How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Sakura Hibiki 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.

Series details

• Title: How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Anime
• Premiere date: 2019-07-03
• Final broadcast date listed: 2019-09-18
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: AT-X
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 24 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 42420
• IMDb ID: tt10362632
• TVDB ID: 360502

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2019-07-03; final listed air date 2019-09-18.

Source and licence

Adapted from How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.