I'm not altogether sure whether the Polar HRM is working accurately, I have had some funny things happening to it and took it to the jeweler.. (it received a new battery a few wks before).

The 32 number was reconfirned in a Swedish hospital once in 1999 when they observed me a full night after a crash (collided with a concrete bar perpendicular to the road when I was just consulting the map in my bar bag) which made me somersault, land on my back, crack the helmet and lose consciousness for about 30 mins..

the 32 # is at night /in the morning when I'm lying very still... however, when I'm not fit it raises to about 40 bpm.. the number I've recorded by fingertips many many many years ago already when I was a kid.. I thought I was mistaken and that it should have been 80.. not so!

I'm thinking of getting myself monitored again to be sure...

Oh, and regarding the 250 kg 1RM leg press.. um it was an incorrectly performed leg press with a knee angle greater than 90 deg I was told today.. with an angle of less than 90 deg, I got to about 200 today when I tried again.. just too curious!

I also tried the front squat (before I used the leg press).. some people that work in the gym don't give good instructions I heard later...
I was told to hold the bar in my elbows but this link shows various possibilities of which the hands are always best..

http://www.olympus.net/personal/cablebar/FS.htm

what I liked was that this site says the front squat is more quad-specific than the regular squat...