in one day

wheelchair or in a rocking chair in a nursing home, that they could live an active life.”

“When I hit 570 pounds, it was a big deal,” he recalled. “I called everybody in the gym to come look at what I’d done. Then one Saturday we went up to 800 pounds. Then later my doctor who was working with me got me up to 1,500. I went up 1,400, 1,500, 1,600, 1,700 … in one day. The last time, it was one lift, I went 2,000 pounds.”

“But I didn’t do it with the same form that these professional bodybuilders do, which is a full squat, and it’s very difficult,” Robertson said. “But I did do it. I regularly can do 1,000 pounds and 1,200 pounds.”