She's so intimidating I'd probably let her benchpress me (though apparently she could bench press 3 of me).
I'd probably let her benchpress me
At the Mineshaft.
Madeline Albright can kick my ass. I suddenly feel weak and pathetic.
I find the URL for that picture deceptive. When it says "full assets" I want full assets, dammit.
Yet another "offbeat" Deborah Soloman interview, I trust.
Everyone should start leaving their front page posts unsigned and the comments can be a game of guess the author. I was sure this one was Apostropher, and there was an earlier political post that I thought was Labs but was really LB.
9: Well, now you've given away any advantage you had.
Because I don't go anywhere near exercise equipment, I wouldn't have known that was an impressive amount for a leg press.
Surely you'd have guessed the one above it was me though, right?
Apo, it's not that much weight for a lot of people, but for a woman in her late 60s, it's a lot.
I saw this on Wonkette. I'm suspicious. That's four 45 lb plates on each side, plus change. Leg presses are the machine that people seem to cheat at more than any other, and weights from machine to machine mean little -- the angle of the path the weight takes determines how much work you're actually doing.
Still, if I had to enter into a State Department kickboxing tournament, I'd be hoping not to get seeded against her.
You'd want Zoellick. Even w-lfs-n could kick his ass.
Even more frightening would be an indian wrestling tourney.
Have you guys heard of this thing where they alternate between chess and boxing?
I'd do the chess part if someone else (Harry Reid?) would take care of the boxing.
Schumer. He'd have a reach advantage on just about anybody.
I'm afraid that Putin would have an advantage on all our diplomats if chess-boxing became a diplomatic test.
Yeah, I agree with Tom's skepticism. It's not at all clear what "leg press 400 pounds" means, given variation between machines and between different people's ideas about what counts as a rep. Still, pretty awesome. Ask her if she squats.
Dumbest/funniest thing I've seen at a gym: guy loads up press, wants more weight, asks small Asian girl to sit on the sled. For some reason, she consents. At this point the whole gym is watching. Guy then does the shortest, lamest reps in the world, moving the sled a couple of inches. We all snicker.
I suspect two-inch presses at 400 lb. Still two-inches more than I could do at 400lb, but that's ridiculously strong if she's doing that with good form.
Of course, squats might not be a good measure, either, judging from all the guys at my gym performing lame butt-bounces while grunting manfully.
Man, if you're going to ask a chick to sit on the leg press, you'd better be a totall badass or you're going to look completely retarded.
and butt-bounces? WTF?
Now with deadlifts there's no screwing around. Either you get it off the ground or you don't.
I have done chess-boxing once. It was pretty brutal. You would be surprised how many reasonably good amateur boxers play a reasonably good game of chess. You would also be surprised how easy it is to get talked into a serious beating when you let it slip in conversation that you boxed as a schoolboy. I gave up early in the second round of boxing, leaving behind a decidedly dodgy position on the chessboard. These modern surrealists are violent little fuckers.
I have just gotten back from the gym, and can testify that on the leg press machine we have, a set of 10 reps at 205 is taxing. I don't know what my 1 rep max is, but it isn't anywhere near 400.
my 1 rep max
Why do you call it a "rep" when there is only one of it?
You appear to be under the common misconception that 'rep' is short for 'repetition'. Actually, it is short for 'repetoire', as in, 'an exercise that I can complete at a given weight is within my repetiore'.
I thought it was short for "represent," as in, "West side of the gym! Represent!"
Ah ok. Well that makes sense, then.
Except for I think you misspelled "repertoire".
Another common misconception. The spelling I used is standard, but only within the athletic context, mostly because athletes spell poorly.