Comment on Weight Lifting: How are you supposed to know the weights of unlabled things?
morphballganon@lemmy.world 3 months agoThis is a great method if you own the object in question… Sounds like OP is curious about equipment at their gym though.
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.