Total Gym" (Chuck Morris imitations) that I like very much and do almost a third of my workout with. Was surprised just how much I liked it actually...
I've been thinking about the bowflex...but I'm still on the fence about it. Heard anything?.
wanderlustguy
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Body For Life 12 Week Transformation Challenge!
by Vinny inanybody here ever tried the body for life 12 weeks transformation challenge?.
well, i will be starting day one tomorrow.. .
basically you take some "before photos" of yourself, along with your weight, body fat percentage, size measurements etc.
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Body For Life 12 Week Transformation Challenge!
by Vinny inanybody here ever tried the body for life 12 weeks transformation challenge?.
well, i will be starting day one tomorrow.. .
basically you take some "before photos" of yourself, along with your weight, body fat percentage, size measurements etc.
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wanderlustguy
Good to hear about the chin-up bar, Wanderlust. But I bet if you tried a full body workout, with weights and cardio, you'd be even more amazed at how good you look and feel. Chin-ups would be just one portion of an all-body routine, IMO. For example, you are likely not doing very much at all for your triceps, shoulders or chest muscles with pull-ups. Though lats, back and biceps would get used well. You can pick up a set of weights very cheap today. K-mart, Walmart, Sears etc have both weight sets and or dumbbells. Though a local fitness center works great too... Nowadays I have my own stuff though.
I didn't say I did only chin ups...
Machines suck miserably and are freakin worthless, give me a jumprope for 20 mintues and throw rocks at the tread mill. Triceps, stick my feet on a bartsool out in front of the bar with your hands on the edge and do dips, then backwards with two barstools for a chest press.
Oh...then we have Bowflex Selectec dumbels and a portable bench. Oh, and genuine stairs instead of starmaster, carrying my mountain bike..
I've come to prefer real movements to precribed ones, i.e. machines and the results are incomparable.
But, different people work best with diffferent things. The pull up bar is spreading my back which has always been a weak point and it has made the most difference in how my clothes fit.
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Your dying, you are given one last wish, and that is ....
by free2beme inmy mother in law was diagnosed with breast cancer in october.
had the surgery and they found it metastized to the lungs.
she is doing chemotherapy now, but the cancer is spread pretty wide and thus an organization called making memories has given her a one last wish grant of $6000.
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wanderlustguy
So tragic.
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Dating a JW and how to get her off the cult or becoming a member myself
by svennibenni ini'm sorry if i'm totally wrong here but i have a serious problem.. i met a woman in the company i work in via intranet.
it is a very big company with offices all over the world.
she moved to the united kingdom just a few month before we met.
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wanderlustguy
Every single motive given for getting this girl out has been self centered. Every reasoning for "helping" her is based on everything it should not be.
You say you wants her to find her own answers, but with you leading the way...how are you any different from them?
Answer me this...if she started talking to a guy who had the answers you do not, and he helped her get out...how would you like it?
Then ask yourself what your motive is, getting her out or being with her. Honor is doing the right thing when it is the most difficult, you do not know at this point if you are even supposed to be together, and if you do get her out, odds are incredibly in the favor of her being someone entirely different that you would not want to be with and she would not want to be with you.
You have no idea what you are messing with, this is a person's life.
WLG
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Dating a JW and how to get her off the cult or becoming a member myself
by svennibenni ini'm sorry if i'm totally wrong here but i have a serious problem.. i met a woman in the company i work in via intranet.
it is a very big company with offices all over the world.
she moved to the united kingdom just a few month before we met.
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wanderlustguy
You need to decide if you can live with yourself if this girl jumps off a bridge one day because you are being so selfish.
Grow the f*ck up and leave her alone.
WLG
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Sexual Harassment
by reneeisorym ini've had something happen to me at work and i just need some opinions .... i work at a store where i am the only female employee.
we were short handed these past two weeks because someone quit and the new guy doesn't start until monday so they got a guy from another store to come fill in.
i hardly know this guy except for him talking to me about business related things.
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wanderlustguy
There's no telling how many people he has done this to who haven't said something because they were too embarrassed.
You did the right thing.
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Body For Life 12 Week Transformation Challenge!
by Vinny inanybody here ever tried the body for life 12 weeks transformation challenge?.
well, i will be starting day one tomorrow.. .
basically you take some "before photos" of yourself, along with your weight, body fat percentage, size measurements etc.
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wanderlustguy
Oldrade is right on, I was trained with the new-at-the-time superslow techniques a few years back and used them again this time, insanely fast and dramatic changes. You only have to to like ten reps, but the set takes LONGER than if you did a set of 3 @ 10 reps. If you can even finish the last one, you're shaking so bad you have to have help.
For the chinup thing, try to take a full minute for the complete motion, if you do them fast...it looks more macho, but doesn't do any good because slow twitch fiber takes up MUCH LESS of your muscle mass than the fast twich fibers all the goofballs at the gym are always using. The more muscle mass you use, the more fat burns when you are at rest, it actually takes energy to rebuild or recover and if the diet is reasonable, you will even burn fat while you sleep.
And additional benefit is no joint and ligament pain from the jolt of fast reps.
WLG
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Body For Life 12 Week Transformation Challenge!
by Vinny inanybody here ever tried the body for life 12 weeks transformation challenge?.
well, i will be starting day one tomorrow.. .
basically you take some "before photos" of yourself, along with your weight, body fat percentage, size measurements etc.
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wanderlustguy
Photos for effidence...
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Body For Life 12 Week Transformation Challenge!
by Vinny inanybody here ever tried the body for life 12 weeks transformation challenge?.
well, i will be starting day one tomorrow.. .
basically you take some "before photos" of yourself, along with your weight, body fat percentage, size measurements etc.
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wanderlustguy
The thing I did that had the greatest impact so far was putting a chin up bar over the doorway to the bathroom. Every time I pass under it, I do as many as I can either curl style or behind the shoulders. Using leg movement to propel you up works abs you never knew you had.
When I bought it right before xmas, I could barely do one, now I'm up to 6 behind the shoulders and 10 curl style, and clothes fit dramatically better. I had dropped 6 inches in the waist in 9 months, and just lost another one since the Dallas fest and this is the only thing I added, the bar.
WLG
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Cult Awareness Network
by wanderlustguy inhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cult_awareness_network.
this is one of two things that have held me back from doing some things that i feel more and more compelled to do.
david and goliath..
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wanderlustguy
Wow!!!!!!!! "Beware of cults, but join ours, it's the best!"
changeling
Actually it's far worse than that. They got the mailing lists and phone numbers of every person who contacted CAN, all files, everything down to the staples. For a long time CAN was and still is one of the most prominent organizations thought of if someones loved ones end up in a cult. Now when they call, CAN takes the information and contacts the religious group, giving them the information about the member so the group is then able to "shelter" their member. I'm kind of suprised this isn't more well known. If you decide to form an organization to help people get out...even a discussion board like this one, if the wrong move is made, religious groups can bankrupt the organization with lawsuits and then buy the assets, including any contact information contained therin. I am afraid some underestimate the damage these groups can actually inflict upon them and others.
