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.
I’m further out of shape than you are ! The whole shoulder thing comes down to too much weight to quick. You should have been using half that weight for another week or two. Watch those rotater cuffs….they get way out of shape quick, good chance for a tear if you don’t build up slow.
Buists lifting weights?!?!? Do you charge admission to the show? j/k