So much for “Thou Shalt not lie”
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (May 26) – Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he has leg-pressed 2,000 pounds, but some say he’d be in a pretty tough spot if he tried.The “700 Club” host’s feat of strength is recounted on the Web site of his Christian Broadcasting Network, in a posting headlined “How Pat Robertson Leg Pressed 2,000 Pounds.”According to the CBN Web site, Robertson worked his way up to lifting a ton with the help of his physician, who is not named. The posting does not say when the lift occurred, but a CBN spokeswoman released photos to The Associated Press that she said showed Robertson lifting 2,000 pounds in 2003, when Robertson was 73. He is now 76.The Web posting said two men loaded the leg-press machine with 2,000 pounds “and then let it down on Mr. Robertson, who pushed it up one rep and let it go back down again.” The Web site said several people witnessed the event, and shows video of Robertson leg-pressing what appears to be 1,000 pounds.Clay Travis of CBS SportsLine.com called the 2,000-pound assertion impossible in a column this week, writing that the leg-press record for football players at Florida State University is 665 pounds less.”Where in the world did Robertson even find a machine that could hold 2,000 pounds at one time?” Travis asked.Andy Zucker, a strength-training coach at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, said leg presses of more than 1,000 pounds represent “a Herculean effort, and 2,000 pounds is a whole other story.”
udonman,
Good luck with that, really, it must be a pain.
JONBOY,
The bible never makes sense i swear…
Thanks karen, I was getting frustrated.
Very nice JOHNBOY…Guess even though god is all-powerful he still has a problem with heavy metal. Rock on!
Whoops, meant I not “i”.
The most I ever leg-pressed while taking my gym class in high school (at 16 yo) was 750 pounds.
If a man Pat’s age tries 2000 pounds, even if his muscles could do it (wich they can’t) his brittle old bones could not support so much weight and both his legs would suffer compound fractures.
sword_strike,
Good point, logic and cold hard facts proves, without a doubt, that this bastard is wrong yet again.
I am shocked at all of you, really. Where is your faith?
It’s like in the book of Genesis; how do we know that 7 days were really 7 days as WE understand them to be? Perhaps Pat placed 100 lbs on the machine and did 20 reps, thus leg pressing 1 ton.
Ours is not to question why, ours is just to do, while giving 10%, and die.
i’m not an atheist but i’m agnostic. I’m 15 y/o and i just graduated high school. i just go to church with my parents for the sake them of not disowning me. they don’t know i’m agnostic. i’m going to college and yeah i can’t move out yet b/c i’m still dependent. if they’d found out that i’m agnostic they’d disown me. *sigh. and they weren’t raised here so their “VALUES” are diff’t. Theey won’t let me hang out with anyone except with church kids and i don’t even have “church buddies.” I don’t even think I could move out when I’m 18. They are so strict. idk i think i need help.
i know that was out of topic. sorry.
requiescat in pace,
You have piqued my curiosity. From where might your folks hail?
Who needs church buddies when you can have blog buddies? I can guarantee nobody here will talk about what you wore to church, behind your back.
It’s hard enough being 15. Having to live a double life on top of it must really suck. Feel free to bring your troubles to the table here. You wouldn’t be the first. Welcome to the fray.
wait what I dint even do a post on the topic yet oh well.
nah way could he have done 2000 lbs
I doubt he could have done 2o lbs.
Hell when I was racing bikes I was at a max of 650 lbs I was 16 100 lbs soaking wet.
How old is patsy 76 I will belive it whaen monkeys fly out of my ass. waynes world waynes world party time party time wah wah whahh.
*OFF TOPIC*
I saw this and it sent shivers up me spine:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/29/203330/248
Alex
Isn’t he pimping some milkshake or some shit.
How do people get like this? I can’t ever imagine disowning my children because of their beliefs.
Unless my child is Pat Robertson, but this isn’t possible as he is too old, but then God can work in mysterious ways and Pat spelled backwards is Tap, and I have been doing some plumbing recently and there are 9 letters in his last name and I was born in the ninth month and I have extraordinarily muscular thighs and buttocks! (bet you wish I could post pics now) So that about sums it up.
I am Pat robertsons estranged Father and I hereby disown him, unless he cuts me in on some of the cash and/or gymnasium membership.
Intercasue,
See my message above-it is number eleven from the top.
Alex.
Intercasue,
Your parents might come across as mean. But in their minds they are doing what they think is best.
If you need help coming out of the closet (at age 18 or beyond) the American atheist parent site had some tips my wife found useful two years ago. Unfortunetly, she was almost disowned by her Catholic parents.
Our solution was to move far enough away where her parents wouldn’t be social outcasts in the church. It’s kind of like she’s exiled from her own town. But she did not get disowned. In fact she says she has never had as good a relationship with her parents.
My point is that even the biggest fundamentalists i have met in my life did not disown their own blood.
But be aware you are still fifteen and you have too much to risk if you come out to them before eighteen.(the streets are tougher than you might think)
Also cherish your relationship with your parents. They still care about you and love you. Having parents is a joy not a burden. My mother commited suicide when i was ten, my father was murdered when i was about your age. Not a day goes by that i don’t wish i had just five more minutes with them. Enjoy them now you’re probably going to outlive them, and regrets suck.
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