Aztec
Master Don Juan
Does anyone here have a Bowflex? Any comments about the equipment (good or bad)?
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Question about a home gym equipment
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"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Don't buy machine!
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This is my life, my way and my destiny!
I created a path where I follow it, to succeed or fail is my fate!"
-KiLLer
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"I am a Don Juan, a man with his own opinion! I can shrug off any rejection!
This is my life, my way and my destiny!
I created a path where I follow it, to succeed or fail is my fate!"
-KiLLer
DIESEL
Master Don Juan
WHY NOT? Please enlighten us, KillerOriginally posted by KiLLer:
Don't buy machine!
"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
Soshyopathe
Master Don Juan
Hell, DIESEL, you said yourself that you didn't like the bowflex.
Aparently it is difficult to do deadlifts, squats, lateral raises, and pec flies on the bowflex. Otherwise, I like the premise.
Aparently it is difficult to do deadlifts, squats, lateral raises, and pec flies on the bowflex. Otherwise, I like the premise.
Aztec
Master Don Juan
I'm moving in to a new apartment and just thought the benefit in mobility of machines like Bowflex. I have a power rack (I think that's what it is called) that I think is very useful since it eliminates a spotter while doing bench presses and more importantly squats. But it seems that it will consume too much space especially with the olympic bar on.
I guess it really comes down to is what your fitness goals are. i.e. you want to get big compared to just being toned and/or feeling generally good. Nothing beats free weights if a person wants to get big. My main focus right now is to continue to do exercises especially during the lazy winter season.
How about the one Chuck Norris endorses?
I guess it really comes down to is what your fitness goals are. i.e. you want to get big compared to just being toned and/or feeling generally good. Nothing beats free weights if a person wants to get big. My main focus right now is to continue to do exercises especially during the lazy winter season.
How about the one Chuck Norris endorses?
DIESEL
Master Don Juan
Originally posted by Soshyopathe:
Hell, DIESEL, you said yourself that you didn't like the bowflex.
Aparently it is difficult to do deadlifts, squats, lateral raises, and pec flies on the bowflex. Otherwise, I like the premise.
Obviously the Bowflex sucks.. but the point is to show Killer up, as yet another johnny come lately who clogs up training threads with garbage.
Actually some machines are good, I particularly like the Hammer Strength machines for rows, and pullovers, and of course I'm assuming that any kind of cable movement is also considered a machine movement.
What I'm opposed to is a workout totally based on machines. The basics should be done with freeweights, and the machines should only complement that.
Soshyopathe
Master Don Juan
I don't count cable machines as actual machines, because your motion isn't restricted. Cable machines are great.
"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.