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Post by mkm670 on Mar 20, 2007 15:00:05 GMT -5
My understanding of the head stand was that it causes more blood to rush to your head. As you stand back to your feet, the blood flows back downward to the rest of your body and it reduces it's force through your body to the scale surface. I doubt this works on an electronic scale since it has to settle and the effect of it shouldn't last very long. But on a balance scale I have seen it work. For example we would set the scale to 125 and hold the balance against the top of the indicator area. When the person steps on and is settled the person will relase the indicator. If there is a instantaneous drop of the indicator then they made weight. Or at least how we used to do it.
Here's an experiment that will show the principle. Stand on a scale with a weight held in front of your chest. Let the scale settle. Now start slowly lowering the weight and your weight on the scale will decrease, even if it's only slight and quick. The same happens when the blood is flowing downward in your body.
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Post by DartSharkimus Prime on Mar 20, 2007 15:20:45 GMT -5
whatever happened to "back right corner"
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Post by ground3pound on Mar 20, 2007 18:30:42 GMT -5
whatever happened to "back right corner" I've seen that one before.
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Post by Wrestling Terp on Mar 20, 2007 18:48:40 GMT -5
There were also the team mate assisted methods. As well as the ever popular toe curl!!!
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Post by homerdindon on Mar 20, 2007 18:50:27 GMT -5
Our scale was the worst case of the back right corner ever. The late Steve Blackford was a pro at getting all he could out of it.
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Post by gopherfanstuckinia on Mar 20, 2007 21:01:26 GMT -5
He must have gotten over the trauma of not making weight fairly quickly. I was at Casino Windsor on Friday night and "Adam Frey" was paged to come to the security desk over the loud speaker. I am not suggesting that he was in any kind of trouble because there was no indication of that, but appearantly he was at the casino on Friday night. Not sure that it would sit well with me if one of my teammates who we were counting on to be an All-American misses weight and then goes out that night and hangs out at the casino. Did you see him coming from the vacinity of the all-you-can-eat buffett?
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Post by TLV on Mar 21, 2007 8:32:07 GMT -5
You guys are breaking me up. You weigh less standing on your head??? Bet you think that a pound of feathers weighs less than a pound of lead too, eh?
:-)
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Post by Wrestling Terp on Mar 21, 2007 8:49:27 GMT -5
Bet you think that a pound of feathers weighs less than a pound of lead too, eh? :-) Depends on whether it lands on your head!!
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Post by rstrong on Mar 22, 2007 0:58:27 GMT -5
I think what you are describing is how heavy someone feels - our perception of how hard it is to carry dead weight vs. live weight. Their actual weight does not change. Nope, not true. I've tightened up, like I teach my cheerleaders, on the scale, and I've weighed a bit less (I never get that precise with the dr.'s scale.) The quality of the scale & the surface the scale is on make a big difference. Sorry blue, but 'tighten'ing doesn't matter for weight... it does matter however for core strength - So keep teaching it!
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Post by BigJohn on Mar 22, 2007 1:12:40 GMT -5
Come on now, some of this stuff is absolutely ridiculous. No matter if you stand on your head, tighten your muscles, or think light, you cannot float.
You weigh what you weigh.
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Post by ezra on Mar 22, 2007 14:02:27 GMT -5
except that a scale is never completely accurrate, so there are ways to manipulate the reading without changing your actual weight. no one is saying his actual weight changed by standing on his head but it may have altered the reading on the scale by 1/10 of a pound.
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Post by DartSharkimus Prime on Mar 22, 2007 14:29:15 GMT -5
I hate scales
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Post by RYou on Mar 22, 2007 15:57:38 GMT -5
When I retired my singlet I vowed to never step on a scale again. Unfortunately the docs make do it. Funny thing about that, they still use the same old style with the sliding weights. Every time I step on it my eyes automatically go to 124. Then I have to shift all the way to the other extreme in order to balance it. and I still try shifting feet to the corners to lighten the load on the scale.
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Post by JensenS on Mar 22, 2007 16:05:04 GMT -5
For anyone who's interested, I tried the headstand thing today after I got done lifting, and it didn't work, weighed the same as I did when I stepped on regular.
All it got me was a bunch of funny looks from the dozen or so people in the vicinity of the scale when I did it.
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Post by Big on Mar 22, 2007 16:10:03 GMT -5
For anyone who's interested, I tried the headstand thing today after I got done lifting, and it didn't work, weighed the same as I did when I stepped on regular. All it got me was a bunch of funny looks from the dozen or so people in the vicinity of the scale when I did it. You have to keep practicing.
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