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2005/11/19, 06:51 PM
As stated in a post a few weeks ago I am all new to the whole working out thing but I am reformed and loving it.
I had been doing almost all my workouts in the back yard but lately the weather has been making that a little harder to do so its off to the gym. Well I’m doing my thing trying to mind my own business when some woman who buy the way was drop dead fine started slapping me in the elbow telling me to hold them still. “Na! Slap, your still moving them try this” she tells me and started giving me some pointers. Mano! Was I all washed up in what I was doing. Me being a typical male with a bit of an egotistical macho expectation of what to do was approaching every thing like this.
do as many as you can, as fast as you can, with as much weight as you can.
Sounds good and determined with a direct approach that cannot be argued with right?
Wrong!
Doing things slowly and concentrating on method all of a suddenly like cradiples the resistance.
I’m told taking about 4 to 6 seconds during a repetition is the proper way.
And down is considered a negative rather than up being a positive in the repetition and is just as important.
I thanked the nice lady about three times and she kept her eye on me the next couple days as to how I was doing things.
she was not a trainer.
Today and yesterday the weather is much warmer and I am back out in my back yard reinventing everything I was doing and getting my but kicked as if it were the first day I ever messed with these things.
Thanks nice lady at the gym you just saved me a bunch of cash and more importantly turned me around in my whole aproach.
Sorry if this is a “repetitive” subject
Raven
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2005/11/19, 06:58 PM
Doh! wrong forum.
sory about that this should probably have gone in the beginers forum.
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2005/11/21, 10:27 PM
Hmm, tuff room.
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2005/11/21, 10:48 PM
Congrats on the weight loss...!
Not sure if there is a question in there or not, but the negative part of the movement is very important. The thing to remember is form is the key... good form prevents injuries, etc. Don't worry about heavy weight until you have the form perfected, and that includes taking the reps nice and slow!
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2005/11/23, 09:30 AM
Hey thanks for the reply.
It wasn’t a question just hopes of a topic starter.
I figure if I was ignorant to the topic others might not know it either.
I suppose its general knowledge around a place like this. But I even had recently seen a full sized builder doing what I was trying to do
Giving it full speed on a bench press with big ol iron plates. And it very well be he does in fact know what he is doing and I still have no clue to his purpose or technique that is probably being lost on my untrained eye. Whatever he is doing seems to be working swimmingly on him.
None the less I will for now pursue the less is more approach.
And thanks on the weight loss congrat. I’m down 65 lbs. since last march. I hope for about 40 more.
Weights is helping me lose weight without getting just thinner. I may already be in the best shape of my life at 42.
Last night my daughter was wearing my old Army jacket and I asked to try it on.
It fits better now than it did 19 years ago. I am trying to be able to regularly pass what was my PT standards for back then as well.
If it weren’t for the run I’d be nailing it. But I’ll keep pressing.
The weather is supposed to be in the upper 60’s today. You know where I’ll be if you need me.
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