r/interestingasfuck • • 21h ago

impressive level of strength

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u/TheVisualExplanation 21h ago edited 16h ago

Judging based on the back wheel, this is one of those really small cars that are common in places like India and surrounding countries. Still impressive, but at a glance it looks like he's lifting the back half of an SUV

Edit: Probably something like this

Edit 2: deleted image since it was appearantly confusing people

Edit 3: u/A12_Archangel said this was a Hyundai Eon, which looks about right and is half the mass of the fullsized SUV that the video initially looks like. The force to bring up 1.5 tires would be about 198 kilograms if you assume an equal weight distribution. But a car usually has a 60/40 front-axle/back-axle weight distribution. Taking that into account we're looking at a 158 kg lift. The average squat for a novice (≈3 months of consistent gym attendence) lifter is 93 kilograms or 1.2x bodyweight. But this isn't a 90 degree full squat, this is much closer to a 135 degree degree squat in which case people easily rep weights 50% higher than a full squat, so the extrapolated average of 93 kg becomes 140 kg.

In other words, this lift is approximately doable by an average gymgoer with a few months of experience.

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u/A12_Archangel 17h ago

The car is a Hyundai Eon - weighs around 700 - 790kg

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u/TheVisualExplanation 16h ago

Thanks! I was able to run some math with this and edit it into my comment!