Superstrong Superhumans (Extraordinary People Documentary) | Real Stories

[Music] [Applause] [Music] superhuman strength superhuman people tonight the strongest couple on earth hit the fast lane or Fayette is the first leg lifting a shopping path the world's youngest weightlifter whose training began just five days old and the arm wrestler who's so powerful is called the Beast these are the real stories behind extraordinary people their relationships like a child you got to feed them every so often you've got to make sure they have their nap I'm like a proud mama this is fish I eat every two hours every two hours say more than fish their sacrifice I don't miss what I don't have I'm a machine at this point in time and their absolute dedication to raw power I totally believe my my bones are harder than any material [Music] [Music] we have always been fascinated with the limits of human achievement to be the fastest the tallest the cleverest all have their allure but perhaps the one that fascinates us the most is extreme strength super strength when Benedict Magnussen does a bit of tidying in the garden he tends to find it easier than most of us he makes light work of even a 40-pound paving slab a 23 stone strongman Benedict is a force to be reckoned with have asbestos talent and I enjoy my special talent Benedict's talent his raw strength it's already brought the 24 year old worldwide fame in the sport of powerlifting this year Benedict attempted a world record by dead lifting eight huge lorry tires a total of 80 stone in weight I was asked how much do you want on the part and I just smiled and I said he's put 500 kilos he thought that was joking so I was asked again [Music] [Applause] [Music] when it came to lifting it it felt like nothing it is fast like lifting a shopping bag it may have felt like a shopping bag but he'd actually lifted over half a ton of tires [Applause] growing up in Iceland Benedick realized from an early age that he was different always first when I was a child that that I was much stronger than all the other kids because I basically always had to hold back all the time and all the games we'll play for instance if we were playing football outside I could I could very easily just throw the boys around today is another special occasion as benedict's tying the knot with his english partner my neck has grown but what kind of woman can handle one of the most powerful men on the planet 24 year-old Gemma Taylor the bride-to-be has won the title of Britain's strongest woman as well as pulling an eight-ton truck she can lift the equivalent of three grown men I've always been fascinated by strength I've always been amazed by by what people can can achieve and do a very young age I was throwing hay bales around in the stables and not thinking anything of it and then watching babble struggling with half a hay bale I'm thinking why you struggle with half a hay bale when I've just thrown a full hay bale enemies I think that was when I first realized that I was a little bit different from others this is a problem when got a [ __ ] from the birth the strengths I just don't know Erica I'm not a weakling but I don't have strength in numbers category so it's been a big surprise really [Music] [Applause] hello Germany blessed are you O the strongest couple in the world first met two years ago at a power sports event he just told me that I was the most beautiful girl in the whole area I was going to say world but I thought it was a bit too much immediately when I'm at camera I I decided to marry her immediately when I saw her camera so strong woman maybe maybe I need a strong woman to handle me after two weeks honeymoon the couple are setting up home but even ordinary life can benefit from extraordinary power you'd be a nice bird feeder it's very very handy having a strong husband we use our strengths as much as we can but you know that this there's still a sense of being human and if there's a trolley around them we'll use to chop it but it's just getting into the trolley that's easy for us it's a two-person hummock that's the thing I know but this is for two people so it will take you wait is it gonna hold I wouldn't want the second person in here though it's nice for me [Music] this is Travis the Beast pagent a man who's perfected the art of talking a good fun that's the greatest HD poxy for me there right I do think I'm superior by far the best on wrestler that ever lived [Applause] the Travis has a lot boasted that with three times the force of a normal man he has arguably the world's most powerful left arm I think he's stronger than a tree you'd have to grab ahold I mean actually felt strongly I didn't think they made people that strong before to be also as explosive speed his trademark slam hits full force in point two of a second a tactic which has made the 31 year old a world champion I have no problem losing I just hasn't happened yet but Travis has had to work phase strength over the years he's built awesome power from his own unorthodox training regime here he's using one arm to drag a total weight of thirty stone this is the moneymaker right here this is how you win yeah this is the pressure that allows me to pinch people I'm too strong that's right oh he acts obnoxious but you know Travis says Travis armwrestling and as soon as he's off the stage he's a whole different guy so if you don't know him you either love him or you hate him the key to Travis's success isn't just strength it's his iron will something he developed during a difficult childhood we're a poor [ __ ] so my mom did a great job with very little resources he's told me times where they had no food to eat and being hungry and that's just sad to make matters worse Travis rarely saw his father Jerry big arm Boyd was a state champion arm wrestler and a local celebrity he was just kind of like some storybook hero you know what I mean he was you know he was my father but it was crazy because everyone I talk to you knowing more than me he just lived the good life you know he definitely dropped the ball as a good old dad that's for sure Jerry now in his 60s owns an arm wrestling bar it's a shrine to the very idea of strength some men measure their success in life by the bank account and some of us measure our success with the weight of the heaviest rock that's what I did being strong to him means everything if you're not strong then you're nothing Travis took up arm wrestling as a young boy in order to build a bond with his dad and now he's ended up following closely in his father's footsteps there's no room to be humble you cannot be that way it'd be a competitive person because you won't be in the competition very long [Music] flan effli in South Wales a no-nonsense kind of town where sporting heroes are normally confined to the rugby field but local boy James Lewis has been training for the last seven years for a very different kind of glory to make his body superhuman James also known as flex is whales his most successful bodybuilder as his proud mum would testify and more importantly so would his trainer Neil he'll turn right round again for me and just tighten up on your glutes it definitely helped me through mate the titles that I've won mister wheels mr. Brittain and then last year I won the mr. Britten again I was trained for first place [Music] we compete if the bosses aren't being I'm up in there I am amazed looking at him when he was a little boy obviously he was quite small for his age and synonymy obviously looking at him now we've never imagined he's always known what he wanted in life and if he has a goal he strives to make the best that he can all my life I've never wanted to be a Jew or French we say I think that's what drove me in a body Boleyn when I was 12 years old I seen a book on Tom plants it was something about his legs that rocked my little world Cherie and I took this book home woman looking for my parents knowledge don't the weights of the shed and hit the weights in the bed and brought him out every single night and sport didn't till till the death really and my parents discovered my little workout system in my room probably wasn't keeping it acquainted enough we wouldn't end it encouraged him to use weights at 12 because of the safety of health boys still grow until they're in their early 20s but by 17 flex was back on the weights and began his amazing transformation giving up his job in furniture removals meant he could spend the next seven years pumping iron and working out Farb to 20 hours a week [Music] to get the superhuman look Flex needs to lift super heavy weights here he's pushing more than ten stone as he lifts the weight the muscle actually tears the body regenerates the damaged tissues and in a process called hypertrophy add some extra leading over time to muscle builder these parlance of his physique is fantastic come on is symmetry head-to-toe what what Oh James got a small Riesling where his legs proportion with his upper half come on most people talk about is my my legs my half come on come on they're bodybuilding is a piece of art if you want to look like diamond and we are trying to create that masterpiece vice-captain no body literally we walk in and we will limp enough for most a night out with the lads would be a tree but for the purest bodybuilder it's a minefield of temptation imported you learn you are what you eat so if you're gonna eat crap you put on crap that's my motto and I don't want to think that that little slice of pizza has cost me my first place this meal is a rare treat before a competition flex must strip away any remaining body fat and his diet becomes extreme now this is my main source of protein this is fish I eat every two hours every two hours same ol thing every two hours same or thing I live a pretty much like grown dog day too many I mean Hackett's it sounds too boring and you know but I mean this is my life still it's my tours and path I don't miss what I don't have I'm a machine at this point in time his trademark body parts are just so flawless and so beautiful that's the word I would say more than anything is physique this has put together so beautiful his glutes and hamstrings as his carves and yeah is it afterwards class regs world-class legs yeah we all think he's going to go all the way [Music] in Charlestown West Virginia Travis is only a week away from his crunch match but even the beast manages to find time to play with his kids Travis hopes that his boys grow up to be professional athletes whenever desura our muscles Travis Travis just amazed by his form he's like look at him look at him can't believe it's got great form Travis is definitely an athletically minded person so I think he's looking forward to his kids being in a lot of sports been doing well but even a day at home doesn't stop Travis from preparing for his next match I do a lot of research the most part any arm wrestler in North America I have access to if he competes Travis firmly believes his winning edge comes not just from muscle but from mind control you know when I go into a tournament that I'm not necessarily the strongest human being in the building however I'm definitely the smartest I'd like to really control the match mentally whatever I have to do to get his mind off of his plan of attack so there I am we're pulling right now and I'm told I just told him I said I told you I ended up winning 5-1 and even his ungodly strengthen you know it just couldn't get him through science does support Travis's theories psyching himself up has a side effect it increases metabolic hormones such as adrenaline which boosts both speed and muscle power in a few days time in the UK he'll put that to the test against the 20 stone mountain of muscle that is Devon lurid there's no way that this guy Devon Laird that's armwrestling here in this video he has an absolutely no chance against me Devon is just this freak of nature physically I mean nobody could be in better shape than this guy I mean his endurance levels and just fitness levels are off the chart he'll be watching everything on jive and Larrick over and over and over again you know there's even some some people on the internet that say that I can't win a match which is totally the craziest thing I've ever heard of in my whole life yeah I think he's a little nervous I think it's always a little nervous but it'll never let you see it it may be a coincidence but Travis has stepped up training ahead of the clash with life [Music] the pull-up holes that's just a starting position in arm-wrestle right here very important to get your lat and everything tucked in there real nice and tight boom and then the resistance away from my face turn nobody in the world can beat him seems ridiculous to me to think that I'm gonna lose to a guy who's inferior to me I think his hopes and dreams are way stronger than reality Devin land I can't believe I got a sweat just the poorest guy ed byrne also believes super strength comes from a combination of mental and physical control a 9th dan karate black belt he has spent over 30 years honing his skills today ed wants to put his power to the ultimate test with one blow from his hand he will attempt to smash through a 20 stone stack of concrete there's no way I can afford to let my guard down I probably could eat you myself what took it too lightly hired I'm Paul from Salford University pleased to meet you what we're hoping to do is measure the force that you actually generate an or impact the blocks and also measure the velocity that your arms moving out as well so that can work out exactly how fast your limbs moving and how much that contributes to the force that you're generating it needs at least 300 pounds of force an impact that would normally shatter bone concrete does deserve respect especially when I break you with the human hand Newton's second law states at every action as an equal and opposite reaction whereby he makes contact with this and it doesn't break the force bounces back at him and that's where it's gonna create the damage but possibly even breaking the bones and handle the arm I'm gonna demolish it worst case scenario is he gets it wrong and the block breaks him rather than him breaking the block I totally believe my my bones are harder than any material any wood any concrete I've become into like a hypnotherapy state I actually become someone else I play a character I've become a character called a thug sir me is the best breaker in the world well actually believe my hand is a knife going through butter this is the force the peak force at impact you can see here that actually we've gone off the scale Annie was exerting over 200 kilograms of force you're doing that within about 0.2 of a second so you're Jenner in a very high force in a very short period of time which is difficult to train people to do need a combination of both strength and speed of movement that definitely puts him in a sort of superhuman category yeah what kids all of that I think is fantastic that's a real honor if a normal person hits the stat their bones would break so why not Ed's the answer is his have been toughened by years of training each time there's an impact microscopic fibers shatter but in a principle called Wolff's law grow back bigger and stronger giving ed harder and denser bones from all the years of training that he's done he's been loading the bones for probably thirty plus years combined with obviously very good technique as we've just seen and he's hitting with the heel of his hand as well so it's not direct contact to a bony surface so he's certainly conditioned himself for what he's doing there's no good having the strength and the speed if you don't believe in yourself you must believe you're gonna meet the person opposite you the world's strongest couple today on a shopping trip with a difference I think we're only having one Gemma is expecting a baby oh we both cried actually not me I'm tough you cried we were very very very happy they're looking for a baby carrier but when you've got a 60 inch chest that's not easy make it to the biggest it can go okay baby submit four mittens I never thought this would be as a bigger problem as it is the world is really designed for average people and when physically you can't fit into the average you do see the world from a completely different angle yes this one says just since seconds to fit mums dads and babies of all shapes and sizes with two months to the birth the world's strongest couple are already forming an idea of what their baby will be like I'm hoping it's gonna be a mini rena date I've never known any baby be a product of two strength athletes before very fascinated to know what what similarities genetically the baby is gonna have to us Jenner also wants to know if her intensive training regime will help her give birth without the need for pain relief I am confident that then I will be able to control my pain barrier whilst in whilst giving birth because I just feel that it's something that I'm very used to I don't feel any pain while some this thing ever it's total positive thinking to a point actually where just before you lift there is nothing in your head it's totally clear and it's totally empty it's it's beautiful it's actually quite peaceful the whole labor process is going to be extremely quick and he's actually gonna fly out and I'll let you know how it goes strengths can occur naturally but super strength has to be developed in the Ukraine Varia a cool ova could be like any 16 year old except her young life has been entirely dedicated to the pursuit of strength I don't want the aimless life of my peers I would call that empty it's not my aim to have fun all the time her father Yuri trains her up to eight hours a day lifting weights like this 16 stone load it's all part of his plan to create the world's strongest teenager Glen heroine ad bill Nicole she's my clone child she's an Iron Lady with an iron spirit like me the training started at an early age at 9 weighing only four and a half stone she could lift her 10 stone mother over her head and by the time she was 14 she was ready to try this incredible stunt she carried her father mother and two other grown men on her back a combined weight of nearly 50 stone [Applause] yeah I was nice to inter cavities yeah I know I am different from others if I was to be like everyone else that would be the biggest punishment for me [Music] Varia plays a key role in earning the family's bread and butter URI has devised a family circus act and Varia of course is the star your visa Napoleon assumed Wisla her life has meaning she tells me that all the time where he always tells me thank you Father for letting me have such a life you know sometimes it's difficult when you go to school you don't get to sleep enough but I don't want to complain I chose this life I liked it and I don't want to change anything can you pass him you know it's not the kind of a family where people suddenly want something different here everyone wants the same things we are very close family separate opinions do not exist here URI has had his master plan since he was a young man and it's something his wife Larisa has always known about the motivation to train is higher it comes from God comes from a conversation with God as if he's fulfilling his will I always wanted to find a woman who would choose me for my qualities who would accept my inner religion Larisa chose me for that I came to be her hero by adults but now Yuri has another star pupil this is Bobby she's 3 years old the training regime can be anything up to two and a half hours a day barbra can leave 35 pounds from the ground which is more than her own weight both girls have trains since they were just five days old Larissa attached small bags of rice to the baby and as she grew so we would add more rice when the child moved around it was like a kind of weight training the kids enjoy that please understand that for me the worst was to live my life without purpose without a sparkle of talent and I did not want that my children became third raters talentless people my daughters will become very close to the ideal people so God will not be disappointed that we live on this planet mr. da [Music] Charleston South Carolina tonight the city is hosting the prestigious junior USA body building event where British champion Flex Lewis has been invited to make a guest appearance I love this part this is that the roots of audible and funds there we go thank you it's an important night for flex he's recently moved to the States and wants to make a big impression on his new fans the state says to help my career industry in the state and if I wanted to make a core body building I had to be there you know it may look like a glamorous world but flex his road to physical perfection has sometimes been a lonely one short I've dated people who are being on out to the sport and it's certainly different because temptations of oh let's go out tonight baby let's go it's gonna eat away can't oh yeah you know I can't eat this or why are you in the gym again get numerously repeated but there was one woman who wasn't put off by flex his extreme lifestyle you know it was cute to me it's very sexy for a man to embrace his physique the way Flex does and so I am very attracted to that Flex met 23 year old fitness model Sheena Mitchell from Tennessee at an event in 2006 and we trained together we like to go to the gym and I don't think most couples would say that that's their little special time the others going to the gym but that is for us so 18 months later and flex decided to pop the question all he needed was the right time and place I said if I win my weight class I was going to ask scheana to marry me luckily flex one is category now the stage was set she's that's crazy in and I was waiting on my knee weight difference and she's still ballin sounds like me okay what's the answer I wasn't around you only proposed to me that night though [Applause] takes my breath away so she is one of my backbones to my body bitumen I've managed everything I do all the bookkeeping and accounting and ream sending off receipts and cook his food everything now we want to wait awhile to have children especially I get married because he's a baby and he wants to be the baby for a long time and to take care of him myself and then someone else is huge so you know he it's just like a child you got to feed him every so often you've got to make sure they have their nap and clean them and shave them flex is only hours away from his moment on stage and that means scheana needs to get to work between shift everywhere it's just one of the things that we do was born evil us to give that clean look now that his body's smooth on goes the fake tan to help show off the muscle definition is such a such an honor to be up there so I know that my performance really yes account chinnayana stairs the preening over there's just time for a last-minute pumping session to get the muscles inflated if you want to stand the hoax make yourself look like a peacock so I don't be a buffered I'm gonna be a peacock up there so I wanna show my feathers off nicely you know being a couple in the fitness industry you've got to be on the same page I'm very proud I'm like a proud mama [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] it's so overwhelming to see month's age its takes my breath away I want to see him succeed to it be a legend [Applause] the u.s. is certainly there's so much opportunities and doors open doors you know for instance look at Arnold understand office as a bodybuilder and I know he's the governor California [Applause] they enjoy that is such a buzz I mean you can tell it's like so electrifying when you're on there especially when the crowd such cheer in and everything else you're happy I'm happy she's happy cuz she's laughing Travis bagent has arrived in Manchester for his showdown with Devon Loret but the man who believes in superhuman confidence to psych out the opposition is feeling a bit nervous I'm always happy very happy good and now not so happy I just hate being so far away from home my kids mostly yeah and plus the food and my bed I mean Manchester is obviously bigger than Charlestown I assume right yeah I mean way bigger so there's a you know maybe that's what it is - maybe I you know in the in Charlestown I'm the man so everywhere I go I know everyone and they know me and you kind of you know if that familiarity kind of you know I like that the clash is taking place at Manchester's Trafford Centre a huge shopping mall pretty nice huh pretty nice Travis now has just 30 minutes to regain his focus it brings a lot of class and a lot of prestige to the sport of arm wrestling which is something we don't always get a big stage so it'll be a good sight to to see me crucified Devin Laird later great yeah I got a feeling I feel better as the time gets closer I feel like it's gonna be a good show and I'm gonna win but Devin could prove Travis's toughest opponent the Canadian champion has spent the last 10 years taking on the world's strongest Devin the Rats been through a lot in his life a lot of matches a lot of tough guys and I know that he's not gonna be intimidated by Travis I think that's an unusual situation for Travis because most men that he's faced at the arm wrestling table he is able to get into the head they've not got Devin's mental strength and that's why this is a really exciting matchup it's gonna be interesting to see whether he can crack the uncrackable not calm before the storm still about 15 minutes out I'll bring it up when it's time the moment has arrived this is going to be a battle of mind against muscle [Music] as soon as the rivals are onstage Travis's antics begin you can beat those guys like to really control the match mentally whatever I have to do to get his attention to get his mind off with his plan of attack nothing crazy each round of the left-handed match can be over in just a split second I love to get really close to somebody look at him breathe on them don't let him know that you know I'm right here across the table and I'm gonna whip your ass in about two seconds here as soon as they say it took less than a second but already Beijing takes the lead in slow motion we can see Travis delivering 170 pounds of force into one of his explosive slams you take an ass whipping up here no he can't beat me crazy come on up here for this with another victory for Travis his confidence is soaring he now needs only one more win to seal the match this is a super heavyweight our bills I wanted to Center this [Applause] has just become [Applause] [Applause] I showed up healthy I was a hundred percent and I threw everything I had at Travis but he is the stronger mayor it's a comforting feeling knowing that you're the greatest of all times I probably could have beat that guy six months ago laying on the couch you know what I mean so but eventually like I said you keep dominating and people get annoyed and they train harder and before long someone will show up left-handed I'm sure he's out there so if he's there I want to meet you please come see me shake my hand can I get autograph something in the home of the world's strongest couple there's a new man about the house Benedict jr. weighed in at a healthy ten pounds one ounce when he came out I could just I saw his hat and then then the rest of him and he was a lot bigger than I expected that beep he was definitely the biggest baby on the world we weren't expecting a small one I just don't really believe that he fit in my tummy Gemma had carefully planned to give birth without the use of pain-relieving drugs the pain relief lines I had everything I think yeah pretty much and I'm not ashamed to admit it I had everything is my pain various soaks as painful experiences go I do think it's very much less painful pulling tricks now six weeks old and over two foot tall Benedict is growing up fast this was his baby girl when he came home from the hospital which is which was newborn size and didn't last him very long it became very tight very quickly so my mum bought me some new baby grows and and I thought they were huge but they actually who fit him and they're three to six month old so six weeks old is in three to six month old clothing he's definitely got Benny's legs because he came out and he had definition in his thighs and I was just think that's fab the first thing I noticed with these huge quads I thought you're gonna be an awesome kicker so and he has been actually he's been kicking like crazy when everybody says he he looks exactly like me and he's probably gotta be strong he's got an amazing grip and so he's exactly like his father [Music]

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Id: anzb9vEH5q4

Length: 45min 27sec (2727 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 04 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/aYoshiBeat]

@ 13:40 He's doing OHP and the infographic focuses on his bicep. lel.

[u/StevePiana]

The parts with Flex can be found at 11:05 and 31:30

[u/eXXaXion]

This is actually very interesting. A lot of these people are legends nowadays.

[u/BeardDr]

God that chinstrap beard is the worst