r/interestingasfuck • u/Interesting-Gate7473 • 4h ago
Nigerian Mechanic Lifts Car Engine Barefoot with Ease
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u/emmasdad01 4h ago
His muscles have muscles
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u/RepulsiveLoquat418 3h ago
that man has muscles in his breath
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u/Agreeable_Situation9 3h ago
Cool, but can he fix the car? 😅
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u/Doctor_Saved 3h ago
No. You need a mechanic for that.
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u/Joeeebb 2h ago
He is a mechanic
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u/lordfaultington 2h ago
Yeah but he’s not wearing his mechanic’s shoes
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u/WenYiMedia 1h ago
One step at a time, someone donate him some safety socks.
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u/FullSkyFlying 1h ago
While we're at it we might want to fix the violence culture in the workplace. I dont think HR lets you repeatedly punch people in the back, though it would probably hurt my first more than it hurts his back
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u/GlenRice4141 2h ago
I thought he was just going to toss it into the engine bay for a second
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u/darvos 2h ago
He's a Nigerian mechanic, he needs a $5000 loan first so he can pickup his tools from the pawn shop. Then he'll fix your car for free for life.
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u/jbinsy87 4h ago
The punching would have got me signed off work for a month.
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u/oedons_rooster 3h ago
You ever get hit and feel your heart rate spike? Dude was just giving his pal a free pre-workout and probably even asked him to do it to pump him up
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u/Deemaunik 3h ago
Like those fucking madmen who use smelling salts.
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u/oedons_rooster 3h ago
Yep yep. Crazy looking for a clueless bystander but it works amazingly and doesn't mess your heart up
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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 2h ago
I am guessing that he is saying "crazy" in term of the action itself being the same level of crazy as getting someone to slap you/punch you to pump you up, even if it works
In this case, it's auto chemical warfrare for your sinuses
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u/radandroujeee 2h ago
Back when I wrestled in high-school half the team used to start slapping the dude who was about to wrestle on the back to piss him off and spike his adrenaline as he walked out.
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u/oedons_rooster 2h ago
We had a dude pull a banana out of his singlet and put it on the judging table when he walked on the mat. We weren't a very serious wrestling program
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u/Gramma_Hattie 3h ago
I got stung by a wasp as I was getting ready to throw in disc golf. I slapped him hard off my chest with the disc that was in my hand, then stepped up and threw. It sailed!
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u/Schn1tzelKa1ser 3h ago
Fyi to me it looks like a toyota corolla 2004, which has the 1.8L 1ZZ-FE engine. This site lists its weight at 102 kg (225lbs). Althought it looks like it is missing various bits and pieces
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u/standardtissue 55m ago
225 isn't all that much for a deadlift but for what is essentially an atlas stone that seems pretty decent I guess ( I don't strong man). Dude looks like he's capable of some pretty heavy lifting. Also IMO being shoeless helps the lifts. I used to love deadlifting barefoot and feeling the engagement start in my toes, then my foot, then my calves and up. Never felt more planted than when barefoot.
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u/BobbyBsBestie 40m ago
You're right on all accounts. A 225lb stone carry is more than untrained people can do, but the strong guys at your local gym would have little issue once they figured out where to grab it. Also I prefer lifting barefoot. Lifting shoes give you more quad targeting, but lifting barefoot feels safer and more steady for me.
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u/standardtissue 36m ago
yeah, I'm in a general fitness center now with a really good weight room, but when I was in the real gym the strongmen type were just a different beast. It's funny too because for all the "functional" talk we use in lifting, those were the guys actually pulling, pushing and lifting things without nice metal handles to grab onto. Like now I go do a nice lift and I'm like "yeah, it's a barbell, it's not like I actually lifted x lbs of dead weight off the ground"
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u/hoppintruck23 1h ago
tbf there are fluids spilling out of it. probably has oil and coolant inside
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u/Quiet-Estimate7409 3h ago
30+ years ago, a guy I know literally carried a 350 small block Chevy in that exact fashion (well, by the manifolds). 5'6" mass of muscle and unfortunately no brains 😆. He can hardly walk today and he's not 60.
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u/Mr_Meeseeks86 3h ago
Yea I thought the same. I lifted heavy when I was younger. Blew out my back at 35. Definitely not worth it.
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u/Dadskander 2h ago
Same, blew my back out once at 28, and even though things healed and it wasn't "bad" like some people get with chronic pain and such. Problem being that re-blowing the back out is so SO much easier now.
I've since tweaked it pretty good another 4-5 times, often in very mundane ways with little to no preamble. Takes a solid week or two minimum to nurse back to being 100%
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u/analog_jedi 1h ago
The first time it happened to me, I was pulling a California King mattress upstairs by myself. The last time it happened, I was slightly bending over to sweep under some shelving.
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u/Mr_Meeseeks86 1h ago
Yea my first was a heavy life. The next, I jumped out of a chair too fast 🤦🏻♂️
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u/Wd91 2h ago
resistance training is pretty much the strongest indicator of late-life mobility there is
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u/VulgarisOpinio 3h ago
What are his exact health issues?
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u/FreakindaStreet 3h ago
What they rarely tell you on the internet about these jobs is that they are all brutal on your body. By the time you’re too old to change careers, the accumulation of physical damage is already showing, and if you aren’t one of the smarter, more competent guys who hasn’t developed a severe addiction, you won’t be making it up the ladder to the cushier jobs where you can sit around and bitch about the constant pain in your shoulder/back/hip/knee…etc.
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u/Annual_Mud_9904 2h ago
yeah no joke, im helping out my family once in the shop. holy, can't imagine doing it everyday.
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u/IllegalGeriatricVore 2h ago
Gotta switch to being a shop owner and make other people do it for you
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u/Crimestar 3h ago
Let’s see. Life time of cigarettes, fumes, chemicals, sprays, lifting engines off the ground, crawling around on the ground, bending over.
Do you mean what aren’t his health issues?
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u/CB4R 3h ago
Is that one of those African juiced influencers that pose as "mechanic" or "normal person" but the whole schtick is they are juiced to the gills and try to make you think they are normal people?
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u/herktes 2h ago
Yes, 100%. No one looks like this naturally from being a mechanic. You do sometimes see these guys that are unexpectedly crazy strong from physical work but they are usually like 60 kg and look very unassuming. Also if this would be his job he would not be dumb enough to lift something that heavy with his back. Do that for a week and youre not coming back into work again the week after.
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u/Titamor 2h ago
But no, it can't be. Don't you know in Africa everyone is poor and lives in a hut? No way they have juice. Or Internet.
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u/Flatulent_Father_ 2h ago
This guy definitely lifts weights at a minimum. You don't get a big chest and shoulders like that from work like this. He's too proportionately developed. I'd bet money this is what you're talking about... That's a lot of mass for how lean he is with (assuming) no pump
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u/CB4R 28m ago
Juicing usually includes working out, just taking test or dbol won't grow you automatically
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u/EXTRAVAGANT_COMMENT 36m ago
no it's just discipline and a clean diet of rice and chicken /s
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u/Available_Love_2383 4h ago
What type of motivation was the guy giving him by punching him
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u/SKYDROVE 4h ago
Higher output the lower your HP
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u/BeatleJuice1st 3h ago
As other mentioned: He got that berserk trait. If the puncher is an elve or cleric it could have been some sort of boost.
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u/ExtraReborn 4h ago
muscle warming, adrenaline probably?
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u/tengutie 2h ago
Releases endorphins and primes the body for action and movement, can also release adrenaline, good for hyping someone up while also warming up their body, same reason sports players hit each other
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u/Deemaunik 3h ago
Power lifters do that shit all the time. Slaps to the face, on the shoulders, even smelling salts.
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u/Nokko-Tank-T34 3h ago
He has that buff where receiving damage increase his strength for the next turn so he got a low damage companion to hit him at the start of combat
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u/Mhunterjr 3h ago
Hypes him up- gets the adrenaline going. It’s like football players pushing each other around, and slamming their heads together before they go out on the field
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u/MacaroniBoot 3h ago
That's great mate, but I just wanted the wiper fluid topped up.
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u/ObjectiveReply 4h ago
What is the relevance of him doing it barefoot?
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u/Fetlocks_Glistening 3h ago
Extra self-motivation to not drop it? Burning the rubicon as it were
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u/TheRealDoomsong 3h ago
Ease is clearly a relative term… though that is impressive.
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u/eddie1975 2h ago
Yeah, that was not “with ease”. There was some struggle at the beginning.
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u/mtn2sea1960 1h ago
If he keeps lifting heavy objects like that, one day he's gonna pop a disc in his back and be laying on the ground in agony and can't get up.
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u/ADG211 3h ago
Was the guy punching him just an unsatisfied customer that had to wait way too long?
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u/Scrank_WimlerJr 4h ago
I don't mean to say "only" as in it's easy for me, but that's only about 70-80kg
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u/Pretty-Cockroach6394 4h ago
its the distribution of weight thats the problem, you can grab a bar with 40kg equivalent on both sides and grab it much easier then you can with condensed objects like these.
another problem is uneven grip too
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u/Pedrosian96 3h ago
That, and contact points. Nothing about an engine block is designed to be easy to grab. Even a humble grocery bag can be stupidly painful to lift if the handles are tiny and you put more than 15kg on it solely because that's essentially 15kg on a very very small area that digs into your hand.
Some parts of an engine block you probably can't even grab properly without its sheer weight cutting you if you pull.
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u/Pretty-Cockroach6394 3h ago
oh yea exactly... i think that is what sepparates "farmer" strength (basically any physical demanding job like being a junkyard car mechanic as well for example) from just gym conditioned strength... you can't replicate the tendon - muscle unison that comes from lifetime of doing physical grueling work around stuff thats not ergonomically designed to complement your body for a "workout session".
Like pretty sure his hand skin is so thick exactly cuz of the point you are bringing as well, nothing is made to be easily doable for humans body without tools when it comes to machine related jobs.
Thats why even gym bros have hard time transfering their strength to everyday regular working motions - they can do it ofc much easier then regular person due to sheer strength alone but they get tired even faster since their body is overworking itself to compensate with it...
there was a video of some african dude lifting like bags of potatoes or something and stacking 100+ kilos on himself while regular bodybuilders barely did 75+ and their balance was all fucked up and shit simply cuz he is not used to that type of weight destribution when it comes to lifting weights
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u/SergDerpz 3h ago
My mom's boyfriend is an old man who is also a carpenter and he gets pissed sometimes when I'm not able to figure out how to lift heavy wooden structures because I'm not used to it hahaha.
It's like I'm not even weak, I just can't figure out how in the fuck I'm supposed to grip this. Man just assumes you're young therefore you should be strong, why can't you lift it?
Smh!
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u/Brain32 3h ago
It's just the rule of specificity, strength is a skill. Same as the bodybuilder will struggle with the potato loading the farmer will struggle with bench pressing or some other exercise.
Same is true for a runner and a cyclist although both will be possessing elite conditioning they are not interchangeable.
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u/xF1_racer 2h ago
That’s totally true about running vs cycling. I can ride a 4 hour century and have a 300W FTP, but I struggle to run 1 mile!
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u/cooljazz 2h ago
Tim Horton (yes the donut guy) was an absolute unit from growing up working on a farm.
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u/Adjective_Noun93 3h ago
That's a 4 cylinder engine with the flywheel attached lmao - at LEAST 140kg. If it's a cast iron diesel you can add another 50kg. He's ridiculously strong to lift it with that form (away from his body).
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u/997Dan 3h ago
No intake, no exhaust, no accessories. Flywheels weigh nothing when it’s an automatic. Maybe an aluminum head. Thats sub 100kg.
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u/The_Great_Disaster 4h ago
And he's going to have serious back issues later in life. My dad used to do that shit and now he can barely stand and walk.
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u/ResponsiblePumpkin60 3h ago
RIP his back
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u/Racing_Fox 3h ago
As an ex mechanic that’s lifted (two man mind) engines like that, same. I still have problems today. I was 18 then, 27 now.
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u/Nananahx 3h ago
He is from a poor country so that means he's all natural /s
Don't get me wrong, I follow bodybuilding and top 2 in Olympia (yes, the fact they show off muscles doesn't mean they are only for the looks, they are indeed genetically gifted and very very strong ) are Nigerian but you don't know, especially on the Internet, what happens behind the camera
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u/Healingvizion 2h ago
I was watching this, and my hernia was like, “Hello…is it me your lookin foooooor!”
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u/F7RKLLR 4h ago
Most people have workout programs, these guys probably just hustle.
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u/KidKilobyte 3h ago
But he didn’t install it 🙁
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u/roof_baby 3h ago
I was laughing because I thought he was just going to drop it in that engine bay for a minute.
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u/RabbitOfDarkness 3h ago
Love this song by Roy Jones Jr. Its my ringtone - pls don't let tiktok have it
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u/Legitimate_Crew8629 3h ago
My brother in law lifted a 1.8 engine of a nissan bluebird directly from the engine bay and he looked like he wouldn't be able to fight his way out of a wet paper bag
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u/Fast_Opinion515 10m ago
He’s walking around wondering why his friends didn’t tell him which car it was going in BEFORE he picked it up
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u/jk_wisdom 4h ago
Yeah, mechanics and blacksmiths are crazy strong (Dad and Uncle did both work before)
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u/Electronic-Buyer-468 3h ago
Gotta be over 300+ lbs, right? Wow, my back hurts now.
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u/Valve00 2h ago
With the transmission it would be. A Honda 1.6l short block is only about 110 pounds. I'd say this would be around that
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u/Pafkata92 3h ago
He's the reason the animal population in his area is extinct... man's gotta eat them PROTEIN
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u/Warmonger362527339 3h ago
My (farmer) grandpa did this with a 1970’s washingmachine and carried it up 2 flights of stairs 😂
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u/theotherAndrea 3h ago edited 3h ago
Non sarà una delle competenze e requisiti richiesti ad un meccanico ma per essere forte é forte
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u/ThisUsernamesTakent 3h ago
He looked so confuses that there was already an engine in the car
"What the...welp guess im aura farming now"
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u/Grottleburger 3h ago
I thought he was walking around thinking about which car to put this engine in.
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u/CasualVox 3h ago
I've heard people joke about eating enough protein for a small village... bro took it seriously
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u/vilius_m_lt 2h ago
4 cylinder engines are not that heavy. I carry them around too. Not long distances obviously, but if I need to move it from one end of the bay to another - I’m not getting the engine hoist. Not messing with bigger engines though..
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u/TheKnight_King 2h ago
Nigeria coming out with their super soldier serum next quarter.
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u/Slick-Pickin-Chicken 2h ago
I dropped off my car for an oil change and i see online you’ve been carrying around my motor “with ease”. When will I be able to pick it back up?
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u/derekgotrice 2h ago
He’s also lifting with his back instead of his knees which is a good way to mess up your back
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u/Careless_Machine9996 1h ago
All those muscles helping to protect his lower back? Dude was arched when he made that lift.
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u/Leading-Onion4659 4h ago
Does the post’s title suggest that the outcome would have been different if he had worn shoes?