The Illusion of Strength

Imagine how strong you’d have to be to lift that much weight in that way at the gym. This is not to say this woman isn’t strong, but it would be pushing it to say that she can use that technique to pick up that kind of weight.

But this is actually an optical illusion, and she isn’t actually lifting the weight. The weight is in fact on the rack of a squat machine, and she is holding the bar on the rack, focusing before getting underneath it to squat that weight. This still makes her pretty strong all things considered.