Originally Posted by
aclass
As someone who once had ambitions of body building but now a much lighter cyclists, I doubt very seriously there is a cyclists alive who can legitimately squat 300lbs. Quite frankly, there arent too many non-cyclists who can.
While there's a kernel of truth to this, lets add perspective. When I was younger and had more time, I was my brother's training partner for the summer before he entered a D3 college football program. It was a basic training regimen for strength, and it took me a good 12 weeks to get up to 275 from an above average overall fitness level. I'll bet the reason there aren't many people who can squat 300 lbs is because they don't have to and it's a lot of work to get there. There's probably a lot of people that can't complete a mile running (no walking), because they don't have to, etc.