This is what happens when we go to the gym unsupervised

[cosmolinguist]

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..."

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Re: Ha ha ha ha.

[sonia]

That's a good way to remember!

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, cosmolinguist!

Re: Ha ha ha ha.

[cosmolinguist]

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!