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Offline LogicalBee

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Exercise Equipment
« on: January 11, 2015, 12:42:13 am »
How does this lovely machine look to you all?  Fun?



I’ve had one sitting in the basement for the past 6 months and haven’t used it yet. Picked it up at a garage sale this summer, dreaming about those 6 pack abs you know. ;D  I hear those Lake Michigan beaches calling  :yes:

Anybody ever used one of these? 

What’s your favorite piece of exercise/torture equipment? 

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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2015, 07:54:30 am »
A can of beer.   :P
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2015, 08:50:53 am »
Six pack abs, I got those beat. :P
I have a keg ab!
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2015, 08:53:51 am »
Quote from: iddee on January 11, 2015, 07:54:30 am
A can of beer.   :P

    +1   ;D


   I have a weight bench with free weights, a strange pedal bike you sit down in and pedal forward type of thing..  NEVER use the bike, wife uses that. I do use the free weights about three times a week in the winter. Used to have a treadmill, looking for another one..  I can turn on You Tube and run for miles inside where its warm..   The only other thing we have is an inversion table. THAT thing has saved my LIFE so many times I cant count them anymore.

   LOL  Keg Abbs  THAT right there is impressive!!    :laugh:
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2015, 10:28:54 am »
Not keg abs, as in plural, just one big keg ab! :laugh:
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2015, 11:33:36 am »
The difference between perry and us,is perry can set a keg next to him in the snow to keep it cold while shoveling the crap, but us too the south of him have to keep a six pack in the frig because that crap doesn't stay on as long in the south as it does up there :occasion14: Cheers, and have Fun. Your buddy, Jack :laugh:
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2015, 02:03:22 pm »
Quote from: iddee on January 11, 2015, 07:54:30 am
A can of beer.   :P

Lots of calories in those cans of beer you know. :'(   Add another hour of hard labor to burn that off now. :laugh:

The thing in the photo is called an Ab lounge.  I’ve got it parked in front of the TV right now.  The unique thing about the Ab lounge is it will allow you to stretch the abdominal muscles beyond 180 degrees.  Is that really such a good thing, I’m not sure, but it seems to make the abs ache a little more than doing crunches.  I can do normal crunches on the floor all day and it doesn’t do anything!

LazyB, what do you do with your inversion table?
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2015, 03:54:09 pm »
logical,

i think that chair would look great with you sitting in it on a beach, lake michigan, cooler of cold ones beside ya' ............. ;)
i get my daily 'torture' at the gym, but my favorite 'exercise/torture equipment' is sitting in one of these, floating down the river, cooler full of cold ones, fishing the day away, and letting someone else do the hard work....... maybe once in awhile i get to row ............ :D


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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2015, 04:25:06 pm »
Inversion table is for my back..
   Those times when I turn to toss a piece of firewood, and end up on my knees with tears running down my face?   Or go to step up on a ladder and end up crawling to my truck....   
    When those things happen....  I can CRAWL in to the house and somehow through the pain, get myself onto the table, and SLOWLY invert, hang upside down a bit.. 5 minutes maybe...  when I am upright again I can walk away..   NOT pain free, but being able to walk, and not be taken to the emergency room is a HUGE bonus all by itself...   I can carry a 150 lb RR Tie on my shoulder and never have a twinge.... then I do something silly, like turn to see why the wife is yelling while I am carrying a 5 gal bucket of grain.. and thats it, I am down with debilitating PAIN shooting up my back...  As soon as I can get on that table, I can walk again and the pain is tolerable. Hanging upside down two or three times a day for the next two or three days and I am back in the game, cutting wood, doing chores etc..
   I fought my back since the first time I hurt it in 1983, going to chiropractors, Doctors, etc, etc, etc, and ALL OF THEM told me I was imagining things, there was nothing wrong with my back..  X rays, cat scans, all said my back was fine.. the pain told me otherwise, and I had to find SOME WAY of coping with it, or I couldnt work, and without the backing of a doc to say Yep, he has a problem, I wouldnt have been able to hold a job.
   The first time I ever tried it, was in desperation.. I wrapped the chain from the A frame engine crane around my boots and pulled myself up...   My wife decided that maybe I shouldnt keep doing that and bought me the table. Have not been back to see a chiropractor or emergency room since..  Been over 12 years now.
   Laying in bed, hurting so BAD that you have tears running down your face, with no possible way to get anything for pain, came close to ending my life, it was that bad..  One little table made continuing on possible.
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2015, 09:21:07 pm »
My excercise machines!!! I prefer  a 7910 dolmar chainsaw with a 28 inch bar. weighing in at 21lbs And a 35 ton log splitter I got to get the logs  onto to split.  Don't need a gym  ;D Took out an army veteran fresh out of 8 years in the army to cut the other day.  2 hours later he was begging for mercy and said I was worse than basic training.  Took a high school football star from here in town out yesterday 18 degrees 2 hours into it he stopped me and said "I forgot I got to go help a guy at the auction today can you take me to town" :o  On the way to town he said he would rather go to 100deg day full pad football practice than cut wood.  I will be 50 next June ate up with arthritis in the shoulder and back and the young-ins cant hang with the workout.   :D






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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2015, 09:43:26 pm »
Yep!   I have a PILE of logs in front of my shed, so all there is to it, is to CUT, SPLIT, and stack...
   Daughters boyfriend came over to help today..   He lasted two hours, went into the house.. wife came out and yelled at me for trying to kill him..   I cut for another two hours, until the pile was pretty much done, then I split what was cut, and then I stacked it..   Was 40 degrees today, I was sweating in my T shirt when they came out to check on me..   Stopped work as they approached, and the steam rose....  Boyfriend turned to daughter...
   "Remind me to never pee your father off?"

   Dont consider it all that hard. Its JUST work. It is not back breaking work. No one is standing over you with a whip. You can stop to catch your breath, get a drink, or take a break any time you need to...   WAY better than cutting wood in August!
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2015, 01:08:00 pm »
"LazyB, what do you do with your inversion table?

    It's wintertime Scott, we need a pic of you on your inversion table  ;) ;D
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2015, 05:53:53 pm »
I have an old, oil patch pal, that thinks his inversion machine is a live saver.  He is semi retired and keeps one set up in a room above his garage.  Like lazy, he says it  is immediate relief from severe pain.  So many of my old pals have serious back issues that my heart goes out to those of you who suffer chronic back pain.
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2015, 12:32:01 am »
Like Scott, I have chronic back pain as well. I also use a method called The McKensie Method. And of course I know how to get bee stings onto my lower back with is of great help as well  ;) 8)

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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2015, 11:54:54 pm »
I figured those inversion tables probably worked, but I've never tried one.  It makes sense that decompressing the vertebrae would be a good thing.  The only thing I might be concerned about would be too much blood pressure in the ole noggin  ;D  You ever see stars?

I inaugurated my Ab lounge this week.  Did 400 cycles a couple days ago, took a day to recover, and did another 200 today.  Still don't see that 6 pack yet  :D  You mean it's going to take more than a week?
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2015, 12:30:20 am »
Quote from: riverbee on January 11, 2015, 03:54:09 pm
logical,

i think that chair would look great with you sitting in it on a beach, lake michigan, cooler of cold ones beside ya' ............. ;)
i get my daily 'torture' at the gym, but my favorite 'exercise/torture equipment' is sitting in one of these, floating down the river, cooler full of cold ones, fishing the day away, and letting someone else do the hard work....... maybe once in awhile i get to row ............ :D



Riverbee, that picture triggered a memory. 

On the Kenai River in Alaska, we floated for a day in a boat like that.  My older son (HS senior then in 1986) caught a couple king Salmon, and my younger, 9 year old son, caught 17 (yes, 17) jack salmon -had to throw those back in the water.  The guide had never seen anything like it.  I sat in the middle and didn't put my line in the water.  Was a memorable day.  We all smile whenever Alaskan fishing enters the conversation.  Thanks for the reminder.  :)
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2015, 12:56:49 am »
drift boat lee, and your welcome.

this drift boat is a smaller one, we floated the upper yellowstone river(upper paradise valley) just down from yellowstone national park last summer.  the fishing (trout) was phenomenal that day.  we have used the same guide for the past 4 or 5 years, and he works hard to get us into some good fishing.  he lets me row in calm waters.  maneuvering a drift boat requires a great deal of upper body strength, not to mention, a knowledge of the waters, the currents and all the channels.

my brother has a much larger drift boat. i have floated with him on the north fork of the flathead river in montana many, many times over the years.......from the canadian border just above polebridge, montana, just outside glacier national park, all the way into kalispell, or just above kalispell.  some good memories.  there was a time we could catch salmon in the flathead rivers, many years ago, but not anymore.  in these upper waters though, one can catch some really nice big, fat trout and see scenery that no one else sees, sometimes i just sit and take it in..........

we are finally going to alaska this summer lee, and looking forward to it!
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2015, 08:44:08 am »
Logical;
   When you invert, you do feel the pressure in your head. The first couple times you di it, it is uncomfortable. Dont stay inverted too long.. flatten out, relax, then invert again etc...    It seems, that after you have done it a couple times, the discomfort fades away. I can invert for as long as I need to now.
  Yes, it feels good to just HANG. relax, let the arms fall to the floor..     
   Pay attention to the foot clamp method of what ever table you might be interested in buying. Your feet hold all of your weight, so usiung a comfortable clamping method is important!!
   I usually put my boots on, so the method isnt as important. If i can take a chain around the boots the foam on the clamps seems like cake!
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2015, 09:15:41 am »
Thanks for the table advice.   :yes:

Luckily I don’t have a bad back and hope to keep it that way by avoiding deeps; or at least picking them up.  ;D
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Re: Exercise Equipment
« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2015, 01:58:35 pm »
Quote from: riverbee on January 14, 2015, 12:56:49 am
we are finally going to alaska this summer lee, and looking forward to it!
Long time Alaskans will recommend a visit before June 15th.  It rains more after June 15. A lot more.  :)

Have fun! 8)
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