Strength History Minute Joe Dube is an athlete I learned about from conversation with John Broz at US Weightlifting Nationals. Broz basically ruined my day and the idea that I’m good at squats when he told me about Dube squatting 770×17. It has since been confirmed that it was actually 710×17, but either way a monstrous feat of squatting, particularly when you consider that this was done in the late 60s or early 70s, and, at most the supportive gear was a weightlifting belt (thinner and less sup