New York Gov. Hochul hurts pec muscle lifting weights, needs sling
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Gov. Kathy Hochul may be the most powerful person in New York State, but she still has her limits in the weight room — something she learned the hard way Tuesday.
Hochul, wearing a white sling at an event in upstate Watervliet on Wednesday, said she had torn her pectoral muscle lifting weights in the gym a day earlier.
She said the mishap came after she pursued a New Year’s resolution — to lift 80 pounds, up from her 70 usual. She further inflamed the tear at the doctor, she said.
“I’m not ready to play with the Buffalo Bills on Sunday — I’m going to have to be on injured reserve,” Hochul, a Buffalo Democrat, joked to reporters at a news conference focused on education policy.
“I thought for my New Year’s resolution I could go to 80,” she added. “And my body said no to 80.”
The health-conscious 65-year-old Democrat said her last major injury came on a ski trail when she broke her ribs.
Smiling broadly, she expressed a measure of pride in her weight-lifting effort.
“You don’t think 80 pounds of weightlifting is pretty damn good for someone my age?” Hochul said, laughing. “I’ll be fine.”
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