Preparation is everything

[doodab]

Chris Hoy getting ready for the olympics by leg pressing over 630kg.

Weight training... Chris Hoy style

[MarillionFan]

I'd argue that's 630kg. He's a skinny ge't.

I used to do 300kg and I'm a right chubber.

[TimberWolf]

You can lift a lot of weight on those machines, the angle of incline alone halves the height the weight moves, in effect providing mechanical advantage. Having said that 630 kg is a lot of weight even on those machines if pushing from a fully bent knee position.

Posers at the gym used to piss me off on that machine, they would load it with every weight in the gym and then proceed to do a lot of grunting, etc, but if you ask them nicely why they don't squat instead, using a fraction of the weight, they say they can't as squating hurts their back. Ego more like. Saying that, heavy squats hurt my back too these days.

[MarillionFan]

You can lift a lot of weight on those machines, the angle of incline alone halves the height the weight moves, in effect providing mechanical advantage. Having said that 630 kg is a lot of weight even on those machines if pushing from a fully bent knee position.

Posers at the gym used to piss me off on that machine, they would load it with every weight in the gym and then proceed to do a lot of grunting, etc, but if you ask them nicely why they don't squat instead, using a fraction of the weight, they say they can't as squating hurts their back. Ego more like. Saying that, heavy squats hurt my back too these days.

Early 20's I could do a lot on these machines. Recently. Oh my knees!

[TimberWolf]

Early 20's I could do a lot on these machines. Recently. Oh my knees!

Yeah, so much force going through the knees that one might reflect on the consequence of a ligament or muscle popping. A career ending pop I suspect.

[NickFitz]

Have none of these people thought of walking rather than driving, or taking the stairs instead of the lift?

If they think they actually need more extreme forms of exertion, maybe they could deliver sacks of spuds to the needy. Carrying a couple of hundredweight of taters through a council estate to a housebound pensioner should help keep one in trim

[wobbegong]

Early 20's I could do a lot on these machines. Recently. Oh my knees!

<Baz Luhrmann>
Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.
</Baz Luhrmann>

[Mich the Tester]

I'd argue that's 630kg. He's a skinny ge't.

I used to do 300kg and I'm a right chubber.

He's about 6ft and 15 stone, most of which is legs. He's not skinny.

[SimonMac]

I'd argue that's 630kg. He's a skinny ge't.

I used to do 300kg and I'm a right chubber.

I'd argue he's a world class Olympian and you are a fat bald IT contractor

[Scrag Meister]

I'd argue he's a world class Olympian and you are a fat bald IT contractor

I disagree, he's not bald.