Looking for good free weights and weight training manual

Tek7

Tek7

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I've been feeling better lately after drastically reducing the amount of sugar in my diet. (I suspect I'm hypoglycemic.) Now that I've made some key changes to my diet, I'd like to start working out regularly, but I want to start slow and I want the option to work out in my apartment.

Can anyone recommend a good weight set and weight training manual? I'd like the items to be inexpensive but still of good quality. I'm not looking for the big weights, but rather smaller hand weights (2-25 lbs. each). Something like this, but cheaper.

If there's a free and good weight training manual for free online (maybe PDF format for easy printing?), that would be even better than spending money on a printed manual.

EDIT: Free weights, that's what they're called. I couldn't remember until I did a little more searching online. I've updated the threat title accordingly.
 
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if you are hypoglycemic yhou don't have enough sugar in your system....i am assuming yhou are hyperglecemic\ if anything..:)
 
Hescominsoon said:
if you are hypoglycemic yhou don't have enough sugar in your system....i am assuming yhou are hyperglecemic\ if anything..:)
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Nope, hypoglycemic. Trust me. I've had symptoms since early adolescence and only recently recognized the problem. Reducing the sugar in my diet has most definitely helped me feel better.

It's been bothersome (putting it mildly) to make the dietary adjustments, but it has helped--and the advice I'm following makes logical sense: Cut out sugar, avoid processed foods when possible (favoring whole foods), eat more frequently but in smaller portions, and so on. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, but not everyone is hypoglycemic. All I know is that the changes worked for me. Even if they hadn't, they wouldn't have been harmful changes.

Atown said:
craiglist might have stuff
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I looked on craigslist, but I found mostly weightlifting benches and exercise equipment. I don't recall finding anything for under $50.

Still, good suggestion.

Lazarus said:
http://www.vincedelmontefitness.com/
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After clicking the link and reading a few paragraphs on the web site, I can't tell if you were being serious or ironic, Lazarus.

Anyway, I ended up getting two dumbbells at Wal-Mart for about $20 total. I'll find an exercise guide or two online and start with some simple exercises.
 
Yeah, I would suggest normal dumbbells.

The kind where you can select the weight you want to work with while only having essentially two dumbbells can break. If they do you're stuck with whatever weight it is selected to. They're expensive too as you noticed.

There are plenty of work outs you can do at home with no equipment too. (Though its good to have a set of weights.)

In HPS class (health and physical science, a gen-ed class I'm taking) we have activity days where we run around the gym then do exercises that require no equipment.

Last week we did thigh lifts (using stairs or a curb outside, stand on it with one leg, go down until your heel of the opposite foot is just touching the ground then go back up/repeat with other side), jumping rope (you don't need a rope to jump with), backwards/forwards/side-to-side lunges, jumping squats (you jump after you squat), calf lifts, and crunches.

The instructor says 30 minutes of moderate exercise for weight maintenance and 60-90 minutes of intense (what I listed above was intense, intense is elevated heart rate for extended periods of time, I think its 180BPM... but don't hold me to that) exercise for weight loss/muscle building.

I posted all that cuz I need a break from studying Psych... (I didn't make any of it up either :P) /sigh.
 
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Oh, yikes. 180 bpm for 60-90 minutes is really, really intense. I'd suggest on keeping it around 120-150 for the same duration of time.

I second the P90X. I've used it for months now and it is an incredible workout and is much along the lines of what Odale described.
 
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Oh, yikes. 180 bpm for 60-90 minutes is really, really intense. I'd suggest on keeping it around 120-150 for the same duration of time.
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I'm showing off my awesome note-taking skills. 120-150 does sound more like what he said now that you mention it... XD
 
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