I can bench press more than Bin Laden
 

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I think Bin Laden can bench press 55 lbs. but he probably can't do that much because he hasn't been training or eating properly. I, however, have been consuming mass quantities of protein and blasted up 375 lbs. the other day.

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osama is a sensitive, gentle, beautiful man. he doesn't need muscles.

HB + Photoshop + drinking water from the Patapsco River = danger

I thought the filename you gave it was funny too.

That settles it...I'm making HB one of my idols.

Thanks,

Appreciate the LIFE-SIZE picture, dude!

You're going to Photoshop! (Thanks for the idea, HB)

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HAHAHA. this guy cracks me up! "he hasn't been training or eating properly." haha. i LOVE the way this post was worded. what a dork.

What a <b>puss</b>! I work with a guy that happens to frequent the same gym I do, and I spotted him on 415+ lbs just the other day. He's probably 50lbs lighter also (though it's probably just body-fur weight).

I knew a guy who could leg press 1000lb. And he weighed 180 or so.

Dude. I'd be seriously seriously seriously interested in meeting that guy.

I am a <b>big dude</b> and my legs are <b>really really strong</b>. And I can leg-bench about 600 max. MAX. Once. No reps. Just once.

I'm not sure 180 pounds of pure muscle could put up half a ton.

If you <b>witnessed</b> it... then I might kinda sorta believe you maybe. :) That just seems like an awful lot for a 180lb guy. A muscleman that was 300lbs and totally cut and weight-trained 8 hours a day 7 days a week, well, I could maybe see him doing that. Damn though. 180 pounds?

1000lbs isn't <i>too</i> much on an sled. If you're looking at pure squats, that's pure hell. I've seen guys pushing 2bucks, maybe 2 and a quarter that can get 1000+ on the sleds. I've got chicken legs (about 190) and can get ~500-550 several reps.
I've seen guys squat 860-900 at the gym quite frequently, but they're bigger than this stuffed rug up there. He ain't shit...

I doubt he can do it any more. His legs at the time were HUGE. And yeah, this was a "just once" thing, no reps.

....and I believe that we are.

From this statement, it seemed to me that we were talking about the sleds (aka leg-press). Squats are squats, no matter how you say it.
[Edit]
I was at the gym just the other day (Tuesday if it's important), and saw a guy ~5'6" at ~160-170 lbs on the sled. He was doing high-intensity, regressive sets starting with 1000+ (9 plates on each side + the weight of the empty sled) for nine reps, then a couple of guys spotting would take off a plate each (-90 lbs). This guy continued for 3 more sets, finally ending at ~500 lbs. What was <i>extremely</i> amazing was that he didn't put the locks in place until he was completely finished with the exercise. 36 reps in about two, maybe three minutes.

^ :eek: ^