How much can you bench?

[pies]

Bench press.

[pianistimo]

i can lift my piano bench.

[ilikepie]

i can lift my piano bench.

I can lift my piano bench, WITH the books inside.

[pianowolfi]

I can lift my piano bench with the books...wait I have no books inside... with a six year old sitting on it. 

[nicco]

I can lift my piano bench with myself sitting on it. Hah.

[thalbergmad]

Well over 400lbs at my peak 20 years ago.

Much better at deadlift, 650lbs.

Don't do much heavy stuff now, but i easily benched 320lbs last week.

Thal

[pianistimo]

the benches are covered - now the piano mover is here.

*have you ever seen anyone try to move a piano with the wheels all at angles.  it's very funny.

[johnny-boy]

Is a bench press anything like a wine press? I love wine, but I don't think I'd care for benches.

John

[leahcim]

Well over 400lbs at my peak 20 years ago.

...and what do you weigh now?

[thalbergmad]

...and what do you weigh now?

hahahahahahaha

[ahinton]

hahahahahahaha

What's that in metric?

Best,

Alistair

[dnephi]

What's that in metric?

Best,

Alistair

hahaha=true.  True = 1.  Therefore hahahahahaha=(1)(1), and therefore 1.  However, that's unitless, so we need to make up a conversion factor.  How about c=1=3*10^8 m/s.  Then we can use the Constant G to find Kilograms in terms of seconds, and from there we can plug back in m/s into c=1, and then we'll have a benchpress mass.  Right?  Anyone wanna do this?

[thalbergmad]

A post of Hintonesque complexity.

[zheer]

  The last time i went to the gym, sheesh ove a month ago, i could do 70KG 10 times easy, the max was 80KG + only once. Am not tall or big infact my weight is 70KG, but am an X kick Boxer, no joke, seriously. Had to stop fear of wrist injury, punching heavy bags not alaways a good idea.

[ahinton]

hahahahahahaha

What's that in metric?

hahaha=true.  True = 1.  Therefore hahahahahaha=(1)(1), and therefore 1.  However, that's unitless, so we need to make up a conversion factor. How about c=1=3*10^8 m/s. Then we can use the Constant G to find Kilograms in terms of seconds, and from there we can plug back in m/s into c=1, and then we'll have a benchpress mass. Right? Anyone wanna do this?

Sorry, "dnephi", but what I wrote here cannot, in and of itself, be "true" (or, as you express it in this strange language that some forummers use, "true") per se, because I asked a question, yet only a statement and not a question can, in and of itself be, by definition, "true". The remainder of your pseudo-mathematical conclusions are nevertheless amusing, at the very least; what neither they nor my small question succeed in revealing, however, is "Thal"'s actual avoirdupois - so that must remain something of which we must all remain unaware or which he will divulge to us all if he so chooses. Frankly, the specific statistics of (non-Neander-)"Thal"'s physical weight are of no concern or interest to me, although I was - as other readers may well have been - highly amused, with good reason,  by "leahcim"'s question here...

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

strange language that some forummers use
Best,

Alistair

Indeed it may be (for some), but i suspect that others (who might wish to remain anonymous), could submit a case (or cases) that your own language (or style) could be deemed to be strange.

For any forummers who are interested (and also for those who are not) my current weight is a slim (or not so slim) 246 lbs.

Big Thal

[dnephi]

In my class on Special Relativity we actually proved that the Sun had a mass of 5 Seconds.  This is the world of Mathematicians, and I was therefore parodying it, along with the other languages I tiptoed through.

[ahinton]

Indeed it may be (for some), but i suspect that others (who might wish to remain anonymous), could submit a case (or cases) that your own language (or style) could be deemed to be strange.

For any forummers who are interested (and also for those who are not) my current weight is a slim (or not so slim) 246 lbs.

Big Thal

Dear Thalberggrand (mais not mad),

"My" language is at least English, whereas the other "language" to which I implicity referred appears to have an even less obviously categorisable and identifiable provenance (and is also, as far as I know, not officially taught anywhere as a "foerign language", however "foreign" it is or may seem to be...)

Now, come on, tell us - what's 246lbs. in metric (for any forummers who are interested [and also - just, er, "possibly" - for those who are not])?

Best,

Alistair

[pies]

Now, come on, tell us - what's 246lbs. in metric

https://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com

[thalbergmad]

just, er, "possibly"

Now i've seen it all.

ahinton using SDC lingo.

Thal

[gilad]

i went to gym a few times. the results were very discouraging, whilst benching on da press, a few ants managed to wrestle the bar out my hands and run off with the weight thing. In my defense they were very powerful ants, and there were 3 of them.
But on a serious note, I have a bad back when it comes to anything over 25 kgs. I go into terrible spasm between my shoulder blades. Also I hated having to take weights off when the senior citizens finished up before me, and then seeing the gym moms add on weights when I was finished. In the jungle of the built body I am but a twig, or the veins in a leaf. But the babes still dig me body(:
.

[leahcim]

But on a serious note, I have a bad back when it comes to anything over 25 kgs. I go into terrible spasm between my shoulder blades.

You think that's bad, but I have nearly the same problem with piano keys.

That said, 20 years ago I reckon I could have run a lot further with my slightly less than 400lb load

...and as Bernhard would say it's technique really, in 3 years I could lift a house. A six year old and an elephant make the same noise or is it the same amount of noise? [I'm not 100% sure with that last one]

[ahinton]

https://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com

This was a joke - as I'm sure Thal himself understands (I don't know if you do) - for I know perfectly well what 246lbs. is in kg., thanks...

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

...and as Bernhard would say it's technique really, in 3 years I could lift a house.

Indeed, using the Bernhard/Chang secrets of powerlifting method.

But perhaps, if any sport was designed for brute force and ignorance, powerlifting might be it.

Perhaps thats why i did it.

Thal

[ahinton]

Now i've seen it all.

ahinton using SDC lingo.

Thal

Oh, I sincerely hope that you have not really "seen it all"; if you had, there'd be nothing left for you to see, which would of course be a most sad situation for the remainder of your hopefully long life.

As to the use of what you term "SDC lingo", please note that, not only is this means of expression not - nor is it ever likely to become - my customary one, I had good reason to add " " either side of the one word concerned (but I'm sure you already appreciate this!...)

Best,

Alistair

[jspash]

thalbergmad, that's pretty good for a 549 year old woman!

[thalbergmad]

thalbergmad, that's pretty good for a 549 year old woman!

Oh, must remember to adjust my profile.

Thanks

Thal

[pies]

This was a joke - as I'm sure Thal himself understands (I don't know if you do) - for I know perfectly well what 246lbs. is in kg., thanks...

Best,

Alistair

A joke? You fail at humor.

[ahinton]

A joke? You fail at humor.

In your view, apparently - and on this occasion; your remark (whose validity for you I do not at all seek to doubt or undermine) does not alter the motivation for mine, which is just as I said it was - I could not have been serious with what I wrote in the way in which I wrote it...

I really wouldn't worry about it if I were you...

Best,

Alistair

[leahcim]

A joke? You fail at humor.

You need to think "at" rather than "with", then it works

[ahinton]

You need to think "at" rather than "with", then it works

Poor "leahcim"; he can't apparently even bring himself to resist criticising a tiny detail of the way you write in order to make yet another point that he doesn't actually have. Par for the course, one may suppose; at least one must applaud his consistency (or must one? - well, at least one must recognise it)...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

my five year old daughter feels about 45 -50 lbs already.  she is tall and thin - but heavy bones or something.  i can lift her out of the car. does that count?  i can no longer carry her into the house - so if she is dead asleep - i've learned to help her sleepwalk. 

[gruffalo]

not much. i have managed 70 Kilos on a regular basis, i dont count flukes or weights that i can get one day and not another.  i weigh 65kilos.

gruff