My new home gym

I just finished setting up my new home gym. I don't need a treadmill or anything like that because I climb four stories of stairs four times a day and walk 2 miles to catch a variety of buses. Plus, after this ice and snow moves on to a memory, the mountain bike comes out and I will do about 20 miles a day on it.

All I needed was something for the old muscles to keep their tone and bulk up as much as muscles can when you are 60 something. I did some shopping. Scheels was a good place for that. They had all of the nifty machines including Bowflex. That machine impressed me the most so I registered on their website and got the free video. There were plenty of well built people demonstrating their variety of machines and some testimonials from a various assortment of young gorillas about how Bowflex changed their bodies. Indeed it did.

Did I mention I was 60 something?

Now the Bowflex has about a 5 X 5 footprint so I measured. I only had 4 feet available. After all, I was not planning to give up my Marcy situp bench. It has helped me get a stunning 2 pack set of abs! Plus, I am almost back in size 33 X 32 jeans and at my high school weight of 185 pounds. Yes, I am impressed with my progress but there is this little problem of chest sag starting to show up.

Did I mention I was 60 something?

Anyway, I pondered the space issue and pondered the budget issue and then remembered my Dad's home guy. He had the guys cut up a window weight and created the thing he could roll up on a stick and increase his wrist strength. It worked because he was a great golfer right up until the end. He died at 62.

Did I mention I was 60 something?

Anyway, inventory taken, I was off to Wal-Mart for a possible solution. It cost me about $4 and works great! My Marcy situp bench now has a bike tire I cut in half attached to a bathroom plunger handle. (New one not a used one!)

After situps, all I have to do is pull the tire under the Marcy and hook it up to the plunger handle sitting on my chest which is hooked up to the other end of the tire. Push it straight up and presto! resistance and a savings of about $1500.

Now that's not bad for an old goat fighting the inevitable, is it?

I did mention I was 60 somthing, right?