That Kinda Hurt
So, I mentioned earlier that I hit the gym after work the other day. It’s not really a gym, it’s my parent’s basement. About a year ago they built a new house, allocated an entire room for a gym, and have been stocking it up. My middle brother has been lifting for a year now, my dad and mother have been at it for a few months, and I’ve been going for a month now.
It’s nice. It gives me a clean break from my working hours, an excuse to get out of the house, an hour or so with my family 4 days a week, and a chance to try building back some of the muscle I’ve lost over the years.
There are some exercises that we just use a Bow-Flex for. One of them are flys. I hate it. It doesn’t work the pectoral muscle properly at all on that machine. The silly flexi-rods thing don’t provide any resistance when you’re starting out which is exactly where you need that weight to be when doing a fly. Doing them on the Bow-Flex results in an exercise that’s barely any different than a bench press. Bleh.
So, I’ve been trying to do them with free weights lately. We don’t have a complete set of dumbells yet, so I just grabbed a 25lb and 10lb weight in each hand, laid on the bench, and went at it. After a couple reps I let my arms dip a bit too low, my left shoulder popped out of joint, I dropped the weights in that hand, and promptly fell off the bench when the weight in my right hand pulled me off.
That kinda hurt.