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cosmolinguist) wrote2025-05-28 09:21 pm
cosmolinguist) wrote2025-05-28 09:21 pm
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This is what happens when we go to the gym unsupervised
I can never remember which one's "adductor" and which one's "abductor," but now one of those is the machine in the gym that's for practicing to crush a watermelon between your thighs, and I think after I described it thusly to him tonight, that's what diffrentcolours and I are gonna be calling it from now on.
After that I started explaining all the machines in terms of watermelons. "This one's lifting watermelons, this one's punching watermelons..."
Ha ha ha ha.
The only pair I can reliably remember is prone/supine, because when s*UP*ine I'm looking UP.
Re: Ha ha ha ha.
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Oh I like this one! That might work for me...
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I dont love that this useful jargon is so hard to remember that we all develop workarounds!
Re: Ha ha ha ha.
For hand positions, supination is holding a cup of soup, and pronation is prone to spill it. I still have to recite that to myself to find the right word.
For abduction/adduction, I remember that abducting someone is taking them away, so the abductors take the leg out/away. If I ever start going to the gym, I would have to start with something smaller like grapefruits, but I love that you're metaphorically slinging watermelons around,
Re: Ha ha ha ha.
supination is holding a cup of soup, and pronation is prone to spill it.
That's clever! (This one I don't need to know except when I'm hearing about baseball pitching, but that's something that happens a lot this time of year, so hooray!)
I love that you're metaphorically slinging watermelons around
Well, my boyfriend was, more specifically. :) He's got much longer legs than me, so more leverage as well as more muscle!
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Me too! :D
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:o)
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:D