Hi Jim
 
Your weight lifter friend is out to lunch. 10 years ago, when in my mid-
thirties my regular workout consisted of squatting 315lbs for 8 sets. I 
decided one day to find out how much I could squat and was able to do 365lbs
pretty easily and then asked the guy on duty to spot me in the 
power rack and I cranked out about 14 reps at 405lbs. I weighed somewhere
around 135 at the time because I remember I had tripled my body weight 
in the squat and I know it was pretty cool but no where near any kind of
squat record for my weight class. I am sure that would be at least in 
the 700lb range of squatting in power lifting. The interesting thing about
it was not that the weight was too heavy for my legs but the 
heaviness of it on my upper back.
 
Mark
 
 
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:09:04 -0500, Jim Swayze <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
 
Ok, before any of you weight lifters out there freak out with my comment
that I lifted 420 pounds 24 times yesterday, I've just been informed by a
weight lifter friend of mine that those numbers just HAVE to be incorrect.
Two sets of 420 would project to my being able to absolutely shatter the
world record squat for my weight class!
 
I may be stronger than average for my size because of paleo and the high
intensity protocol, but I'm not entirely ready to accept an at large bid
to the US Olympic Team just yet ;-)
 
I'll confirm that weight and get back to you.
 
(an embarrassed) Jim