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Found my old Bullworker, I bought it well over thirty years ago. Now with all those curries I have been eating, I need to tone things up.
 
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Not easy after all these years, plus one handed :-)
 
I used to have one and I'd forgotten all about it, thanks for the reminder :-)
 
It is either stiff with no use for years, or I have got very little strength left. I wonder if I could spray some WD40 on it somehow?
 
I had the Y shaped one (as shown by the stock image below) when I was a scrawny teenager in the '80's. It was given to me as a Christmas present by an uncle but was used only a handful of times as the nut in the middle bit kept popping out thus resulting in cracking my knuckles together, think I ended up giving it to someone else just mere weeks later.

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Ian D J said:
I had the Y shaped one (as shown by the stock image below) when I was a scrawny teenager in the '80's. It was given to me as a Christmas present by an uncle but was used only a handful of times as the nut in the middle bit kept popping out thus resulting in cracking my knuckles together, think I ended up giving it to someone else just mere weeks later.

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I had one of those, only lasted a few months, the middle bit just folded and collapsed.
I had a chest expanded as well. That was alright until catching the hairs on my chest in the springs.
 
I am going to start using mine again, mainly for my stomach. A bit like dynamic tension, I also tried that back in the day.
 
That's a real blast from the past - don't know what it was like as a product, but it's still used in business education as an example of how to turn a small successful business into a big business disaster:)
 
Garry Edwards said:
That's a real blast from the past - don't know what it was like as a product, but it's still used in business education as an example of how to turn a small successful business into a big business disaster:)
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They are still for sale now
 
I think I bought mine in the 70s, but I seemed to have had it for ages. It seemed to have made my shoulders a little more broader, and possibly my chest. Going to see if it will do anything for my belly. :)

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I hope it does not make my belly broader. :wideyed:
 
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I remember the ad in the paper.
It was a skinny guy fed up getting sand kicked in his face at the beach, so he bought a bullworker.
Next think you know he looks like Charles Atlas, and no longer gets sand kicked in his face, and he has a nice looking girl on his arm.
 
Bobsyeruncle said:
I remember the ad in the paper.
It was a skinny guy fed up getting sand kicked in his face at the beach, so he bought a bullworker.
Next think you know he looks like Charles Atlas, and no longer gets sand kicked in his face, and he has a nice looking girl on his arm.
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They had some good adverts (for the time) but, as the company grew, they ran out of specialist magazines to advertise in. They started off with mens magazines, keep fit ones, sports and so on but started to run out of customers, so started advertising in daily newspapers, which also worked but was expensive. They ended up also advertising in women's mags, niche mags such as "Hi Fi Monthly" and all sorts of publications that had nothing to do with physical fitness, so the advertising costs ended up higher than their profits - nobody ever bothered to check on their cost of sales, with the inevitable result.
 
Bobsyeruncle said:
I remember the ad in the paper.
It was a skinny guy fed up getting sand kicked in his face at the beach, so he bought a bullworker.
Next think you know he looks like Charles Atlas, and no longer gets sand kicked in his face, and he has a nice looking girl on his arm.
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I've always been thin. In my teens I started exercising and doing anything I could to bulk up. I used to do the Rocky thing and roll out of bed and knock back raw eggs broken into a glass and I used to force feed myself to the point I felt sick and nothing worked. All these years later... I got a six pack and Mrs WW points at my boobs but I could never actually bulk up.

My mind eased a bit when I had a chat with a doctor who told me that I was just about the perfect specimen, everything he could measure was spot on (no sniggering, I'm talking medical stuff) and that I wasn't small it was others who were too big and fat.
 
woof woof said:
I've always been thin. In my teens I started exercising and doing anything I could to bulk up. I used to do the Rocky thing and roll out of bed and knock back raw eggs broken into a glass and I used to force feed myself to the point I felt sick and nothing worked. All these years later... I got a six pack and Mrs WW points at my boobs but I could never actually bulk up.

My mind eased a bit when I had a chat with a doctor who told me that I was just about the perfect specimen, everything he could measure was spot on (no sniggering, I'm talking medical stuff) and that I wasn't small it was others who were too big and fat.
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When I started my apprenticeship at 16, I weighed 9.5 Stone. At 18, I started working out with a couple of mates a couple of times a week and my appetite went up. I went up to around 11 stone. Started playing football and did karate a couple of times a week instead of working out, but weight remained the same. At age 27, I stopped the karate and football and went back to the weight training again. This time I looked more into the training and nutrition and packed on the lean muscle, by the time I was 34, I was around 15.5 stone. But that was also the time I hurt my shoulder at work, I tried to exercise around the injury, but it was too painful and hoding me back so I gave up. My weight slipped back to 12.5 stone. At age 44, I was convinced by an apprentice to go and try some new equipment in our works gym, I enjoyed it so started going to the gym again but avoiding anything likely to hurt my shoulder. After a few months I had some physio at work and combined with some warm up exercises, I was back into the training again. 13yrs later I am hovering between 14.5 and 15 stone. I only have the use of a couple of heavy duty resistance bands for use at home, so getting back in the gym can't happen soon enough for me.
 
woof woof said:
My mind eased a bit when I had a chat with a doctor who told me that I was just about the perfect specimen, everything he could measure was spot on (no sniggering, I'm talking medical stuff) and that I wasn't small it was others who were too big and fat.
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What kind of Dr were they? :LOL:
 
nilagin said:
When I started my apprenticeship at 16, I weighed 9.5 Stone. At 18, I started working out with a couple of mates a couple of times a week and my appetite went up. I went up to around 11 stone. Started playing football and did karate a couple of times a week instead of working out, but weight remained the same. At age 27, I stopped the karate and football and went back to the weight training again. This time I looked more into the training and nutrition and packed on the lean muscle, by the time I was 34, I was around 15.5 stone. But that was also the time I hurt my shoulder at work, I tried to exercise around the injury, but it was too painful and hoding me back so I gave up. My weight slipped back to 12.5 stone. At age 44, I was convinced by an apprentice to go and try some new equipment in our works gym, I enjoyed it so started going to the gym again but avoiding anything likely to hurt my shoulder. After a few months I had some physio at work and combined with some warm up exercises, I was back into the training again. 13yrs later I am hovering between 14.5 and 15 stone. I only have the use of a couple of heavy duty resistance bands for use at home, so getting back in the gym can't happen soon enough for me.
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I don't post much in the OOF section but I have noticed you quite often posting about nutrition, exercise etc and was wondering how you were doing with the gyms being closed as I amorally struggling having trained since I was 16, initially to supplement playing rugby them more seriously into bodybuilding until I had a complete pec rupture (then reattachment) around tenders ago. I still train well after surgery and recovery and mentally I am really struggling with the gyms being closed and noticed I am getting fatter due to not controlling my intake as I should have whilst not exercising. Managed to get my hands on a single pair of dumbbells a fortnight ago so have been doing what I can with those in the garden. I used to work as a personal trainer before my current job so I know what to do, it's just the mental battle.

jonbeeza said:
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I hope it does not make my belly broader. :wideyed:
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It will make your belly broader if you work your abdominals in a way that will build them but you don't control your calorie intake, like the recent thread about curries and lager and chips. This is not a personal dig at all and if you notice, I never engage with forum arguments or make anything personal BUT things like nutrition and exercise are close to my heart and if I can help anyone, I will and that's why I responded in the curry thread the other day.
 
gazmorton2000 said:
I don't post much in the OOF section but I have noticed you quite often posting about nutrition, exercise etc and was wondering how you were doing with the gyms being closed as I amorally struggling having trained since I was 16, initially to supplement playing rugby them more seriously into bodybuilding until I had a complete pec rupture (then reattachment) around tenders ago. I still train well after surgery and recovery and mentally I am really struggling with the gyms being closed and noticed I am getting fatter due to not controlling my intake as I should have whilst not exercising. Managed to get my hands on a single pair of dumbbells a fortnight ago so have been doing what I can with those in the garden. I used to work as a personal trainer before my current job so I know what to do, it's just the mental battle.
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I am struggling with exercise, not just due to a lack of equipment/weights, but I just don't feel the inclination to exercise at home. Fortunately as far as eating is concerned, if I am not training my appetite goes down, so although the foods I eat have remained the same, the amount and subsequently the calories has fallen. So like you, I am struggling with the mental battle. I also find that if a break is too long, I will start coming up with excuses not to go to the gym, I don't even like a two week break.
 
gazmorton2000 said:
It will make your belly broader if you work your abdominals in a way that will build them but you don't control your calorie intake, like the recent thread about curries and lager and chips.
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Not only that, but there is also the danger of a bad back if the lower back muscles aren't exercised as well.
 
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Bobsyeruncle said:
I remember the ad in the paper.
It was a skinny guy fed up getting sand kicked in his face at the beach, so he bought a bullworker.
Next think you know he looks like Charles Atlas, and no longer gets sand kicked in his face, and he has a nice looking girl on his arm.
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I just wore a bag over my head, always ended up with the girl, as they were so curious about how I looked under the bag back then.
Things have sadly changed.
 
Bobsyeruncle said:
I remember the ad in the paper.
It was a skinny guy fed up getting sand kicked in his face at the beach, so he bought a bullworker.
Next think you know he looks like Charles Atlas, and no longer gets sand kicked in his face, and he has a nice looking girl on his arm.
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I did buy the Charles Atlas book, pamphlet. Me and my two brothers would follow the instructions daily, however we remained scrawny runts for years. We only filled out many years later, naturally I think. :)
 
woof woof said:
I've always been thin. In my teens I started exercising and doing anything I could to bulk up. I used to do the Rocky thing and roll out of bed and knock back raw eggs broken into a glass and I used to force feed myself to the point I felt sick and nothing worked. All these years later... I got a six pack and Mrs WW points at my boobs but I could never actually bulk up.

My mind eased a bit when I had a chat with a doctor who told me that I was just about the perfect specimen, everything he could measure was spot on (no sniggering, I'm talking medical stuff) and that I wasn't small it was others who were too big and fat.
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I tried the egg thing too, and I would also make a banana Protein drink. I even tried a fish diet, and various other things.
 
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An old Argos catalogue scan from 1974 lists the Bullworker at £10.75 :eek:. That would work out about £90 in todays money.
 
jonbeeza said:
An old Argos catalogue scan from 1974 lists the Bullworker at £10.75 :eek:. That would work out about £90 in todays money.
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The cheapest price I can see on Ebay for a new one is just under £110. There are more expensive ones which include more equipment. The most expensive being £588. I think that may have been one of the ebay chances though. But it did include a large and a small bullworker and a few other bits and pieces. Some other kits were £270.
 
nilagin said:
The cheapest price I can see on Ebay for a new one is just under £110. There are more expensive ones which include more equipment. The most expensive being £588. I think that may have been one of the ebay chances though. But it did include a large and a small bullworker and a few other bits and pieces. Some other kits were £270.
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Yikes, that is a little expensive, for what it is.
 
jonbeeza said:
I tried the egg thing too, and I would also make a banana Protein drink. I even tried a fish diet, and various other things.
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Did it work for you?

I normally exercise 5 to 7 times a week as sometimes I pig out on take aways and can't. Just stretching exercises, press ups and sit ups. I'm probably more muscular now than I've ever been and over 10.5st now :D so still a whippet. I gave up on being a body builder years ago as it was just never going to happen.

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Mrs WW has an exercise bike and loves it, she does and hour on it every day. It does look good exercise.
 
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