cereta: Glinda of Oz (Glinda)
Lucy ([personal profile] cereta) wrote in [community profile] lifting_heavy_things2010-07-23 01:40 pm
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Weekly Feature: What did you do?

I can't believe I almost forgot this! What did you do this week?

[identity profile] hermionesviolin.livejournal.com 2010-07-26 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I was on vacation last week, which largely consisted of helping my best friend move. On Tuesday, as we were moving everything into and out of the U-Haul I literally thought (and commented to my best friend), "Well this will be my answer for this week's 'What did you do?' on the lifting_heavy_things dw comm."

After church last night (back at home), we were setting up for dinner, and someone was pulling out a large table and I asked, "Do you want a hand with that?" He replied, "I'd like some muscle." (Not as an implication that I didn't have muscle to offer, just a joking literalism as to what he needed.) When I helped him carry it, he grunted approvingly :)
rydra_wong: 19th-C strongwoman and trapeze artist Charmion flexes her biceps while wearing a marvellous feathery hat (strength -- strongwoman)

[personal profile] rydra_wong 2010-07-27 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
\o/

Ultimate functional strength: lifting heavy stuff that needs to be lifted!

[identity profile] hermionesviolin.livejournal.com 2010-07-27 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, as I was helping carry things on Tuesday (especially as I was failing to be able to be much help in moving things like futons and bookcases that didn't have anywhere to usefully grip) I was definitely thinking of the theme here of valuing functional strength.