Apologies For Inactivity
Saturday, April 5, 2008
I apologise for not writing in here for a while.
One of the reasons is - I've taken a break from working out, a couple of weeks actually. I've started to plateau, and it is recommended by many health sites that once you find you start to plateau, you should take a break of a week or two.
Second reason is, I've just finished my contract, and hence, now jobless, and thus can write. In the final weeks leading up to the final day of my employment, there were so many things happening (some which you'd never believe, which can be seen in my main blog here, here, here and finally, here), that I just didn't have much focus on this blog.
As a quick update - 31 March, was my first trip ever, to a gym. Yes, a real gym! Never been to one before in my life. Since I am finally not working, my buddy decided to drag me halfway across Singapore to a gym.
Now, people who read this blog will know I already have Bodylastics, which is touted to be the best replacement for a gym ever. Some people who have used it even canceled their gym memberships after seeing the results they obtained with Bodylastics.
So why am I doing the reverse? Why am I going to the gym now, even though I have Bodylastics at home?
Simple - to see if the people who quit the gym were right.
So what's the verdict? Well the jury's still out on that one. What I can say is that with Bodylastics I couldn't do chest presses. At best only one side at a time. In the gym I could, with the chest-press machine.
The pull-downs I did with the bodylastics had almost the same effect as the machine in the gym tho. Except, in the gym, you could lock your thighs under the "bar" which will stop you from being flung upwards if the weights were too heavy. At home, there's nothing stopping you from being flung off the floor by the elastic bands.
In short, I wouldn't say which is "better" because I'm a rank beginner at this thing. I'll just say the workouts are different, but the areas they target are the same. For me, working on the chest in the gym is easier compared to Bodylastics.
And, Bodylastics wasn't lying about how they replicated almost every exercise available in the gym. The only notable exception so far to me, is the chest-press. In Bodylastics, you do push-ups with the bands behind your back, instead of lying down on a bench and pushing weights up as in a gym.
