I went and changed workout routines this morning. I've gone from doing one muscle group a day for four days to doing two a day for three days and then a day of rest. I've also changed from using free weights to my roommates Boxflex thing. The good thing being it's more of a complete workout, the bad being I feel like a weenie using it instead of the weights. That and it's really meant for someone about a foot shorter than me, I think I need to look into extensions for the cables, the damn things run out before I hit full extension on a few exercises, and have to do some standing ones sitting down.
On the Sin City front I managed to miss it again last night, good old family. And of course it's not playing at that theater anymore. Oh well, just have to wait till it comes out on dvd I guess.
On the Sin City front I managed to miss it again last night, good old family. And of course it's not playing at that theater anymore. Oh well, just have to wait till it comes out on dvd I guess.
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I totally hear you on the kinesiological limitations of most workout machines. Even all the "Hammer Strength" brand ones at the gym I am just not built for.
The lat pull one for example:
You are supposed to sit straddling the machine, pressing your sternum up against the adjustable chest plate, then reach out and grab the handles. Adjust the chest plate so that you are far enough away from the handles to allow for a full stretch.
Well, by the time I have gotten far enough away from the thing for a full stretch, the fulcrum of the pulley is TOTALLY in the wrong spot to get a proper swing back with the handles. They end up like way out in front instead of beside me.
Same thing with the T-Bar row, once I get up on the machine and stretch my long spider arms out, the bar hits the ground before I get a full stretch.
sigh.
Ridiculously low to the ground urinals piss me off too. --er... so to speak.
Where's the big guy world?
That's it! I'm starting my own city.
I remember watching an infomercial late one night on that thing, and scoffing at the idea of it due to a thought I had on how it would work.
If it's just a spring type mechanism, wouldn't that mean that on the movement (lets say bench, for example) when you first start out the movement, you are pressing say 40 pounds of resistance... and as you push further into the motion, (thereby bending the springs farther) wouldn't that resistance be incrementally increasing? like 40 pounds at the top of the movement, then finally 170 pounds at the very far end of it?
Seems a bit whacked, physiologically speaking.?