{"id":3151,"date":"2011-05-01T01:12:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T01:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:42:18","slug":"report-from-teh-gym-tim-squats-300-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3151","title":{"rendered":"Report from the gym &#8211; Tim squats 300 pounds."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pretty good for a 14 year old who started lifting in mid-December. Of course he has the potential to build himself up, and he&#8217;s doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday Tim broke his previous PB (personal best) of two reps at 290, by doing two reps at 300, with good form; to parallel. Joe took these two pictures as&nbsp;Tim was rising and&nbsp;lifting the weight back up on the first rep. Tim didn&#8217;t know Joe was going to take a picture; he never would have done the lifts if he knew. Next time, we&#8217;ll do a quick video (maybe at 400!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boy in the left is Michael Feeney, a friend of Tim&#8217;s who is a freshman at Fordham Prep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e2014e882d7ed7970d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12138\" title=\"Zpfile001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e2014e882d7ed7970d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e2014e882d7ed7970d-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and this &#8211; first rep done, one to go! The squat is the most important lift for a football player, but as you can see, Tim has also been doing some arm work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e20154320cdfd2970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12137\" title=\"Zpfile002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e20154320cdfd2970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e20154320cdfd2970c-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty good for a 14 year old who started lifting in mid-December. Of course he has the potential to build himself up, and he&#8217;s doing it. Yesterday Tim broke his previous PB (personal best) of two reps at 290, by doing two reps at 300, with good form; to parallel. Joe took these two pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12139,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/12139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}