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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: June 18, 2003 WebWord Comment -- I lift weights several times per week. I'm not a big guy although I suppose I'm above average in terms of strength. I was talking with a friend today about this exercise and I was trying to make a point about the importance of perspective in relation to measurement. I told him that I was probably getting near the one million pound mark for lifting. He raised his eyebrow and asked me what I was talking about. I proceeded to explain that if you added up all the exercises and all the weight and all the repetitions I do on any given day, I lift about 40,000 lbs. of weight. If that wasn't interesting enough, I then said (after doing some quick mental calculations) that I only needed to lift about 25 times to reach one million pounds. Since I lift weights 4 times per week, that means that I lift about one million pounds of weight every 6 weeks. In one year, I can say that I've lifted close to 9 million pounds! How cool is that?
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Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. On a similar note, I persuaded our ten year old to present Mom a bill for candy... When being toilet trained around age 2 or 3, the Kid Unit was rewarded with a piece of candy. We worked out how many trips to the bathroom since then, and came up with a figure of something like 16,235 pieces of candy. Mom was not amused, btw. Posted by: Frank on June 19, 2003 12:09 AM
John, Enron's lookin' to hire someone for their "fancy stats" department :)! Posted by: Francis Wu on June 19, 2003 09:15 AM
How cool is that? It's not cool __at__all__... unless you're eyeing a career as a warehouse worker. Whoo-hoo! I lift heavy things! Look at me, I eat spinach! Posted by: Popeye on June 19, 2003 10:31 AM
I lift weights too and you might say I look like a truck. ;) But your statistic isn't of much value unless you're actually lifting all that at once. Can you imagine an analogy with your car? "My car has driven over 100,000 kilometres!" - well you've been putting fuel in it constantly, haven't you? ;) BTW, John, I'm curious to know how much you can lift and whether I'm better or worse off. So let's hear it. Bench, squat, leg press, bicep curls, etc. :D Posted by: MadMan on June 19, 2003 03:41 PM
I surf the web all day. The number of "excercises" my index finger does with mouse buttons is mind-boggling. On Saturdays I take my index finger to "strength training" -- it gets together with four of its peers (some are bigger than others) and they lift 12 ounce weights for hours on end. My index finger is so "muscle-bound" that it bulges between the joints. I'm hoping to enter it in the "Mr. Finger Universe" competition next fall. If you think that's cool, I should tell you about my heart, lungs, and eyelids... Posted by: Freddy Five Fingers on June 20, 2003 08:54 AM
You call your most prized appendage a "12 ounce weight?" I hope you use lubricant when you "strength train." Posted by: Wanker on June 20, 2003 10:47 AM
9 million pounds is impressive? Now tell us the tonnage of waste product ejected from your body in one year and we will truly sit back in awe. Then we'll eat a lite salad with no dressing. Posted by: Jim on June 20, 2003 11:54 PM
Staying in shape is a good thing. Ignore the jerks. Posted by: mcw on June 22, 2003 04:37 PM
Show us your research. Posted by: notmcw on June 22, 2003 08:12 PM
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