History Manga / HowHeavyAreTheDumbbellsYouLift

''How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?'', also known as ''Danberu Nan Kilo Moteru?'' in Japanese, is a manga series written by Yabako Sandrovich and illustrated by [=MAAM=]. The series has been serialized on the ''Ura Sunday'' website and the ''[=MangaONE=]'' app since 2016. The series has nineteen volumes.

* BrokenAesop: The main moral is that any ordinary person can get fit with some hard work — is offset by the fact that Hibiki is not particularly dedicated (she consistently eats poorly, for instance), yet still has impressive physical gifts. Your ordinary person is not going to be able to punch boxing bags so hard it breaks the chains or effortlessly defeat a world arm wrestling champion with only a few months of training, even if they work much harder than Hibiki does throughout the series. And of course, most of the other characters are simply not ordinary to begin with, being either fitness buffs (Machio, Akemi) or top-tier athletes (Ayaka, Gina). The characters that are the most ordinary, Satomi and Kutaro, are frequently made the butt of jokes relating to their lack of athleticism despite by all appearances being serious about their fitness, which makes one wonder how productive the manga is really being about trying to make ordinary people hit the gym.

** Machio routinely (and intentionally) rips his track suit clean off, simply by flexing his muscles, to the point where it's a running gag. To keep the gag fresh, as time goes on, he only rips off part of his suit at times. He even exploits this tendency at one point, using it to call numbers for a raffle, destroying a nice tux in the process.

* {{Crossover}}: For one of the volume releases of both ''Kengan Ashura'' and ''Dumbells'', both series had an extra chapter covering an eating contest where ''Kengan'''s Ohma and our Hibiki out ate the competition and each other.

* DestroyingAPunchingBag: When Nana asks Hibiki to work out with a punching bag since she's in a boxing gym, she punches the bag off the chains to show that she is much stronger than what even she thinks herself being.

* MythologyGag: An example from the anime to the manga: Machio's lesson-of-the-day segments get a one time reference in a manga chapter that was released after the anime finished airing.

''How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?'', also known as ''Danberu Nan Kilo Moteru?'' in Japanese, is a manga series written by Yabako Sandrovich and illustrated by [=MAAM=]. The series has been serialized on the ''Ura Sunday'' website and the ''[=MangaONE=]'' app since 2016. The series has eighteen volumes.

** Machio routinely (and intentionally rips his track suit clean off, simply by flexing his muscles, to the point where it's a running gag. To keep the gag fresh, as time goes on, he only rips off part of his suit at times, as time goes on. He even exploits this tendency at one point, using it to call numbers for a raffle, destroying a nice tux in the process.

See also ''Manga/KenganAshura'', which is written by the same author and set in the same universe but with a different illustrator, and is tonally darker and more action-packed than this series.

** Hibiki and Ayaka watch a movie starring [[TheAhnold Harnold Dogegenchonegger]]. The movie is an obvious parody of ''Film/{{Commando}}''. The rest of his filmography isn't much better, featuring goofy mashups such as ''[[Film/LastActionHero Last Action]]'' ''Film/{{Predator}}'', ''[[Film/ConanTheBarbarian Conan the]]'' ''[[Film/RedHeat Red Bull]]'', or ''Film/{{Twins|1988}}'' ''[[Film/KindergartenCop Cop]]''. He wasn't in ''Film/TheTerminator'', though; that was [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger some other guy who looks like him]].

''How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?'', also known as ''Danberu Nan Kilo Moteru?'' in Japanese, is a manga series written by Yabako Sandrovich and illustrated by [=MAAM=]. The series has been serialized on the ''Ura Sunday'' website and the ''[=MangaONE=]'' app since 2016. The series has seventeen volumes.