"Steve Freides" <steve@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "jeff" <jeffp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Hi, I'm about to purchase some form of exercise equipment which I
>> intend to use daily to regain my overall fitness and health. I'm 52,
>> I haven't taken great care of myself since college and now have high
>> blood pressure, so I absolutely need to get into an exercise regimen.
>> I live in a city apartment so space is limited to a designated corner.
>> Based on recommendations from a friend and from my own research, I've
>> kinda narrowed it down to either a Needak rebounder (although the
>> safety factor does concern me) or a Lifecycle re***bent, although that
>> is very expensive.
>>
>> Could I get some feedback and recommendations that either affirm
>> making one of these purchases or suggestions for something else that
>> I've not considered?
>>
>> Thanks alot,
>> Jeff
>
> I'm 53, and when I was in my early 40's, I still exercised primarily
> aerobically: I swam, bicycled and ran, each several times per week as I
> had been doing for most of my adult life. My wife observed that,
although
> I was, in principle, in great shape, I looked skinny, had a little
belly,
> and seemed to always be tired from overtraining.
>
> I switched to training strength instead, and with enough
> strength/endurance training included to keep my cardiovascular health
> excellent - I look better, I feel better, and my resting pulse (one of
the
> classic indicators of aerobic fitness) is still in the mid-40's. I
don't
> mean to toot my own horn gratuitously here, but I maintain a web site,
> link below, that contains information about my background and how I got
to
> the place I am now. I have even managed a few AAU age- and weight-group
> world records as a deadlifter - 365 lbs. @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
148 lbs. bodyweight and age
51
> in the unequipped division. I think it's im****tant to note that weight
> lifting has _not_ made me bigger. I choose to stay the same weight and,
> although I'm a little bit more muscular and a little bit less fat at the
> same overall bodyweight, people still think I look like a runner when
they
> meet me.
>
> If you have any questions, you might see my comments on the thread above
> entitled, "low weight, high reps for cardio" and/or read a bit of what
you
> find on my site. To cut to the chase, I recommend, instead of the
options
> you've give, a kettlebell starter kit: one kettlebell, one book, and one
> DVD. The cost is about $150 and the results you can expect are, as they
> say on those MasterCard commercials, priceless. This sort of training
has
> truly transformed my life, which is why I recommend it so highly.
<YAWN>
Another effing Friedes biography, humping and hawking effing KettleBells.
When no one, anywhere on this planet, can explain **why** goddamm KBs are
any better than dumbbells.
Because they aren't.
They are more expensive, much less versatile, clumsier, and likely more
prone to causing injury.
Do KBs work? Sure they work. Humping sacks of hay works, worked for Matt
Hughes of UFC/mma fame.
Dumbbells are by FAR the more economical, practical, and EFFECTIVE choice.
KBs are an effing fad, w/ a bunch of people trying to make the fad stick.
Pavel, the father of KBs, has written some good books, but I'll be even HE
prefers dumbbells.
And even he can't explain why KBs are better than dummbells.
Friedes: Why don't you sell a decent set of dumbbells, and no, not those
Bowflex $400 adjustable POSs.
To the OP:
Forget about trampolines. They cannot burn calories.
They are a total hype, altho strangely, in Consumer Re****ts recent roundup
of infomercial gimmicks, they liked this one the best, and claimed
rebounding was equivalent to running 5.6 mph.
Impossible, imo, but check it out for yourself. The Feb 08 issue. That
issue also reviews treadmills and ellipticals.
If I were to buy any of this stuff, it would be a decent treadmill that
could take a good stride.
IFFF.......
If you must waste your money, a re***bent bike is not bad, for as long as
you will use it.
Better:
Run, and get a $39 110 lb barbell set from Modell's, which includes two
dumbbells with spring clips.
If you need motivation on running, get Ken Cooper's books on running. His
1968 book is Da Bomb.
Cooper was a military MD, basically did possibly the largest fitness
experiments ever conducted.
Or, get Leonard Schwartz' book on HeavyHands, pref. the first edition.
Hint: He don't use kettlebells.
Superb book, superb method. Takes Cooper to the next
level--running/walking
with small handweights. Da Bomb.
Also, Vit D, Vinpocetin (from Puritan's Pride), magnesium, and niacin are
highly effective in lowering hbp, along with running. Wife had pressure
so
high her nose would bleed. Now it's normal.
Read The High Blood Pressure Hoax, by an MD whose name I don't have handy.
But the above is the basic prescription, sans the vinpocetin, which came
from Oprah's Dr. Oz, in a parenthetical mention in his You Younger
book--not
a bad book, but middling middling exercise prescriptions.
Dumbbell lifts can be made much more back-friendlier than barbell lifts,
but
barbell lifts are more impressive. :)
You can forego a bench, and do pushups.
Lift 'til you drop. Pick a weight so that somewhere between 8 and 20 reps
you fatigue the muscle. In fact, vary it up, but just fatigue the muscle.
But don't do this in the beginning: Take it REAL easy, because beginning
DOMS (delayed onset muscle sorness) can be pretty severe, and a real
discouraging *****.
In fact, do sissy workouts, including sissy running, until you have a very
good sense of what levels will cause DOMS.
Bull**** exercise will never cause doms.
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Mr. P.V.'d (formerly Droll Troll), Yonkers, NY
Sodomized by Congress, butt again...
But, Obama at least took me to the hospital!
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