posted on November 4, 2000 04:49:58 PM new
after reading spaz's thread, I though, just for a heck of it, I'll finger-press my bathroom scale (note: BATHROOM scale! NOT your mail nor your counter scale! good try though).
you pick it up, face it towards your friend/mirror, press it with your fingertips with all your might, and your friend/mirror will tell you the weight of your fingers:
no cheating folks
*grunts and squeezes * *whew*
OK
mine's about 90 pounds
posted on November 7, 2000 07:20:09 AM new
Decided to try this last night. I got to 100 lbs. I'm guessing that different scales react to this differently as I really don't believe that.
posted on November 7, 2000 09:36:47 AM new
Reminds me of one of my Mom's infamous misquotes. She got really angry with some yahoo while driving one day. Middle of Summer, she leaned her head out the window and yelled "OH, UP YOUR BIRD!!!"
She'll never live that one down.
[ edited by UpInTheHills on Nov 7, 2000 09:37 AM ]
posted on November 11, 2000 12:44:36 AM new
When I was hired for my current position I had to have a physical. The city seems to use the same physical for a variety of jobs, so one of the things I was required to do was take a test that measures the strength in your hands (weird when you consider I'm a librarian ). They handed me a gizmo that has a handle you squeeze and a gauge that displays how many pounds of pressure you exert. I learned that I can exert 80 pounds of pressure with my right hand and 72 pounds of pressure with my left--which is quite good for a woman I am told. That might explain why many of my work-out partners in Kung Fu (mostly men mind you) complain that I am gripping too hard when I don't think I am holding on all that hard at all
posted on November 11, 2000 01:59:50 AM newkitsch1: no, not working (public libraries aren't open this late )...I'm just a nightowl by nature. Will have to toddle off to bed soon, though, as I have a full day planned for tomorrow (which is actually today now)
posted on November 11, 2000 02:07:06 AM new
I have a full day planned tomorrow too. Sleep till noon and then do everything possible with my kiddos. Prolly going to do the buffalo trail (a good little stroll to say the very least) and then a movie from blockbuster.
and squeezes
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). They handed me a gizmo that has a handle you squeeze and a gauge that displays how many pounds of pressure you exert. I learned that I can exert 80 pounds of pressure with my right hand and 72 pounds of pressure with my left--which is quite good for a woman I am told. That might explain why many of my work-out partners in Kung Fu (mostly men mind you) complain that I am gripping too hard when I don't think I am holding on all that hard at all 