Yeah, you know, usually a salute involves putting your hand on the other head.
Hey, for a Spike Jones reference I give the whole shebang… 
Or Batman, if he’s prepared.
Actually there are (a very few) men who can do 2000 lb leg presses on a sled type machine but they usually look like this.
There’s only one way to respond to this:
PAT SMASH!!!
Let’s face it, Pat doesn’t lie to cover his tracks. . .
And from here.
Aryan Fuhrer Supermen…
What the hell do you have against bears? Poor Smokey, don’t think about that image.
Let’s be fair…Maybe he knelt over a 2,000 pound weight and pressed down!
Monavis
Hrm, after reading all the links, I feel a lot better about myself–I’ve loaded those inclined leg press machines pretty heavily and then used a few of the limited-extension tricks to fool folks into THINKING I was leg pressing 2000+ lbs (as opposed to leg-pressing 2000+ lbs with really bad form and evey cheat in the book)
Granted, I can squat just about 300 for ten reps, so that’s what I brag about to people who know what they’re doing. =P
: raspberry :
I see more and more of this.
Once Upon A Time, Pat could say he could do a ton, the Governor of New Mexico could say he was an NFL draft pick and so on. Nobody would catch them. With all the people who watch celebrities, with all the internet stuff, nobody can get away with this sort of thing anymore.
Bill Clinton called this ‘government by Lexus/Nexus.’ I suppose it is only to increase.
Damn straight! And when Chuck Norris rapes televangelists they stay raped!
The more I think about this story, the more I like it. Saying America deserves national disasters is one thing, but now Pious Pat is reduced to lying about leg presses to sell energy shakes? I guess the God Racket isn’t pulling down enough cash these days.
Is he really selling energy shakes? I thought that DtG just said that as a possible explantation. He isn’t really hawking some crap, other than his usual brand of crap, is he?
He got better.
So, whose gonna let him know that kgs /= lbs?
No, it wouldn’t. The eye is just a lens with some muscles to assist in focusing. Blood is necessary to keep the biological material alive, but it doesn’t play a role in the mechanical function of the eye. A burst capillery is basically just a bruise. A bruised eyeball is pretty gruesome, but it’s not going to permanently damage the eye itself, unless you do it repeatedly over a long period of time.
At least, so far as I understand biology. IANAD or anything.
Bah, that all pales in comparison to Kim Jong-Il’s golfing prowess.
There’s a big difference between limited motion leg presses and what Pat Robertson is doing in the video linked by Derleth. Yes, in the video Pat Robertson is doing [close to] 1000 lbs, but his form is absolutely horrendous, even for limited motion. He’s bending his legs to about 160 degrees; a full motion is at least 90 degrees. Even worse, he’s pushing hard on his knees with his hands which is worth at least 100 lbs–on the leg press sled, because of the angle, you’re not actually putting in as much force as it sounds like.
Seriously, if I saw someone like him with anywhere close to that much weight doing that at the gym, I’d make him stop… its one thing to do an exercise with poor (even horrible form); its another thing to risk injuring yourself and others around you.
I don’t remember who said it, but 1400 lbs is about the WR for Squatting not Leg Press. I can do 1000 lbs (properly) for about 6-8 reps, and which would make it very hard for me to believe that the WR for Leg Press is probably only about 2-250 more than my max. I’ve watched people SQUAT close to 1000 lbs at competitions, which is about twice my max (which is somewhere around 450-500).
FTR,I have no idea what the WR is for Leg Press because, as someone else mentioned, I don’t care since its not something you really use to compare strength. There’s just too many variables: angle of the sled, sled weight, amount of friction, foot placement, weight and location of the weight, depth of knee bend. For squats you only have weight and location of the weight, foot placement, and depth of knee bend, all of which are more easily kept consistent.
Watching the video, I’d be surprised is Pat Robertson could correctly leg press more than 400 lbs (which would still be quite impressive for his age), and actually impressed if he tried to do a comparable amount to 1000 lbs leg press on squats (maybe 350-400 lbs). All this stunt really proves is that he doesn’t have osteoporosis.