1000Knives wrote:
I'd avoid the Nautilus machines if you can help it. They're not good for much outside of using them to avoid a preexisting injury or strengthen a specific muscle for physical therapy kinda purposes. Your body isn't just individual muscles, it works as a whole unit, but the machines emphasize individual muscles. So it's not something you wanna build a routine on. Potentially, too much time on machines, ie, building a whole routine on them, can actually injure you, as your stabilizing muscles won't get worked, and you'll build bad motor patterns in your brain (ie, squatting is much more natural of a leg motion than leg curls.)
Anyway, might I recommend pistols if you want a bodyweight leg workout? I suck at them, because I have balance issues and walk on the balls of my feet, but they're a great great exercise, and they're particularly needed for me for ice skating, so I have to bite the bullet and get going on them.
Eventually you can buy some dumbells or improvise something and add weight, too, but I love pistols, even me doing assisted ones I notice great gains in my skating.
As far as balanced, it depends on what you're looking for. You'll probably be able to build some decent upper body definition from those exercises, and some core/ab strength, but I personally tend to emphasize legs, which is weird for most guys to do. I started working out basically for ice skating, so yeah... But I find strong legs are good, as they're very practical, you can sprint fast, you can jump high, but then also, they help you pick up things off the ground, you'll get less tired carrying furniture, heavy boxes, all that sorta stuff. So for me personally, I find deadlifting and squatting entirely practical exercises.
I don't know really, I'm not an expert or anything, but personally give me a squat rack, a barbell, and some bumper plates, they're the only things that got me results I wanted in fitness. But hey, if you're happy with your routine and all, go do it, it's better than not doing anything like most people nowadays. I think eventually, since you can do planks (which means you're probably relatively light and have good balance/visual spatial ability) you might be able to set yourself up something for gymnastics, if you find bodyweight exercises more enjoyable. And gymnasts are strong and look good, so win win.
BTW, for pullups, Walmart sells pullup bars for not much money, you'd have to install it in your house, but yeah. If you got space in your house/garage you can even buy gymnastic rings if you wanted.
Interesting to know about the nautilus, no idea that they could potentially be bad.
Most of the door sells in my house are decorative, so they would not support much weight. I am 5ft 11 and weight about 141 lbs. when I wake up in the morning. Recently gained about 9 lbs (on purpose). The minimum I want to weight in the morning is 145, low end of average.
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Well you can go with that if you want.
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22 Jun 2012, 11:11 pm
