What do you mean regarding how much weight you are usin...

[Trela]

Cathe,
In your videos when you are using a barbell, when you mention that you are using 35lbs, etc. - does that mean you are using 35lbs TOTAL on the barbell or 35lbs on EACH END? I'm confused about that - can you tell me which you mean? THANKS!

 

[meowracer]

Obviously not Cathe here, but...It means a total of 35 lbs, including the weight of the bar. They use a Troy Light, I believe, which weighs 5 lbs and the weights are much larger-wider than traditional BB weights. I have to bars - one weighs 12lbs (even though the box says it weighs 15) and one weighs 15, so check the weight on yours to calculate the total amount you are lifting.

 

[irish196]

You don't know HOW HAPPY this post has made me!! I always thought that the weight she says she is lifting is only the weight on the ends of the barbell (i.e. did not include the weight of the barbell) and I have thought that I have been a total wuss because I was really struggling with a lesser weight. Now I know that I have been lifting almost what she has the whole time (I have a 15 pnd. bar)and I am not such a wimp

YAY ME!!

 

[netsnotes]

Thanks for answering that, now that makes total sense!


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