This is a great method if you own the object in question… Sounds like OP is curious about equipment at their gym though.
Comment on Weight Lifting: How are you supposed to know the weights of unlabled things?
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Step on a scale holding whatever you want to weigh.
Put down the thing
Step on a scale not holding the thing you want to weigh.
Subtract the second number from the first.
I realized I didn’t need a special scale to weigh light things if I just did it like that.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I was under the impression most gyms had a scale, but I have a sample size of one gym that I’ve ever been to, and that gym had a scale.
Maybe that’s not as common as I imagined it was.
Halosheep@lemm.ee 3 months ago
My gym has a scale, but not a digital one and it would be… Unusual, if not somewhat dangerous, to bring a bar across the entire place to where it’s placed.
I can see reasons why they wouldn’t want to do that, even if there is a scale.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Unusual? Sure.
Dangerous? Are you planning to carry it perpendicular to your body? That’s like how a car is dangerous if you drive it on the sidewalk.
howrar@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Depends on your gym layout I guess. I’ve done this a few times when the bar weight felt off at a new gym. Do what you need to do. Don’t let the fear of weird looks deter you.
howrar@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
OP is looking for the weight of the bar on a smith machine, which means they’ll have to take the scale with them to the machine. That’s definitely not going to fly in most gyms.
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Or, just put the thing on the scale?
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Many scales won’t register low weights, that’s what this method is for.
Kinglink@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Now lift it up 12 more times. You’ve done a set… do it four more times, move on to the next object.