Lifting heavy, unwieldy things is not the same as lifting symmetric objects with friendly load distribution.
The gym is designed to help you lift as much as possible. Be it repetitions, weight or sets. It is designed to be the most efficient path to packing on muscle and making a muscle or joint work. This framework for producing a predictable outcome is crucial. It does not completely prepare you to grapple with the physics of large objects such as electronics, furniture, cartons full of cloth. Everyday items with hollow spaces, lower density and higher volumes (plastic, cotton, wood), dense motors, filaments, coils, steel housings that make for awkward interaction. It takes strength, coordination and lots of practice to learn to contort to accommodate the load.
And better yet the resulting positions are the opposite of what we think of as perfect (there is no such thing) or optimal lifting positions. Rounded backs, hunched shoulders and knees shooting forward. But such is the messy nature of strength and the many ways it can be expressed.
The gym is designed to help you lift as much as possible. Be it repetitions, weight or sets. It is designed to be the most efficient path to packing on muscle and making a muscle or joint work. This framework for producing a predictable outcome is crucial. It does not completely prepare you to grapple with the physics of large objects such as electronics, furniture, cartons full of cloth. Everyday items with hollow spaces, lower density and higher volumes (plastic, cotton, wood), dense motors, filaments, coils, steel housings that make for awkward interaction. It takes strength, coordination and lots of practice to learn to contort to accommodate the load.
And better yet the resulting positions are the opposite of what we think of as perfect (there is no such thing) or optimal lifting positions. Rounded backs, hunched shoulders and knees shooting forward. But such is the messy nature of strength and the many ways it can be expressed.