i could see it in a dosage situation. like grams of steroids per pound of user. sure, it's goofy to mix metric and imperial, but that's just what those two things are commonly measured with in America. time spent doing unit conversations is time spent not lifting.

Its a pretty common unit when it comes to discussing dietary protein around bodybuilding and fitness because 1g per lb is a super easy conversion for people to remember. Its kind of the golden number because even for people not getting the best sources of protein 1g per lb almost guarantees anyone other than edge cases and steroid users are getting more than enough to support optimum growth and recovery.

I've only seen g/kg which is less cursed. This is about the amount of protein you should eat relative to your body mass. But since this is a recommendation for daily intake, I would love to see gymbros use the SI version of g/kg/day, namely 1/s.

Dad was a gym rat, and it is absolutely a real thing.

Mols should not be an SI unit. Why not make 3 an SI unit?? Or 47?? NUMBERS AREN'T UNITS!!

It's cursed because if you're not gonna use metric, then don't use it.

Do drams per pound of body weight or something like that. Still cursed because it's not metric, but less so.

Or do the thing that'll make everyone* happy, just use metric.

(*me, personally)

Moles are somewhat cursed, but we do need some standard number of molecules, else all our chemistry would be in insanely large numbers. May as well make it something related to the gram.

Though, in fairness, I will grant, it's one of the less metric-y units out there since atomic weights aren't perfect round numbers anyway, other than carbon.

Perhaps we could have standardised a mole as 1x10^10^ molecules. Ah well