weirdquark | I have heavy things! (Reply)

My parents gave me a gift certificate for Christmas and now that it's almost my birthday I've finally gotten around to using it. I went to the sporting goods store and picked up some weights. They're not as adjustable as I'd like -- there are 2.5lb and 5lb weights that you add to a barbell, but if you want to have the weights be balanced you have to add a 2.5lb weight to each side of it. Going from twenty to twenty-five isn't so bad, but five to ten will be tricky, and I may want to get weighted wrist bands. (When I was doing Morris dancing, I wanted to have the team practice with weighted wrist bands -- you have to lift your arms a lot and we had trouble keeping them high when we were tired. Practicing with weights and then taking weights off makes the off version so much easier...)