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Sunday, March 08, 2009

A Little History

I used to be a bodybuilder. Used to be is the key term. When I was in my early twenties I was bitten by the gym bug, bad. I ended up going to the gym for 2-3 hours after work every weekday, I watched my food religiously and took more supplements than most race horses. I was in great shape… eventually getting up to about 240lbs on my 6’ frame and pretty lean too.

Fast forward to today… I now have two children, work and side work… and the easiest thing to drop is the gym visits. Post-children I had figured out that the best way for me was to get up at 4:30am and work out in the morning before everyone woke up. Large side projects have killed that.

I’m now about 215lbs and could definitely stand to lose 20+ pounds of fat.

Bed Bath and Beyond

So last night my wife and I were out at Bed Bath and Beyond looking for a new bedding set. (Well, I wasn’t looking for bedding… the stuff we have now is fine. She was looking for bedding.)

While wondering around, I found something I had seen on TV a bunch of times, the Iron Gym … a chin-up/pull-up bar. I have the perfect pushup (spinning handle thingies) I use to do pushups at home already. The Iron Gym fills that home workout void by giving me an easy way to also give my biceps and back (and abs) a workout at home.

I convinced the wife and into the cart it went.

Upon getting home, I assembled the thing. It went together (all tools included) in only 5 minutes or so.

The Unexpected Find

After trying it out and being pleased with how things worked (it doesn’t get permanently installed in the doorway, you just put it up to use it and stow it away when done) I decided to check out the instruction manual. All of these products that claim to be the one piece of home gym equipment you’ll ever need seem to come with a nutrition program that is arguably the one thing that actually causes the fat loss or body transformation in the first place. I paged through to the last two pages in the manual and found this:

I was blown away. The people from ProFit have brought back all my forgotten and suppressed memories about how to properly eat to not become a lard ass. They actually summed up easily a book’s worth of dieting information into two simple pages. Every single item on these two pages is spot-on in my opinion. (I won’t be happy about the reduced caffeine and no alcohol items, but they’re correct)

Some of the key items many don’t get right but are in this small guide:

  • Eat at least six meals daily — This is key because it keeps your metabolism going and reduces the possibility of hunger gorging
  • Eliminate any and all refined sugars and sweets — Huge. Any sugar intake causes and insulin spike in your blood and any dietary fat floating around in your blood stream gets immediately stored as fat
  • All heavy starches consumed by 1pm or 3rd meal — Another biggie. By mid-day, your body has enough carbohydrates to run for the rest of the day. (Unless your job has you outside and sweating profusely) Anything you eat after mid-day will get stored as fat when you go to sleep.

The second page that lists out allowed proteins, carbohydrates, vegetables, fruits and a sample meal schedule is also spot-on:

New Goals

Now that we’ve had a few days of seventy degree weather here in MD, I think I’m finally getting the motivation to concentrate on getting back in shape. I’ll be doing one hour of cardio four days per week and will be trying to stick to this guild guide to the “T”. This nutrition guide is going up on my refrigerator.

I encourage anyone out there who needs to lose weight to support truthful exercise information and spend the $29 on the Iron Gym. Even if you rarely use the chin-up bar for chin-ups, you have a complete diet plan that fits on two half-letter-sized pieces of paper. Genius.

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Ah so you finally got one!  I feel like a sucker for ordering one online ages ago and paying crazy shipping, but it actually seems like a pretty decent device.

I noticed the nutritional guidelines, but having just come off of Nutrisystem, I was still going by the practices I picked up from that so kind of dismissed it.  Nutrisystem is very big on the “frequent small meals” thing.  I have their guidelines taped up inside one of our kitchen cabinets.  smile

Back to the Iron Gym.. if anyone’s looking for them, I’ve also seen them in the “As Seen on TV” endcaps in various places like Rite Aid pharmacy, probably other pharmacy stores like CVS, Walgreens, etc.

Now, if I could just find time away from my NORMAL job to even work on side projects, I could think about making time for working out again.  I miss being in good shape.

By Trevor Gryffyn on Sunday, March 08, 2009 [Comment Permalink]

Tell me about it. As much as I could use the side work, the lack of constant pressure to “get working” is actually pretty nice.

I was truly saddened by how few chinups I could do this morning. I used to be able to bang out 12 or so full reps and then do 3-4 sets of them. Today I was lucky to get six. Yikes.

Much work to do.

I’ll justify this expense by canceling the $30/month gym membership I haven’t been using for the past 6 months.

By Ian Pitts on Sunday, March 08, 2009 [Comment Permalink]

Wow thats pretty shocking to see something like that inside of an Iron Gym package!  That is pretty accurate advice!  Good luck starting back working out! 

Not sure what your budget is or if you would consider this but, www.powertecfitness.com has some great machines.  I saved up and got the Work Bench Multi System.  It was well worth it and easy to put together.  I bought mine at a Dick’s Sporting Goods store for around $800.00 (it was on sale).

I would advise staying away from the “lean ham” though, since pork does have a lot of energy (to much in fact) that the body cannot use, as well pork can contain Trichinae; bacteria which cannot be cooked out, and once consumed and enters the blood stream it begins to set itself up in the joints of the body permanently.  The
Trichinae bacteria are a result of pigs/swine not containing sweat glands to rid their body of toxins, since they can’t sweat, they have to wallow in mud to cool themselves.

Sorry to sound preachy, even I can’t resist eating a good piece of sausage with pancakes every now and then, but folks should know if they like to consume it on a regular basis!  Being that I love to workout myself I figured I would let a fellow bodybuilder know, just in case! haha

That was in now way meant to scare anyone by the way, just to inform others so they can get the maximum benefit from their workouts!

Again, good luck and stay motivated man! smile

By Lee on Thursday, April 30, 2009 [Comment Permalink]

My husband was thinking about getting one of those, he was so bummed out when he went to the gym and could only do two pull ups, when he say this product on TV he said he was going to buy it and get back in shape on well

By kylie on Monday, July 13, 2009 [Comment Permalink]

You see, that’s whats wrong having ll those huge muscles. It’s like a commitment. You have to maintain a certain routine to keep all those muscles and if you slack off all those muscles turn to fat.

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By Metabolism tips on Saturday, October 10, 2009 [Comment Permalink]

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I agree with your comment information and the rate of the metabolism is dependent upon your age, sex, weight, body composition,the metabolism will increase while you are exercising to provide your body with the fuel it needs, but the number of calories burned or the rate at which it increases depends on the type of exercise you are doing.Thanks for your thoughts to sharing with us.Metabolism tips

By Metabolism tips on Saturday, October 10, 2009 [Comment Permalink]

How often do you use your home gym equipment?
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By gym workouts on Saturday, October 24, 2009 [Comment Permalink]

i go to the gym every day. but on days i cant make it i use it. i am a body builder and i am preparing for a contest and i usually cant make it to the gym in the morning because i have work and instead of going up and down i just do cardio in the morning and weight training at the gym

By medicina on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 [Comment Permalink]

Which is better, enrolling in a gym or just work out on your own? I think it would be better for me to enroll in a gym. I’m too lazy to work out on my own. At least in a gym I’m pressured to actually get moving.

By RevAbs on Tuesday, December 08, 2009 [Comment Permalink]

Nice and informative post thanks for sharing.

By Moshiach on Saturday, December 12, 2009 [Comment Permalink]

Oh, wow, just notice about that. Do you know about diet pills? I really want to try it, but some people said they don’t agree with diet pills…any suggestion? Thanks.

By External hard drives on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 [Comment Permalink]

Thanks for posting this. I never would have thought that a meal plan would be included with workout equipment…

The Nutrition Guide definitely has some really good tips that we could all use.

By Chad O on Thursday, December 17, 2009 [Comment Permalink]

Thanks for posting this. I never would have thought that a meal plan would be included with workout equipment…

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