Olympic athlete exhausted to make a slice of bread: short video will make you rethink saving electricity

The video visually demonstrates the gap between the energy we consume and the energy we can produce.

Track cycling is one of the most demanding sports. To perform well, an athlete must have good physical strength and endurance; they need the muscles of a bodybuilder, but also the endurance of a track athlete.

Robert Förstemann is living proof of this. The German athlete is so impressive that his 'giant' thighs went viral on the internet many years ago, during the 2012 Olympics.

Athlete Robert Förstemann's giant thighs - (Photo: Internet).

That's why Mr Förstemann was chosen to take on the sandwich toaster challenge . The graduation project of a group of students at the Stockholm Drama Academy, the challenge will give a professional athlete the chance to use his strength to operate a toaster, to see how much strength it takes to perform a simple task like baking a sandwich.

As it turns out, this task is simple since we have an electric machine.

Is athletic enough to operate a toaster? - (Video: The Toaster Challenge).

The short clip immediately shows us the difference between the energy we consume and the amount of energy we can produce, or rather, a professional athlete who is physically stronger than others can produce.

According to the team that took on the challenge, it would take 180 Robert Förstemanns to operate a car for 1 hour. It would take 43,000 Förstemanns to operate a Boeing 737-800 for 1 hour.

The lesson about energy is pretty well memorized, now turn the problem around: how many slices of bread will it take for Mr. Förstemann to be full?