not really, but at least he's under the illusion that he did Robertson says he leg-pressed 2,000 pounds Fri May 26, 6:35 PM ET 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." "If he was able to lift that much weight, I take my hat off to him, but the numbers suggest that people who lift that much weight are few and far between," Zucker said. "One would have to see what type of leg press it was on and under what parameters it was done." CBN spokeswoman Angell Vasko said Friday that Robertson was not available for comment because he was "out of pocket" for the long holiday weekend. Vasko said she has not seen Robertson leg-press 2,000 pounds but that it's not "a huge shocker" that he could. "Pat is so healthy," she said. "This is something he trained for over an extended period of time. He lives a very healthy, regimented life." One of the photos Vasko released had a digital date stamp of 1994, although she said Robertson performed the leg press in 2003. Vasko said that perhaps the date was not set properly on the camera. The CBN Web site attributes Robertson's energy in part to "his age-defying protein shake." The site offers a recipe for the shake, which contains ingredients such as soy protein isolate, whey protein isolate, flaxseed oil and apple cider vinegar. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060526/ap_on_re_us/robertson2000?fark
More than likely not true, but the numbers are misleading and not as as they sound. I can throw up 500 pounds on a leg press machine but I wouldn't be comfortable trying so much as half that weight on a squat.
I saw a small bit of this video on CNN the other day. Someone turned to me and said is that Pat Robertson. I said no f'n way, and changed the channel. I wish I had watched longer. EDIT: I found the video: http://www.cbn.com/communitypublic/shake.asp
Absolute terrible sketchy form -- I can't believe he hasn't tweaked his back lifting like that. On top of that he isn't really moving the weight more than foot ~ he doesn't quite understand the concept of 'all the way up, all the way down'. ---> <---
Back in college I think my best was around 710 lbs. on a hipsled. I would've pooped my lungs trying to do a ton.
I could easily do 5000 pounds, if someone gave me $10,000 and a plane ticket to England, I could lift 5000 pounds easy.
It tells a lot about a man's character that he would lie in such an obvious manner about something so superficial. It's like the bigtexx benchpress/ squat update... btw - I wonder why he stopped posting that?
He is just training to take out Hugo Chavez. He is tired of the commie US government not taking action. Maybe he borrowed some of MJ's Jesus Juice to help him out.
In spite of the horrible form, pushing with his hands and not actually doing even one full rep I think it is impressive that a 74 year old takes on that amount of weight. Just having that much under your control for a few seconds is cool. I was pretty impressed with his leg press machine. The ones at the gyms here 24hr/golds only hold 1025 lbs. - 45lb is their largest plates. The info on his site is correct. The leg press is not a hard machine to master - much easier than squats. I twisted a knee in jan 2004 and started re-habbing with the leg press with bar only. By March I got it to 260. For some reason I really started working hard with the leg press and worked up to 3x10 at 1025# by the end of that year. It was the highlight of my otherwise horrible "leg day" workout and I enjoyed borrowing all the plates from the "steriod guys" machines to max it out. When I set up the gym in my basement I wanted to buy a leg press from a used gym equip. place but they take up a lot of space for a limited exercise + buying an extra 1000# or so of plates for it gets very expensive so it was back to squats.
