Tuesday, October 23

the home gym

Last weekend I bought a home gym.



This weekend I assembled it, which turned into an all-weekend project. It's a bit like doing a 3D engineering jigsaw, marvelling along the way at the ingenious design using about fifteen pulleys. And it's much better and safer than the old bench and barbells I had been using. Of course, I'll never look like anything other than a 9-stone weakling, but at least I'll be a strong weakling. And it has even helped me get back into doing yoga.

The second time I used it, I tore something in my shoulder while trying to develop pectoral muscles. Later I read in "Weight Training for Dummies" that the Pec Deck should really be called the Shoulder Wreck, and you should never use it.

So now I had to look around on the internet for specialised exercises to help heal rotator cuff injuries. But then I remembered I already know what to do - yoga! At work yesterday I tried a couple of sun salutes, various warriors and the chair, and I feel the benefit already. If I do the yoga regularly, eventually I may even be able to start using the home gym again.

This is another way to injure yourself on gym equipment:

9 comments:

  1. Congratulations on your new home gym...it is awesome.
    So sorry about your injury.
    Congratulations on getting back into Yoga!
    Have a great week Rob!
    ~xo
    Lee Ann

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  2. Albert? Is that you on the running machine? Have you lost your hair scissors? Anyway, I've never been on a running machine, but after seeing that, I'd like to have a go! Hotboy p.s. For that keystone cops effect, you could maybe get your students to line up behind you first. Corporal punishment's last stand!

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  3. LA - thanks, it's always good to look on the bright side.

    hotters - never run with scissors. Is that how you got your haircut? Dearie dearie me!

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  4. I say!

    Is that girl on the right trying to jump a hurdle? She failed miserably.

    Never tried a home gym myself. Cricket gives me all the exercise anyone needs. Batting, fielding, bowling, catching, and especially sledging.

    MM III

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  5. OHh i have that same home gym thingie... I haven't used it cuz I had to move it to the garage to remodel a room...
    but I do yoga all the time
    xoxo

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  6. MM - are you sure you haven't got Australian blood?

    Shibari - one of the nice things about yoga is that it's holistic so it takes care of every part of you - the ancient Indians or whoever have worked it all out over centuries, so that all have to do is do it.

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  7. Albert? A press report from MIT said standing on your head helps you think. Have you been standing on your own head. I can only get my toe in my ear! Hotboy

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  8. HB - standing on my own head? I can think of a few heads I'd like to stand on.

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  9. I say!

    There's an international incident brewing over at Hotters' place. May need your attention. Perhaps someone at the McDonald Institute might get involved?

    MM III

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