runners who lifted tiny weights

[Randy Treadway]

This is pure speculation, but what world record holder in his prime (male) would have been able to lift the LEAST weight in the weight room?

I nominate ....Filbert Bayi.

[eldrick]

Re: runners who lifted tiny weights

it's on record - the anwswer is danny caines - former 400i wc

to paraphrase his own words:

" i finally went to the gym one day to build some muscles & felt bad when schoolgals coming into the gym for the first time in their lives, benched more than i could ! "

[MJD]

Re: runners who lifted tiny weights

Wouldn't you have to define it as a % of body weight? I'm actually surprised at how little that NFL linemen, for example, can bench when it's defined that way.

[tlb747]

Re: runners who lifted tiny weights

>it's on record - the anwswer is danny caines - former 400i wc

to paraphrase
>his own words:

" i finally went to the gym one day to build some muscles &
>felt bad when schoolgals coming into the gym for the first time in their
>lives, benched more than i could ! "

That is bad!

[Kevin]

Re: runners who lifted tiny weights

How about Harald Norpoth? I saw a photo of him in a book about his coach (Ernst Van Aaken) and he looked like a skeleton!