These are the benches on the Rebel Sport (our big sporting stores) website - http://www.rebelsport.com.au/ecom/rebel … px?cat=192Zimmer wrote:
Erm.. Can't think of one off the top of my head. You can buy a bench for like $40, not exactly very expensive.
@ sonder - I'll get pics up next week.
IMO 90% of home workout equipment is shit. Just get a gym membership. One crappy bench will be equal to five months of gym membership and youll get pro equip.mcminty wrote:
These are the benches on the Rebel Sport (our big sporting stores) website - http://www.rebelsport.com.au/ecom/rebel … px?cat=192Zimmer wrote:
Erm.. Can't think of one off the top of my head. You can buy a bench for like $40, not exactly very expensive.
@ sonder - I'll get pics up next week.
The cheapest one isn't that cheap tbh ><
Keep your back straight, try to go low enough till your thighs are at least parallel to the floor. However, i am a deep squatter, I go below parallel. Think taking a shit in teh woods without shitting on your tennies.Jebus wrote:
Wow. Did a killer workout today (for my standards, lol).
Managed to do 4*8 SLOW dips without any assistence Also started the squats back up again, slowly. I have very weak knees (too weak, actually..) so I'm doing it really slow. I think I got my posture right, but there's about a million vids on youtube that supposedly show me the 'right' posture, so I'm not sure.. Also, putting the bar in my neck makes it hurt a bit.. What do you guys do to fix that, a small towel?
Most gyms have a neck roll pad... a towel would work. I just have gotten used to the bar, wait till you start squatting heavy. It leaves a bruise on me every week now.Jebus wrote:
Haha, I'll keep that in mind next time, hopefull I'll do without the smell
What about the neck thing?
Oh, already looking forward to it lol...SonderKommando wrote:
Most gyms have a neck roll pad... a towel would work. I just have gotten used to the bar, wait till you start squatting heavy. It leaves a bruise on me every week now.Jebus wrote:
Haha, I'll keep that in mind next time, hopefull I'll do without the smell
What about the neck thing?
hee hee heeeeeSonderKommando wrote:
Most gyms have a neck roll pad... a towel would work. I just have gotten used to the bar, wait till you start squatting heavy. It leaves a bruise on me every week now.
I disagree, you can get very very good home workout equipment. I have some.SonderKommando wrote:
IMO 90% of home workout equipment is shit. Just get a gym membership. One crappy bench will be equal to five months of gym membership and youll get pro equip.mcminty wrote:
These are the benches on the Rebel Sport (our big sporting stores) website - http://www.rebelsport.com.au/ecom/rebel … px?cat=192Zimmer wrote:
Erm.. Can't think of one off the top of my head. You can buy a bench for like $40, not exactly very expensive.
@ sonder - I'll get pics up next week.
The cheapest one isn't that cheap tbh ><
Ahhhh mang, shoulder presses are pro. Why you think my delts are so jacked LOL, remember to take the weight all the way down till the dumbells touch your shoulder. You'll see alot of duded going to like ear level, this is wrong.. The full range of motion is important!Jebus wrote:
Oh, already looking forward to it lol...SonderKommando wrote:
Most gyms have a neck roll pad... a towel would work. I just have gotten used to the bar, wait till you start squatting heavy. It leaves a bruise on me every week now.Jebus wrote:
Haha, I'll keep that in mind next time, hopefull I'll do without the smell
What about the neck thing?
Did most of your shoulder workout today.. Shrugs, lateral raises & seated rear delt flies, I forgot about the shoulder press
What is so funny missy?!Kimmmmmmmmmmmm wrote:
hee hee heeeee
115 a month? that's ridiculous, who pays that much?Zimmer wrote:
I disagree, you can get very very good home workout equipment. I have some.
York is fantastic home equipment - yes it has it's downers (eg Curl bar) but the rest is A+ stuff.
To be quite honest, gym memberships here are just too expensive in comparison with buying your own stuff. Here it costs approximately $115 a month for a shitty gym in the town. No thank you.
For a uni gym that's about the right price around here, but for a "professional gym" it's disgustingly expensive. Uni gyms suck though - they're always full, usually of douchebags and jocks who think they're working out properly and then the stupid girls that just keep running at about 5mph for hours on end. I have no time for the young wankshafts trying to show off how strong they are in the gym. If they waste my time, I get pissed off, which is why I workout at home more.Jebus wrote:
€40 for a full year in most gyms in my region. I love my school
Last year I can use this though
that sucks. I have access to all the Bally gyms in the country, professional equipment, fitness classes, a pool, basketball court, sauna, steam room, AND it only costs $26.00 a month.Lucien wrote:
115 a month? that's ridiculous, who pays that much?Zimmer wrote:
I disagree, you can get very very good home workout equipment. I have some.
York is fantastic home equipment - yes it has it's downers (eg Curl bar) but the rest is A+ stuff.
To be quite honest, gym memberships here are just too expensive in comparison with buying your own stuff. Here it costs approximately $115 a month for a shitty gym in the town. No thank you.
Well, it's a regular, 'professional' gym, I've got an 'all-round membership', so I can go to pretty much every single gym around here.. I'll be going to uni gyms next year thoughZimmer wrote:
For a uni gym that's about the right price around here, but for a "professional gym" it's disgustingly expensive. Uni gyms suck though - they're always full, usually of douchebags and jocks who think they're working out properly and then the stupid girls that just keep running at about 5mph for hours on end. I have no time for the young wankshafts trying to show off how strong they are in the gym. If they waste my time, I get pissed off, which is why I workout at home more.Jebus wrote:
€40 for a full year in most gyms in my region. I love my school
Last year I can use this though
my gym is very good value because its for people that work on the science park, only £27 a month.Zimmer wrote:
I disagree, you can get very very good home workout equipment. I have some.SonderKommando wrote:
IMO 90% of home workout equipment is shit. Just get a gym membership. One crappy bench will be equal to five months of gym membership and youll get pro equip.mcminty wrote:
These are the benches on the Rebel Sport (our big sporting stores) website - http://www.rebelsport.com.au/ecom/rebel … px?cat=192
The cheapest one isn't that cheap tbh ><
York is fantastic home equipment - yes it has it's downers (eg Curl bar) but the rest is A+ stuff.
To be quite honest, gym memberships here are just too expensive in comparison with buying your own stuff. Here it costs approximately $115 a month for a shitty gym in the town. No thank you.
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Granted, you can do a lot of exercise for free. I tried it, it's no where near as efficient as a gym membership. But i guess that depends on what you want as an end result.liquidat0r wrote:
My uni gym is £110 a year.
Not that I've ever actually been to the gym. Seems like a waste of money to me.
I jizzedbaggs wrote:
Granted, you can do a lot of exercise for free. I tried it, it's no where near as efficient as a gym membership. But i guess that depends on what you want as an end result.liquidat0r wrote:
My uni gym is £110 a year.
Not that I've ever actually been to the gym. Seems like a waste of money to me.
The way i see it, £37 a month is about the same cost of a good meal out, a night on the piss or a day out. I don't mind paying at all.
I personally love the gym, i enjoy going, i enjoy progressing and usually it's a great atmopshere. Well, except for when it's absolutley rammed, which it will be until mid Feb and then herberts lose interest and realise you can't get massive pecs in 3 weeks.
Which is really starting to piss me off actually, theres an absolute fuck tonne of scrawny little fucks at the gym and they have absolutley no idea. Clogging up benches with exercises that don't neccesarily require that bench, or leaving their weights all over the fucking place for mugs like me to put them away. Thats the downside of going to a gym like DW, loads of facilities but there aren't many 1 to 1 staff around to ensure they are doing it right, i dread to think how many have injured themselves due to incorrect techniques when lifting. My previous gym had amazing staff, albeit the facilities weren't up to scratch and i no longer live near it. But any help you needed, they was always there and you learnt some etiquette!
Last edited by Jebus (2010-01-27 04:26:41)
I have a feeling, personal fitness and weight training was just a flavour of the month for old Oisin.Jebus wrote:
It's been a long time since Irish last posted here.. Anyone know what's up?
single arm rowJebus wrote:
And how is the following exercise called? I did it yesterday .. but I wasn't to sure which muscles I was precisely targetting. For example, I'd put my left hand on something stable, lean a bit over, legs stable behind each other, and bringing the weight up in 90° (arms bend a bit more when at the top..)