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I doubt that many of you ppl work out, let alone go to the gym, let alone own a bowflex. However; They have one in my dorms, and i've been using it for a little under a month now; and find it a decent piece of machinery. I do need to know how to work my abs, though. I can pretty much target all the muscle groups i want on that machine; however, the dorm manager has lost the instructions, and i can't find shit on the net (just get rich quick schemes, and other simular scams). So does anyone here know how to rig this so i can ripp my abs? thanks a million, guys! |
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i own one but no instructions here either. i guess you could try kneeling with one end in front of your knees and pushing down on the other end with your chest. but other than that i think a bowflex is too long to do abs. |
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i work out at the pub |
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I always thought the way was, Laying on your back at an incline (like your about to do your chest) but instead wrap the handles around your chest and curl your torso and sit up. could be wrong |
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if you're that concerned about doing your abs, just lie on the floor and do situps/crunches until it burns. |
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like one handle pinned under something and the other around your chest and do sit ups. fuck that would kill on your nips. |
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if you have bag hooks anywhere you could do crunches against a wall but careful the thing dont come off and break your back. |
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Men who go to the gym are poofs. Either that or they're vain, narcisisstic meat-heads with a measurable low self-esteem. Don't flame me for that, it's a scientific fact. |
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maybe they just have goals. You know there are people out there that prefer to do something with themselves rather than sitting in front of a computer getting fat. |
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must look good to get chicks |
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Yeah, particularly if you have the personality of a toilet door-knob. Which is almost certainly true of 99% of gym members.* Gallop survey of 1001 adults. (Margin of erroe +/- 3%) |
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actuall i'd have to agree with you there, i have no personality, that's why i have friends to make one for me. |
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I haven't a fucking clue what a bowflex is. It sounds like a digeridoo or something. |
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its like a big pole which you can squeeze by pushing the ends inward or you can pull on the cables on the outside to make the pole squeeze. |
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or do you mean the one ith the bendy frondy things where it gets harder the more you hook up. if so then i got no idea. |
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did you go to tyler durdens vocational school for dumbasses? your little generalization is pretty inane, as though it didn't occur to you that perhaps some people simply like to live healthily and going to the gym is a part of that lifestyle. |
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it looks like an oversized crossbow. |
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You're the dumbass for raising to the bait. Who the fuck is Tyler Durden anyway? Of course some people go to gym as part of a healthy lifestyle. Namely middle-aged women who, having dropped three demanding and ungrateful kids, has one last ditch attempt to lose those flabby, cellulitic thighs. And menopausal executives with their clogged arteries, high blood pressure and anal fissures, who puff and sweat on the treadmill wearing their headbands and fluorescent gortex vests, battling vainly to stave off that inevitable coronary. |
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to work your abs, lay down with your head towards the bow part of the machine and do situps. since you can do situps up with your hands behind your neck, you can grab the straps and do this, but keep your hands at the shoulders instead of the back of the neck. or you can grab the straps and extend your arms until they're straight and do the situps while keeping your arms extended and parallel to the ground. by doing the latter, you'll also work some of the stabilizer muscles in your arms. bowflexes are pretty good machines because they work your stabilizer muscles with free weight, rather than most weight machines, which allow you to only move basically up, down, left or right. but with free weights, the weight can move anywhere, so you utilize more muscle when using them because you have to stabilize and make sure the weight moves in the direction you want. |
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no, but you can get the same damn workout with a normal weight bench, how do I know? Ive been doing the same damn thing, look up maybe on the net for a workout guide on how to effectivly work out specific parts of your body with certain weight lifting techniques, trust me, after 1 or 2 workouts with this sort of thing your whole body will be sore, and the more and more you do it, the more woull notice a difference in your body. |
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"goals". a normal word that in some way has become an American word. |
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i'll def try that one out... anyone know how to work my lowerback? more importantly; i need to get rid of these budding lovehandels. |
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you can do side bends or sit ups, but please don't lose that butt. |
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fitter people just die healthier |
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haha word to that. there's so much more to life than worrying about your body. :D like eating delicious (usually fattening) foods..... mmmm.... |
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