Is there torque involved in lifting a pot

Imagine sitting in a chair and lifting your feet off the ground. Now lift a 20lb. pot off the table (not sure why she's drinking from a plant pot, but that's her business).

Without your feet on the floor, you will pitch forward and the pot will crash back down on the table.

Though it's kind of more like you have no leverage, and it's the pot that applies torque to you.

 

I can't think of a way to lift the pot by hand without torque being involved somehow. It's the way your body works. Forearms are basically levers with a pivot at your elbow.