The world was stunned when Britain became the strongest Eddie Hall lifted 1,102 pounds (500 kg) at the 2016 World Deadlift Championships. Hall was the first person to break the half-tonne barrier – and then, in 2020, Icelandic strongman Huffer Julius Björnsson topped it. Deadlift 1,104.5 pounds (501 kg)
Meanwhile, the report for The greatest weight lifted by a man Owned by Canadian strongman Greg Ernst, he lifted two cars back-to-back with drivers in 1993, totaling 5,340 pounds (2,422 kg).
This mind-blowing strength begs the question: What is the heaviest weight a person can lift?
Experts told Live Science that athletes are still working below their muscles’ maximum capacity, and it’s unclear what the limits of human strength might be. But that said, it’s difficult to measure the maximum muscular capacity of a given individual.
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Bradley SchoenfeldA professor of exercise science at Lehman College said muscle strength can be measured using an electromyography machine (EMG). EMG works Recording of electrical activity generated in muscles by nerve cells and by contracting muscle fibers. Such tests can only be performed in the laboratory, and EMG monitors only a local set of muscles, so it cannot assess muscle capacity throughout a person’s body.
“It’s hard to define that boundary,” he said E. Todd Schroeder, a professor of clinical physical therapy at the University of Southern California, studies how to increase strength and muscle mass in older adults. The only way to truly determine your muscle capacity is through consistent training—by setting new personal records and seeing if you can break them, he told Live Science.
“If someone says, Oh, I can lift 200 kilos [441 lbs],’ I was like, that’s great, but I know you can lift more,” he quipped. “We don’t know how much more.”
Physically, a person’s ability to bear weight depends on actin and myosin, the two proteins that make muscles contract. These proteins are arranged differently Muscle fiber types, including “fast-grinding” and “slow-grinding”. A person’s muscle mass and the ratio of these fibers depends on their training regimen, as well Biological factors such as genetics and sex. In general, the more muscle you have, the more force you can generate.
Elite powerlifters push themselves to the limits by continually increasing their muscle mass—however, the gain in power Muscle mass decreases as it increasesAnd eventually, the muscles reach their limits.
And sometimes, simply gaining muscle mass isn’t enough, Schroeder told Live Science. Paradoxically, sometimes people with low body mass lift more weight than people with more weight.
One factor that powerlifters must overcome is “neuromuscular inhibition,” which puts a cap on the force of muscle contraction and helps prevent injury. Studies find this hat Can be raised with resistance training.
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Another part of the puzzle is that, in addition to physical training, powerlifters must push past mental barriers to lifting heavier and heavier weights, Schroeder said. The best weightlifters, he said, are those who can overcome these inhibitions and get into the right mental state to recruit all of their muscle fibers.
“If I try to deadlift as much as I can, say 200 pounds [90 kg]Then I’m able to get into a state where that neural inhibition is removed, and I’m going to be able to lift 300 pounds. [136 kg],” Schroeder said as an example.
This effect was demonstrated in a 2020 study published in the journal impulse. The researchers sought to determine whether positive visualization—a technique that involves mentally rehearsing positive outcomes—had an effect on strength training. They recruited 133 student athletes at a university and divided them into two groups. The first asked them to imagine lifting 110% of their lifting capacity for at least five minutes a day while listening to motivational music. The second group did not do this.
After three weeks, the players returned to the laboratory. Those who practiced positive visualization each increased their lifting capacity by at least 10 to 15 pounds (4.5 to 6.8 kg), compared to an average increase of only 5 pounds (2.2 kg) for those in the comparison group.
“If you have the right mindset, you can lift a lot more than you think, to some degree,” Schoenfeld said.
“It always looks like someone can get a little stronger and perform a little better,” he said. In the world of weightlifting, this manifests itself in athletes who repeatedly break their own records in competition. “I try not to be surprised,” Schroeder said of these back-to-back record wins.
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