Elite 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?