Please don’t ask me to help you move. If you’re so out of shape at 20 that performing a lift that 90% of the population can do is a challenge, I don’t want to be the first person you call when you’re trying to move something. I doubly don’t want to do it for free.
Welcome to the Dope. Sorry your friends are human. You can fix that.
I think you mean 20 pounds. 200 pounds is a lot to hold for thirty seconds.
You’re going to have to specify what lift you’re referring to.
Otherwise, you’re an idiot.
Also, I imagine there aren’t many infants, toddlers and the elderly who can lift 200 lbs.
Okay, I’ll bite: How?
Cite? You’re in the big leagues now and can’t throw out bullshit stats like you are at a kegger. We deal in facts here.
Fucking toddlers. They move like every two months.
What, you can’t hold 200lbs for a couple of minutes? Do you even have arms?
I can hold up 200 lbs. with one finger by pushing the button that starts the hydraulic lift.
I’m holding 200 pounds in one hand right now. (It’s worth about six bucks as of this morning.)
I’ve helped dozens of my friends move…and my friends have repaid me by helping me move. It’s a social ritual in the U.S., which is highly physically mobile. The average person moves a few times in their life. It’s a chance to help a friend…and to snoop through all their stuff! It’s a social ritual. And, no, you don’t get paid, though there’s usually pizza.
You can say no without being a shit about it.
I assume that’s a straight progression - so one should be able to hold 400 pounds for 15 seconds, 800 pounds for 7.5 seconds and 1600 pounds for 3.75 seconds?
I’ll join in, based not on any recent experience but one I have had many times:
When I show up at your place on moving day, I expect you to have things packed and ready to load. Asking me to help you move is a different thing from asking me to help you pack. When you only have 4 hours to get out.
And don’t even get me started on people who ask me to help them hang sheetrock, and when I arrive the first order of business is to go to the store and buy fucking sheetrock.
Actually, that’s not the way muscles work. (Numbers made up for illustrating example). You could hold 50% for 30 minutes, 75% for 5 minutes and 90% for 30 sec.
(Those who have lost all friends no longer have human friends.)
As for the science, here’s a .pdf: http://archives.njit.edu/vol01/etd/2000s/2004/njit-etd2004-111/njit-etd2004-111.pdf
NIOSH’s revised Work Practices Guide uses the following formula to calculate the Recommended Weight Limit (RWL):
RWL= LC x HM x VM x DM x AM x CM x FM
Multipliers in the above formula include horizontal distance (H) between the center of mass of the object and the midpoint between the worker’s feet, vertical distance (V) of the center of mass of the object from the floor, etc, etc.
Furthermore: [INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Each multiplier can attain a maximum value of 1, which represents the ideal condition (NIOSH, 1994a; Waters et al., 1998). Hence, RWL obtained under ideal conditions is 51 lbs. This indicates that under no circumstances should any healthy adult be allowed to lift a load that exceeds 51 lbs. [in a professional setting -mfm] [/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT] Emphasis added. While I have moved heavier objects than that, I think there is a basis for questioning the OP’s lifting judgment.
I can lift 16 tons.
What do I get?
I think you mean, “do you even have arms bro?”
Another day older and deeper in debt?
Hell, I can hold any amount of weight for a touch less than ten meters per second per second.