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My son picked up this dumbbell the other day
and was like, ‘Why does it say L-B?’
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By the way, if you’re wondering why I look so strong, it’s
because I work out with 3-pound weights.
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LB is our abbreviation for ‘pounds’, which makes absolutely no sense
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because there is no L and there is no B.
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It comes from the Latin word ‘libra’, and you
might know this symbol when you’re measuring
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two weights against each other. So, libra,
relating to weights, where we get the LB.
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