Tuesday Workout Report (Bond, James Bond Edition)

[the_gneech]

I hope you folks aren't getting sick of reading these, 'cause they're not going away. ;) Even if bauske doesn't post any, I'm still keeping up my side of the bargain. ;P So anyway...

The first two-thirds of the workout I spent watching lythandra doing DDR while I did the Bowflex; the rest was spent with the tail end of You Only Live Twice and the opening credits of Goldfinger on AMC.

Rows: 3 mins @ 55 lbs (warmup)
Flat Barbell Bench Press: 1 set 10 reps @ 65 lbs
Narrow Pushdowns: 1 set 10 reps @ 45 lbs
Bench Press: 1 set 10 reps @ 50 lbs
Seated Lat Rows: 1 set 10 reps @ 25 lbs
Triceps Pushdown: 1 set 10 reps @ 45 lbs
Rear Deltoid Row: 1 set 10 reps @ 35 lbs
Deadlift: 1 set 10 reps @ 25 lbs
Chest Fly: 1 set 10 reps @ 30 lbs
Military Press: 2 sets 10 reps @ 20 lbs
Rows: 3 mins @ 35 lbs (cooldown)

Body Weight: 297.5 lbs

The good news is, I found the extensions to properly do the Military Press. The bad news is, I'm not sure how well I'm liking this new workout. There's a lot more cable-shifting and bench-adjusting, which interrupts the flow and is just plain a nuisance. Also, with the seemingly-random exception of the Military Press, there's only one set of anything, which leaves me feeling like I haven't done anything at the end. Unless I have the weight set really high, it usually isn't until the middle of the second set of any exercise that I start to get to the muscle failure stage.

I'll probably stick with this one for the time being, but rearrange the exercises a bit next week so that at the very least more of the exercises using the T-bar are together, since that's the most cumbersome part to change. I can probably shave a good 3-5 minutes off the workout by only shifting to and from the T-bar once, instead of shifting to it, back from it for another exercise, then back to it again.

Any comments re: this setup, you other athletic (or would-be athletic) types out there?

-The Gneech

Comments

[cyberhorn.livejournal.com]

so GOLDTWINKY do you expect me to talk!?

NO MR BOWFLEX I EXPECT YOU TO DIE

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

Actually I was thinking along the lines of...

So Goldfinger, do you expect me to talk?
No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to do more reps.

Of course, isn't it lovely that the leader of the Japanese counter-espionage force is called 'Tiger' Tanaka? ;D

Hmmm, maybe we should try and slip a Chakra into the brim of the Gneech's fedora. Wouldn't that be useful for the convention circuit. n_n

One final point though have Lagston return as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, he's got the hair for the role. n_n

[cyberhorn.livejournal.com]

well LOL i used the goldtwinky to represent the bad things in the gneeches diet

as for tiger LOL i would pay to hear the gneech say the code responce so how do you feel about me?

why gneech san i love you

Buhahahaha

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

SET TIGER_TANAKA.LOVE(BOND_SAN) = TRUE

-TG

[cyberhorn.livejournal.com]

BUhahahahahaha

bows to the gneech

bravo sir bravo!

[confusedoo.livejournal.com]

I'm actually really happy you're still posting these. I like knowing that you're taking the whole get fit thing seriously. Never having used a bowflex, I don't know which exercises use the T-bar, but as long as you can still do the exercises, i.e. the exercises you're putting together aren't overworking one particular muscle(group) to the point you can finish your sets, it shouldn't be any problem.

[vik_thor]

as some people say, it is your journal, you can post what you want.
Doesn't bother me in the least, and find it interesting... maybe with enough of them, I'll get motivated to start working out...

If people complain, you could always set up a filter for your exercise posts...

[kylet.livejournal.com]

I believe there's a logic to the order you do these in, since my trainer seems to have some game plan of either alternating body parts, or specifically working corresponding body parts in sequence. I'm not really sure what the difference is, it all hurts by the end x_x

I know it's a way of giving certain body parts a rest and doing some of the more taxing exercises earlier or later, but I don't know the way the Bowflex works enough to give suggestions...

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Well, putting the two T-bar exercises together would put the "narrow pushdown" (basically a seated lat pull) together with the "triceps pushdown" (which, as the name implies, is a triceps exercise). So the triceps would get a bit more stuff right together, but not too much.

-TG

please keep posting these

[eddiecanis.livejournal.com]

they are a guilty little remider to me that I have to get going on my own exercise program.

though bowflex should use your LJ in a comercial :)