Finally adding Back, Compound, Chest and more Legs Exercises

Having learned that doing the same exercises, while weight lifting, which is what you are doing with Total Gym IS, is hard on your body, exhausting and Stupid. After all, you can do many different exercises on a Total Gym. No, I have not counted.

Besides, I meant to get around to toning up my back and chest! I believe Compound means overall toning, but I am not sure…

I hope to be able to provide some videos of some of these so they are not just words:

These are the exercises I aim to do on those days when I am not doing my, now normal, 3 each Abs and Leg exercises:

Legs: More Squats

Two more leg exercises, this time using Total Gym’s “toe bar” rather than their “squat stand” at the end of the glide-board.

Like the squat or bend exercises I do on the ab days, these too are bends, or squats, except the sprinter squats.

The  Feet in “V” squat seems to really work the inner thighs, if you have your heels where they are suppose to be during the exercise.

The Toe Bar Squat might work the same muscles as the other squats I do on ab days, but so far, no complaints from my legs about being over worked.

I did 30, all at once, with the Total Gym set at Level 6. I guess they are not too hard. This is also how I do the Toe Out and Twist squats on my Ab exercise days; 30 at a time, at level 6.

Back, Chest more Legs and a Compound Exercise

For the Surfer, a Compound exercise, the two Chest and One of the Two Back exercises, I had to bring the glide-board down to level 2. The last back exercise, I had to bring it all the way down to level 1!

I did 3 sets of 10:

Surfer exercisesSeated Chest PressesSeated Chest Flys and Kneeling Row, back exercises at level 2

Then did 3 sets of 10 Swimmer back exercises at level 1

That was yesterday, woke up feeling fine today.

Actually did these, while having a bout of my painful shoulder problem. It felt the same before, during and after these exercises! My shoulder surprised me by (finally!), feeling fine this morning!

There are shoulder exercises for Total Gym. It is likey I will avoid them for now.

I believe I can confront these on a regular basis!

So now my plan is to do;

• Ab + Leg workout 3 days a week
• Back, Chest, Legs and a Compound exercises 3 days a week

We will see:

• How long I can be consistent with this
• How Consistent
• What the results are

Anne Hunter