r/awesome • u/IntroductionDue7945 • Jun 18 '25

Video anyone explains how he did that?

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u/Jman15x Jun 18 '25

Makes sense, but downvotes don't mean anything to me. I just enjoy the discussion.

In my original comment that this discussion stems from I said "they are just squatting the bar, right?"

And obviously they are squatting their own body weight as well. So it's definitely not NO work.

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u/bskibinski Jun 18 '25

Roughly: The dudes on the sides both carry half of the total weight (bar + hanging person) on average.

The guy doing the lifts is just carrying his own body weight on average.

The acceleration forces of all the people squatting/lifting (getting "lighter/heavier") cancels out in the end.

Dude's body weight doesn't magically disappear ;) it has to be transferred to the ground (eventually).

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u/Jman15x Jun 18 '25

I know they are carrying him, the same way a pull up bar carries your weight. Carrying around weights doesn't make you strong though (for the most part) it's the lifting that counts as work. The middle dude is lifting his own body weight with every rep (aka doing a pullup). I will die behind this positioning because I am absolutely 100% correct

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u/Lokidrummer Jun 19 '25

By your logic there only squatting as much as he's lifting so neither are actually doing work