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- From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
- Subject: Re: amazing deadlift
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:20:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.232050.3541@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: li'l pudgy
- References: <1993Jan25.185141.18912@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1993Jan25.185141.18912@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> krw@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (keith.r.smith) writes:
- [....]
- >of deadlift poundages. After about three weeks of "ramping up", this little
- >baby-doll-lookin' young woman was pulling 300 lbs. in the deadlift. I still
- >do not know just how strong she was, as 300 lbs. was all of the iron that I
- >had at that time. Bear in mind that we are talking about a young woman who
- >was basically untrained (as far as weight-training) at this point. I can
- >hardly imagine what she might be able to do with a coupla' years worth of
- >hard training under her belt.
- >
- Probably quite a bit. But it's probably determined not so much by her
- strength, but the actual distance she had to lift the weight, and the
- fact that at 5'2", she probably didn't have to bend her back nearly as
- much as you. A more accurate measure of her strength would probably
- be found in other movements.
-
- GMS
-