Re: Ahhhhh!!! A Great Combo!!

On May 23, 11:51 am, "kcmunch...@gmail.com" <kcmunch...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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> i usually do...dips-biceps-dips-biceps-dips-biceps...i would call them
> antagonistic sets if someone were to ask...but no one ever bothers me
> during my workout.

Yeah, tris an dbis are obvious, though abs and lower back is too now
that I've found out about them!

You remind me of something that happened at the gym yesterday: I was
waiting for this guy to finish with the incline presses. When I took
possession of the bench and weights, luckily I'd checked because I
noticed that on one side he had had a 45 plate with a 10-lb. plate on
the "inside"! So one side was 10, 45, while (continuing from left to
right) the other was10, 45!!

I wished I'd asked him what the hell he was doing, but he'd already
moved onto something else and I didn't really feel like asking him a
question which would have made him feel stupid.

> we got some of those "nitro-plus" machines at our gym. pieces of
> junk. the biceps curl has and interesting handle, but the cam
> produces a bad resistance curve.

I've always enjoyed the Nautilus machines I've come across, except
one, the one that works out your obliques, because the seat is not
adjustable at all but set very high for some reason, such that almost
everyone in the gym using it is on their tiptoes!!! And I'm just
under six feet myself, so I can't imagine who the heck they designed
the machine for.

On May 23, 1:38 pm, "kcmunch...@gmail.com" <kcmunch...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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> that's one of the weird things about gyms these days. you might have
> made yourself look stupid just for asking...or he might have felt
> stupid...or he could be so stupid that your question may not have even
> registered.

LOL, I'd say that's one of the weird things about usenet!

>but, yeah, it's a good thing you didn't strip that ten on
> the outside and get on with your set 'cause...well, you would probably
> have figured out something wasn't right when you lifted off. here,
> i'll solve the problem:
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> you: "hey buddy...what were you doing on that incline bench?"
> him: "i was doin' incline bench." (and then he chatters on to
> everyone that you're a moron and now all the hot chicks in the gym
> think you're an idiot and you've gotten nowhere.)

LOL. Theoretically, though, he shouldn't have noticed a problem,
right? I mean, if it's all the same weight on either end, it
shouldn't matter the order he'd placed them -- if it's just a "purely"
straight up-and-down motion he used for the incline press. Maybe
that's why he didn't notice. (I didn't notice 'cause I wasn't looking
really looking, nor looking head-on.)

> i've found that it's best not to talk with people in the gym.
> because, in just the same way people think they understand nutrition
> after reading bodybuilding mags for years, people have so much
> nonsense lodged into their brains regarding proper training that it's
> simply a waste of time to talk to them about it.

I agree. The only chat necessary at a gym is with pretty girls and
hot mamas!

> i personally prefer the nautilus machines produced before they stared
> chrome-plating everything (and before the company was sold). those
> were good machines. i wish my gym had one of the plate-loading
> nautilus biceps/triceps pieces. good cams. good resistance curves.
> the new machines...not so much.

Hmm. It sucks when new designs are worse than an older one! But the
Nautilus Nitro Abdominal cruncher is all right...I prefer the ones
where you're essentially lying on your back, though...seems more
difficult...?