Comment on Weight Lifting: How are you supposed to know the weights of unlabled things?

Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Kinglink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now lift it up 12 more times. You’ve done a set… do it four more times, move on to the next object.

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• morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is a great method if you own the object in question… Sounds like OP is curious about equipment at their gym though.

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Halosheep@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or, just put the thing on the scale?

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Many scales won’t register low weights, that’s what this method is for.

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