Samson Twister
I don’t have time to go to the gym, so I bought one of those Samson Twisters, which are made of steel, that you have made an advertisement of in the ’60s for Weider (you were bending it in the picture). So I bought this flex bar and I began to bend it in the way the manual describes, and I felt my muscles much more pumped and tough. Ok, that’s good, but at night I feel my shoulders hurting. Do you have some tips on how to use a power flex bar, or should I change the tool and begin to use one of those back/chest expanders?
Chances are you are doing too many of the same exercise patterns over and over again. You are limiting yourself.
Back off the twister and revise your training to include freehand exercises — chins, pushups, dips, freehand squats and their variations (improvise: feet on a block, close grip, wide grip, lean forward, lean back)… play seriously.
I don’t really have any tips on how to use it. Just don’t over exert joints or apply force unnatural to body.
You might invest in exercise bands (rubber bands) of varying strengths. They work very well when limited in equipment.
Godspeed… Dave Draper