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icedquinn@blob.cat
i did find around two vendors still selling traditional weight plates and dumb/bar bells, so.
the memey kettlebell is just gonna have to do for the time being though. (at the time i got them they were on sale and it was closer to covid. i didn't know you could still get the old plate dumbbells + a kettlebell adapter for them to hold them funny.) i don't know that 'd recommend that unit these days (its a handle with a plastic case and some preset plates.)
apparently there is a whole math to adding up different weight sizes. egh.
the memey kettlebell is just gonna have to do for the time being though. (at the time i got them they were on sale and it was closer to covid. i didn't know you could still get the old plate dumbbells + a kettlebell adapter for them to hold them funny.) i don't know that 'd recommend that unit these days (its a handle with a plastic case and some preset plates.)
apparently there is a whole math to adding up different weight sizes. egh.
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snacks
@icedquinn make sure that all the smaller weights combined are whatever weight you wanna increment less than the next one and you can have smooth progression ig
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@icedquinn also, i still don't know what the point of kettlebells is
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icedquinn@blob.cat
@snacks the point is they got a big grippy handle and you can get pretty strong just swinging it with your hips and doing squats.
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icedquinn@blob.cat
@snacks mass is mass 
there's some handles these days thats just the hook top on a dumbbell rod, or a clamp for a dumbbell. if i had to do it over again i'd probably just do that.
there's some handles these days thats just the hook top on a dumbbell rod, or a clamp for a dumbbell. if i had to do it over again i'd probably just do that.
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icedquinn@blob.cat
@snacks the classical rods have been kind of buried in the marketing. family keeps going "but we have static ones" and amazon really wants to push you towards bowflex mechanical horrors. "put a heavy thing on a stick" you have to go out of your way to find.
bands seem to be a whole argument. i did put in an order for some and read a bit. the results are very.. mixed.
some of the weight plates have a "grip" format, now, so they basically have handles in the cast. was thinking about how silly this is but it does mean you could skip the dumbbell at first. if you were povertymaxxing.
calisthenics doesn't really need much of anything. isometrics either. funny things.
bands seem to be a whole argument. i did put in an order for some and read a bit. the results are very.. mixed.
some of the weight plates have a "grip" format, now, so they basically have handles in the cast. was thinking about how silly this is but it does mean you could skip the dumbbell at first. if you were povertymaxxing.
calisthenics doesn't really need much of anything. isometrics either. funny things.
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@icedquinn wtf, here in germany the main annoyance with amazon is that sellers want to push either static dumbbells or ones with plastic weights in super uncommon sizes so you can't just buy more.
I just bought my sticks and weights on a website for sports equipment after the mistake of buying one of the plastic dumbbell sets on amazon and not being able to find more weights.
Resistance bands i've only used to help work up to pullups and to do pulldowns as warmup, apart fromt hat they seem mostly useful for travel
I just bought my sticks and weights on a website for sports equipment after the mistake of buying one of the plastic dumbbell sets on amazon and not being able to find more weights.
Resistance bands i've only used to help work up to pullups and to do pulldowns as warmup, apart fromt hat they seem mostly useful for travel
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@icedquinn and the handle in the plates isn't really new. Even old heavier plates often have them to make handling easier i think
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icedquinn@blob.cat
@snacks yes4all sells rods, amazon basics of all things is the classical rod and plate. idk about germany.
fam has some of those rubberized fixed size dumbbells and mentions them every single time i talk about it. she has not, however, actually bothered to assemble them together. the adjustable kettles i got over covid store their plates internally so they're always together nicely.
i realized like all of my sims in the sims/paralives seem to live in ascetic bunkers with a weight bench and this might have been a sign of something
fam has some of those rubberized fixed size dumbbells and mentions them every single time i talk about it. she has not, however, actually bothered to assemble them together. the adjustable kettles i got over covid store their plates internally so they're always together nicely.
i realized like all of my sims in the sims/paralives seem to live in ascetic bunkers with a weight bench and this might have been a sign of something
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snacks
@icedquinn fixed weight home stuff is usually really smoll weights, prob useful to keep natural muscle while dieting but not much else
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icedquinn@blob.cat
@snacks she just said the plate format "sucks." i remember my dad had some and i don't remember it sucking, but i was constantly discouraged from doing anything healthy as a smol under the debunked "its bad for kids to" cope (resistance training is not harmful for children.)
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icedquinn@blob.cat
@snacks i did potato a script to calculate weights for barbells tho 
```
Legal load set report
{0, 100, 5.0, 70, 40, 10, 15.0, 50, 20, 55.0, 25.0, 60, 30}
```
i guess you do get a lot of numbers out of addition
```
Legal load set report
{0, 100, 5.0, 70, 40, 10, 15.0, 50, 20, 55.0, 25.0, 60, 30}
```
i guess you do get a lot of numbers out of addition
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