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Sunday
Feb222015

Full Week of Workout Videos - Thursday Legs Accessory Home

38 minutes - 347 Calories - Average Heart Rate 121 - Max Heart Rate 145.
Location: Home Gym

Light first sets instead of doing a warmup

Strength:
  • Leg Extensions x4 sets (Quads)
  • Leg Curls x4 sets (Ham Strings)
  • Calf Raises x4 sets (Calves)
Friday
Feb202015

Full Week of Workout Videos - Wednesday Back and Biceps Home

1:31 minutes - 1005 Calories - Average Heart Rate 135 - Max Heart Rate 168.
Location: Home Gym

Light first sets instead of doing a warmup

Strength:
  • Wide single arm Pull Downs x2 sets (Lats)
  • Wide Pull-ups x2 sets (Lats)
  • Narrow single arm Pull Downs x2 sets (Lats)
  • Chin-ups x2 sets (Lats)
  • Seated Rows x2 sets (Lats & Middles Back)
  • Straight arm pull down x4 sets (Lats & Core)
  • Preacher Curls with Cables x4 sets (Biceps)
  • Single Arm Curls with Cables x4 sets (Biceps)
  • Front Lever combined with Toes to Bar x2 sets (Abs, Core, Lats)
Thursday
Feb192015

Full Week of Workout Videos - Tuesday Shoulders Home Accessory

1:01 minutes - 618 Calories - Average Heart Rate 128 - Max Heart Rate 156.
Location: Home Gym

Warmup & Mobility
  • Rotator cuff work & Stretching
Strength:
  • Rear cable shoulder raises x3 sets (Rear Delt)
  • Front cable shoulder raises x3 sets (Front Delt)
  • Side cable shoulder raises x3 sets (Side Delt)
  • Rear cable shoulder pull using rope x3 sets (Rear Delt)
  • Shrugs using Smith Machine x4 sets (Traps)
  • Cable Side Bends - 1 long set increasing weight, then a drop set at the end (Obliques - Side Abs)
Friday
Feb132015

February 2015 Update - Inspire Fitness Leg Conversion Kit - New Fitness Contest Dates

This video covers some information about the Inspire Fitness Leg Conversion Kit which ties in their SCS Bench to their Leg Extension Accessory so you can attach the bench and leg add on to the FT2 weight stack using the cables.

The problem I am having in my area is my local Fitness Depot where I bought my Inspire FT2 has been out of the Inspire Bench and leg attachment. So what is a person to do? Improvise! I already a different brand of adjustable bench with leg attachment so I did some preliminary eye balling , grabbed my drill and added the Inspire Fitness Leg Conversion Kit to my already existing bench and leg attachment. I am sure that this is not what Inspire Fitness had in mind and if one was to do this, it would be at their own risk because not all of us are handy with tools and fabrication...

All in all my work was sound and everything works really well using my improvised setup!

My next point of discussing in this update video is a change in plan for my Men's Physic fitness contest prep. I was planning to attend the BC Body Building Championships here in Vancouver Canada as I am qualified from my last contest where I placed 1st :) The problem is a conflict of interest. The BC's are to be held on May 23rd which happens to be the same day of a close friends wedding of which I am a groomsman. Since I can not change either date, I had to pick the more important occasion and decided to go to the wedding. Such is life and we must adapt to what life gives us and make the best of it.

There is always next year for me to enter another BC qualified Men's Masters Physique Fitness Contest, but for this year I have decided I will most likely attend the Victoria Cup being held on August 15th in Victoria BC.

At least it gives me a bit more time to prepare, I did have plans on coming in with a bit more muscle this time and that takes a lot of work :)

Tuesday
Feb032015

Inspire Fitness FT2 Functional Trainer Preview Review

This is not a full review but rather a preview or overview so my Website Post will not have a lot of detailed info for the Inspire Fitness FT2 Functional Trainer.

Some of the main points I share in this video  review (Bottom of Article) is how versatile, cost effective, compact and well built the Inspire Fitness FT2 Functional Trainer is. I do share one negative point that has to do more with a customer service issue I had with Inspire Fitness.

Getting back to the good points, the Inspire Fitness FT2 Functional Trainer is really well thought out and is one of the only Functional Trainers I have seen that incorporates a Smith Machine that engages the weight stacks so no free weighs are required! And the way the Smith Bar easily goes from adjusting the height and locking into the pulley hubs to pushing the weight stacks is really kind of brilliant and also super safe since it allows for built in safety stops.

Of course you have lots of hook in points top and bottom and along the two adjustable pulley sliders, allowing you to do virtually any type of cable based exercise you can think of, that combined with the Smith Bar and Pull-up bar makes this machine one of the most versatile compact home gym systems I have come across.

When I was looking into acquire a new home gym system, I looked at a lot of other similarly sized Functional Trainers and even though most of them where not as full featured as the Inspire Fitness FT2 Functional Trainer, they generally cost more money. You might think that a lower cost unit must mean it is built to inferior standards, well that is simply not the case! The Inspire Fitness FT2 Functional Trainer is pretty much professional quality and has a lifetime warrantee on mostly everything when used in the home, and a 10 year warrantee when used in a professional gym setting.

I hate to leave on a negative point, because overall I am super satisfied with just about all aspects of the Inspire Fitness FT2 Functional Trainer. This last customer service issue could just be a temporary thing, perhaps a glitch in their communication system, or maybe the gatekeeper went on holidays? We can hope this is the case? Either way, when you make a significant investment like I did in purchasing the Inspire Fitness FT2 Functional Trainer, I want to be reassured that I can contact Inspire Fitness if I have any questions or need support of some sort for my FT2 Functional Trainer. Prior to my purchase I reached out to Inspire Fitness to let them know that I was a Fitness YouTuber and Blogger that was considering buying one of their fitness systems, and that their product would be highlighted on my YouTube Channel and Web page, not just in one review but ongoing since this would be my new home gym setup.

Often times when you reach out to a company, they may offer to send you some promotional items, perhaps a shirt or hat or banner or if you are super lucky, they may even help subsidize your purchase. I was not expecting anything monetary from Inspire, just a confirmation of my email and perhaps a quick reply letting me know at the very least that they got my emails. I am sorry to say that after several attempts to contact Inspire via their contact form and even sending emails directly to their agents Jeff and Fred, I did not even get so much as an automated reply back from Inspire. I hope other people have had better luck contacting them but for me this part of my Inspire Fitness experience was not a positive one.

UPDATE: Inspire has contacted me since this video was posted and apologized for not getting back to me in a timely manner, they are in the process of relocating their business and with limited staff have fallen a bit behind... These things happen :)

Well either way I do not expect to have any major problems mechanically with my Inspire FT2 Functional Trainer. Look forward to many more videos featuring the FT2 Functional Trainer!