[movement] in which I am surprised

[kaberett]

Today I toddled along to the gym and I reminded myself how one is supposed to fold around the bar for deadlifts and I ran through my carefully pre-written warm-up and when it came time for working weight I added two 2.5kg plates to the 10kg bumpers already on the bar, for a total -- presumably -- of 45kg. (I am still mildly concerned that the bar cannot possibly really be 20kg, surely, but I am Fairly Certain that that's the anxiety.)

It was not until I got home that I contemplated the unit conversion and realised........ that that's 99.2 lb. HAD I REALISED AT THE TIME, I bemoaned, I MIGHT HAVE STUCK AN EXTRA 0.5KG ON, just to get the bonus nice round number!

Whereupon The Liftcord introduced me to the concept of "the hundoburger" (reach a milestone of a multiple of 100lb on a lift; celebrate with burger) and tried to gently encourage me to consider this. I was Extremely Tempted by this prospect because we had not meal planned for today and my entire thoughts about dinner came down to "... cauliflower???" but, but, The Autism was insistent that I had not actually reached the milestone.

I contemplated Options. Options include: the Nando's is about halfway to the gym. Get to Nando's, place an order, sneak off to do one more quick lift while food was being prepared, come back and eat burger, maybe? Just leave it until Monday when I'm next due to deadlift?

AND THEN I REALISED: THERE WERE SPRING COLLARS ON THE BAR AS WELL. (Their function is to prevent the plates sliding off the end of the bar if you wind up not lifting the thing perfectly evenly, or if you're lifting enough weight that the bar bends slightly.)

Next job: work out how much a typical spring collar weighs! ... and in the time it took me to get mildly frustrated searching the internet, someone in the Liftcord had grabbed theirs and stuck it on a scale. Just under 8oz! So the two of them were probably most of an extra pound, where what I needed was 12 oz.

I decreed this good enough, and thus dinner was a beetroot burger in the back garden of the pub most of the way down the hill, and lo, it was good. :)

Comments

[redbird]

Well done!

Also, what goes into a beetroot burger? Is it just slices of cooked beetroot, the way a mushroom sandwich can be a large portobello mushroom cap, grilled, plus cheese, onions, lettuce, whatever you like along those lines?

Hmmmm

[jesse_the_k]

How does a person decorate their well-earned burger?

Cheese? Pickle?

[cosmolinguist]

I'm such a gym himbo (gymbo) that I have to thank you for teaching me the word spring collar. Because for like three years I've been calling them "that thing..." while I make the pinchy motion with my hands and look around for one.

[vass]

Congratulations on your burger!

[rydra_wong]

I am still mildly concerned that the bar cannot possibly really be 20kg, surely, but I am Fairly Certain that that's the anxiety.

It's not 100% impossible because sometimes gyms will also have "women's" bars which are 15kg (and a bit shorter).

But it sounds more likely to be the anxiety.

ETA: forgot to say congrats on the burger, which was well-earned regardless.

[rmc28]

Hurrah!

[gingicat]

That sounds amazing!

[umadoshi]

I decreed this good enough, and thus dinner was a beetroot burger in the back garden of the pub most of the way down the hill, and lo, it was good. :)

It very much sounds good enough. Yay, tasty burger!

[phi]

The bar probably doesn't actually weigh 20kg even. It's not a precision instrument. So if all your kit is manufactured to, say, a 2% tolerance you may have easily cleared 100lbs. (Or you may want to say you don't hit the milestone until you've pulle 102 nominal pounds 😆)

[ofearthandstars]

Lol, I can relate to doing all the maths and being absolutely frustrated that the conversions aren't rounded to my liking. E.g., sometimes my trainer rounds the bar up to 45 lbs, which drives me batty. Also our gym is a mix of weights in lbs and kg, and while I don't mind doing the conversions I do sometimes wish they would pick a lane to keep things simpler when stacking things on the bar.

Well done on lifting! I hope the burger was tasty.

[kaberett]

Yeah nah they're all the same length and weight!

[rydra_wong]

Yeah, then it's 20! also yay deadlifts!