New Delhi, Jul 30, 2022, By Agencies

New Delhi July 30: Nearly 20 minutes into her warm-up routine, Mirabai Chanu displays otherworldly levels of flexibility not much unlike Neeraj Chopra’s insane medicine ball stretch, which broke the internet last year.

With a resistance band wrapped around her right leg, she lies down on her stomach, bends the right knee, and brings it up and under the chest while the left leg remains stretched straight. Then, instead of remaining static in that position, she pulls her hip back and brings it forward so as to open it up and activate the muscles before she starts the heavy lifting.

Then, with straps around her calves, Mirabai gets into a crab position, raises one arm overhead, followed by a leg and spins like a windmill. It’s excruciating to even watch but she does it the same way she lifts iron that’s twice times her body weight – with a nice, big smile.

“She is one of the most determined lifters I’ve ever worked with,” weightlifting coach and physiotherapist Aaron Horschig, who has worked with Olympic weightlifters, international footballers, baseball players and American footballers said the reporters.