Gym on Yik Yak | when you track how much weight you lift, do you include the machine’s starting weight or just the plates you put on it?

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when you track how much weight you lift, do you include the machine’s starting weight or just the plates you put on it?

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Anonymous 7w

For easy math on plate loaded stuff you just assume the starting weight is like the bar so on a chest press machine I’d just say I move 225 on it if I had 2 plates on each side

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Anonymous 7w

It doesn’t matter as long as u use the same method each time. The actual number is arbitrary

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Anonymous

#1 7w

two plates on each side would be 180 tho

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Anonymous

OP 7w

Not if you’re accounting for the bar itself, which is another 45lbs (usually)

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Anonymous

OP 7w

A standard barbell weighs 45 pounds

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Anonymous

#1 7w

i misread ur comment

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