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Shoveling, the Winter Workout

April 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Winter workout

So, I guess I cant really ignore this wonderful workout that winter offers us free of charge.  It’s a great cardio work out, and even from time to time it’s a nice weight/resistance work out.  What am I speaking of?  I’m sure you’ve figured it out by now.

Shoveling snow.

Ahhh, I wish I had a picture of myself that would be fitting of my thoughts of this… maybe I do, let me look

There we go, it’s my best Robert Deniro look.  I’m shoveling here

But the truth is.  I FREAKING HATE SHOVELING.

I wont lie.  I hate it.  I dont do it.  I just bought a car this year, have had a suv forever.  I also have a pretty steep driveway, but dang it, I’ve found ways around shoveling.  I dont even own a shovel!  Hows that for an excuse.  If i cant get out of the driveway to get one, well I cant shovel can I?

I know, it makes me sound bad.  Thats ok, I’m an honest person and I’m not going to sugar coat it.

On the other hand…. YOU should shovel.  It’s good exercise.  YOU could even come shovel MY driveway :)

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Iron Gym Chin Up Bar vs Beachbody P90X Chin Up Bar

January 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Iron Gym vs P90X chin up bar

I would say this was my first mistake when doing P90X.  I knew I needed a doorway chin up bar, but I wanted to go the cheap route.  I knew the Iron Gym chin up bar was at walgreens and was $20, so the day P90X arrived, I went to walgreens and bought it.  It was only $20.

I got it home and put it together.  It goes together just fine.  I actually didnt even realize that I should have done differently into a little ways into it.

The Iron Gym pull chin up bar works.  If you want to go that route, go for it.

The Beachbody P90X pull chin up bar is a doorway chin up bar, just the same as the Iron Gym. They will both good fitness chin up bars, however, the 90x pull chin up bar has more hand positions.  Still though, that is not the main reason I recommend the 90x pull chin up bar.

This is the Iron Gym pull chin up bar.  The top part that you see goes on the top frame of the back side of the door you put it up on.  The horizontal bar that you see presses in on the door from the side you are using it, meaning this… Even though it looks like you can get a wide grip pull up, you can only get 1/2 of your hand on the grip, because the other part of the grip is pushed up against the door.

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Now this is the Beachbody P90X pull chin up bar. In my opinion, this is by far the better doorway chin up bar.  As you can see, it has the same top bar, there is not a lot of difference there.  Look at the horizontal bar though.  The part that goes out againstthe door is set aside as such.  It offers a much better hand position and wide grip, and you dont have to worry about getting your hand crushed against the door (it happens with the Iron Gym)

For more information on the P90X doorway chin up pull up bar click here

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