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[Sam Ashen]

20 fluid ounces... ounces and fluid ounces are different.

 

http://www.differencebetween.net/science/mathematics-statistics/difference-between-fluid-ounces-and-ounces/

 

and it's 8.34 pounds to be exact.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon

 

Unless you are talking about the Imperial Gallon

 

The imperial gallon[edit] The imperial (UK) gallon, now defined as exactly 4.54609 litres (about 277.42 cubic inches), is used in some Commonwealth countries and was originally based on the volume of 10pounds (approximately 4.54 kg) of water at 62 Â°F (17 Â°C). The imperial fluid ounce is defined as ¹â„₁₆₀ of an imperial gallon; there are four quarts in a gallon, two pints in a quart, and 20 fluid ounces in an imperial pint.

10 pounds.  However.  Saying "Imperial Gallon" pretty much betrays national origin.  

 

UK fluid ounces are different from US fluid ounces (welcome to why Imperial measurements are insane).  UK fluid ounces are 28.4ml, US fluid ounces are 29.6ml. UK pints are 568ml, US pints are 473ml.

 

I just looked at it.  Ya it's correct.

 

If I recall correctly

25kg are red

20kg are blue

15kg are yellow

10kg are green

5kg are white

2.5kg are black and

1.25kg are silver.

 

I don't know if the color coding corresponds to something in particular.

 

Added the spoiler to make it shorter.  Thanks!  Looks like the color coding makes it easier to know I loaded both sides the same.  It has happened a couple of times where I pick up the bar and WTF?  It is not balanced.  Check the plates.  35 pounds on one side and 25 pounds on the other.  Oops.  Now I can look at some of these videos and have a better idea how much weight is involved.  Maybe one day I will come up with a crazy mnemonic.

 

Do all NF threads eventually descend to cats or beer?

 

I have been here not quite one month.  Is this the trend?

[insanity]

Do all NF threads eventually descend to cats or beer?

No... there's one that's currently in "What would you do if you would lose you penis in 30 days?" So that's different... :-)

[SpecialSundae]

I have been here not quite one month.  Is this the trend?

 

Warrior threads are basically cats, bacon, steak and beer.

 

And barbells.

[summer child]

If I recall correctly

25kg are red

20kg are blue

15kg are yellow

10kg are green

5kg are white

2.5kg are black and

1.25kg are silver.

 

I don't know if the color coding corresponds to something in particular.

 

 

Also, pounds, ounces, gallons, etc are a major source of confusion to me.

This is pretty accurate, sometimes the 5kg are black and the 2,5kg silver.

[SpecialSundae]

This is pretty accurate, sometimes the 5kg are black and the 2,5kg silver.

 

And in my weird gym the 5kg are orange, 2.5kg are red and 1.25kg are blue.

[AugustaAdaByron]

However, you'd still be surprised at how much people can mess up when loading the barbell even with color coded plates.

[insanity]

However, you'd still be surprised at how much people can mess up when loading the barbell even with color coded plates.

Make something idiot proof and they just build a better idiot.

[redtomato501]

Warrior threads are basically cats, bacon, steak and beer.

 

And barbells.

 

And that is why i love the Warriors. So many wonderful things!

[Trewest]

I should take a picture to show you all how messed up the weight racks at my work gym are. No one knows on how to stack them back where they belong. It makes me twitchy sometimes.

[insanity]

I should take a picture to show you all how messed up the weight racks at my work gym are. No one knows on how to stack them back where they belong. It makes me twitchy sometimes.

Mine has 2 racks, but you would think the curl bar, barbells, and power rack were all part of it... :-D

[summer child]

I should take a picture to show you all how messed up the weight racks at my work gym are. No one knows on how to stack them back where they belong. It makes me twitchy sometimes.

Sounds like the place I do my workouts atm.. It is sort of a low cost training on your own risk sort of thing, so they have one employed person and customers that are too lazy to put stuff back where it belongs.

[Trewest]

Sounds like the place I do my workouts atm.. It is sort of a low cost training on your own risk sort of thing, so they have one employed person and customers that are too lazy to put stuff back where it belongs.

We have 1 employee who takes care of it, and she's only in on Fridays. The rest of the time, you're on your own. It makes for some INTERESTING finagaling that occurs.

[Sam Ashen]

Sounds like the place I do my workouts atm.. It is sort of a low cost training on your own risk sort of thing, so they have one employed person and customers that are too lazy to put stuff back where it belongs.

 

I thought that was unique to the gym I go to.  What is with this?  It does not even take one minute to rack your stuff and everybody knows you are done and does not have to waste a few seconds asking who is using that bar.

[Obitim]

Someone managed to forget his spare underwear today so ended up training commando...

 

That someone was me, thank the lord for shorts lining...

[Artinum]

Pounds are... I don't know what they represent. But they're a pain. Without looking it up, how many pounds does a gallon of water weigh? How many cubic feet would it take up?

 

US Gallon or Imperial Gallon?

 

And this just makes it even worse!!!

 

Well, pennies and pounds don't go together.

Sure they do. They're money.

Yeah, but one's American and one's English.

They have pennies in England.

No, they don't. They're metric.

 

...um?

We have pennies in England. It's America that misuses the term. Yours are cents. And America had metric currency long before England (which makes the American resistance to the metric system anywhere else utterly baffling).

[Obitim]

"Roll of shame" should be renamed "Badass roll" or similar. After all it indicates you are going harder than everyone else.

 

Roll of Fame?

[Oramac]

Make something idiot proof and they just build a better idiot.

 

[Squidwina]

I'll get the KG version of the chart up tomorrow.  The templates are at work, and today is a SNOW DAY! 

 

Which would be wonderful, except I really wanted to get to the gym.  I guess this would be a good day to do the Recruit Workout from over at Nerd Fitness Academy. I haven't gotten around to doing it yet.

 

 

Do all NF threads eventually descend to cats or beer?

 

You say that like it's a bad thing.  

 

I thought that was unique to the gym I go to.  What is with this?  It does not even take one minute to rack your stuff and everybody knows you are done and does not have to waste a few seconds asking who is using that bar.

 

I kind of wonder whether it's a macho show-off kind of thing.  "What kind of wimp can't bench with the big plates on the bar?"  Not for warm-up sets, jerkbutt!

 

(Well, I can't do it for working sets either, but that's not the point.)

 

Leaving the weight on the bar isn't merely annoying for a lot of people. It's a real problem.  Not everybody can easily handle a 45 lb plate, especially if it's not a grip plate.  I can move a 45, but it's a bit tiring to have to sling around too many of them in one session. I also have to be careful of one-sided movements right now due to a little back issue.  The weight room is a bit crowded with equipment, so I often have to reach in and pull it off one-handed.  That's not good.  If I have to twist a little to load it for my own sets, that's my own problem, but I really really don't like risking aggravating my back because someone else is a lazy asshole.

[Br0din]

Someone managed to forget his spare underwear today so ended up training commando...

 

That someone was me, thank the lord for shorts lining...

 

I train commando almost all the time.  

[Nubbins McGee]

I train commando almost all the time.

I have been Commando for the last 21 years*

*<-- graduate of French Commando school, 1994.

[Br0din]

I have been Commando for the last 21 years*

*<-- graduate of French Commando school, 1994.

is that the equivalent of the US Ranger school?  

[Nubbins McGee]

Equivalent? No. Ranger school is much longer which alone makes it harder.

Similar? Yes. In some ways. Think "Ranger lite".

[Sam Ashen]

Also, pounds, ounces, gallons, etc are a major source of confusion to me.

 

Would it be better if I say the big plates weigh 200 Newtons?

[summer child]

Would it be better if I say the big plates weigh 200 Newtons?

Or to make it even messier 200kg x m/s^2?

[Sam Ashen]

This story

 

Thread's getting a little to lifty for me to add much, so I'll throw a treadmill story in

 

"How fast?" I replied, subtly suggesting that D'Wife sneak a peek at the pixie's dashboard. Because, you KNOW, I had to race her

 

and this story

 

I train commando almost all the time.

 

do.  not.  mix.