
11:58It was wet. It really, it really rained hard.
12:03It was so hard to keep the handboard dry enough that your hands wouldn't slip off.
12:08That was the big problem.
12:10And you've got big hands. Let's see your hands. You've got gigantic hands.
12:14The reason you've probably never heard of Greg's record is because a back lift is sort of an old-timey strongman thing to do.
12:23It's the kind of lift that you might see before the days of television, when strongmen would travel around,
12:29attracting crowds to watch them do their feats of strength.
12:33In 1957, legendary American strongman Paul Anderson allegedly lifted 6,270 pounds, almost 1,000 pounds more than Greg's record.
12:44But it was never verified.
12:46Unlike Greg, who had people from the Guinness Book on site when he did his lift in 1993.
12:51Why do you think that the back lift is not really part of most strongman competitions, and do you think it's something that should come back?
12:59I think it should come back.
13:02Greg only lifted the cars about an inch or two off the ground. In this footage, it's almost imperceptible.
13:08I'll tell you the reason, and if there's anybody listening that wants to try this, which I recommend, but you've just got to be careful.
13:17And that is, if you happen to hyperextend that knee, those knees, like you get to the top and you bend a little back bend in that knee, and that weight comes down, it'll tear your knee, it'll just destroy your legs.
13:36And in addition to that high risk for injury, it's just less impressive than some of the events you can see in strongman competitions today.
13:45None of these events approach Greg's record, but they're just really cool to watch.
13:50But the Guinness record isn't the only thing Greg is known for. Remember the Hoosafel Stone? He set a new world record with that as well in the early days of the World's Strongest Man competition.
14:01It wasn't seriously challenged until almost 30 years later when Haftor came onto the scene.
14:08And there was one really important thing that Greg says set him apart from his competitors.
14:13They always trained and competed completely drug free. And it was a huge disadvantage when you were at World's Strongest Man because there was virtually nobody who did it that way.
14:28Well, my strength was on the farm. So I had dairy cattle, we had some beef, so I had access to all the milk and meat that I wanted.
14:42And so, for instance, you know, in the height of my training, I would down a five pound roast, a beef roast a day. I would down two gallons of milk a day.
14:55If somebody comes along and does it like I did it, fine. As far as I'm concerned, the guys with superior nutrition, to be on par or equal, should be about 7,000.
15:09Just to make that clear, Greg's saying if we could get someone with modern nutrition and training to do a backlift like he did, that lift could clock in somewhere over 7,000 pounds.
15:20That's almost six times the weight of the deadlift record.
15:24And so they're just it's it's it's it's just something that your body is hooked up for.
15:32And you're you so you're so you're saying your body was hooked up for this back lift.
15:37Yeah, my body. There's two things I was pretty bloody good at, and that was rock rock stone lifting and this back lift.
15:45And there's some guys that are hooked up for overhead pressing, for instance, or bench pressing.
15:52They can't they can't deadlift what they can bench, but they're hooked up for bench.
15:56And then there's some guys that are great dead lifters.
15:58What Greg is talking about is a concept known as leverage.
16:02Certain body types are just built differently.
16:05And those special proportions can give someone an advantage when it comes to lifting weights.
16:11And that's why I called this guy.
16:14Hey, what's going on, Mike?
16:18Awesome. What do you do for a job?
16:24I work in a steel fabrication shop.
16:28I run a CNC and weld mostly.
16:32We're here in Allentown.
16:33We made it to Allentown, Pennsylvania, and we're going to go meet with Mike Coons,
16:37who is a power lifter record holder and is going to help us understand a little bit more what goes into the strength requirements to lift the biggest amount of weight possible.
16:49If we're talking about the maximum weight you can lift compared to your body weight, Mike is the person to beat.
16:56He set a power lifting world record for his raw squat of just over 250 kilograms.
17:02That means he lifted over four times his own body weight.
17:06And that's something these bigger lifters can't compete with.
17:09Compare that to Eddie Hall or Hafthor, who can only squat two and a half times their body weight.
17:14Mike's competed in power lifting since he was a little kid.
17:27We spent a day with him to see how his unique proportions affect his strength.
17:32Hey, Mike.
17:33Oh, hey there.
17:34Good to meet you, man.
17:35How's it going, man?
17:36Nice to meet you.
17:37Yeah, yeah.
17:38Oh, my God.
17:41I mean, that's got to weigh, what, like 70 pounds?
17:44No more.
17:45Yeah, at least.
17:46I'd have to look at the papers and stuff to see.
17:48But yeah, this stuff's, and this is, yeah, grade A572 steel, so it's dense and stuff and everything.
17:55So in other words, this is part of your warm-up, right?
17:57Yeah, if something.
17:58Yeah.
17:59Yeah.
18:00I think if not for power lifting, a person of my size wouldn't fare too well in this line
18:04of work.
18:05Yeah, yeah, for sure.
18:06When you were, like, let's say when you were a kid, when you first started lifting, how old
18:10were you?
18:11I started training about 10, 11 years old.
18:16Mike's first coach was his dad, Don.
18:20Hi.
18:21Hey, I'm Dan.
18:22Hi, I'm Dan.
18:23I'm Don.
18:24Good to meet you, Don.
18:25Good to meet you.
18:26This is Mike at nine years old before he started training.
18:30And he came home one day from school, visibly upset, and I said, what's the problem?
18:36And it was, his classmates were picking teams for sports.
18:40And he's always the one that gets picked last.
18:43And, you know, he said that they picked for baseball in the last one.
18:46They picked for football in the last one.
18:48They picked for basketball.
18:49I said, well, you're not built for basketball.
18:51He goes, well, what am I built for?
18:53And I'm thinking, okay, Dad, think quick.
18:55I said, you know what?
18:56You're built for power.
18:57And we're going down in the basement and lift weights.
18:58Let's go.
18:59And that's how it started.
19:02All right.
19:07So this is it.
19:08This is the dungeon.
19:10This is it.
19:13This is the pit.
19:15So what do you have down here?
19:17That's...
19:18Well, we have a squat rack here.
19:19So we do our barbell squats in here.
19:21And the cross bars in case we miss.
19:24Right.
19:25All right.
19:26I have a chin-up bar here.
19:27I do chin-ups.
19:28Pull-ups.
19:29And I also do inversion.
19:31This is...
19:32This looks about the size of, like, the kind of plate you'd have at, like, a Blink Fitness
19:36or something like that.
19:37Yeah.
19:38But this is a hundred pound plate.
19:39Yeah.
19:40Yeah.
19:41And these are...
19:42And York's run heavy.
19:43You know, if you stretch this...
19:45That's...
19:46And then stretch that.
19:47This feels stretchy.
19:48This feels stretchy.
19:49Yeah.
19:50And then try the squat suit.
19:51There's absolutely no stretch in the...
19:52Here.
19:53Take this one back.
19:54There's no stretch in this.
19:55And the idea is that it's keeping the hips tight, right?
19:58Correct.
19:59Yep.
20:00That's the idea of this.
20:01So how would you describe the way that his body works in how it helps him for powerlifting?
20:06Well, his range of motion is advantageous to the barbell squat and to the bench press.
20:12And it's very disadvantageous to the deadlift.
20:15The best deadlifters have long limbs and a short spine.
20:18Mike's just the opposite.
20:19So to see how that works, it was time to hit the gym.
20:24We came to this gym to see how Mike's leverages give him an advantage in two exercises.
20:29The squat and the bench press.
20:32When I was younger, I could warm up quicker.
20:34But now that I'm getting older, I just gotta throw a couple more sets in.
20:38Get everything nice and loose.
20:39We slowed down this footage to see how big of a difference it is between Mike's squat and mine.
20:46He just has much less distance to cover based on his proportions.
20:50So basically the point, yeah.
20:54So you've got, you're missing a, like, it's like about a 12 degree missing from straightening out full extension.
21:01Plus you're also jacked, so.
21:03It's like when people sit, other powerlifters, I wish you had your leverages.
21:07Yeah, until you have to use equipment or you want to grab something on a top shelf at the grocery store.
21:11Then you don't want my leverages.
21:13Then you, see if you want them then.
21:15And it's the same story with Mike's bench press.
21:20But here is where Mike's body starts to work against him.
21:25This motion technically should be able to move the most amount of weight.
21:30Because you're engaging your back, your arms, and your legs.
21:34Here, Mike has to start bent over the bar.
21:37Which makes it harder to initiate the lift.
21:39And requires a bigger surge of effort at the beginning.
21:43When it comes to the deadlift, a short torso can handle a much heavier load.
21:50And that's why Stuart Jameson has been called the most anatomically perfect deadlifter of all time.
21:58The Scottish athlete was born with spina bifida, a condition in which his spinal cord failed to develop properly.
22:14And he's missing half a ribcage.
22:17But the length of his limbs, in comparison with his short torso, gives him the perfect leverages for deadlifting.
22:26So now that we understand the concept of leverages, let's return to the original question.
22:31What's the maximum amount of weight that a human being can lift?
22:35Right now, the world's strongest men are competing to break half Thor's record.
22:41And trying to deadlift 505 kilograms.
22:45The good news is that athletes like Thor and Mitchell Hooper, the Arnold Strongman winner for the last three years in a row, share a lot about how they train.
22:53These men will soon face off in a competition to see who can lift 505 kilograms.
22:59I will pull. I will pull 505.
23:02Now the dates and location, that's still being finalized.
23:05Mitchell has outlaid his plan on his YouTube channel.
23:08It's going to be a lot of volume and bodybuilding to grow some muscle mass in two particular areas for me.
23:14One is going to be my legs and two is going to be my spinal erectors.
23:18And meanwhile, half Thor is already making a 460 kilogram lift look easy.
23:25A lot of this training is not rocket science.
23:40It's using the basics of what science knows about how to build muscle.
23:44By approaching maximal effort and strategically adding weight to get closer and closer to a goal.
23:50It also requires proper nutrition. And a lot of calories.
23:55Yes, I cook all the food, four half-foot. Every day, six days a week. He has one cheat day.
24:02Thor consumes nearly 10,000 calories daily. That's over three times the intake of an average American.
24:09350 gram rice, 125 grams tantalum, 100 grams vegetables.
24:18His go-to beverage is a smoothie made with Greek yogurt, orange juice, and olive oil.
24:24I drink that with meals most of the time.
24:28And another drink with frozen berries and almond butter.
24:32It's really f***ing nice. You blend together, it's like a dessert in the innings.
24:37It also involves a lot of back and leg strengthening exercises.
24:42Then there's the idea that just having someone to compete with is what drives elite athletes to lift heavier and heavier weights.
24:51Science backs this up.
24:54A 2015 study found that when presented with a physical effort task,
25:00study subjects performed better in a competitive environment when they thought they were competing against another person.
25:07That effect was more pronounced among the male test subjects.
25:11One thing that all strength competitors have in common is that they're able to override an important part of the brain that stops them from lifting heavier weights.
25:20The neurological system controls the muscles of the body.
25:24If the brain senses a weight is too heavy, it overrides the muscles and shuts them down to avoid injury.
25:30Reducing these neurological inhibitions can lead to bigger lifts.
25:35Just ask Eddie Hall.
25:37I had to take myself to a zone where no other man has been.
25:42I wasn't there. I wasn't in the arena pulling 500 kilos off the floor.
25:46Basically, I trained my mind to a point where I was able to picture myself on a motorway in a car accident with my kids trapped under a car, lifting a car off of my kids.
25:59And it wasn't until I locked out that deadlift, it was almost as if I just woke up.
26:05It's not just elite athletes who can override the brain's control over the muscles.
26:10There are countless urban legends of regular people exhibiting what's known as hysterical strength.
26:17A sudden, almost superhuman burst of power triggered by adrenaline.
26:23These hormones act like rocket fuel for your body.
26:27Your heart pumps faster, your lungs gulp oxygen, and blood floods your muscles.
26:33It's fight or flight mode, and suddenly your muscles can contract harder and faster than they ever could before.
26:40By harnessing this hysterical strength and overriding the body's safety limits, athletes can push even harder,
26:47activating more motor units in their muscles and building strength that's closer to their true maximum capacity.
26:53So where do we go from here? Are we done when it comes to pushing human strength to its limits? Not quite.
27:06There's one more area we need to discuss, the elephant in the room, steroids.
27:11Performance-enhancing drugs are at the center of controversy in strength sports.
27:16Athletes from bodybuilders to strongmen commonly use these substances to boost their strength, recover faster, and build muscle more effectively.
27:24A study from 2012 showed that anabolic steroids could increase strength by about 5-20% in the test subject.
27:32And it's been estimated that as many as 4 million Americans regularly use anabolic steroids for athletic or cosmetic purposes.
27:41I know for damn near a fact that essentially no one at the top of strongmen is natural.
27:48When you're asking people if they're natty or not, you're asking them to admit to the commission of crimes.
27:54Knowing the legal landscape that athletes have to traverse, I would consider highly discourteous and impolite to ask athletes on camera if they're on steroids or not.
28:03I think it's absurd.
28:04There's no denying that peds are prevalent in strength sports.
28:08Many top athletes like Thor Bjornsson have admitted to using them.
28:12And while there's a stigma around their use, the question arises, what if we removed the stigma?
28:17That's where the Enhanced Games comes in.
28:21Dubbed the Steroid Olympics and pitched as a byproduct of Trump's America after huge investment from Donald Trump Jr.
28:29The media has claimed the Enhanced Games aren't possible.
28:33But in Trump's America?
28:36The impossible is what we do best.
28:39The Enhanced Games.
28:40A new Olympics for a new golden age.
28:43And they want to run events where doping is completely allowed.
28:47I believe that all human beings are enhanced.
28:50We're almost cybernetic beings now.
28:53We have an almost symbiotic relationship with digital devices, particularly mobile phones.
29:00And so I think of our objectives in the Enhanced Movement as building superhumanity.
29:09And I define superhumanity as where we are no longer limited by our biology.
29:14Aaron believes that performance-enhancing drugs won't just enhance strength.
29:18They'll allow athletes to reach new limits that were previously thought impossible.
29:23I think world records are going to be demolished.
29:26But when so many in strength sports are already taking performance-enhancing drugs, the question is how much further can we actually go?
29:33I would say realistically what someone could survive for eight weeks of this kind of thing is three grams of testosterone.
29:44Your body weekly makes about 75 milligrams to put that in perspective.
29:49Take, you know, as many IUs of growth hormone as you could take until you have so much body water that you have sleep apnea and you can't sleep anymore.
29:58Or your hands don't close anymore because you have so much body water on your hands that you can't actually grab a deadlift bar.
30:03I've only known a few people to do something like this.
30:05And any given day that they wake up is a blessing to them.
30:09I'll say that.
30:10No one's having any fun anymore at this point, by the way.
30:13But you will get stronger.
30:16Holy ****, you'll get stronger.
30:18There you go. He is tearing into this thing.
30:21But even with this perfect balance of genetics, advanced nutrition and performance-enhancing drugs,
30:27when we've already pushed our bodies to the absolute limit, any advancement on our current records is going to be incremental.
30:34In the deadlift, it does depend really on how you measure the deadlifts on and so forth.
30:38But I think something like a 1,200 pound deadlift, maybe 1,100 to 1,200 pounds without straps, I think is possible.
30:48You would say like, oh, like, you know, that's not a lot.
30:51But what we see with lifting as it gets heavier and as it approaches the human body's limits,
30:57is that it gets exponentially more difficult to gain strength.
31:00And so really, it's easy to look at a world record in the squad of like roughly 1,100 and say like, yeah, someone could do 1,150.
31:16But people have been trying for a long time and it just does not work out like that.
31:20So only by injecting a ton of variation and new talent into the sport can we see with many years the numbers climb to such high levels with sort of unmodified humans as they typically present in the world.
31:34Oh, my God.
31:42Wow.
31:43Come on, judges.
31:45Yes.
31:46Yes.
31:47Yes.
31:48Ladies and gentlemen, you just witnessed history.
31:51You just witnessed history.
31:53Look at that crowd too.
31:54Wow.
31:55Never been done before.
31:58Wow.
31:59Never been done before.