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There is a wildlife documentary series called "My 600lb Life",
which follows morbidly obese people as they pass through the
care and clinic of Dr. Younan Nowzaradan (himself not
slimline, but at least much taller than he is wide).
Many of these people do indeed weigh on the order of 600lb
and,
even more impressively, many of them can still walk.
This means that their legs can not only lift 600lb, but can do
so one at a time. They must have titanic leg muscles in there.
Of course, this does not make them well suited to
conventional deadlifting because, even though their legs may
be able to lift over 600lb, they are also carrying a 600lb weight
penalty.
The solution, obviously, is to flip these people upside down.
Nestled head-down in a well-padded shoulder-and-torso
support, and wearing special shoes with a C-shaped clip on
their soles, their challenge is to lift the weight with their legs.
In the starting position, their knees will be bent at 90° and, to
complete the inverted deadlift, they must raise the barbell
until they can lock their knees straight.
600lb would obviously be child's play for these people. Given
that they can walk (using one leg at a time, as is usual), you
might think that 1200lb should be possible, though this may be
ambitious. There is a good chance, though, that one of these
people could beat the current right-way-up deadlift record of
just over 1000lb.
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Given the probable load on the cardiovascular system from their body mass alone, and considering that they're no doubt hypertensive as well, turning them upside down and making them lift heavy weights is likely to induce either a heart attack or a stroke almost imnediately. |
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Ah, yes ... right. Fine, carry on. |
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Presumably you've now got the lease on that soap factory you were investigating a while ago ... ? |
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I've considered a similar idea: as such people lose weight,
they carry the (hopefully increasing) amount they've lost
externally (backpack, strap-on ankle weights, "iron shirt",
whatever). So at the end when they are a more healthy size,
they have also retained the ability to carry that huge
weight. |
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... and thus have the brute physical strength to go round and find all those who taunted them with words like "fatty" and "lardarse" and settle scores. |
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No, [n_s], that's a really bad idea. |
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It appears that leg presses are something somewhat
comparable to what you propose. There are youtube videos
claiming 2465 pound leg presses. I'm not sure if that is the
weight being pushed up a sloped track or if that is the
amount of force being applied. |
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//claiming 2465 pound leg presses.// |
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I suggest that's the mass on the track. The biggest lifts
are harness lifts. I remember BBC Record Breakers with (I
think) Jamie Reeves lifting a Mk2 VW Polo complete with
Roy Castle and Cheryl Baker inside, as a guess that's
830+70+50 kg. That was done standing on an overhead
platform with shoulder straps. |
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Now, I can't find any evidence that this ever happend.
More to the point, I can't find any evidence that as an
experienced heavy-industry welder, whether Jamie Built
the platform. But, as a top strongman at the time, no one
is lifting 2.5 fold more without the track angle having an
effect. |
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// Now, I can't find any evidence that this ever happend. // |
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Resoundingly [Marked-For-Tagline] |
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Guinness Book of Records would be your friend on that one, probably ... |
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// locking knees on a leg press machine // |
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No! Never do this. If you want to see disturbing videos, search
YouTube for this. A leg press machine can easily exceed the buckling
strength of a human knee. So what happens is a fool loads up a lot of
weight to show off, then pushes with his arms to help complete the
lift, locking out his knees. The weight then bends his knees the wrong
way, tearing ligaments, and then he has to have surgery to rebuild his
knee. Very bad. Lifting a bar is much safer because the reflex if
straining a knee is to go limp and drop the bar. If lifting a bar this
reflex protects the knee. If using a leg press machine this reflex lets
the knees hyperextend faster. Don't use leg press machines. |
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If you insist on this idea, consider simply adding 70% of the weigh-in
weight of the "bodybuilder" to all of their lifts. Only 70% because legs
are ~30% and the legs are not being lifted. For bench press, add 5% of
the bodyweight to represent the arm weight lifted. Thus, by simply
bench-pressing a 100lb bar (not a lot of weight) and then standing up,
a 600-pound person could achieve equivalent lifts of 420lb squat,
420lb deadlift, and 160lb benchpress, enabling this person to join the
1000lb club. |
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// If you want to see disturbing videos, search YouTube for this. // |
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<Makes note never, ever to search YouTube or any other source of video or still images for this /> |
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Some sort of ratchet ought to solve the problem of knees
folding back the wrong way, shirley? |
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There isn't much room inside the human knee joint for that sort of thing. It will have to be pretty compact. |
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How will the ratchet be unlatched ? An external magnet, or a connection to the nervous system ? |
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//pretty compact.// //ratchet be unlatched// |
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Looks like a job for hydraulics. Latching not really
necessary there. Borg would be the ones to ask I
suspect. |
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Ask the Klingons, they're the ones who are into all that muscular-strength warrior stuff. |
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We can look into the engineering, but we don't want our Cube getting filled with unwelcome amounts of testosterone and pointless grunting. Go buy s gym membership or something. |
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