A study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B found that the taurus scarab, a type of dung beetle, is the strongest organism on Earth.
The beetle has a pulling strength 1,141 times its bodyweight, which is equivalent to a human female lifting 189,634 pounds. As an analogy for the taurus scarab, think about Chen Wei-Ling, a 35-year-old Taiwanese weightlifter.
Heaviest Weight Lifted By a Woman
Wei-Ling, who weighs just 103 pounds, has recently completed a 462 pound squat. Her squat is more than 4.5 times her bodyweight, making her one of the strongest people on the planet and setting a new world record. However, she still needs to lift 95 tonnes to be considered as powerful as a dung beetle.
In comparison to the record 854-pound female squat, Wei-load Ling’s seems rather light. However, the lifter who accomplished that massive squat weighed only 247 pounds, therefore her rep total was just 3.46 times her bodyweight.
Most of the Olympians Hartman trains can squat no more than twice as much as their body weight, at most. The Mountain squats only 1.9 times his bodyweight, thus “(Wei-Ling) is essentially tripling the numbers of some of the world’s top Olympians.”
According to Dean Somerset, a licenced strength and conditioning coach and exercise physiologist in Canada, shorter, lighter, and slimmer lifters benefit the most from relative strength. Someone’s ability to lift weights increases if they can fit more muscle onto a smaller frame.
Although Wei-Ling is just 4 feet 10 inches tall, Somerset has deduced from her build and her numbers in other lifts that her femurs are relatively shorter while her torso is longer, all of which reduce the amount of space you need to move the bar in order to squat.
Wei-Ling, in Somerset’s estimation, must raise the bar anywhere from 14 to 18 inches. If she were taller, the bar would have to go further, requiring more force to lift the same amount.
Last Words
Somerset also cites the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the World Health Organization, both of which reveal that people of Asian descent had lower body mass densities per kilogramme but, at the same weight, more strength and less body fat.
That indicates Asian populations have a muscular and strength advantage over Caucasian or African American lifters at the same weight class and height, as stated by Somerset.
To do what she did, Somerset says, you need a lot of heart, drive, and a lot of time spent beneath the bar. The statement “No metric exists to anticipate that” is accurate.
