Lifting with Dan

I went over to Dan's last night to start lifting. I haven't lifted in ages and found that I'm actually pretty weak. It's going to take a while before I'm up to where I was before.

While I was at Dan's, he had a Soloflex just sitting around all disassembled. I figured, we could use the thing as a bench so might as well put it together. We found the instructions and the box of parts but, man, was it gross. The box and some of the rubber bands were covered in mildew and mold. It was very gross to touch.

We managed to put the thing together and try the thing out. The first issue we found was that the bench was too high. Our crotch was poking up in to the air and our feet had a hard time being flat on the floor. We also found that using the machine is very difficult. There is tons of resistance pushing, but coming back down, the machine does too much of the work for you.

I've tried using other machines such as Bowflex (or Blowflex, as I like to call it) and this is worse.

It's a good thing that he has free weights so I could at least do something. My arms are all limp today. I imagine they will be much worse tomorrow.