# @businessinsider on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=WqCVLEnggFY
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- **Posted:** 2025-04-10T15:00:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) — https://gondola.cc/BusinessInsider

## Caption

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 1000 and 1200 pounds (454 kgs to 544 kgs) 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?

Additional reporting by Gabby Landsverk.

00:00 - Intro
02:30 - The Lifts
07:00 - Size Matters
10:40 - The Back Lift
16:10 - Leverage
22:40 - Training
27:00 - The Limit

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