What does the numbers mean?

My typical Deadlift Day looks like this: 1x10x (29kg, 35kg, 41kg, 47kg, 52kg) and 3x10x57kg barbell deadlifts. That's 80 lifts for a total of 3750 kilograms lifted in our workout. Pretty impressive no? "I lifted 3750 kilograms!" That sounds very impressive until you start thinking what it means. It doesn't mean I lifted a barbell weighing 3750 kilograms. In fact if you compute the average, 3750/80 equals 47 kilograms. That means on the average I am lifting 47 kilograms. Suddenly my lifts don't sound impressive. I have seen lifters weight 500 kilograms. I have seen someone push press 100 kg Kettlebells. What took me 80 lifts some elite lifters can surpass in 10 lifts. Numbers have meaning only when interpreted. Yet many times we allowed ourselves to be occupied by numbers. Someone earns 100 000 a month and we're all impressed. That is a huge number. But when the bills and the obligations are removed, sometimes you are left with a few hundreds until th...