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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 06/06/2006 : 03:59:08 [Permalink]
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Great update, Filthy! Looks like GNC started to squirm about Robertsons' promotional lies being piled on too thick. What works for bat-shit crazy parishioners won't always work in the corporate world.
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 06/16/2006 : 07:58:48 [Permalink]
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Just an update, it was clarified that he didnt actually lift the weight... he held 2k# up from an already extended position (with an emergency brake), its just his idiocy which considered it to be the same as a leg press.
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"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/20/2006 : 21:16:04 [Permalink]
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Leg press machines can vary in how much of the actual weight is transfered to your legs.
Several years ago, when I was in much better shape (and less injured), I would work out with 1000lb to 1200lb on a leg press machine, for reps. It isn't all that impressive, really. I could probably have done 1500 for a rep or two.
But nobody uses the leg press as a measure of strength. It is kind of a sissy excercise, vastly easier do do than squats. For working out with squats, the most weight I usually got up to was 315lb. And the effort and concentration needed to do sets with that weight, even for an in-shape person, will shift your blood pH (temporarily) enough to make you puke (or feel very much like doing so). A good leg workout with squats is like doing very intense windsprints. It prety much sucks.
Just looking at Robertson's general physique as he appears on television, I would say it is unlikely that he can leg-press (on any machine) 2000lb.
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 06/21/2006 : 05:26:15 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dude
Just looking at Robertson's general physique as he appears on television, I would say it is unlikely that he can leg-press (on any machine) 2000lb.
Agreed. In the other thread on Pat's supernatural strength I talked about watching, in my gym, a rather large well proportioned man struggle to leg press 1300+ pounds. He did 4 reps, but you could hear him in the next county for each rep.
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Baxter
Skeptic Friend
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