>Go to Europe for holiday
>Try to get a workout in at hotel I’m staying at
>Everything is in Kg
>Their 45lb plates are actually 44lb
>2pl8 bench in Europe is 220lb
>Mfw Yurop is objectively weaker than America
AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
>Go to Europe for holiday. >Try to get a workout in at hotel Im staying at. >Everything is in Kg
They round their plates DOWN?
I'm pretty sure all the plates are labeled with the weight in kilograms but idk which country you supposedly were in.
London, plates were 20kg
why did you mention 45lb plates then? is it some american standard to use multiples of 45lbs?
Yes it is
It's because plates originated from oly lifting in Europe and the plates used metric obviously. When they started making plates in the US they kept the same weights but converted to lbs.
are you saying 45lbs plates actually weight 44,1lbs?
Typical gym 45lbs plates weigh anything between 42.5 to 47.5lbs, unless they're calibrated. But that's like 5x more expensive so very few gyms buy plates like that.
Oh and forgot to say but calibrated plates were almost always metric until fairly recently.
London.
There OP is lying.
That would have been a 3.14 stone plate because pie and because britbongs measure things in standard stones, aparently.
Americans Exposed.
you know they can just add more plates, right? are you stupid?
Ok anon. At least you weigh in lbs, some island-monkeys are using stones etc
giwtwm
They also use the metric strength scale
>Live in the US
>Have lower gravity
>Have to be fat in order not to float into space
>Need to round your weights up to try and get even close to Euro weights.
Only thing worse would be living in Indian gravity.
Europeans basically live in the Dragon Ball gravity chamber.
Ameri sisters... how do we respond without sounding mad?
best post today (european time)
>born in Papua New Guinea
>live in the jungle, killing game and harvesting scalps, throwing rocks
>get my first plane to visit the USA
>as we pass over Hawaii the plane begins to sag under my density
>I pat the American sitting beside me to calm him down
>he shatters into a million pieces
>put on a life vest and parachute and stamp, tear through the bottom of the plane
>my tribal instincts will guide me to the nearest island
>parachute shreds into nothing
>hit the big island at terminal velocity, killing all inhabitants and scattering it over a wide area
>bore through the puny American crust and mantle
>meet my long missing fellow papuans at the core
i assumed americans had plates up to 55lb, like pic related, because every euro gym has plates up to 25kg
turns out "2 plate" for an american is 40lb short of the euro equivalent. it's really just sneaky behaviour but i guess thats why they say "plates" instead of actual numbers
I actually didn't know this until I got my own weight set from a guy on the marketplace. Among them are two Weider brand 44lb plates, and the other two are regular 45lb plates.
I wish Napoleon made it to America, not because metric is better, but so I didn't have to read these dumb threads on every board twice a week about unit conversion and how its SO coconuts