----- Original Message -----
From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: Big reaches/Smart lifting
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> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, dendriite wrote:
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 10:34 PM
> > Subject: Big reaches/Smart lifting
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > If the object you want is not too heavy, you could get one of
those
> > > > > long-arm-claw-things (anyone know the real name?) that arthritis
> > > > > patients who can't bend over use. Be sure to get a good one:
some
> > of
> > > > > the cheaper ones will bend on you.
> > > >
> > > > That might work. I wonder if they sell them at the HEB I've had
the
> > most
> > > > trouble at? :)
> > > > Julia
> > >
> > > "Reachers", lots of times you can find them in the garden stores
locally
> > > or look at an "adaptive equipment site". Lots of people like the ones
> > that
> > > have opposing suction cup looking things (that pick up the pinecones
etc)
> > >
> > > Regarding lifting- 10 pounds against your "old" belly was 10
additional
> > pounds
> > > of back force. 10 pounds with your arms out two feet is 20 pounds of
> > > back force. Non pregnant people can make a bit more of a choice of
> > > how close they keep things to their center of gravity, as babies grow
out
> > > everything is a bit more "total" work when you look at energy
expenditure.
> > >
> > >
> > You overlook men with humongously protruding beer guts.
> > You sexist! <G>
>
> Uh, beer guts (or at least, programmer guts, which may or may not have
> anything to do with beer, but have a lot to do with sitting in one place
> for too long, coding) have a lot more give to them than pregnant bellies.
> A guy's big belly is a lot squishier than a pregnant belly -- something my
> husband was surprised about when I gave him leave to gently poke at me.
>
> If a guy with a gut picks up a laundry basket and the edge digs into said
> gut, the gut gives at the spot where the top of the basket meets it. A
> pregnant belly *doesn't* give like that -- and if something starts to dig
> in like that, it *hurts* a bit. (So, we thank Rubbermaid for coming up
> with the Hip-Hugger Laundry Hamper, which is a little concave on one side
> and has a center of gravity low enough and close enough to the body
> carrying it that it's possible to get laundry up and down the stairs, even
> if the belly of the carrier has a baby growing in it. Although I mostly
> carry it on one side, CAREFULLY, and use the side of my leg to help steady
> it.)
>
> Julia
>
> married to someone with a programmer's gut who doesn't TOUCH beer if he's
> not in Germany
>
You obviously have no experience with the profesional beer drinker.<G>
That beer belly is as hard as a rock!
xponent
rob
