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  1. okay i dont have much time for the gym anymore..

    i recently purchased a treadmill for my home..

    is there anything else that you guys reccomend? for abs,upper body ..?

    thanks in advance.

  2. angelina said:

    okay i dont have much time for the gym anymore..

    i recently purchased a treadmill for my home..

    is there anything else that you guys reccomend? for abs,upper body ..?

    Iron. Free weights, power cage or rack, bench.

    Not Blowflex.

    I assume your space is not extremely limited; otherwise, you would not
    have purchased a treadmill.

  3. angelina said:

    is there anything else that you guys reccomend? for abs,upper body ..?

    Sex, and lots of it. Call me...

  4. angelina said:

    okay i dont have much time for the gym anymore..

    i recently purchased a treadmill for my home..

    is there anything else that you guys reccomend? for abs,upper body ..?

    thanks in advance.

    Here's a great site about women's resistance training, and a great
    article on bone building.

    http://www.stumptuous.com/cms/displayarticle.php?aid=15

    I'm a 41 year old woman with three kids and a business and I make time
    to get to the gym, but I also have a weight bench, a swiss ball, a bunch
    of dumbbells & one barbell at home. I also have resistance tubes that
    work pretty well for seated rows & lat pulldowns. I've also been known
    to use whatever child I can catch as a weight.

    I do swiss ball squats with the dumbbells & the swiss ball
    http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/ex/exercises.asp?ID=65

    And sumo deadlifts
    http://www.hmc.psu.edu/ufc/resources/exercise/2004/july.htm

    And dumbbell shoulder presses
    http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/DeltoidAnterior/DBShoulderPress.html

    And bench presses. I don't do much work just for the abs. I do quite a
    lot of lower body lifting despite the fact that I run or cycle several
    times a week.

    Here's an article on fitting in weightlifting for the short-on-time:
    http://www.stumptuous.com/cms/displayarticle.php?aid=83

    Dally

  5. "Dally" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    angelina said:

    okay i dont have much time for the gym anymore..

    i recently purchased a treadmill for my home..

    is there anything else that you guys reccomend? for abs,upper body
    ..?

    thanks in advance.

    Here's a great site about women's resistance training, and a great
    article on bone building.

    http://www.stumptuous.com/cms/displayarticle.php?aid=15

    I'm a 41 year old woman with three kids and a business and I make time
    to get to the gym, but I also have a weight bench, a swiss ball, a
    bunch of dumbbells & one barbell at home. I also have resistance
    tubes that work pretty well for seated rows & lat pulldowns. I've
    also been known to use whatever child I can catch as a weight.

    I do swiss ball squats with the dumbbells & the swiss ball
    http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/ex/exercises.asp?ID=65

    -snip-

    I have always wondered what is the purpose of this exercise. Why would
    you do this and not just squat?

    -S-
    http://www.kbnj.com

  6. Steve Freides said:

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    I do swiss ball squats with the dumbbells & the swiss ball
    http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/ex/exercises.asp?ID=65

    -snip-

    I have always wondered what is the purpose of this exercise. Why would
    you do this and not just squat?

    It's more like a sissy squat:

    http://www.newyorkbarbells.com/pro93165.html

    The load isn't on your upper back and you don't have balance issues or
    compression on your spine or the same issues with knees going past the
    toes. It's not for people pushing real weight, but it really isolates
    the quads and glutes. I can get ass to grass with a ball squat and I
    just can't with a barbell on my back.

    Actually, I haven't done ball squats in a dog's age, I just put this up
    as examples of what someone can do at home. Personally, I squat in a
    power cage at the gym a couple of times a week. But I didn't want to
    scare the newbie. :-)

    Dally

  7. "Steve Freides" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    "Dally" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    angelina said:

    okay i dont have much time for the gym anymore..

    i recently purchased a treadmill for my home..

    is there anything else that you guys reccomend? for abs,upper body
    ..?

    thanks in advance.

    Here's a great site about women's resistance training, and a great
    article on bone building.

    http://www.stumptuous.com/cms/displayarticle.php?aid=15

    I'm a 41 year old woman with three kids and a business and I make time
    to get to the gym, but I also have a weight bench, a swiss ball, a
    bunch of dumbbells & one barbell at home. I also have resistance
    tubes that work pretty well for seated rows & lat pulldowns. I've
    also been known to use whatever child I can catch as a weight.

    I do swiss ball squats with the dumbbells & the swiss ball
    http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/ex/exercises.asp?ID=65

    -snip-

    I have always wondered what is the purpose of this exercise. Why would
    you do this and not just squat?

    It's a good conditioning exercise. I do it every once in awhile to switch
    things up.

  8. "angelina" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    okay i dont have much time for the gym anymore..

    i recently purchased a treadmill for my home..

    is there anything else that you guys reccomend? for abs,upper body ..?

    thanks in advance.

    No time to go to the gym?

    That's like saying you don't have time to brush your teeth or take a shower.

    Physical Fitness is just as important.

  9. WooferBearATL said:

    No time to go to the gym?

    Unless you are just going because you like looking at half naked men
    <ah hem> there's no reason to go near a gym.

  10. Steve Freides said:

    "Dally" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    angelina said:

    okay i dont have much time for the gym anymore..

    i recently purchased a treadmill for my home..

    is there anything else that you guys reccomend? for abs,upper body
    ..?

    thanks in advance.

    Here's a great site about women's resistance training, and a great
    article on bone building.

    http://www.stumptuous.com/cms/displayarticle.php?aid=15

    I'm a 41 year old woman with three kids and a business and I make time
    to get to the gym, but I also have a weight bench, a swiss ball, a
    bunch of dumbbells & one barbell at home. I also have resistance
    tubes that work pretty well for seated rows & lat pulldowns. I've
    also been known to use whatever child I can catch as a weight.

    I do swiss ball squats with the dumbbells & the swiss ball
    http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/ex/exercises.asp?ID=65

    -snip-

    I have always wondered what is the purpose of this exercise. Why would
    you do this and not just squat?

    I use it for stretching prior to doing squats, as it makes a good lead
    in for deep squats ([censored] to grass), which I find exceptionally good
    for my knees.

  11. JRH said:

    ([censored] to grass)

    That parts ok, but dragging it accross the carpet is in bad taste.

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    Steve Freides said:

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    I do swiss ball squats with the dumbbells & the swiss ball
    http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/ex/exercises.asp?ID=65

    -snip-

    I have always wondered what is the purpose of this exercise. Why would
    you do this and not just squat?

    It's more like a sissy squat:

    http://www.newyorkbarbells.com/pro93165.html

    There's a whole different biomechanical thing going with the above apparatus
    than with the swiss ball squat. Big time shear forces in the knee with the
    above device - akin to leg extensions. Muy mal.

  13. Ranieri' nah said:
    Dally said:
    Steve Freides said:

    "Dally" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    >I do swiss ball squats with the dumbbells & the swiss ball
    >http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/ex/exercises.asp?ID=65

    -snip-

    I have always wondered what is the purpose of this exercise. Why would
    you do this and not just squat?

    It's more like a sissy squat:

    http://www.newyorkbarbells.com/pro93165.html

    There's a whole different biomechanical thing going with the above apparatus
    than with the swiss ball squat. Big time shear forces in the knee with the
    above device - akin to leg extensions. Muy mal.

    Sí. Muy, muy mal.

    I would much prefer to see it done the old-fashioned way:

    http://body.builder.hu/edzesek_reszletes.htm4?id=74

    And that still hurts my knees.


  14. Quoted message said:


    I would much prefer to see it done the old-fashioned way:

    http://body.builder.hu/edzesek_reszletes.htm4?id=74

    And that still hurts my knees.

    But you gotta like the term, "Sissy-guggolás"

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