So Pat Robertson says he can leg-press 2,000 pounds? Sports types say that’s nonsense, given that the televangelist is 76 and that much younger athletes can’t even get to 1,000 pounds. A statement from Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network asserts that Robertson’s physician “has leg-pressed 2,700 pounds. It is not nearly as hard as the authors of these reports make it out to be. We have multiple witnesses to the 2,000 pound leg press, plus video of the 10 reps of 1,000 pounds.” The Wonkette blog joked that Robertson’s doc must be Bruce “The Hulk” Banner. CBN’s Web site also credits, in part, Robertson’s “age-defying protein shake.” Smells like a merchandising ploy.
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Nothing like a Jesus miracle, falsified. Let’s just bring some expert athletic trainers and physicists in as witnesses to render their judgment. Maybe Pat Robertson can push 2700 pounds HORIZONTALLY. That’s NOT a leg-press. The force required to move a 2700 pound object horizontally is a tiny fraction of the force required to move it VERTICALLY against gravity, which is what a leg press is defined to be by experts.
I recently heard the Robert Tilton who had the Hour of power where he spent an hour telling his viewers that if they wanted God’s Blessing. All they had to do was send him money that was until ABC showed him to be a total fraud. It effected his ministry greatly, he only got around eight million dollars the next year.Is now hawking insurance on commercials on the T.V. and radio.
Maybe Pat is seeing the same writing on the wall?
I would like to see him squat some pounds or get up on a bar and do some chins.
With the help of Gawd, Pat can legpress millions . . . oh, I think that was supposed to be “hoodwinked” millions.
Having used many different universal machines, his claim is no big deal if you subscribe to the arbitrary measurements some of the older machines assigned to different positions at the station. I remember one of the first leg presses I ever used assigned the max weight at the lowest position at 1250 lbs. If you raised your feet to a higher position it rated the weight at 1850 lbs. It was common practice for 14 year old football players to have their buddies stand on the weights in order to have the bragging rights to 2000+ leg lifts. It’s smoke and mirrors that was used to sell expensive machines to athletic departments.
Exactly, Nick…a ‘leg press’ is not the same as a ‘leg lift’, as anyone who has ever worked out can attest.
This sounds like another tv preaching scam. Remember Oral Roberts a few years ago? He claimed that God was going to “call him home” if he didn’t raise a million (or more, I don’t remember). My reaction was, “bye-bye”, but people sent him money.
*sigh*. I am in the wrong business. Maybe I should go on tv, claim divine inspiration and ask for money to continue this ‘ministry’ to ask for money to continue…..
You know he’d have to have strong legs to be able to carry around all that BS he spews.
Does 200 lbs with 10 reps count? Technically that could be considered as 2000 lbs.
What cockamamie BS. My grandmother raised me on the radio preachers (and she’d wash my mouth out even now for using the ‘bad’ initials). We went to church regularly but EVERY day she’d listen to David Weber, Charles Swindall, James Dobson etc. I remember her doing housework and having these guys blaring out the radio about the evils of sex drugs and rock n roll.Some of these preachers are doing the Lords work but the vast majority are charletons that are in it to fleece people.Remember to movie “Oh God” with George Burns and John Denver? Remember the part where John Denver’s character was being grilled by all the preachers and given the questions in Aramaic? Remember the part where he goes out and finds the preacher that’s on the TV and goes to tell him that God says that he’s lost the way and is only doing it for the personal fame and fortune? That preacher guy reminds me so much of the majority of these nincompoops.May God have mercy on their souls (or what’s left of them).
Well said Julie.
This story is a hoot! I am honestly laughing anytime I think about it. Pat should put down the bible and get some spandex PJs and a cape! Let him leap tall steeples in a single bound!
Just for the record it was eight million for Oral Roberts. I was living in Oklahoma at the time,LoL I lost count of all the “Help send Oral to heaven in 87″ bumper sickers I saw. Some good jokes too: You hear Oral was ran over by a hit and run driver? Yeah he was walking his ducks and a boat hit him! The best was Mrs.Roberts gives oral sex!
Those thieves wouldn’t exist if the raving loonies they preach to would quit sending them money. The gullible are as much, if not more, responsible.
You can bench press 2000 lbs if you can find a machine with about 10 pulleys. But what would be the point? Lower weight suspension with more reps are better for you–like walking 3-4 miles.
They showed him doing it on TV the other night. The weight was a bar with weights, he pushed it up an incline that looked like about 45+ degrees, he pushed on his knees with his hands, and he did it once.
I still don’t buy it. I call it a stunt. Even if he COULD do it what is the point? Furthering his ego?Well at least we know he won’t have to walk on water. He can jump it!
JR, of course it’s a stunt. But it’s not that big a deal on a machine. Now if he’d done it with free weights….
People fell for Bush’s “compassionate conservative,” “unifier, not divider” BS. Why wouldn’t they fall for a racist faux preacher?
Dog, I had to laugh when I read your post about Robert Tilton. My husband works in broadcasting and his station carried the show. The guys in the control room made a little mask out of felt and they would stick it over Tilton’s eyes on the monitor so he’d look like a bandit. Then they’d turn down the sound and make fart sounds when Tilton squinted his eyes closed while he was praying. it was so funny!