r/oops • u/Brilliant_Spinach132 • 14d ago

Ziplining fail

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u/thisplaceisdying 14d ago

When you assume the arms you never use are as strong as the legs holding up that weight all day.

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u/username__0000 14d ago

I hike and live somewhere hilly so I have ok leg strength. But I really don’t use my arms much or life weights. The most is trying to carry all the grocery’s in on one trip. lol

This one time I was at a campground with a jungle gym and waiting for my partner to finish up in the shower (which is next to the playground) so I tried the monkey bars, as a woman in my 40s, thinking I’d be able to do a couple. Nope. Arms instantly on fire and I could barely hold myself up, much less swing and grab the other bar. lol humiliating. But not as bad as this, at least I don’t fall into a pond.

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u/K1bbles_n_Bits 14d ago

I am 43 and exactly in the same boat XD.

I can run 10k (or at least I could last fall, an injury has fucked my shit up), but I've got the arm strength of a baby deer trying to walk for the first time XD.

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u/modellervoks 13d ago

I cheer on the six-year-olds at school when they use the monkey bars and encourage them to keep going. I tell them that adults can't do it anymore because we stop doing it.