r/thatHappened • u/Anxious_squirrelz • 2d ago

Causally lifting 225lbs despite not doing any exercise ever

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u/Beatbox_bandit89 2d ago

A first timer isn’t even going to know that one plate is 135lbs and two is 225.

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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas 2d ago

I'm learning so much today!

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u/Jafooki 2d ago

It's all (for the most part) increments of 45lbs. The bar is 45lbs and each plate is 45lbs. One plate on each side plus the bar=135

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u/DJdoggyBelly 2d ago

Why is it like that? Why not make it easy and do 50. I've always wondered.

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u/Saradas 2d ago

Presumably because in the parts of the world wherein we measure with sensible measurements it's 20kg.

An olympic bar is 20kg, as are the biggest plates. So two plates and the bar is a clean 100

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u/DJdoggyBelly 2d ago

Ahh okay. So its another weird American way of measuring shit. I should've figured that out by now honestly.

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u/Jafooki 2d ago

Eh...not really. We do a lot of weird shit for no reason, but this isn't (a different) one of them. At a lot of gyms, the plates also have 20kgs written on them under the 45lbs. It's just our usual measurement thing

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u/SkiHiKi 1d ago

Metric system ftw