Muscular Christianity may have peaked a century ago, but at least one evangelical leader still clings to the notion. Pat Robertson says he leg-pressed 2,000 pounds:
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he has leg-pressed 2,000 pounds. The feat is recounted on the Christian Broadcasting Network Web site, in a posting headlined, “How Pat Robertson Leg Pressed 2,000 Pounds.”
It’s a pretty stupid claim to make:
Clay Travis of CBS SportsLine.coms online magazine called the assertion impossible in a column this week, writing that the leg-press record for football players at Florida State University is 665 pounds less.“Where in the world did Robertson even find a machine that could hold 2,000 pounds at one time?” Travis asked.
Perhaps — I’m being charitable here — his people thought the weight was in kilos and multiplied it by 2.2 to get pounds.