Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Jan 13, 2023 21:07:51 GMT
We moved into our place a few months ago after selling up in Victoria. When I bought the suspension trainer we were renting a place near to where we live now. That place had a balcony as we do now but the ground under the rental was on a very steep slope, had rocks, holes and construction debris as the house had not been built long so it wasn't a great place to workout.
I had only used the suspension trainer once when we moved into our new place but it was a little bit of a pain to set up so I promised myself that I wouldn't use it again until I fitted some hooks to the underside of the balcony joists which I would get the next time I went to the hardware store but as I have a memory like a sieve I still haven't remembered to buy any hooks even though I've been to the hardware store nearly every week. I'll try to remember to get them today.
Anyway, on Thursday and Friday I decided to set up the suspension trainer again even though I had not fitted any hooks yet. I should have been using it more often. So far this week I've tried pushups, dips, body rows, triceps extensions, pullovers and chins on it.
The ease at which you can adjust resistance just by simply moving your feet nearer or further away from the anchor point is great and the many D rings is also really good for this as well. You can go from doing pushups with the handles just above the ground to then putting the handles in D rings overhead for chins and then move to lower D rings to a position for performing dips or whatever and all without having to adjust the straps. I've not needed to adjust the straps at any time. If you wanted to move from one exercise to another in just a few seconds then it is very easy to do with this. Not that I currently train that way though. I actually raked up leaves on Thursday and trimmed some bushes on Friday between sets.
It seems to hit the muscles differently than using fixed equipment. Dips on this are quite different to doing them on my dip station. I really felt it working the pecs after just a few reps. Didn't do many though because I'm trying to be careful of my right shoulder.
Pushups on this are great. You can copy how some of those chest press machines bring the hands closer together the further you push. My pecs were pumped, m8s.
I can still feel a slight ache in the triceps from the overhead triceps extensions I did on it on two days ago.
Did a few pullovers on it on Friday. Not tried this before and during the first rep I realised I wasn't holding the midsection ridged. I got that sorted out and really felt this exercise in the lats and midsection. I could feel it in the mid section when I got out of bed this morning too.
I had only used the suspension trainer once when we moved into our new place but it was a little bit of a pain to set up so I promised myself that I wouldn't use it again until I fitted some hooks to the underside of the balcony joists which I would get the next time I went to the hardware store but as I have a memory like a sieve I still haven't remembered to buy any hooks even though I've been to the hardware store nearly every week. I'll try to remember to get them today.
Anyway, on Thursday and Friday I decided to set up the suspension trainer again even though I had not fitted any hooks yet. I should have been using it more often. So far this week I've tried pushups, dips, body rows, triceps extensions, pullovers and chins on it.
The ease at which you can adjust resistance just by simply moving your feet nearer or further away from the anchor point is great and the many D rings is also really good for this as well. You can go from doing pushups with the handles just above the ground to then putting the handles in D rings overhead for chins and then move to lower D rings to a position for performing dips or whatever and all without having to adjust the straps. I've not needed to adjust the straps at any time. If you wanted to move from one exercise to another in just a few seconds then it is very easy to do with this. Not that I currently train that way though. I actually raked up leaves on Thursday and trimmed some bushes on Friday between sets.
It seems to hit the muscles differently than using fixed equipment. Dips on this are quite different to doing them on my dip station. I really felt it working the pecs after just a few reps. Didn't do many though because I'm trying to be careful of my right shoulder.
Pushups on this are great. You can copy how some of those chest press machines bring the hands closer together the further you push. My pecs were pumped, m8s.
I can still feel a slight ache in the triceps from the overhead triceps extensions I did on it on two days ago.
Did a few pullovers on it on Friday. Not tried this before and during the first rep I realised I wasn't holding the midsection ridged. I got that sorted out and really felt this exercise in the lats and midsection. I could feel it in the mid section when I got out of bed this morning too.