Morning Miscellaneia

[the_gneech]

Bit 1:
From robin_d_laws: Are We Not Kids? Selling out? Or subverting the man? You decide.

Bit 2:
I mentioned yesterday Laurie's commenting on my arms. Well, I ran a status report in the "Bowflex iTrainer" software based on my workouts so far and the report said, among other things, that something like 60% of the work done so far has been on my arms and shoulders. Meanwhile, something like 10% has been chest and 5% abs. (About 15% was back.)

Well no wonder! 0.o The annoying thing about that is when I generated the workout, I put "upper body" as a target area -- which I would assume included chest and abs as well as arms, shoulders, and back. So as an experiment, I generated a new workout that targeted the chest, and it's a completely different setup. It has a larger number of exercises, with much heavier weights, but only one set of each. It has chest presses, resisted crunches, resisted punches, and so on.

I have to decide for next week, whether to keep doing the workouts I have been, or to switch to this new set.

-The Gneech

Comments

[laurie-robey.livejournal.com]

I watched the Whip It! video. They were as faithful as Disney can be to something like that. It's still ironic as hell.

[bauske.livejournal.com]

Heh, Popeye arms.

Not that big forearms are bad in my opinion. I think they look good, and are necessary for several other exercises.

I'd say try the new set out though. For one, you'd be targeting the area you want more. For two, it gives you variety, and variety is always good.

[paulcurtis.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Devo continues to undermine our reality, by becoming one with it!

[kamau-d-lyon.livejournal.com]

Only thing I can think of is that the other parts (chest and abs) would get worked on later in the set. Still it doesn't sound right that a 'total body' would have only 10 and 5 percent to those two areas. If Bowflex has got a QA section you might want to question them on that.