Human Weights

Human Weights
Men and women who act as gym weights.

The Telegraph reported on a somewhat unlikely novelty in gym equipment:

Members of Gymbox in Bank, central London, can choose to lift any of five differently sized “human weights.” Wearing Lycra catsuits which label their weight, they sit on specially adapted machines and shout words of encouragement.
The “dumbbells” include two dwarfs – 32-year-old Arti Shah, who weighs just 4.5 stones (30kg) and 64-year-old Mike Edwards, who weighs 8 stones (55kg).
Clearly no stranger to innovative marketing, Gymbox “already runs a ‘Chav fighting‘ self-defence class, ‘boob aerobics‘ to help women increase their bust size and ‘WAG workouts‘ aimed at making female members more attractive to footballers.”


Dictionary of unconsidered lexicographical trifles. 2014.

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