When you tell people how much you lift...

[Stazy]

Do you include the weight of the barbell or just the total weight of the plates?

 

[Eason]

The total weight. Or you say "two plates, 3 plates" if you're doing full plates, but that's not often.

 

[Stazy]

For some reason it pisses me off when people include the weight of the barbell.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by Stazy

For some reason it pisses me off when people include the weight of the barbell.

You lift the barbell, don't you?

Maybe I've just been doing it wrong...

 

[Joffrey]

I include the weight of the barbell.

 

[holymadness]

Barbell is 45lbs. iirc. That's a hefty chunk of my lift.

 

[Stazy]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

You lift the barbell, don't you?

Maybe I've just been doing it wrong...

Haha I know, but EVERYONE lifts the barbell so including it seems kind of pointless. It's the weight of the plates that is really meaningful...

 

[JoeWoah]

Originally Posted by Stazy

Haha I know, but EVERYONE lifts the barbell so including it seems kind of pointless. It's the weight of the plates that is really meaningful...

It doesn't make sense to do it any other way. You may be the only person who does this.

 

[Arch Stanton]

Shoot, i add the barbell the clamps and about 40% to what i can actually lift. I need all the help I can get! And i swear the plates at my gym are heavier than any otherv gym!

 

[Viktri]

Originally Posted by Stazy

Do you include the weight of the barbell or just the total weight of the plates?

So if you're lifting just the bar, you say 0lbs?

Originally Posted by Arch Stanton

Shoot, i add the barbell the clamps and about 40% to what i can actually lift. I need all the help I can get! And i swear the plates at my gym are heavier than any otherv gym!

nice 1

 

[Arch Stanton]

In all seriousness, used to be a heavy lifter back in the day and competed in a couple of amateur powerlifting competitions. They counted the bar in the total weight. So i say count the bar.

 

[why]

Why would you not count the bar?

 

[Threak]

Originally Posted by why

Why would you not count the bar?

It might make the math too complicated for some of the guys at the gym.

 

[Stazy]

Originally Posted by Viktri

So if you're lifting just the bar, you say 0lbs?
If you can only lift the bar, you should just lie about your lifting abilities.

Originally Posted by Arch Stanton

In all seriousness, used to be a heavy lifter back in the day and competed in a couple of amateur powerlifting competitions. They counted the bar in the total weight. So i say count the bar.
Now that I know it's standard to include the weight of the bar I guess I can accept it. lol

 

[Stazy]

Originally Posted by why

Why would you not count the bar?

For some reason I thought it was "standard" in the fitness world to just count the total weight of the plates. I'm not sure where I picked this up but that was my impression. I was talking to someone about this today and they told me I was crazy. Clearly Style Forum has confirmed their suspicions.