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your body can lift a car right now, but your brain will not let you. Under normal conditions, your brain only allows you to use a small fraction of your muscle's full power because if you accessed everything at once, you would tear your own tendons apart. But in 2019, a 16-year-old football player named Zach Clarke heard his neighbor screaming for help and ran over to find the man pinned under a 1,400-kilogram Volkswagen. Zach grabbed the front of the car and lifted it long enough for two women to pull the man free. His max deadlift before that day was only 180 kilograms. What happened is your brain has a built-in safety system called the central governor that limits how many muscle fibers you can activate at once to protect your body from destroying itself. But the second your brain detects a life or death situation, it turns that limiter off. Your amygdala sends a signal to flood your blood with adrenaline, which forces your heart to pump faster and pushes massive amounts of oxygen into muscles that were being held back just seconds ago.