On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 09:29 Jim Swayze wrote:

>Anyway, lately I've been working on my
>squat trying to get some of the musculature
>built up.  Again I am 160 pounds wet, but
>yesterday I was able to squat two sets of
>420 pounds, 12 reps per set!  They guys at
>the gym were pretty surprised.
>
>It has occurred to me that the average paleo
>man was probably a lot stronger than the
>average person today.
>
>Any other athletic stories out there?

If you subscribe the the Evolutionary Fitness discussion list ...

http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/evolutionary-fitness.html

... the old archives have a lot of material you'll find of interest.

In the meantime, see this page of Art de Vany's:

http://aris.ss.uci.edu/mbs/personnel/devany/evolutionaryfitness.html

for a brilliant genuinely Paleo synthesis of exercise and diet.

> Ok, before any of you ... freak out with my comment
> that I lifted 420 pounds 24 times yesterday,
> I'll confirm that weight and get back to you.

I couldn't _squat_ that weight Jim, but I dead lifted just 12lb less (185
kg) a couple of weeks ago and this morning did a few deads at 363lb (we
use kilograms here - that's 165 kg)  My body weight is similar to yours.
Art de Vany says any man ought to be able to dead lift twice his body
weight.  Art is in his mid-60s and I'm 54 and reckon that seems
reeasonable.  Apparently some of the Europeans who pushed the Iroquois out
of their lands a couple of centuries ago tested a few and found they could
lift three times their body weight.  They'd eat your 420 lb, Jim!

Keith