Comment on PROTEIN BRO
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Sometimes followed by the most cursed unit…grams per pound…
My favorite stupid unit of measurement is “A gram of protein per cm of height” for protein intake for very overweight people who have no idea what their lean body mass is or should be.
It sounds ridiculous but for 90% of people it puts you within 10% of correct and usually errs on the high side.
Doesnt really sound cursed? Seems like a usefull unit. With this logic mols are also cursed(tbf they are) but its easier to explain to people so…
It’s cursed because if you’re not gonna use metric, then don’t use it.
Do drams per pound of body weight or something like that. Still cursed because it’s not metric, but less so.
Or do the thing that’ll make everyone* happy, just use metric.
(*me, personally)
Moles are somewhat cursed, but we do need some standard number of molecules, else all our chemistry would be in insanely large numbers. May as well make it something related to the gram.
Though, in fairness, I will grant, it’s one of the less metric-y units out there since atomic weights aren’t perfect round numbers anyway, other than carbon.
Perhaps we could have standardised a mole as 1x10^10^ molecules. Ah well
Mols should not be an SI unit. Why not make 3 an SI unit?? Or 47?? NUMBERS AREN’T UNITS!!
Yeah dipshits, gravity is pounds per gram
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Is that actually a unit that I have just never heard of or am I being dumb and not getting sarcasm? I really hope thats a fake unit
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
i could see it in a dosage situation. like grams of steroids per pound of user. sure, it’s goofy to mix metric and imperial, but that’s just what those two things are commonly measured with in America. time spent doing unit conversations is time spent not lifting.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Yeah exactly it’s often used as grams of protein per pound of bodyweight for recommending protein intake.
Aquila@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
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Tungsten5@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’m not sure how to feel about that part. But I can’t say you’re wrong. I try to stay away from anh US customary units. As most would agree, they kinda suck in comparison to SI
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
that’s fair, but all the equipment and scales in their gym will be labeled in pounds.
Delphia@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Its a pretty common unit when it comes to discussing dietary protein around bodybuilding and fitness because 1g per lb is a super easy conversion for people to remember. Its kind of the golden number because even for people not getting the best sources of protein 1g per lb almost guarantees anyone other than edge cases and steroid users are getting more than enough to support optimum growth and recovery.
ftbd@feddit.org 4 months ago
I’ve only seen g/kg which is less cursed. This is about the amount of protein you should eat relative to your body mass. But since this is a recommendation for daily intake, I would love to see gymbros use the SI version of g/kg/day, namely 1/s.
SpongyAneurism@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 months ago
As a european, I love to hate on the imperial system. But expressing that ratio in units that you actually use when measuring the thing makes sense.
It’s not like you’re actually doing fancy maths with it, just cross-multiplication.
If you don’t conveniently know your body weight in kg, you might as well remember the ratio in relation to lbs.
ftbd@feddit.org 4 months ago
You’re right, it just feels weird to me to use grams for one measurement and pounds for another
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Dad was a gym rat, and it is absolutely a real thing.