Bodylastics - Day 1
Sunday, January 27, 2008
This morning I woke up unusually early. Well unusual for me, I normally sleep past noon on Sundays.
Since I had time, I decided to finally get the Bodylastics kit out and start working on the chest, back and shoulders, ie upper body workout today. Going through the manual, I pick the few exercises I would like to try today. Some of them involves sticking the "door jam" thing into the door at various heights to work on the different parts of the body.
However, Singaporeans are a little bit more fortunate. I don't have to go hunting for doors. I just looped the "door jam" thing around our plentiful WINDOW GRILLES. Yup, works just the same as if you had to go look for a door and jam it behind the door. Plus, you don't have to worry about slamming the door on your fingers trying to keep the "door jam" at "chest height" for example. In fact, if you're super lazy, forget the door jam. Just loop the bands around the window grilles and pull. If the window grilles ever come loose, complain to the RC! They'll fix it :)
So what's the verdict?
Great! I had originally intended to run through just a few exercises, to work on my lats especially (which the Steel Bow can't really seem to target properly, or was it me not doing it correctly on the Steel Bow?). I just did 3 different exercises for the lats, which to me means 3 sets of 10. That means I do 1 exercise for 10 reps, and change to a new one, so to me that's 3 sets of 10. After this, I was going to plunk myself down in front of the TV and work out on the Steel Bow while watching TV.
In any case, the feeling after coming away from the exercises, was very very nice. I spent like 45 mins doing nothing but muscle building exercises, zero "mindless cardio". My heart rate was right up there as if I had been doing cardio. Arms and back were tingling, like as if I had done full workouts.
I guess now I don't need to do the workouts on the Steel Bow like I had intended. I can just slouch all day in front of the TV now.
Guess tomorrow will be a rest day and then I'll probably start on Steel Bow first on Tuesday before moving on to the Bodylastics for my lower body.
Since I had time, I decided to finally get the Bodylastics kit out and start working on the chest, back and shoulders, ie upper body workout today. Going through the manual, I pick the few exercises I would like to try today. Some of them involves sticking the "door jam" thing into the door at various heights to work on the different parts of the body.
However, Singaporeans are a little bit more fortunate. I don't have to go hunting for doors. I just looped the "door jam" thing around our plentiful WINDOW GRILLES. Yup, works just the same as if you had to go look for a door and jam it behind the door. Plus, you don't have to worry about slamming the door on your fingers trying to keep the "door jam" at "chest height" for example. In fact, if you're super lazy, forget the door jam. Just loop the bands around the window grilles and pull. If the window grilles ever come loose, complain to the RC! They'll fix it :)
So what's the verdict?
Great! I had originally intended to run through just a few exercises, to work on my lats especially (which the Steel Bow can't really seem to target properly, or was it me not doing it correctly on the Steel Bow?). I just did 3 different exercises for the lats, which to me means 3 sets of 10. That means I do 1 exercise for 10 reps, and change to a new one, so to me that's 3 sets of 10. After this, I was going to plunk myself down in front of the TV and work out on the Steel Bow while watching TV.
In any case, the feeling after coming away from the exercises, was very very nice. I spent like 45 mins doing nothing but muscle building exercises, zero "mindless cardio". My heart rate was right up there as if I had been doing cardio. Arms and back were tingling, like as if I had done full workouts.
I guess now I don't need to do the workouts on the Steel Bow like I had intended. I can just slouch all day in front of the TV now.
Guess tomorrow will be a rest day and then I'll probably start on Steel Bow first on Tuesday before moving on to the Bodylastics for my lower body.
Labels: Bodylastics, home gym, workout
1 Comments:
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nomad, March 10, 2008 10:00 PM
nomad, March 10, 2008 10:00 PM
Thanks!