"Opening up a Little" or, show a little

[Bob Barker]

I once bought an SVO mustang to rebuild and sell for profit 2 years ago, and now it's in worse shape than when I bought it, I've spent more money on upgrades than the original purchase price and still have a few thousand to go. By the time I'm done with it I'll have spent a few thousand more on it than it's worth if it were in mint condition...

and even worse, I don't want to sell it any more!

[Buffy]

Hmmm interesting stuff here.... I am the youngest of three and am always up for an adventure. I am heavily tattooed (kind of addicted to them) but work in a professional environment and nobody is the wiser. I have to laugh when the conversation of body art comes up. I have ridden my motorcycle in 40 of the lower 48 states and hope to get the rest in the next couple years. I was recruited by Bear Bryant to play football for him but actually turned him down to get married and would have played on his last national championship team. Have been a model and done commercials and all that fun stuff. Got back into football and played semi-pro for several years. Now the old body is suffering for it I've had surgeries on my shoulder, knees, ankle, right elbow and next month the left elbow gets redone. I have a wonderful wife who supports my vehicle habit and actually will crawl under the car and turn wrenches with me, good times! Well, better get busy on my VX as it has to be done by Thanksgiving week so I can have a car to drive..... every thing else I have is a manual trans.

[Stephen Biko]

Unfortunately low-impact aerobic workouts tend to require a machine of some sort (elliptical, rowing machine, etc.) which would force me to actually go to a gym. I was too lazy to do that before I had a kid, let alone now. Fortunately I still have a pretty high metabolism so I'm only 20-30 lbs. overweight, but I'll be happy to hear suggestions on stuff that can be done at home.

I use a schwinn airdyne excerise bike. It's still a machine, but it's somewhat affordable - pretty easy to find a lightly used one for ~$300 on ebay. On the advice of a trainer I am currently doing intervals of 15 seconds flat-out and 45 seconds recovery for 10 minutes plus a couple of warm-up warm-down minutes. Interval training appears to be unusually effective but nobody seems to fully understand the mechanism, just the results. For a while they were calling it "oxygen debt" but that's proved to not be the case. Whatever is going on, it seems like a way to get ~45 minutes worth of cardio in ~15 minutes worth of time.

[handeeman]

Stephen, boy you got it right Interval training is the way to go. It's something I discovered a couple of years ago after switching from beer to red wine for health reasons. What I try to do is fill a tea mug with red wine (no ice) consume it within 5 min., then take a 1min. interval and refill the glass. I do this a couple oor tree times (like now). Then with another inteveral of 1min. or soooooo i fell the grass wit ice (for the added wait) and whine. Whot I halve dicoverred is mi right arm is willy willy getin strongrr. Nowe Im gonna lern how to use the other right arm prolly by using too glasses. House this for "open kneeing" up a little. ?

[Ldub]

Stephen, boy you got it right Interval training is the way to go. It's something I discovered a couple of years ago after switching from beer to red wine for health reasons. What I try to do is fill a tea mug with red wine (no ice) consume it within 5 min., then take a 1min. interval and refill the glass. I do this a couple oor tree times (like now). Then with another inteveral of 1min. or soooooo i fell the grass wit ice (for the added wait) and whine. Whot I halve dicoverred is mi right arm is willy willy getin strongrr. Nowe Im gonna lern how to use the other right arm prolly by using too glasses. House this for "open kneeing" up a little. ?

Looks like it's working well for you..............