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Nodaisho:

--- Quote from: Spluff on 18 Dec 2008, 04:45 ---Your biceps shouldn't have any affect on whether you can do pushups, pushups primarily utilize the chest, triceps and anterior deltoid. Also, I'm not sure if you meant those exercises would do your arms, because if they are what I am thinking of (I don't do isolation / machine exercises, and even then the description is kind of vague), but the exercises you listed work the chest, lats and back, respectively.

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Well, I know that when I do push-ups, it is muscles in my arms hurting, they might not be biceps, but they are in the same part of the arm. My stomach also ends up hurting, hopefully the sit-ups will help the condition of those muscles.

In regards to the machine exercises, the first two you are right, but they also strengthen my arms, the latter strengthens my lower arm, but I like that one, and I need to switch around the muscles I am using anyway. The latter one, I think I ended up describing the wrong exercise, I'm talking about taking hold of a couple of handles and pulling them towards myself, I don't like that one all that much, though. Could just have to do with needing to not be barefoot on tile while trying it. I also started doing the machine's equivalent of bench press, with a weight around 1/3 my body weight. I can comfortably do sets of 20, but it still takes a decent amount of effort, so I'm sticking with that until it gets easy.

I am very happy that I'm not having to watch what I eat for this, I'm not pigging out on sweets or anything, but I'm not having to be careful with my food either.

Spluff:
It would be your triceps, your tricep is the muscle that extends your arm.

If the exercises you are talking about are this, this, and this, there will be little to no arm development in those exercises, as the muscles in the arm are only used as synergists or stabilizers, if at all (they are not used in the first exercise at all).

Nodaisho:
Those pictures don't work. The last one isn't what I am talking about, just by the name. The first one is, and I guess you are right in it not being on the arm that it gets, it is more of the very edge of the chest, another place that I have had issues with being too weak. I managed to find the second one on the website, and that isn't what I am talking about, it uses the same bar, though. When I do it, the only part of my body moving is my arms, so I would be very surprised if it isn't working my arms.

Oh, and if the muscle chart I am looking at is correct, I am talking about the biceps, I have more issue doing the down part of the push up than the up part, the down part I have trouble not just dropping to the floor.

edit: having just looked at the chart on the wall, I see a lot that agrees with what you were saying, but my body is still telling me that my arms are getting the exercise. I think I am doing it wrong, and getting exercise on muscles that wouldn't normally get it, at least for some of it. Also, I found what the muscles I was talking about are. Biceps and Deltoids, deltoids are what most of those exercise, I will need to find a new one to exercise biceps.

St.Germain:
I've decided I'm going to jump on the healthy train, or thread, as it were.

My problem is that I don't really know what to do in order to lose a little weight and become overall healthier. As it is, I'm basically a vegetarian, and I walk to class and work everyday (Technically they're in the same place, but still). I'm cutting down on soda, mainly because I'm too poor to buy it.

We have a Rec Center on campus where I could go to work out, but I have no clue what I should do once I get there. I know running is a good place to start, but I lack the ability to run, for unknown reasons. I'd ride my bike, except there's a foot or so of snow on the ground. Any suggestions on what I should do?

For reference, I'm female (if you didn't know), 5 foot 7, and 135-40 lbs. I don't own a scale, so I can't be sure. My driver's license (which I got 4 years ago, when I was 17) says I weigh 125, which I did at the time, so I know it's possible. I would like my license to stop lying.

bicostp:

--- Quote from: Midnight Umbreon on 18 Dec 2008, 15:25 ---One of them, the handlebar is loose and it's dangerous to use.
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There should be 2 bolts on the handlebar where it meets the fork shaft. Tighten those and it should be fine. If it's tightened all the way, you may need to either shim it, grind some of the metal away to make the gap between the sides larger, or replace the part it tightens to.


--- Quote ---The other, the tire is flat and won't fill back up.
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Is the tire itself fine? (No giant slashes in it?) If so, you just need a new inner tube. $5 and 20 minutes will fix it, even if it's your first time changing one. 8-)

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