Ever watch the Olympics and, in-between cramming fistfuls of potato chips into your face, think
to yourself, "I could do that"?
If you really tried and trained, and dedicated your entire life to your pecs and glutes,
you might even be as athletic as these kids, who could beat you up before they even learned
to drive.
Tremble before these little kids with superhuman strength.
"I have the power!"
Giuliano and Claudio Stroe
Ten-year-old Giuliano and his eight-year-old brother, Claudio, work out for at least two
hours every day, and are basically junior terminators as a result.
And those muscles aren't just for show — these kids are legitimately strong.
Giuliano is a world-record holder for the most 90-degree vertical push-ups, an exercise
in which your feet never touch the ground.
Even watching it will make your body hurt.
He also holds a record for being a human flag, which is exactly what it sounds like.
Claudio isn't quite at his older brother's level yet, but the simple fact that he can
do any of these stunts eclipses just about anything most of us regular, lumpy folk can
manage.
Liam Hoekstra
At only five months old, before he was even out of diapers, Liam Hoekstra was able to
perform Olympic-level gymnastic maneuvers, like the iron cross.
Because his family didn't find him in a spaceship that crashed on their farm, they were understandably
concerned, and decided to get him checked out.
They discovered that he has a condition called "myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy," which
is just a really complicated way of saying, "super-strength."
Despite being the parents of perhaps the first real-life superhero, Liam's parents are hoping
to keep him out of the spotlight for now.
At the age of nine, he seems to be living a normal life.
Just don't expose him to any kryptonite.
Maryana Naumova
She may look like a normal teenage girl, but Maryana Naumova is also a world bench pressing
champion.
Since the age of 10, she's been lifting barbells and broke two dozen world records for under-18
lifters, and is recognized as a Master of Sport of Russia.
In March 2015, she became the first woman under 18 to compete in professional benching
championships.
Of course, she crushed that too, lifting over 330 pounds during the Arnold Schwarzenegger
Classic to set a new women's record.
Not only that, but she's also an activist and peacemaker, touring war-torn Ukraine and
Russia, promoting friendly lifting competitions and charity concerts.
In short, she's both nicer than you and can lift you clean over her head.
Naomi Kutin
(grunting)
It's a fact: 14-year-old power-lifter Naomi "Supergirl" Kutin can likely lift more than
you.
Her specialty is the raw squat, but she can also deadlift and bench press with the best.
As a child, she started lifting simply to stand out among her peers.
In 2012, she broke the world squatting record for 97-pounders.
In 2013, she squatted 225 pounds and became champion for a third time.
In 2014, she added another pound and set the record for that class as well.
Basically, when she can lift a minivan, she'll be satisfied.
Maybe.
(intense grunting)
Yang Jinlong
When you think of strength, most people generally imagine someone muscular who can probably
benchpress a lot.
What you don't typically imagine is a chubby kid from China, like Yang Jinlong.
"Mighty Mouse has a sense of humor when asked by reporter why he has so much strength."
"Because I'm fat!"
At only seven years old, Jinlong was somehow already a dozen times stronger than you, which
he demonstrated by pulling cars, just for fun.
So make sure to train your kids in the art of freaky-strong truck-pulling.
It'll come in handy if you ever run out of gas.
But also, don't tick them off, advice Jinlong's dad probably keeps in mind all the time, since
the kid could probably crush his skull with one hand.
Not that we think he would.
Look at him.
He's adorable.
Varya Akulova
Nothing about Varya Akulova makes sense.
She's tiny, has no crazy-huge muscles to speak of, and subsisted on nothing but noodles and
water as a child because her family was so poor.
And yet, she's basically the strongest girl in the world, capable of lifting things several
times heavier than her.
By age 10, she could outwrestle and overpower her father, who was a circus strongman himself.
And by 14, she could lift the equivalent of four fully-grown men.
Her father theorizes his side of the family is just naturally freaky-strong; Varya's great-grandfather
could allegedly carry 2,600 pounds on his back.
Varya could also read by the age of three and has been a top student since.
So no, you're neither smarter nor stronger than her.
Sorry.
"Suck on that!"
Richard Sandrak
Not every child musclehead keeps pumping past puberty.
Richard Sandrak, for example, gained fame in the early 2000's as "Little Hercules."
"Hercules, Hercules, Hercules."
Wait, no, not that one.
This one.
"One boy questions his destiny.
And against his father's will, he travels to a place unlike any other."
He started training as an infant, and could lift 180 pounds by age six.
Tragically, the whole thing was a setup by his father, Pavel.
His sad, bad dad wanted fame and fortune so much that he denied his son a childhood.
He forced Richard into hours of intense daily training, not allowing him to have friends
or to eat anything but lettuce and powdered muscle drinks.
After Richard's dad went to prison for attacking his wife, social services ordered that Richard
couldn't lift weights again until he was 16.
Sandrak slowly weaned himself off this superhuman training regime, gave in to pizza, and learned
to play guitar.
If anything, he's actually healthier now than he was back then; As Little Hercules, only
had 1 percent body fat, which is dangerously low for anyone, especially a child.
Today, in his mid-20s, he's a relatively fit stuntman, but we'll always remember him as
Little Hercules.
"But father, I want to learn about being human."
"NOOOOOOOOOO!"
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