"geek_girl" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:Myraide said:Spammers_Should_Be_Shot said:"Myraide" <[email hidden]> wrote
> Hi all!
> does anybody know the weight of the stable bar that is attached to
> the
> machine? there is a free bar, the olympic bar, which i know weighs
> forty five pounds.
>
> but what does the other one weigh? i have searched on the net and
> have
> come up with anywhere from ten to twenty two pounds.....but nothing
> conclusive.
>
> the model serial number is: 888107.
>
> i would like to know the exact weight i am pressing and not just
> guess
> at it.
>
> thanks in advance if anyone knows. if not, next step is to call
> Parabody. myraide
>
It's a friggin' smith machine, so the weight isn't real-world weight!
Who
gives a [censored] what you can lift on a machine as it doesn't translate.
thank you for your kind advice for a girl that just started working
with weight lifting. myraide
Put it in the "cruel to be kind" category. If you stick around here,
you'll be doing that a lot. But he's right; it doesn't matter. As long
as the weight you're putting on the bar is going up over time, for most
purposes, it doesn't matter if you know how much the bar weighs. It
only matters if you're competing or planning to compete in lifting,
which you're obviously not doing since you're using the Smith machine,
or if you're working up to lifting some particular item outside of the
gym, which you're probably not doing, again, since you're using the
machine, and also because in most circumstances the bench press
movement has very little direct carryover to real-world movements.
And, anyway, shouldn't girls be practicing real-world movements like
cooking, cleaning, shopping for their man's food and beer, kegels, etcetera?
Dav...uh, I mean, Hank, yeah, Hank, that's me
