• Hey Chloe, what are you doing next week? Wanna come with me to Iceland? I'm flying to Reykjavik to arm wrestle Hafthor Björnsson; he invited me to hang out :)

    “Lok at you Max, finally using these powers of yours. And there I thought you’d spend the rest of your life, jacking up my truck with bare hands”

  • What was the math here? How was this determined?

    I don’t have it open, so I can just give you the basic rundown: First, tensile strength of the different polymers that make up the picture. For the breaking, I think it was around 40KG of force. (Purely from memory, so the numbers I quote might be off, all rounded). BUT since we can’t concentrate that on a single point, we need to spread that that force across the distance between the center of your finger tips. Accounting for grip strength and friction (so it won’t slip), I think I ended up in the ballpark of 800 KG. Divide by 2, since you have two hands and arms. Then, it was a case of cross referencing this with known bodybuilders and take an educated guess from there. You could surely break down the load further by joint, but at this point, I was tiered. As for the story, I played it up, not just a little. But since you got me in the mood again, let’s see if Max could Jack up the truck: 🛻 appears to be 80s/90s F150. So it’s mass is around 2 metric tons. I’m on the go, so I keep the numbers round and simple. lifting either corner is 2,000 Kg /4 = 500 Kg. She has 800 KG with both arms, legs are probably 1.5 to 2X that, so easy task. Now the truck is a rigid body, so you will always lift two sides, leaving us with one ton. With the right posture, using her legs, feasible. Truck has a base of ~ 3 x 5m with the center of gravity offset towards the cab. Let’s say at 2m. (2000/5)*2=800. That’s exactly her capacity. Meaning Max can totally lift the rear but might struggle with lifting the front!

    Funny you should mention this. The powerlifting deadlift (equipped, meaning a compressive bench shirt is allowed) world record does bolong to Hafthor Bjornsson at 510kg! Though women's records are in the ~320kg range, so this Max is truly amazing. I bet she beats Hafthor at arm wrestling! Chloe will be so thrilled :)

    With strong fingers come strong ... well Chloe is a lucky woman :D
    But yeah, Max packs all of us :D So, 100 men, vs 1 Gorilla, vs Max, who's your money on? xD