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waynexk8
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I have my own theory on this, but first would like to ask the forum. And the members answering on my other thread, this question is separate but needs to be answered first. Also I have started answering that one.
If use lift 80% of your 1RM, repetition maximum, why is it easier on a barbell than lifting the same weight if it was in a solid lump, however please this solid limp has handles just like the barbell, and its “not” at all awkward to pick up. Please take any/all of the awkwardness out of this question please.
As I notice on many things that seem to have their mass in a different position easier to pick up, and FAR FAR FAR more easy than you might think, let me try and explain.
Let’s say I can lift 350 pounds on the bench press, first I put on the 50 pound bar, 5 plates at 30 pounds each, on each side of the bar, each of the 10 plates is 1inch thick and 12 inch diameter, the lift is VERY hard.
Second I put on the 50 pound bar, just one plate of 150 pounds each side at 2 inch thick and 30 inch diameter, the lift “IS MORE” easy than the first lift, but the weight lifted is the same.
This ACTUALLY does happen to me and everyone else in real life who lifts weight, and the above was an exaggeration, as if I put any kind of bigger plates on in diameter, as to more plates on that have more mass and thickness in whole, the lift with the bigger plates is always more noticeable harder to pick up.
Wayne
If use lift 80% of your 1RM, repetition maximum, why is it easier on a barbell than lifting the same weight if it was in a solid lump, however please this solid limp has handles just like the barbell, and its “not” at all awkward to pick up. Please take any/all of the awkwardness out of this question please.
As I notice on many things that seem to have their mass in a different position easier to pick up, and FAR FAR FAR more easy than you might think, let me try and explain.
Let’s say I can lift 350 pounds on the bench press, first I put on the 50 pound bar, 5 plates at 30 pounds each, on each side of the bar, each of the 10 plates is 1inch thick and 12 inch diameter, the lift is VERY hard.
Second I put on the 50 pound bar, just one plate of 150 pounds each side at 2 inch thick and 30 inch diameter, the lift “IS MORE” easy than the first lift, but the weight lifted is the same.
This ACTUALLY does happen to me and everyone else in real life who lifts weight, and the above was an exaggeration, as if I put any kind of bigger plates on in diameter, as to more plates on that have more mass and thickness in whole, the lift with the bigger plates is always more noticeable harder to pick up.
Wayne