i remember years ago seeing a pic of nasser shoulder pressing those 200lbers in a shoulder w.o pictorial with ian harrison in flex magazine.
apparently chris lund used to use them for pictorials and, like jay, nasser apparently only did it for the camera.
i think that's when it started getting really stupid because guys like wheeler, cormier and kovacs also got their pics taken with the things and all of a sudden they're all claiming 220lb d.b benches as part of their regular workouts.
when i finally saw a past used by date version of rich gaspari doing seated tri extensions with the thing i spit my black coffee all over the mag which consequently gave the pages a rather appropriate shade of brown.