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What It Feels Likc to Lift 350 Poimds with One Hand

III.WK oflcu bcett asked what it feels like to press 350 [łOunils with one hand, and porhaps to my readers the different sensations experienced will be inleresliilg. In the first place, iimnediateh I start tu press the weight away froni the shuidder l become perfectly ohlivious tu oyerylhing excepl the weight tliat I ani lifting. The spectators are oblileratcd front my mind by the effurt ul intensc concentratiun which is ncccssary to enable nie to press the weight. I immediately engage myselt in a terrilic slruggle in which the weight and I are cumpetiturs. and only one can will, either the weight ninst be lifted nr else i taił. Tliis con-centration is, of coursc, one of the secrets of suecess in lifting, as I have explained in another part of my lx>ok. it cnables mc to bring forward the last mince '•i*pushing power, and for the time being to exert strength beyond tliat nornially possessed.

As the weight steadily rises aloft, perhaps half way it wavcrs. the balance alters, and I immediately. yet vcry careftilly and (juietly, have to adjlist my position to the altered balance of the beli. Tlien I procccd with the press. my body gradually falling lower towards the left knee. my e_ves fixed all the time upon the ponderons weight balaneed over my liead, ready to fali al a rnoinent’s notice shonld I weaken or place mysclf in a false posi-tion, and >hotild at tliis moment anyone shout out, it might startle mc, make mc waver, and catise the weight to fali. Theretore, if I ani attempling a wurld's reconl in tliis position. 1 generally ask for complete silence umil I liave either lailed or succcedcd, and I might mention here tliat In think of failure is In fail, and 1 always

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