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I would like to hear any stories where weight-training came in handy in a sticky situation.
Here are mine:
1. Steve, a buddy in the Navy who inspired me to get into weights, had awesome arms by comparison to the rest of us recruits. He had maybe 16" arms some 25 years ago at about 175 pounds. We were in boot camp near Chicago. Early one winter, this guy falls through the ice on a lake. Steve crawls out on the ice and curls the guy to safety!
2. While pulling a car in a rented Rider truck, I hit a dip and the hitch pops off. I slow to a stop and the trailer is wedged under the truck, with some 3000 pounds of car pressing the hitch up into the truck. I waited for help and no one showed so I had to try something.
As the trailer wheels acted as a fulcrum, the actual resitance was maybe on the order of 600 to 700 pounds (any physics majors out there?) So first I had to grab the a handle on the back of the truck and squat the trailer down while holding on with one arm and pushing back - that was the ez part.
Then I had to lift the trailer from the ground about 2 1/2 feet and jerk it sideways (which was actually more difficult than the lift!) 6 inches to align with the hitch post. I cut the shit out of my hands, but figure I pulled 500+ pounds. My best dead-lift is 380. I doubt 1 in 1,000,000 could have done this or even tried. I weighed about 170 at the time.
Here are mine:
1. Steve, a buddy in the Navy who inspired me to get into weights, had awesome arms by comparison to the rest of us recruits. He had maybe 16" arms some 25 years ago at about 175 pounds. We were in boot camp near Chicago. Early one winter, this guy falls through the ice on a lake. Steve crawls out on the ice and curls the guy to safety!
2. While pulling a car in a rented Rider truck, I hit a dip and the hitch pops off. I slow to a stop and the trailer is wedged under the truck, with some 3000 pounds of car pressing the hitch up into the truck. I waited for help and no one showed so I had to try something.
As the trailer wheels acted as a fulcrum, the actual resitance was maybe on the order of 600 to 700 pounds (any physics majors out there?) So first I had to grab the a handle on the back of the truck and squat the trailer down while holding on with one arm and pushing back - that was the ez part.
Then I had to lift the trailer from the ground about 2 1/2 feet and jerk it sideways (which was actually more difficult than the lift!) 6 inches to align with the hitch post. I cut the shit out of my hands, but figure I pulled 500+ pounds. My best dead-lift is 380. I doubt 1 in 1,000,000 could have done this or even tried. I weighed about 170 at the time.
