[Kelt]

Originally Posted by Daktari

Save yer money Kelt and invest (less money than an ongoing gym membership) in a triceps bar and some weights. The idea behind the triceps bar is that it gives multi hand positions for different exercises.

Or...

You can do a light upper body work-out with little to no kit. It's possible to do cheat press-ups from your knees. Triceps presses on a chair/bench. Flyes - for chest and shoulders can performed sitting, holding onto things like food cans/bags of sugar etc.

When I'm being obsessive about exercise then it's harder than ever to have an enforced lay-off. The lesson for me is balance.


Yesterday's exercise...I've not even poked my nose out of the door yet today...was...now I've calculated it properly on google maps...roughly 12miles return cycle trip down the coast to visit with friends. There was a headwind on the return but it still didn't feel like too much effort was expended sadly. M'poor shoulders and wrists are struggling to cycle right now so I'm a little reluctant to take a longer trip, although, on the other hand, maybe that's what they need

Wishing ya'll a super day moving yer body around.

I completely agree with you about working out at home with minimal equipment. Regrettably, my body isn't on the same plan. I am unable to pick up and manage free weights with some of the orthopedic conditions I am dealing with. This is why the routine I have been doing has had a fairly limited range of motions and was something I could do entirely upright. The result is that I am now a classic case of "chronic cardio". That is not to say there isn't a way to do this.

I have a very specific set of outcomes in mind that plans for an exit strategy from the gym and transitioning into my home. The end goal will be to do full body weight exercises as part of a revised maintenance routine. In the gym I will be using the equipment that most closely mimics free weights/bodyweight. The reason for going to a gym is that I am just not strong enough to do the things that I want to do at home and need to gain some muscle in an assisted way.

There will be a series of checks and balances built into it so that I should be able to retain my gains from the gym. I have an annoying tendency to reverse engineer everything, and this is just one more example.

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