{"id":4,"date":"2017-03-09T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2017-03-09T22:07:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:07:01","slug":"ktvk-2015-03-12-pat-howden-sets-weightlifting-record-05m00s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/09\/ktvk-2015-03-12-pat-howden-sets-weightlifting-record-05m00s\/","title":{"rendered":"KTVK 2015-03-12 Pat Howden Sets Weightlifting Record 05m00s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4-1\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/44731-KTVK-2015-03-12-0915-Pat-Howden-Sets-Weightlifting-Record-05m00s.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/44731-KTVK-2015-03-12-0915-Pat-Howden-Sets-Weightlifting-Record-05m00s.mp4\">http:\/\/pathowden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/44731-KTVK-2015-03-12-0915-Pat-Howden-Sets-Weightlifting-Record-05m00s.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>A 72-year-old Valley man set a world record for weightlifting Thursday, according to Blast! Fitness in Mesa.<\/p>\n<p>At 8 a.m. Thursday, Pat Howden set out to do 5,500 nonstop tricep extensions with 8-pound weights in about 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crazy Pat,&#8221; as his friends call him, is no stranger to these types of challenges.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, he did 3,350 tricep extensions in 45 minutes at Gold&#8217;s Gym in Loveland, Colorado. He said he also did 15,000 tricep dips in one week.<\/p>\n<p>He has a scrapbook filled with articles written about him.<\/p>\n<p>It all started when he was about 50 years old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A friend of mine &#8230; he says, &#8216;Patrick, when you get to the age of 50, it&#8217;s all downhill.&#8217; I said, &#8216;What do you mean?&#8217; He said, &#8216;You&#8217;re getting old.&#8217; So, I went home and I did 22 pushups,&#8221; Howden recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Howden said that in a year&#8217;s time, he was doing 144 pushups twice a day, every other day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like the word &#8216;can&#8217;t,&#8217; &#8221; the former Marine said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not in my vocabulary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois native said he was an alcoholic and smoked three to four packs of cigarettes a day for about 30 years, but he quit it all cold turkey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I looked in the mirror and I didn&#8217;t like what I see. I don&#8217;t like that guy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Howden shares his story about alcohol and tobacco use and exercises almost every day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 72-year-old Valley man set a world record for weightlifting Thursday, according to Blast! Fitness in Mesa. At 8 a.m. Thursday, Pat Howden set out to do 5,500 nonstop tricep extensions with 8-pound weights in about 90 minutes. &#8220;Crazy Pat,&#8221; as his friends call him, is no stranger to these types of challenges. In 2010, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/09\/ktvk-2015-03-12-pat-howden-sets-weightlifting-record-05m00s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KTVK 2015-03-12 Pat Howden Sets Weightlifting Record 05m00s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pathowden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}