Exercise Equipment

[Kuriin]

Originally Posted by Desx

You just went down a level. I'm not recommending a OMG WOW NEW LOW CARB DIET!!!!.... I'm recommending the whole cut off the olive garden breadsticks and papa johns bullshit. If you're insanely exercising or you're blessed with Gods genes, then eat what you want. If you're trying to gain muscle or mass, then of course eat as much as you can. 100 Carbs a day is not hard to do, infact its about average.

More water the better, you know you're drinking enough when you have to take a piss every 45 minutes.

Another way to tell you're drinking enough water is by the color of your urine. If it's yellow/orange, then that's bad. If it's clear, it's good.

[Convo]

Buy some dumbbells and do some man makers. They are a great workout. I do situps in between sets. In about 20 mins I do 30 manmakes and 90 situps. It's a nice liittle workout at the end of the night.

[Kuriin]

Originally Posted by Convo

Buy some dumbbells and do some man makers. They are a great workout. I do situps in between sets. In about 20 mins I do 30 manmakes and 90 situps. It's a nice liittle workout at the end of the night.

90 situps or 90 crunches? Completely different thing.

...Of course, you did say in 20 minutes.

[Ralphus]

I finished my basement about 2 years ago and dedicated an entire area to a "gym". It pretty much goes unused. Even with a little TV monitor on the wall above the treadmill.

So I did the gym membership and that's cool and all, but with kids it's very hard to get into a set routine with going, and that's key.

So anyhow, I go to the Sporting goods store and see this. Dick's Sporting Goods - Hand/Wrist/Body Weights: GoFit Unisex Adjustable Weighted Vest (1lb - 20lb)
I figured this would be perfect especially for winter when Im wearing big bulky coats and such anyhow. I try to wear it all the time and figure the added weight helps me burn more calories throughout the whole day. I believe there was a 40lb version but that's gotta be bad for the back as its akin to lugging around a bag of cement on your shoulders. 20lb version is great though.

Ralphus

[kegkilla]

Originally Posted by Ralphus

I finished my basement about 2 years ago and dedicated an entire area to a "gym". It pretty much goes unused. Even with a little TV monitor on the wall above the treadmill.

So I did the gym membership and that's cool and all, but with kids it's very hard to get into a set routine with going, and that's key.

So anyhow, I go to the Sporting goods store and see this. Dick's Sporting Goods - Hand/Wrist/Body Weights: GoFit Unisex Adjustable Weighted Vest (1lb - 20lb)
I figured this would be perfect especially for winter when Im wearing big bulky coats and such anyhow. I try to wear it all the time and figure the added weight helps me burn more calories throughout the whole day. I believe there was a 40lb version but that's gotta be bad for the back as its akin to lugging around a bag of cement on your shoulders. 20lb version is great though.

Ralphus

lol thats pretty sweet... just like goku and piccolo do at the beginning of dragonball z. eventually you're going to need a chamber that creates artificial gravity at 300x the earth's gravity though so start looking around because those are hard to come by.

[Kuriin]

Be careful of ankle weights as the weights will inevitably press into the talus of the foot, and sometimes into the ball of the ankle joint itself. I know from experience; but, running with weights is definitely a smart thing to do.

[woot!]

Exercise equipement seems kinda useless to me, especially that the people I know who have some of those machines usualy used them the first weeks/month, and then just had them sitting in a corner of their house.
What is your goal OP ? Ever tried HIIT ? There is tons of exercices you can do that require absolutely no equipement (well the only thing you need is a bar to do pullups if you do not have anything else to do it with), and that will really improve your cardio performances a lot. I do a set of 6 exercices (30 seconds break inbetween each exercice, the whole set itself repeated 3 times). The whole thing takes about 30 minutes, and you do it like evry other day (3 times per week). Then alternate with a different set the next week, and so on. The exercices themselves need to get differents parts of your body to work (ie, not all focussed on 1 thing), you generally alternate an exercice that uses the upper part of your body, with one that works on the lower part. If you want exemples, just ask