Can a HUMAN cycle fast enough to make TOAST?
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2025
- Robert Förstemann famously generated 700 W for over one minute to toast bread. Can I?
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Reading your comments is always a pleasure - but if anyone makes another "be better than TOAST" joke - you're getting banned 🤣
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We need a t shirt 😂
@@Nayz13 🤣🤣
Almost choked on my toast reading that. The toast was almost better than me. Actually it was an English muffin, cheers!
Lucky you didn't actually try to boil a kettle, because there is no way I could have resisted "Be better than a beverage"
If anyone had told me that I would spend 13 mins watching a senior gentleman warming bread while cycling in his garage I would have laughed! Yet here I am 😂
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Yep
"Senior gentleman." 🤣
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Same me bro,same 🥴🤌
Ur holding 700 watts without getting up off the saddle. Thats impressive
Powerful and lazy at the same time 😂
GENERATE MORE WATTS THAN LAST TIME!!!
Engineer here: A) Love your work. 'Above average' is a brilliant concept. Also, this video was hilarious, and I know how hard it is to be genuinely funny. B) You're generating 700W. One horsepower = 746 watts. So, this toasty output is 94 per cent of one horsepower. The reason this is so difficult to sustain for more than a few tens of seconds lies in the word 'horse'... (David beating Goliath was an anomaly.) C) This exercise highlights how preposterously accessible vast amounts of energy are, in the modern world. If you want toast, the options are: Kill yourself on a bike, or flick a switch.
He should have used a one-slice toaster.
That's what my wife always says to me too, "rest three minutes, try again." She's a teacher, and you know how teachers make you do it over and over until you get it right.
The "Be Better Than Most" t-shirt is great. However, it may have been even better if it said "Be Better Than Toast."
I did consider some special effects along those lines, but it was taking too long 😂
Mark, that’s a hilarious video. I thought the bread was going to develop blue mold before it got brown from the toaster. If Nixon only eats toast, you must’ve put some peanut butter on the bottom of the bread.
I didn't feed him for three days in advance, just in case 🤣
700 watts for 45 seconds is actually insane. Well done. You are a beast.
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spoilers! I haven't finished watching it yet!!
@@syrus3k same
it's "just" 7W/KG, and i'm at the same ballpark and can attest that it's a lot and i was suprised by his anaerobic capacity. kudos to mark here.
@Bernie Sanders that's actually possible. the olympic sprinter has different goals than pushing max for a minute :D
are you keen on sharing your data?
Mark couldn’t hardly hold his own laugh when he said “someone isn’t going to have to buy a toaster anymore and he’ll have left over bread”. 😂🤣😂🤣. That better be some good toast Mark! Man vs toast…..the new Apollo v Rocky.
I just saw it, waiting after reading ur comment. Was very funny indeed
Wait 3 mins and try again 😂. God you have a happy relationship. This has been the best video I have seen this year. Well done mate, a brilliant normal human being. Keep up the great work and content
Just ran my first 5k in 20:02 today. Thanks for motivating me and always entertaining us.
"It smells like toast" might be a heart attack...
Reassuring 😂
Stroke*
@@SoutheastSam3 Yeah i mixed it up :D
Really funny! Hilarious, how after each attempt you were desperately trying to note some 'browning','crispiness', and the ultimate 'smells like toast'! 🤣
This is like one of those marble run videos. Pointless yet intensely satisfying.
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@@MarkLewisfitness debatable
On the second attempt it felt like when you’re on holiday and on the first night you’re searching for a tan line 😂
44s! Poor Jen. "Rest 3 minutes a try again" 😂 standard resposne to a time like this.
Mark, Been with you since the days when you had lass than 1000 subscribers and this is one of your best videos ever. I wouldnt be too hard on yourself an output of 700w for 45 seconds is impressive and coming back a few minites later and being able to hit 700w again even more so.
Bruh. I love your dry sense of humor. It's great, stuff. Very enjoyable. Glad I found you from your Garmin watch reviews.
All that effort and Nixon was still the star of your video. 11:00 😂
Good to see Nixon again! He’s the real RUclips star 😉
Once again, great video. I never thought I watch a video of someone trying to make toast. Plus a bonus with Nixon in the video.
This video is truly hilarious. The pain and after just pointing at a piece of very very lightly toasted bread. "It is brown look....." I bursted out laughing
Oh man....this had me in stitches. Hearing the gasping and some random jibberish around the word "brown" had me crying in laughter.😂
this is the best video I have seen for a very very long time - gave me such a belly laughter when you were both looking for the brown bits on the toast! Loved it!
I really enjoyed this video! Was a big fan of the original MVT video. Keep the content rolling!! Loving it 👍🏻
Unlike the bread, gold 🥇 comedy gold. 😂🤣🙏. Props to Nixon for swallowing down bread that dog is the real hero.
If you want to squeeze out a few extra Watts, eliminate the sway from your upper body by fixing your arms in place, nip your shoulder blades together and pull back on the bars with your lats. This will lock your upper body in position and ensure more of your effort will be put through your legs. Watch any track cyclist sprinting, their upper body barely moves. Same with mountain bikers on steep climbs. Makes a huge difference. Great video, looking forward to episode 2...
Easier said than done 👍
That is the difference between spinning and cycling. You do not need proper technique. I occasionally tried a penny farthing and I would not make a yard, if I torture the handle bars like this. But I'd get no toast either😃.
This is the kind of science experiment we didn't know we needed, but we did need.
Your videos are an absolute blast to watch! The fun you have in trying your best to make the bread into toast is great to watch!
I don't know about toast, but you were certainly looking brown bread at the end of that cycling!
I see what you did there 😂
I saw that video of Robert years ago and it is some solid motivation. Nice attempt man but that aint toast. Your vids and honest commentary are hilarious.
Haha, brilliant. Man vs bread. Bread wins. A light hearted, very humorous way to get people thinking about training in a way that people can relate to. Most of these other online training schemes just come off as condescending and money grabbing.. "send me $100 dollars and you can get in shape too." lol. Love your presentation, if I had a garage I´d be plugging my toaster into the bike too :)
You should make this your 2023 training goal. Everything focused on 700W output for 120 seconds. See how close you can come and what that translates to in competition like a HYROX event. Sled push for days I imagine!
Rowing machine pulling at a split of 1:20 is 700W and 500m, I reckon he could do that.
"Grown adult struggles to toast bread" - in all seriousness though, love your videos Mark, thanks for the awesome content, and thanks for bringing Nixon back in! He's the best!
Very entertaining!!! Can’t imagine what is going through your wife’s mind as your doing this. Good vid, thanks.
Getting my daily dose of comedy and fitness content in at once. Talk about multitasking 😂.
I literally came here to see if Mark had taken on the „Förstemann - Challenge“ or I might even suggest it, only to see the video is less than 24hours old. What a wonderful coincidence for me. Love the scientific approach, glad you had the power to finally get Nixons approval.
I have never laughed so hard watching a RUclips video. I had my wife curious and she could see why I liked your vids. Freaking hilarious. Keep it up. You have wanting to be better than toast. I mean most. Lol.
My favourite bit…when Jen gives it a poorly concealed yawn at 9:50🤣
5:46 - having seen so much toast I thought your t-shirt said „better than toast“ 😂
I do appreciate how much effort and hard work this took. I could tell by your BpM you were working extremely hard. However, I don’t believe this bread was toasted enough.
I remember seeing the original video, excited for this one!
This is the content I subscribed for.
You are in for a treat, going forwards then 😂😂
@Mark Lewis Can't wait 👏
Any Red Dwarf fans in the house? "Look, face it, man. It's just not possible to fry an egg using a bicycle-powered hair dryer!"
I think the noise from the bread was it getting stale from being expose to the air. 😂
As a cyclist with a Wahoo Kickr, I know how hard this is. Well done. And you last comment got the biggest chuckle 🙂
Hi Mark! It's a pity I discovered your channel only a few days ago. I have seen Forstemann's video earlier and there are a few things worth to comment.
Most normal strength men can put out 700w for a few seconds even without training. An entire minute, yes even 30s, is a completely different thing.
Bradley Wiggins has put out 608w for 4 minutes. This means he possibly at that moment could have done 700w, or very close to, for 1 minute. Without standing up after 30s.
And this with maraton runner thin legs!
Robert Forstemann has legs making many bodybuilders envious.
And he can put out 2000+ watts in a burst. It is very clear that 700w for a minute cannot be very hard for him. The only explanation is that it was a huge power drain in the equipment. He should be able to put out 1000w for a minute and that without standing up after half the time.
An important thing to understand is that Wiggin's performance despite the small amount of muscle mass is possible because he used a very high cadence. The "lack" of muscle mass is compensated by a very high oxygen uptake. And this is noticeable when comparing different cyclists: for thinner guys it works better to pedalling faster than for guys with beefier legs. At least when it comes to endurance races. But even a beefy guy puts out the max power at a higher cadense.
Conclusion: the correlation between Bradly Wiggins 608w for 4 minutes and Robert Forstemann's 700w for 1min(and that by standing up after half of the time) simply does not add up.
Comparing these guys physically is like comparing a maraton runner to a body builder. The maraton runner wins hands down for long periods of time.
But the bodybuilder wins for short time. For a
🥂 here's my toast to you! I know there's another toast joke in there somewhere.. well done Mark. All of it was enjoyable but especially the scientific Nixon toast test.😂
Nixon seems to approve, so yes - we definitely got some toast there! Great experiment, by the way. Riding at 700w is Crazy and way above average !
Great effort mate🤘 Could I kindly recommend to keep Nixon out of the way of the bike? If caught under one of these power revolutions, it could be disastrous for him (and quite a hit for a major talent on your shows👍). Keep up the good work - massive fan👊
You should probably make a limited edition T-shirt saying: “BE BETTER THAN TOAST”
Would buy!
Thumbs up for Nixon cameo!
To be fair, Jen should have had the toaster switched on and just dropped the crisped bread in the second time (and third and forth) round so it was up to the same temperature it was at when you stopped. Three minutes off and its not just Mr >avg who's had time to recover :)
But as ever, Nixon is the only judge that matters!
Jen was loving it, half way through and yawning Lol
I love this. thanks for sharing
There was a BBC science program about 20 years ago that had a room full of cyclists powering a typical house for x number of hours/days. Not sure how accurate it was, but nether less, watching a cyclist bury himself to run a hairdryer was quite funny. Reminded me of that - full respect for trying.
A nice break from fitness content for some comedy.
Nice to see you finally got a bike. Looking forward to some cycling content. Wrong season for outdoor 😕 will give you some time to sort the camera equipment.
Missed opportunity: Bread still mostly white. But now my legs are toast. And white 😂
Love the video 👍
The Nixon toast tasting test convinced me. Good job Mark!
Glad to see a vid where the thumbnail isn’t pictures of your wife in the pool on holiday again Mark!
Excited to get to see some more on the gravel bike. Got one myself last year and love it.
Big plans over Christmas and into next year-it might just be the perfect bicycle
This is a good example of true HIIT training!
Saw the title and was like this will be full of jokes, not disappointed 😂 cheers Mark
I would be interested to see how you would go if you could hook a toaster up to a rower.
Reminds me of the red dwarf ep with the bicycle powered electric blanket
Man, I just love your style!
Great video, lots of laughs, always appreciated
The human cycling toast video we've all been crying out for!
There's a 10 second ramp up on the heating coils before they actually start doing anything useful, that's why the follow up 20 second efforts did very little compared to the 45 second one. Good effort though, lasted longer than I would have!
This is the content RUclips is made for.
kind of absurd i was thoroughly entertained by a man trying to toast his bread, great video lmao
Man v bread. Bread wins. Man. Toasted.
"this is true science" fucking hell, that shit got me.
would the bread dry out and become toast if left on the work surface in 11 minutes?
Most entertaining vid yet, loved this challenge!
Brilliant video! What app did you use to control the bike’s ERG?
Loving the diverge!
It is super fun! Video soon
i like how the put HUMAN in all caps as if we'd be like "Pfft, human? Ridiculous! Only an orc could power such a machine."
6:22 The story of Jens life........ keep it up keep it up 🤣
I've been waiting for more people to do this challenge ever since I saw the original videos on the channel! You definitely could have put two slices of bread in there and gotten more calories in toast than you burned, haha.
Strangely the only thing I saw truly toasted was a youtuber in his garage...
Great effort!
6:36 almost made me choke on my drink laughing.
quality video mate! absolutely hilarious 😂
So wanted Nixon to steal the toast and force you to start again 🤣 sorry mate. You're a legend Mark, so funny, great video 💪💪
How good is the spring action on that toaster!!
Such a funny guy. Love your videos
You my friend are hilarious and earned yourself a subscriber!
A great video Mark , damn good effort
Best moment is when the bread still pops up as bread 😂
warm bread!!! 😁
Great vid 👌 made me want to watch it straight away, you definitely need to do this one again but with more watts 😂
"Keep it up, keep it up!" 20- something seconds in 🤣🤣🤣
Great video. Had to read the comments to get the 3min joke. I was below average on that one!
Just goes to show the energy efficiency of biological systems. Humanoid robots are a long way away from dropping their power consumption to the point that they can do what humans can on a single battery charge. Great Job, Mark!
Arguably your best video yet 😂. Really enjoyed that one
Im really surprised forstemann only did 700 for a minute. My best is 660 for a minute and im 65kg. I would think he's closer to 1000 for a minute since world tour guys are in the 8-900 range (think MVDP). The 1 minute power is a weird one. Theres a lot of aerobic contribution, even for a short 1 minute effort. Maybe thats not a real number from his effort and something made up since your bread wasn't even close to toasted at a minute. Maybe it was 700 for two minutes? Ok i think thats too mich thinking about toasted bread..😑
You are right. I just posted a comment about it.
Love this, not sure why I was so intrigued but I know when I cycle next time this is all I'm going to be thinking about 😂😂
"that smells like toast" or are you sure you didn't have a stroke XD hahahah
Hahaha, well done. This looked hard. Loved the toast test by Nixon. True toast 😉
Great content Mark.
This was great, very funny as well👍
I also managed to hit an average of 700 W over one minute this year. Doing it outside, starting with a sprint and then slowly fading to 400 W seems "easier" than your continuous effort. Well done!