I signed up at a gym 'round the corner. It's fantastic! It is probably one of the nicest facilities I have ever used, which may or may not be saying anything since I have spent most of my recent gym life at UT. Not only do they have your standard equipment and classes (they have ab lab!), but they also have a salon that does facials, nails, massages, and all that good stuff.
It's a neat little place, except for one thing: everything is in kilos. I almost caused the ellipticals brain to explode when I tried to tell it I weighed 145 kilos. That did not compute. It is also a little difficult to use the weight machines when I am not entirely sure how much I am lifting. I am sure it looks as though I have never been to a gym before in my life.
The scales in the locker room measure in stones. Stones! Like that means anything; how archaic. As the title of this entry says, stones - as far as I am concerned - are rocks, not units of measurement. The nice thing about the stones approach though is that your weight sounds so small - "so-and-so weighs 9 stone". 9 is such a nice little number! The bad thing is that I am not sure how much I weigh or how much weight I want to lose or what stone weight is my healthy stone weight. Stupid stones.
This country is weird.
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just so you know:
multiply kilos by 2.2 (or just double it) to get pounds-ish.
(btw, one stone is 14 lb)
I also know forever that one gallon is appx 3.8 liters 'cause most urinals are 1 gallon/3.8 liters per flush, and they print the conversion on the top.
just wait 'till you come across the
hundredweight system. that will blow your mind.
tee hee.
cheers,
scotto
I did immediately come home and google it to get those conversations - but thank you my dear. Come visit me!
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