Friday, May 26, 2006

A quick post on Pat Robertson's leg press

Pat Robertson claims to have leg pressed 2000 pounds. Three years ago. At age 73.

I'm considerably younger, and 'thicker' (lol) and I top out at 650 lbs. And nobody at the gym (SCC's fitness center) other than the football players regularly does more.

And2, even they don't top more than 1000 pounds or so - the sled just won't hold more plates. Even at 1000 pounds, that's 21 45-pound plates (plus the weight of the sled to = 1000).

For 2000 pounds, that's >44 45-pound plates.

Not going to happen. Not for a 20-year old football player; not for a 70+ year-old TV preacher.

You know, it would be easy to use this to expound on the right-wing's utter disdain for the truth, but Pat Robertson is a loon even by their standards.

2000 pounds??? I would laugh, except that I get hernias just thinking about trying it.

Now it's good night.

1 comment:

Michael Bryan said...

2000 pounds. Boy, how I wish he would actually try it! His heart would explode from the pressure on his chest. Nobody can lift a freakin' ton - even with Jesus' help.