Bullworker or Charles Atlas

IncredibleHulk · 01-10-2007 05:57PM #1

I would like to know if anyone used a Bullworker or Charles Atlas methods and what was the result. Thanks to all who suggested weights but I do not want to go gym and weights at home are too expensive. I also have to factor in the fact that i have been ill lately. My goals are to lose weight, which I am , and to develop a little muscle ,do not want to be huge just look reasonable.

Thanks everyone who gave info re diets etc.

Posted this in wrong place and am copying here. Hope that is OK

rubadub · 01-10-2007 06:15PM

IncredibleHulk wrote:

I would like to know if anyone used a Bullworker or Charles Atlas methods and what was the result. Thanks to all who suggested weights but I do not want to go gym and weights at home are too expensive. I also have to factor in the fact that i have been ill lately. My goals are to lose weight, which I am , and to develop a little muscle ,do not want to be huge just look reasonable.

Thanks everyone who gave info re diets etc.

Posted this in wrong place and am copying here. Hope that is OK

Boru who posts here has a isometrics site. http://www.isometric-training.com/index.html

A 50kg cast iron weight set is €80 in argos, they are always going for cheap in buyandsell too, and it is not like they really wear out, so used is fine.

Even a chinning bar will help a lot and going cheap in lidl at the moment.

IncredibleHulk · 01-10-2007 06:34PM

Cheers rubadub will check out argos

Boru. · 01-10-2007 08:54PM

Bullworkers are a great peice of kit, effective fun and they don't take much time or space. The only problem I have with them is that they can often lead to tenoditus of the elbow. There are also a lot of rip off bullworkers that have poorly madesprings and are just pure crap - get a good one off http://www.bullworker.com/

I actually have a brief article about Knock Off Bullworkers here - http://www.isometric-training.com/Do-Not-Buy-a-Bully-Xtreme.html

I myself actually collect vintage Bullworkers, though more for history than use.

As for Charles Atlas, that was and still is one of the single best fitness programs ever devised. It get's my highest recomendation.

No equipment, no bull, no wasted time - honest morals, honest exercise, and honest results.

HammerHeadGym · 02-10-2007 06:45AM

I've used a bullworker with good but limited results. Didn't make many gains in size or strength but did well in endurance and definition. Also got a bit of tendonitis mind you.

IncredibleHulk · 02-10-2007 06:23PM

Boru. wrote:

Bullworkers are a great peice of kit, effective fun and they don't take much time or space. QUOTE]

What is your opinion re gains with BW and where in Ireland can they be bought?
Thanks

Boru. · 02-10-2007 11:25PM

As I've mentioned I don't generally use the Bullworker much primarily becasue you can get the same results and without the same risk of injury and without paying for the equipment.

With that said, I have on occassion recommended it to clients and patients (for rehab work etc). The results have been quite good. One client added 2 inches to his chest, an inch to his biceps, roughly 3 inches off the waist using a vintage Bullworker he had since he was a kid for 10 minutes everyday.

I've never seen them sold in Ireland and if I was going to buy one I'd get it from the official site I mentioed above. That said though, you can get the exact same results from Atlas, weight lifting, basic bodyweight exercises or isometrics.

Incidentally Charles Atlas didn't practice Isometrics as commonly beleived - I discuss this in detail here -

Charles Atlas and Isometrics - The Worlds Most Perfect Man never taught them

And technically the best bullworker exercises are done by perfomring both isotonic and isometric contractions.

The important thing to realise is that it isn't some sort of miracle tool that will magically get you in shape. Just like all training methods it requires, hard work, sweat and consistency to produce results.

Frank Sherrill · 16-05-2009 03:29PM

Mr. O’Brien,

I find some of your post very interesting. In the first place, Bullworker Enterprises the same company that John Hughes the Bullworker distributor now uses to manufacture the Bullworker bow classic and the Bullworker steel bow manufactures the Bully Xtreme.

So your insinuation that the Bully Xtreme is a so-called "knockoff” is not only a falsehood but an outright lie. It seems you don't know your facts so for you to disparage a product that you have never used is somewhat akin to slander!

The second issue of tendinitis in the elbow that it is generated by the Bullworker… can you provide any medical validation of that statement. In all my reading, I have never heard of anyone getting tendinitis from the use of a Bullworker. Other than a few ill-informed individuals I have not seen or read of any physician or medical researcher verify this fact.

Tendinitis is more common from tennis and golf and especially in men over the age of 30. However, you would know this if you had done your research.

Most of your statements on your website regarding the Bully Xtreme are ludicrous and an outright lie. I wanted to take the opportunity on this public forum to do for you what you have been so kind to do for me.

You are not not making a fair comparison or review since you don't own the product and obviously by my statements above don't know anything about it.

Frank Sherrill

Boru. wrote: »

Bullworkers are a great peice of kit, effective fun and they don't take much time or space. The only problem I have with them is that they can often lead to tenoditus of the elbow. There are also a lot of rip off bullworkers that have poorly madesprings and are just pure crap - get a good one off http://www.bullworker.com/

I actually have a brief article about Knock Off Bullworkers here - http://www.isometric-training.com/Do-Not-Buy-a-Bully-Xtreme.html

I myself actually collect vintage Bullworkers, though more for history than use.

As for Charles Atlas, that was and still is one of the single best fitness programs ever devised. It get's my highest recomendation. No equipment, no bull, no wasted time - honest morals, honest exercise, and honest results.

cardio,shoot me · 16-05-2009 04:24PM

Lads there is a good deal in argos atm weights, cant remember the exact cost but it was 50 kilos i think

Bullworker or Charles Atlas

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