VIDEO: She Is the Strongest Woman on the Planet!

This woman is out of this world. She looks so powerful that almost all men are even afraid to look at her, not to mention date her.

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She is so big and buff that no one would dare challenge her in any way. With almost no fat in her body and just pure muscle, this woman has been dubbed the world’s strongest woman.

According to rxmuscle.com, a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Nebraska in 1998, Swanson has broken so many powerlifting records, space and time does not allow them all to be listed here. Suffice it to say, they are numerous and impressive.

At 5-9, Swanson has normally competed in the unlimited division at a bodyweight in excess of 230 pounds.  But she has also set records in weight classes below the unlimited class.  Regardless, they are insanely huge numbers.

In the bench, Swanson’s record stands at 600.8 pounds. She performed the lift in 2008 at a bodyweight of 240 pounds.  Swanson was the first woman to officially bench 500 and the only woman to pass the 600-pound mark. The deadlift is equally impressive. In 2005 she lifted 683.4 pounds.

History has noted that in 1977 Jan Todd became the first woman to surpass 1,000 pounds in powerlifting’s three-lift event.  Todd’s totals included a 424 ¼-pound squat, a 176 ¼-pound bench press, and a 441-pound deadlift. Following Todd’s watershed efforts came the seismic evolution of the sport. 

Her 1,041 ½ total has been topped numerous times in several weight classes since then, and it points dramatically to just how rapid the progression of that sport’s growth has been.  In fact, while Todd was still at the top of her game, she also became the first female to surpass the 1,200 pound level. 

Today that mark is but a distant memory.
Like powerlifting, bodybuilding also experienced an unprecedented evolution in how quickly women’s physiques changed, reaching levels of muscularity never before seen on a female of any size.

And as could be expected, the pioneering bodybuilders of the day such as Rachel McLish are also now a distant memory.

With bodybuilding going through its infant growth stages around the same time Todd was setting her marks in powerlifting, it was inevitable that powerlifters would drift into bodybuilding, and by the early 80’s it became commonplace to see well-known powerlifters trying their hand at flexing on the bodybuilding stage with the musculature they had developed in powerlifting.

During the decade of the 80’s top powerlifters such as Vicky Steenrod, Mariah Liggett, Mary Ryan Jeffries, Tina Woodley, Jan Harrell, and Mary Ellen Jerumbo among others,  displayed the muscularity developed in their physiques on the bodybuilding stage, as well as its strength via powerlifting.

And in the early years of bodybuilding’s rapid growth these women – many of whom were national and world champion powerlifters – experienced notable success in both sports.

That trend would continue into the 90’s and to the present day with such notable cross-over performers as Rachel Mathias, Paula Suzuki, Anita Ramsey, Ielja Strik, Mari Asp (who also competed in fitness events), Bonny Priest, Jill Mills, and more recently Laura Phelps-Sweatt, have all achieved at the highest levels of powerlifting while also affording themselves the opportunity to flex on the bodybuilding stage.