At 04:48 AM 1/30/01 -0800, you wrote: >Land based torso stretches >will allow you to use your torso over a greater range of motion thereby >increasing power from your torso. dudes, i, along with millions of other gullible americans, recently bought the AbDoer. yes, the infomercials are ubiquitous, horribly glitzy, and HOKEY as hell, but i don't do situps---i can't deal with the dust bunnies on the floor here in the land of the Cat-Hair-Carpeted House, and you sit upright with this thing. it doesn't use resistance; it uses range of motion. it is extremely effective for me. it has helped the amount and the freedom with which i can rotate my torso in addition to strengthening all of my abs. the moves where you turn more than 60 degrees to one side or the other, or where you are leaning back behind vertical (way behind) in particular are very helpful. it has actually helped my kayaking. it's also possible that in some obscure way sweeping and vacuuming more would help my abs too but the connection seems too tenuous to me, so forget it. (that's as good an excuse as any, and easy to make when there are 2 lazy, able-bodied teenagers around anyway.) ciao, kcd ps stay tuned in a few short months for the answer to the burning question, WILL the abdoer become an expensive hatrack?!?!??? kathleen comalli dillon~friend, mom, wife, musician, violinist, writer, ailurophile extraordinaire ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "We can do no great things; we can only do small things with great love."-Mother Teresa~~"I find a lot of people like chubby 67-year-old girls."-Beverly Sills~~"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."-Abraham Lincoln~~"Prepare to be assimila-----OOOOOoooooo, jelly donuts!"-Homer of Borg~~"I am Boris of Borg. Moose and Squirrel are irrelevant."~~ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jan 30 2001 - 10:20:27 PST
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