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Lifting a million pounds in one day
« on: February 14, 2006, 11:39:36 AM »
A 45-year old man in my gym is on a quest today to lift a milliion pounds in one day.

He has 12 hours.  The gym staff is following him around with clipboards and calculators.   When I left, he had lifted 728,000 pounds, with 4 hours remaining.  He's jumping from machine to the DB rack, doing a few sets on each and hitting his full body.

He's also sporting knee wraps, elbow wraps, belt, gloves, chalk, gallon water bottle and he does look pretty beat. 
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2006, 11:43:38 AM »
Now thats what I call HARDCORE! but still I could beat him :)
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2006, 11:59:06 AM »
hahaha well i hope its for a good purpose.
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2006, 12:19:21 PM »
is it suppose to be for the guiness book or something ?
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2006, 12:23:29 PM »
How do thay measure what counts as lifted?  Couldnt he just load up loads on a shrug machine and rep out thousands of tiny partials with a big weight?
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2006, 12:48:35 PM »
Quote from: Prime on February 14, 2006, 12:23:29 PM
How do thay measure what counts as lifted?  Couldnt he just load up loads on a shrug machine and rep out thousands of tiny partials with a big weight?

He's doing full range reps.  He was doing leg extensions, calf raises, back extensions, leg press, when I was there.  Seemed like he was sticking with 100 pounds on the machines (for ease of adding up).  He had like 3 plates per side on the leg press.

No record books or anything... but there was a decent crowd watching towards the end.  Should be an event by the time he hits a million.  He looked pretty worn out at 728,000 pounds.

If ya think about it... it's something like 10 reps @ 100 pounds, for 1000 sets.  Or 500 tons.
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2006, 01:30:38 PM »
Quote from: 240 is Back on February 14, 2006, 12:48:35 PM
He's doing full range reps.  He was doing leg extensions, calf raises, back extensions, leg press, when I was there.  Seemed like he was sticking with 100 pounds on the machines (for ease of adding up).  He had like 3 plates per side on the leg press.
No record books or anything... but there was a decent crowd watching towards the end.  Should be an event by the time he hits a million.  He looked pretty worn out at 728,000 pounds.
If ya think about it... it's something like 10 reps @ 100 pounds, for 1000 sets.  Or 500 tons.
the ROM between calve raises and leg presses is quite different
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2006, 01:35:39 PM »
Quote from: Prime on February 14, 2006, 01:30:38 PM
the ROM between calve raises and leg presses is quite different

true.  But one can't do 1000 sets of calf raises with 100 pounds.  At some point, lactic acid would do it's thing
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2006, 01:41:51 PM »
I do that everyday.

You guys just aren't training hard enough.
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2006, 02:21:21 PM »
Quote from: Prime on February 14, 2006, 01:30:38 PM
the ROM between calve raises and leg presses is quite different

I'm sure some of it was to relieve boredom. Just doing one exercise will get boring quickly, but if you do many, your mind is relieved of that boredom and it seems to go by quicker.
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2006, 02:35:32 PM »
Quote from: 240 is Back on February 14, 2006, 01:35:39 PM
true.  But one can't do 1000 sets of calf raises with 100 pounds.  At some point, lactic acid would do it's thing

if you say so, MR I-LOOK-FOR-EXCUSES-SO-I-DONT-HAVE-TO-DO-1000-SETS
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2006, 02:56:01 PM »
Quote from: Bluto on February 14, 2006, 02:35:32 PM
if you say so, MR I-LOOK-FOR-EXCUSES-SO-I-DONT-HAVE-TO-DO-1000-SETS
Bluto is hardcore.
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2006, 03:02:50 PM »
Quote from: 240 is Back on February 14, 2006, 02:56:01 PM
Bluto is hardcore.

So by Lee standarts, Bluto would be a wannabe ?
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2006, 03:04:57 PM »
i want it all
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2006, 05:26:35 PM »
it would be more impressive if the guy was moving a million lbs of sand or stone.  Thats measurable.
What this guy was doing sounds really stupid ;D
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #15 on: February 14, 2006, 05:28:53 PM »
Quote from: Prime on February 14, 2006, 05:26:35 PM
it would be more impressive if the guy was moving a million lbs of sand or stone.  Thats measurable.
What this guy was doing sounds really stupid ;D

Definitely more of an endurance thing than a strength thing.  It'll be interesting tomorrow to see the big gym sign to see if he made it.
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #16 on: February 14, 2006, 09:10:30 PM »
Good for him.  I couldn't do it.
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #17 on: February 14, 2006, 09:13:21 PM »
the guy works at taco bell also.  He competed in the PLing competition last month and squatted 550 in competition I think.   Just looks like your average bulky guy... I sure wouldn't wanna scrap with him tho.
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #18 on: February 14, 2006, 09:22:57 PM »
There was a guy at Gold's Venice who did that every year for his birthday. I forget his name. He was a writer for Musclemag, Iron Man, etc. Nice guy, but weird. I think it took him 13-15 hours to reach 1 million pounds.
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #19 on: February 14, 2006, 09:33:27 PM »
Quote from: tommywishbone on February 14, 2006, 09:22:57 PM
There was a guy at Gold's Venice who did that every year for his birthday. I forget his name. He was a writer for Musclemag, Iron Man, etc. Nice guy, but weird. I think it took him 13-15 hours to reach 1 million pounds.

Did he hit the whole body?

If I was going to do it, I'd have to make it a rule that I had to hit every machine in the gym at least once.
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #20 on: February 14, 2006, 10:56:47 PM »
why is he doing this ?
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #22 on: February 14, 2006, 11:00:59 PM »
ya I guess
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #23 on: February 14, 2006, 11:01:47 PM »
Quote from: Karl Kox on February 14, 2006, 10:56:47 PM
why is he doing this ?

he wants attention because he has nothing else going for him. 

Stupidest thing I ever heard. 
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Re: Lifting a million pounds in one day
« Reply #24 on: February 14, 2006, 11:05:37 PM »
Actually I used my workouts by how much weight I moved. For example instead of doing 15 sets for quads I'd do as many sets as it took to move 35,000 pounds. It was interesting & a nice change for a little while. However, it got really old after about four months (I got tired of adding everything up).
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