How to Convert Kilograms to Pounds Fast - Easy Math Trick!

Whether you're doing your physics homework, your chemistry homework, or you're lifting weights, you sometimes need to be able to convert from kilograms to pounds. Let's figure out how to do this fast - and by fast, I mean “in-your-head-faster-than-whipping-out-your-calculator” fast. Fast like you read about.

The common wisdom is to multiply by 2.2, but you don’t want to multiply by 2.2 in your head, and neither do I. The method you’re about to learn will get us to the same answer, and it’s quicker and easier. Using 35 kg for our example, here’s what you do:

1. Double it. That gives you 70. No problem.

2. Find 10% of that new number, and yes, that old gradeschool shortcut of moving the decimal over 1 place still works just fine. That gives you 7. Again, no problem.

3. Add those two numbers together. That gives you 77.

There you have it: 35 kg is equal to 77 lb.

Now, your turn - albeit with a slightly harder example. Repeat the same steps, but this time with 95 kg, and try it out before reading ahead for the solution.

Got your answer? Let’s see how you did.

1. Double it. That gives you 190.

2. Find 10% of that new number. That gives you 19.

3. Add those two numbers together. That gives you 209.

Thus, 95 kg converts to 209 lb.

It takes a little bit of practice, but not much. It’s fast, it’s easy, and it’s very accurate (within 0.2% of the true value). As always, we hope this helps you get stronger and live better . . . or at least stop struggling with cumbersome conversions.

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Save Time During Your Workouts!

(This article is a Blast from the Past article originally posted on 03/05/21.)

You like being at the gym, but you also like other things besides being at the gym, and people are often on a tight schedule, so if your workouts are taking longer than you would like (or can afford), we are going to give you two tactics to save time at the gym. These tactics both revolve around the warm-up, because the warm-up is the best place to save time when you train.

First, don’t rest between your warm-up sets. You need to change the weights as you warm-up, and the act of unloading and loading plates between warm-up sets will provide enough rest for the purpose of warming up. Remember, these are warm-up sets - they’re not terribly difficult - you don’t need a whole lot of rest. After your last warm-up set, you’ll want to rest a few minutes (perhaps 2-4 minutes) before performing your first work set, but if you’re resting 3-5 minutes between all of your warm-up sets and you’re wondering how to shorten your workout time, this is where you start.

Second, if you really need to speed things up, start warming up your next lift between the work sets of your current lift. Let’s say you’ve just done your first work set of squats, and bench press is your next lift - while you’re resting, go ahead and grab a bar and do your empty bar warm-up for the bench (if it’s the press, you don’t even need a rack - you can just pick it up off the floor and press it). Then, sit down and rest until it’s time to squat again. After your second set of squats, go ahead and do your next bench warm-up set. You might still have some warming up to do on the bench press when you’re done squatting, but this method will certainly shave some time off the length of your training session.

Most importantly, don’t let this tactic tire you out for your current work sets. The squat/bench press example we’ve given here will not tire you out for squatting because the bench press warm-ups are light and because the bench press is unrelated to squatting, but warming up your deadlift between work sets of squats may not be the greatest idea.

Try these tactics the next time you train, and you’ll save yourself some valuable time. Of course, you could probably shorten those 15-minute-between-set-conversations you have with your lifting buddies as well.

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Motivation is for SUCKERS

Motivation is for fools. Motivation is for wieners. Don’t trust your motivation.

People far more eloquent and well-known than me - admittedly a rather low bar in both cases - have said some version of this sentiment, but if you’ve never seen or heard it, it’s important that you do so today: Motivation is for suckers.

We are all fools and suckers at various times in our lives - I’ve certainly been both of those on more occasions than I care to admit - but when it comes to training, you’ve got to know that you do not trust motivation.

Instead, trust habit. Trust discipline. Trust delayed gratification. These are all various ways of saying essentially the same thing. Go in and simply punch the clock on a regular basis.

99% of the time, training is exactly that - going in and punching the clock. Sure, you’ll have days where you’re jazzed up to train, but you’re going to have a ton of days where you don’t particularly want to touch a barbell, and this is especially true the longer you’ve trained. PRs get harder to come by over time - after all, the stronger you get, the harder it is to get even stronger.

Punch the clock anyway. You have permission from me - for all that matters - to not want to train . . . and still go and train anyway. All those workouts where you’re excited to get in the gym and train? In the long run, those aren’t the difference makers - those aren’t the ones where you make the most progress. But the workouts where you didn’t feel like going to the gym and went anyway? Those are your moneymakers. You keep stringing those days together, and over time, that’s how you make progress. Being consistent. Punching the clock.

Are you stoked to brush your teeth? Probably not, but you do it anyway. On the days that you’re not motivated to get to the gym, treat your training the same way.

It’s ok to not be motivated and still train. Training isn’t life, but it makes the quality of the rest of your life better. Get to work. Punch that clock.

As always, we hope this helps you get stronger and live better.

-Phil

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