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"*nemo*" |
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25 May 2006 04:16:31 AM |
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Pat Robertson's miracle of STRENGTH! LOL |
http://www.sportsline.com/spin/story/9454343
I wonder if his miracle protein shake only works with prayer? {;-)
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| User: "Geoff" |
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| Title: Re: Pat Robertson's miracle of STRENGTH! LOL |
25 May 2006 06:35:10 AM |
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"*nemo*" <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:nemo0037-6A5948.05132425052006@news.west.earthlink.net...
http://www.sportsline.com/spin/story/9454343
I wonder if his miracle protein shake only works with prayer? {;-)
Where does Clay get 2000 pounds from. He lifted 1000. Pretty impressive. The
most I've done is 515.
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| User: "Geoff" |
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| Title: Re: Pat Robertson's miracle of STRENGTH! LOL |
25 May 2006 06:36:02 AM |
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"Geoff" <gebobs@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"*nemo*" <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in message
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http://www.sportsline.com/spin/story/9454343
I wonder if his miracle protein shake only works with prayer? {;-)
Where does Clay get 2000 pounds from. He lifted 1000. Pretty impressive.
The most I've done is 515.
Of course, I smoke, drink, and pretty much ignore the gods.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Pat Robertson's miracle of STRENGTH! LOL |
25 May 2006 04:19:24 AM |
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*nemo* wrote:
http://www.sportsline.com/spin/story/9454343
I saw that. Man, that's funny..
I wonder if his miracle protein shake only works with prayer? {;-)
I'm sure it's just as good as anything else Pat offers. <g>
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| User: "Matt Silberstein" |
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| Title: Re: Pat Robertson's miracle of STRENGTH! LOL |
25 May 2006 07:26:12 AM |
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On Thu, 25 May 2006 09:16:31 GMT, in alt.atheism , *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> in
<nemo0037-6A5948.05132425052006@news.west.earthlink.net> wrote:
http://www.sportsline.com/spin/story/9454343
I wonder if his miracle protein shake only works with prayer? {;-)
I wonder why they shakes and prayer don't cure his rather obvious, if
not admitted, Parkinson's.
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: Pat Robertson's miracle of STRENGTH! LOL |
25 May 2006 06:03:36 AM |
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Previously, on alt.atheism, *nemo* in episode
<nemo0037-6A5948.05132425052006@news.west.earthlink.net>...
http://www.sportsline.com/spin/story/9454343
I wonder if his miracle protein shake only works with prayer? {;-)
Did you pop over to the Robertson site and watch the video where he
"presses" 1,000 pounds?
http://www.cbn.com/communitypublic/shake.asp
I watched it twice and have these comments:
1. He doesn't know what he's doing.
Those are not leg presses. It's not even a matter of correct form, he's
not doing the exercise at all. Apparently none of his lackeys have the
nerve to tell him "that's so wrong, I don't even know where to begin." Of
course, *when (not if) he puts himself in the hospital screwing around
ignorantly like that, somebody--like a trainer--will take the blame, lose
their job, and Pat will sue them. In the love of Jesus.
(I, on the other hand, will laaaaaaugh)
2. It doesn't count if you use your hands to push your legs.
By the way, here's a picture of the *right way...
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/bigfit_1899_2940878
That's the "bottom" of the exercise since you don't want to go lower than
a 45 degree angle of the legs.
3. Leg press sleds don't generally hold 2,000 pounds.
They usually go up to about 1,000. Which would take 22 total 45 pound
Olympic plates (11 on each side) plus two five pound plates. The one he's
using in the video certainly wouldn't hold that many plates.
4. And he's just lying.
I've paused the video a few times and counted the plates and am coming up
short.
I don't recall what the sled itself weighs but when Pat claims to be
doing 550 pounds, there are 10 total 45 pound plates on the sled for 450
pounds. A sled weight of 100 doesn't strike me as out of line (they are
made of some seriously solid metal). Let's use that as a baseline.
After the alleged 550 pounds, he tells "the guys" to put "two more on each
side." Which, if it happened, would have raised the weight by 180 pounds
to total 730. Thing is, they put *one plate on each side. They use a plate
that *looks twice as thick but still only weighs 45 pounds (hell, you can
see the weight printed on the side in the video, it *say 45 pounds, not 90).
For some reason, don't ask me why, official Olympic plates have a rim that
makes them look twice as thick as they actually need to be to weigh 45
pounds (and why 45 instead of 50 I haven't a clue). Up to the alleged 550
pounds, they're using thinner plates. You can see, on the right side, the
alternating bands of grey and black of the thinner plates.
Either they only loaded another 90 and didn't tell him (see Pat, it's
twice as big so it's like two plates!) or it was a deliberate deception on
his part.
When he says "that's only 900 pounds" to Mz. Ditzy, I count 7 plates on
each side. 14 times 45 is 630. Even allowing 100 for the sled yelds 730.
And he's not doing a full range of motion. And he's pushing his legs with
his hands.
When he asks to go to "1,000," they add only 90 more pounds (using the
thin plates) for 820 *at *most. And then he's shoving his legs with his
hands hard as he can while never releasing the catches to do the *real
exercise.
Finally, if they replaced the 4 thick plates with 8 thin plates, it would
be upwards of 1,000 pounds. Which looks to be the maximum (using thin
plates) that would fit on that machine. *Maybe you could get to about
1,090, provided the sled itself is 100 pounds (I can't tell very well if
you could fit another thin plate on the bar since I only see it briefly at
an angle near the end of the clip, but there's not much room left at all).
22 total plates would be the max that would fit on that machine (and most
machines) but he claims to have put 22 plates on each side for 2,000
pounds? Yeah. Sure.
Granted, even doing it all wrong and cheating, at his age he's doing
something mildly impressive. But not by much. I'd love to see him be
forced to do the exercise *right and not use his hands.
Heh, let me be his trainer for a day. I'll show him hell. <eg>
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