I'm a bit upset because I was fooled today

[Natwee]

"manual handling" We have to go through this trash - utter waste of time, such a wate waste waste of time!! I can sympathize!! Our trick is to show zero interest, the instructor thankfully susses that and accelerates the stupid lecture and we're otta there in 30 mins.

I was totally disinterested in one of my mandatory training courses as it bore no relevance to what I actually did, it was a complete and utter waste of three hours, and I was pretty annoyed that I had loads of wrk to do and instead I was wasting time doing the training.

Got back to the office and my manager said they had had a call saying I hadnt taken in what was being taught well enough as I was disinterested, and they booked me on it again.

 

[utajoker]

Happens to me at work a lot with big parcels of curvature.

I can pick up a 22kg bedside table in a small box and it's obviously heavy. Then pick up a box twice the size at 24kg but it feals lighter.

 

[atpbx]

Straight back and bent knees is literally the ONLY way to deadlift heavy weights without lower back strain. If you do it with a rounded back your body will quickly tell you that your back is being damaged.

It's accumalated stress on key points of your body, (lower back being one of them) that causes damage.

Picking stuff up outside of you point of balance (which you don't do when you dead lift ) repeatedly is the damaging factor.
In fact the most important part of approaching a dead lift is making sure you lift through your body line.

18 years of lugging awkward items around weighing up to 125kgs however I want proves to me at least that making sure you have a firm footing, and keeping the item close to your centre of mavity is far safer and easy than trying to drive your entire lift through your knees.

 

[atpbx]

You say manual handling courses are rubbish and then refer me to a manual handling course? Little confused now.

They are in effect.
When all they are deciding now is "just pick stuff up" what's the point?

I don't need someone to tell me the best way of picking something up is picking something up!

 

[malfunkshun]

surely the perception of weight depends on how that weight is spread out?

5kg spread over a small area will apear lighter as your using less muscle/s to keep is steady?
5kg spread over a larger area will apear heavier as your using more muscles to hold it?

Quite the opposite, I think, a small solid lump will appear to feel heavier than a dispersed load.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Quite the opposite, I think, a small solid lump will appear to feel heavier than a dispersed load.

This was definitely how the 12 people in my lesson felt it plus the 1000s who have been through the same lesson.