TV Series2019 · 1 season · 12 episodes · Ended

How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?

Name: How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Cast: Fairouz Ai, Kaito Ishikawa, Nao Toyama, Sora Amamiya, Shizuka Ishigami

Taste attributes: animationcomedysportsfastimaginarysimplelinearglossyenclosedemotive & stirringall consuming questgame/competition

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Boxlist takeA larger-than-life, stylish animated series, simple rather than intricate. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Taste details

Pace: fast · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: simple · Structure: linear · Look: glossy · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

Quality rating

7.9 /10

TMDB · 204 votes

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Where to watch

Streaming data: JustWatch

Seasons

Season 1

· 2019 · 12 episodes

Episodes (12)

1Why Don’t You Try Strength Training?3 Jul 2019
Dismayed by her recent weight gain, high school girl and food lover Hibiki Sakura joins Silverman Gym. The hordes of muscle men at the gym are intimidating, but Hibiki gives strength training a try after meeting the handsome trainer Machio Naruzo.
2Why Don't You Have Some Protein?10 Jul 2019
Machio explains why exercising causes you to gain both weight and muscle, and describes how to do a lat pulldown. Akemi lectures on the importance of dynamic stretching. Hibiki learns about Ayaka's family business.
3Sensei's on a Diet, Too?17 Jul 2019
Satomi Tachibana, one of Hibiki's teachers, comes to Silverman Gym to lose some weight. Can she hide her secret hobby from her students? Ayaka joins Hibiki and Akemi for lunch, and notices that something about Hibiki's bento feels off…
4Did You Have a Nice Summer?24 Jul 2019
The summer holidays are already well underway, Hibiki and Akemi show us different ways to do fitness sports during the summer holidays.
5What’s Your Sports Day Event?31 Jul 2019
Hibiki embarks on a special training regime in preparation for Sports Day. After the event is over, she hatches a plan to win the grand prize in the Silverman Gym raffle.
6Want a New Rival?7 Aug 2019
Determined to buy a home theater system, Hibiki enters the Silverman Gym arm wrestling tournament for the chance to win 100,000 yen. How will she fare against Zina, her Russian opponent? It turns out she has a lot to teach Hibiki and her friends...
7Want to Be an Idol?14 Aug 2019
Hibiki, Akemi, and Ayaka hold a welcome party for Zina. Tachibana-sensei deals with the consequences of Zina discovering her secret hobby. The gang enters an idol competition.
8What If We Get Lost?21 Aug 2019
Two more teachers from Hibiki's school join Silverman Gym. A field trip goes bad when Hibiki's group gets lost. How will they survive?
9Have You Seen God Before?28 Aug 2019
The daily routine at Silverman Gym is interrupted by the arrival of a man from Machio's past.
10Do You Like Christmas?4 Sep 2019
Hibiki and the gang attend the Silverman Gym Christmas party, drawn in by the prospect of finding a boyfriend among the male attendees.
11How Are You Spending New Year's?11 Sep 2019
Hibiki and her friends visit an unusual shrine for New Year's, encounter difficulties when planning their first workout of the year, and enter an amateur talent show.
12How Heavy Are the Barbells You Lift?18 Sep 2019
Hibiki and the other regulars at Silverman Gym take a trip to the tropical paradise of Nikunoshima over spring break. Who among them will claim the title of Miss Nikunoshima?

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Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it
Wholesomeness: Balanced, just how this profile likes it

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Intricacy: Basic story, where this profile leans smart / intricate
Weightiness: Balanced weightiness, where this profile leans weighty / heavy

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Synopsis

Hibiki Sakura is your average high school girl, with a voracious appetite. Noticing her clothes tightening in lieu of her slowly expanding waistline she decides to look into enrolling in the nearby gym. There she runs into a girl from her grade named Souryuuin Akemi. Akemi, who has a muscle fetish tries to get Hibiki to enroll in the gym despite its high ratio of macho men. Thankfully a beautiful trainer, Machio, appears and unknowingly convinces her to enroll and start her quest to a great body.

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