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From: Don on 15 Mar 2008 22:31
I am not sure if this will help others,
but I have found a very simple
inexpensive way to work the upper
body while walking.

I use a pair of leather work gloves
and some rope about 7' in length.

As I am walking, I do presses (overhead,
incline, regular, decline, etc) and
"cable flys", etc for the different
body parts -- chest, back, neck,
wrist, bicep, tricep, shoulders, etc by
just pulling/pushing on the rope using
my other hand to provide the resistance
by squeezing on the rope allowing the
friction in the work glove to provide all
the resistance I need. My grip also
regulates the speed each rep is performed.

Unlike stretch bands, there is no negative
(Arthur Jones - Nautilus) part of the rep but
I have greater range of motion on the positive
portion of the rep since I can provide some
resistance at any point which is not possible
with stretch bands.

It reminds me of the old "exer-genie"
workouts, if you ever had one.
You press/pull and extend the rope
though the resistance coil and
then quickly retract the rope
to perform the next rep. (One
of my roommates in college
who was a shotputter used to
workout with one all the time.)

The number of different exercises
you can perform is only limited by
your imagination.

It relieves the boredom of just
walking by trying to think up new
exercises to be performed using
the rope and I wake up sore the
next morning which lets me know
I had a good upper body workout.

Don
From: Sam on 16 Mar 2008 16:58
On Mar 15, 7:31 pm, Don <drwsoftw...(a)drwsoftware.com> wrote:
> I am not sure if this will help others,
> but I have found a very simple
> inexpensive way to work the upper
> body while walking.
>
> I use a pair of leather work gloves
> and some rope about 7' in length.
>
> As I am walking, I do presses (overhead,
> incline, regular, decline, etc) and
> "cable flys", etc for the different
> body parts -- chest, back, neck,
> wrist, bicep, tricep, shoulders, etc by
> just pulling/pushing on the rope using
> my other hand to provide the resistance
> by squeezing on the rope allowing the
> friction in the work glove to provide all
> the resistance I need. My grip also
> regulates the speed each rep is performed.
>
> Unlike stretch bands, there is no negative
> (Arthur Jones - Nautilus) part of the rep but
> I have greater range of motion on the positive
> portion of the rep since I can provide some
> resistance at any point which is not possible
> with stretch bands.
>
> It reminds me of the old "exer-genie"
> workouts, if you ever had one.
> You press/pull and extend the rope
> though the resistance coil and
> then quickly retract the rope
> to perform the next rep. (One
> of my roommates in college
> who was a shotputter used to
> workout with one all the time.)
>
> The number of different exercises
> you can perform is only limited by
> your imagination.
>
> It relieves the boredom of just
> walking by trying to think up new
> exercises to be performed using
> the rope and I wake up sore the
> next morning which lets me know
> I had a good upper body workout.
>
> Don

Sounds good...what kind of rope do you use? I have a resistance band
and was wondering if that might work the same way?
From: Don on 16 Mar 2008 19:21
I am using 1/4" nylon, doubled right now but want to
try other fibers and thicknesses as well. This happened
to be the only piece of rope that I had when I first
tried this.

I am doubling a 14' piece of rope to have a working
length of about 7' with the two ends tied together,
but a single strand should work fine with maybe
a loop made at one or both ends to grip for pressing.

Before this I used resistance tubing and would
grip several tubes for presses where I needed
more resistance. I would use 1 up to 4 tubes
depending on the exercise.

But the rope has eliminated that problem
for me.

Don

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