The latter had set a new world record in the dead lift: eleven hundred and seventeen pounds.

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Mr. Martin's weight routine includes the dead lift and the squat, as well as the overhead Bulgarian squat.

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He can squat almost twice his weight and dead-lift 450 pounds.

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He promised to lift the dead hand of the state from Italian enterprise and slash the surly bonds of taxation.

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And vocals, bathed in old-school reverb, that lift Waits out of the gutter long enough for him to channel the ghost of some long-dead early rock idol.

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