feats of strength
Impressive physical accomplishments
Feats of strength are impressive physical accomplishments that demonstrate unusual power, endurance, or athletic ability.
The phrase typically describes activities like lifting heavy objects, breaking boards, or performing demanding gymnastics.
The strongman competition featured traditional feats of strength like car pulls and atlas stones.
The term gained comedic currency through the television show Seinfeld, where "feats of strength" became part of the fictional holiday Festivus, involving wrestling the head of household.
- powerliftingMaximal barbell competition sport
- weightliftingSport of hoisting barbells
- arm wrestlingStrength contest using forearms
- tug-of-warCompetitive rope-pulling contest
- pressApply force downward
resistance training · flex · biceps · lift · hoist · Hercules · calisthenics · Highland games · Olympic weightlifting · plyometrics · Festivus · brute force · gladiatorial contests · circuit training · pull · bodyweight exercises · squat · push
- machomachismo, macho man, alpha male, tough guy, bravado
- strength sportsstrongman, farmer's walk, farmers walk, deadlift, tire flip
- sitcomssitcom, sitcoms, episode, episodic, season
feats of strengthmental challenges
Problems requiring cognitive effort
mental gymnastics · brainteasers · mental acuity · cognitive challenges · mathematical proofs
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