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2004/01/23, 10:06 AM
So here is the deal: Due to funds being the way they are we can not afford for me to go to my gym and my wife to go to hers. What we found is that a local Y has a family plan that will allow both of us to get what we want. The thing is for me the weight room is less than stellar. They have none of the following: Cables, shoudler press bench, Chin machine, leg press, any kind of incline bench other than one for bench pressing, and all they have is 600-700 in plates total. What they do offer to me is I can go 5 days a week before work. What this means is I can now allow time for 1 bodypart a day and 20 mins of cardio. I can swim or run on a track(32 times around is a mile LOL). SO waht I need is some advice on other exercises that can replace the chins, and the press downs for tris....I have a good Idea what I will do for chins they have a squat cage I can use a cross bar to hang from set the pins for my feet and give myself some help. Any thoughts?
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2004/01/23, 10:16 AM
Yo Mutt!
For tris you could do dips across 2 benches (not sure what they're called). Put heels on one bench and sit on other. Then support your weight with hands and dip down off the bench. Then raise back up using your tris. Use body weight or add plates on your lap for more weight. These isolate and hit my tris really hard, and might go well with your new higher rep routine.
Good Luck.
TSMD
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2004/01/23, 10:17 AM
It sounds like my weight room Mutt!!
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Charlie
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2004/01/23, 10:19 AM
LOL this is as bare bones as it gets but i am excited. for a number of reasons the fact that I can not hit cardio during my training is a huge thing for me......plus I can still go heay, just no one else there will be able to lift much on shoulder and back and leg day! LOL
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2004/01/24, 03:19 PM
Yo Muttster - I found another exercise for triceps for ya. It's called body-weight triceps extensions.
(1) Set the barbell supports of a squat rack about 3 to 4 feet above the floor and place a bar across them.
(2) Grab the bar with an overhand grip, your hands 6 to 8 inches apart. Still holding the bar, back up until you're in a modified pushup position: Your arms are straight, your body nearly forms a line from your head to your ankles, and you're standing on the balls of your feet.
(3) Lower your head toward the bar by bending your elbows until your head nearly touches the bar.
(4) Pause, then push yourself back up to the starting position by straightening your arms.
There's a video clip at: http://netscape.menshealth.com/workbook2/arms.shtml
TSMD
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2004/01/24, 07:40 PM
Very cool saxman. I am doin a thing that toasts me. You do.... never mind. Its in my journal on bicep and tricep day.
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Charlie
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2004/01/26, 07:29 PM
I thought the ymca on long pond had more equipment than that.
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Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it is gone past me I will turn to see fear's path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
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2004/01/26, 08:12 PM
Not able to afford that one going to driving park
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