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  • Member For: 16y 2m 7d
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Think of the bar weight this way. If someone asks you if your benching 2 plates or 3 plates, they are talking 100kg and 140kg respectively, not 80kg and 120kg. (1 plate meaning 20kg/45lb and also meaning how many plates a side)

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  • Member For: 19y 11m 25d
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Guy at work started gym last week.. Taller then me but a rake,, and reckons hes already doing 50kg shoulder presses.. This was brought up because he said he was laughing at a massive guy lifting 12.5kg plates for shoulder press

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  • Member For: 15y 9m 11d
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Its probably 50lbs, and he thinks its kgs. We will see how long he goes before having a rotar cuff injury

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Guy at work started gym last week.. Taller then me but a rake,, and reckons hes already doing 50kg shoulder presses.. This was brought up because he said he was laughing at a massive guy lifting 12.5kg plates for shoulder press

I'd say most likely he's using a machine with a number of pulleys that has 50 kg selectable via a stack. Sounds stupid to assume that someone would think a machine is directly comparable to free weights but I've heard it happen before.

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  • Member For: 14y 4m 1d
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Yeh for sure.. Pulleys is cheating I rekon. Free weights make you so much stronger for everyday activities than pulleys do. Theres a big difference between gym strong and everyday strong..

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  • Member For: 16y 2m 7d
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In other words, functional strength versus absolute strength :P

Your mate could also be doing half/quarter reps thinking that counts as a full rep.

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^^ exactly... Haha. Pulleys are useful... Sometimes. But comparing them to free weights if he actually was is pretty funny.

I do 120kg lat pulldowns, but stuff having 60kg strapped to me to-do Pupullups! I'd be lucky to do 6 with 15kg

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  • Member For: 19y 11m 25d
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He reckons free weight.. Hes maco do talks alot of sh*t..

Your not wrong with the more pullys less resistance thing. I was doing tri's the other day and normally do 17.5 pull downs.. Machine was taken so used a different one with f*ckload of pullys.. Was doing 32.5kg on it

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  • Member For: 17y 9m 14d
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  • Location: Victoria
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Even with doing only half reps, he won't be doing 50keg presses.

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