Silly question: would you trade a gun for exercise equipment?

[ForumSurfer]

Me personally? No way! My gun wouldn't end up in the basement collecting dust. The exercise equipment would.

Sounds like the OP has his answer. I'm the opposite, some of my guns never get shot and I use exercise equipment daily. I have a dumbell set in my office at work that has seen more use this week than my SKS has seen in more than a decade...granted, yet other firearms get used weekly.

The bowflex xtreme sells for more than the AK on local ads. He isn't losing money.

Decide which one you would use more often and go with that item.

 

[SleazyRider]

Sign I saw posted over the desk of an overweight person: "I may be fat, but I'm not ugly, and I can always diet."

 

[rocky branch]

Few years ago I bought a M1A at a good price from a young guy who said he needed to buy his wife a set of golf clubs.

I wondered what the poor guy had done to prompt this.

 

[R.Ganister]

I have a slight idea about the subject of exercise and am familiar with things such as the bow flex.

The Bowflex should theoretically work provided you follow a progressive resistance exercise program that involves all the major muscle groups on a regular basis, say every other day.

The body responds to adapt according to the demands of producing force/expending it's energy and the duration of time it's required to expend the energy/produce the force.

You can think of your normal everyday fitness state as a balance between the most commonly experienced greatest demands that are ordinarily put upon you as you go about your life, and your body's inclination for energy and tissue sparing.

To become fitter means you have to demand more of your body's resources than you can comfortably maintain on a continual basis in accordance to your current level of fitness at the time, to promote your body to develop a tolerance and or adaptation to the extra demands placed upon it.

It shouldn't be any matter of debate that proper rest, sleep and *relatively adequate nutrition* is essential to ensure the stresses placed on the body do not result in it wearing down instead of developing resiliency to the exercise.

*the human body is highly adaptable to dietary extremes, and although maintaining an optimum diet is beneficial in theory, humans can get by on more or less anything they can find resembling water, proteins, carbohydrates and fats, that's not toxic or inedible.*

 

[ForumSurfer]

To become fitter means you have to demand more of your body's resources than you can comfortably maintain on a continual basis in accordance to your current level of fitness at the time, to promote your body to develop a tolerance and or adaptation to the extra demands placed upon it.

Yep. In short, you need to train until you fail...not until you get it right. You need to push yourself for one more rep, set, mile, lap or whatever. Shooting a handgun or rifle is no different at all. You need to push for more distance or more speed, whatever it takes to fail (fail being shooting larger groups than are acceptable). Wash, rinse and repeat ad nauseum.

 

[achttung]

The only exercise I do is the 12oz curl.

Workin on a 6-pack... a night... heh.

 

[b.thomas]

I wouldn't!


Why, you need something to hang your clothes on??

 

[teumessian_fox]

I would trade a Jennings 25 caliber for a completely stocked and paid for Gold's Gym located in Beverly Hills, CA, in its own building, also paid for.

Is that asking too much?

 

[T.R.]

I traded a motorcycle for a leather recliner. It "runs" great.

TR

 

[Smokey in PHX]

I have sold guns to pay for tucks, cars and any number of things. The only thing I regret is selling my Colt SAA's for a new truck. Was years ago, the truck isn't worth much now but those Colts are worth a lot more.

 

[kayak-man]

The right gun for the right gym-equipment, sure.

Honestly, I agree with those that say that a bowflex isn't the best way to go. because of the way it works, you get different resistance at different points in the range of motion. If you've started biking, thats going to do a lot for you, and some freeweights or a decent weight machine will get you better results. That is of course, my humble opinion.

To keep this on topic: The guns I would trade for exercise equipment would be my single shot 12guage or my Hi-Point 45, and really, I would only trade them for some more freeweights, or maybe an obscenely large amount of bodyglide (Learn from my mistakes, and don't take Steven Prefontaine's spiel about "running until you bleed" literally.)


Chris "the Kayak-Man" Johnson

 

[swiftak]

My brother traded his bowflex for a 1941 model 94, 32 win spcl. The gun looks brand new and if its been fired it was very very little. I've got some weights that I will trade for any gun. Anyone interested?