Now, I've never been accused of being athletic, so maybe this is something the coach forces you to learn or something, but the specific way they dealt with that in the movie seemed fairly convincing to me. In the weightlifting scene, it looked like Bruce Willis's level of effort was approaching what would normally be signs you were hitting your limit - but then adding more on top of that didn't change the level of effort required. So he'd be lifting like 150 lbs or something (again, not an athlete, so I don't know what a college football player can be expected to lift) and feel like he couldn't do any more weight or reps, but then you could put another 150 lbs on, and if you didn't tell him, he'd do the exact same thing and not notice much difference, if any at all. He thought he'd reached his limits, but it turns out there was a long tail to his performance.Josh_Kablack wrote:So with all the marketing around Glass, I want to remind folks that Unbreakable had a character who didn't know what his weightlifting limits were, despite that character having previously played football competetively at the college level in the US of A.
Do football players have to exert to failure or something like that when they're training, which would guarantee that they'd just keep adding weight until he absolutely couldn't do a single rep or, alternately, got the attention of either Charles Xavier or S.H.I.E.L.D.?
